Sessions Calls Out Big Business for Pushing Amnesty After Laying Off US Workers

Sessions Calls Out Big Business for Pushing Amnesty After Laying Off US Workers

By Tony Lee

Companies that have recently laid off workers are scheming to get President Barack Obama to give them more guest-worker visas by executive action.

After the New York Times reported that Obama is working on crafting executive actions behind closed doors after having met with representatives from "Oracle, Cisco, Fwd.US, Microsoft, Accenture, Compete America, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce," which Politico detailed, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) blasted the White House for "actively working against the interests of the American worker."

Sessions mentioned that American politics is at "a crisis point," as companies that "are laying off current employees in droves," are meeting with "senior White House officials" to get guest-workers that will make it tougher for Americans of all backgrounds to find jobs.

"We have communities throughout America that are barely scraping by. Tens of millions of Americans are on welfare, unemployment, and public assistance," Sessions said in a Monday statement. "Yet the White House and their Senate Majority seem more concerned about the economic demands of large corporations, or the citizens of other countries, than about getting our own citizens back to work into stable jobs that can support a family and uplift a community.”

Obama is reportedly considering granting temporary amnesty and work permits to millions of illegal immigrants for them to work in any sector. In addition, he may grant more guest-worker visas to high-tech firms--even though there is a surplus of American high-tech workers--and low-skilled industries, even though Americans at the bottom rungs of the economic ladder are having trouble finding jobs, which Americans supposedly will not do.

A recent Center for Immigration Studies report found that, as Breitbart News noted, in "all 472 civilian detailed occupations as defined by the Department of Commerce," there were only six "majority immigrant (legal and illegal)" occupations, which means Americans were employed in the low-skilled jobs that pro-amnesty advocates say they will not do.

Sessions, citing a recent U.S. Conference of Mayors study, noted that "construction workers hit by the recession have seen their wages fall by 23 percent" and there are "seven unemployed workers for every one job opening" in the industry.

In the high-tech sector, companies that are laying off American workers are pushing Obama to allow them to import more foreign workers. Cisco, which slashed 6,000 jobs after pushing for the Senate's amnesty bill last year, had a representative at the White House. So did Microsoft, which "announced it would lay off 18,000 American workers a week after its former CEO Bill Gates called for an unlimited number of certain guest-worker visas in a New York Times op-ed."

Excerpt, more at link.

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More: Sen. Sessions: CEOs 'Scheming with WH to Extract by Executive Fiat' Amnesty Congress Denied


Sen. Sessions: CEOs 'Scheming with WH to Extract by Executive Fiat' Amnesty Congress Denied

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) today accused executives at some of the world's largest corporation of "scheming with the White House" to circumvent the law during their closed-door meeting with Pres. Obama today.

"We have now arrived at a crisis point in American politics. Politico reports that the White House is meeting with the world's largest corporations to discuss how executive actions on immigration could benefit them financially. The Administration has solicited 'a list of asks for the tech sector' and 'provisions for low-skilled workers for industries, like construction'-including green cards and work authorizations-in order to 'get them on board' with the President's planned executive amnesty. One lobbyist crowed that 'nothing was off the table.' A tech industry lobbyist said that if they get they want from the President, 'we will support him 100 percent.'"

Sen. Sessions says the CEOs are "scheming with the White House" to flout both Congress and the will of the people:

"The same group of CEOs who helped write the Senate's Gang of Eight immigration bill in secret is now scheming with the White House to extract by executive fiat what was denied to them by the American people and Congress."

If these companies so desperately needed illegal alien labor, they wouldn't be laying off American workers by the thousands, Sen. Sessions notes:

"Even while they demand more foreign workers, these companies are laying off current employees in droves. Cisco, which Politico reports met with White House aides to advocate for more foreign workers, just last week announced its intent to lay off 6,000 employees. Last month, Microsoft declared it would lay off 18,000 workers. Overall, mass layoffs in the tech industry are up 68% from the prior year. As for the construction industry, there are seven unemployed workers for every one job opening. According to a recent study released by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, construction workers hit by the recession have seen their wages fall by 23 percent. The increases in foreign workers demanded by corporate lobbyists would be in addition to the Administration's plan to implement amnesty by executive fiat, providing work permits to 5-6 million illegal immigrants and visa overstays who will be able to take any job in any industry, public or private."

More at link (IMO, Sessions is one of our best men in the Senate!!)


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Kudos to Sessions !!

These are all the same Companies relocating abroad because they don't want to pay Income Taxes in this country ...so goodbye to them & Obama too !!

Anti-American much !!!

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