Karl Rove Mocked By Sen. Jeff Sessions Over Immigration...

[Indi Guy]

Source: Huffington Post




Highlighting the split between big-business Republicans and their more socially conservative brethren, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on Friday mocked Karl Rove and his allies at the super PAC American Crossroads as a bunch of out-of-touch "fat cats" who spend their time sipping drinks at country clubs.

If they paid more attention to regular people, Sessions argued on the Senate floor, Rove and his pals might have advised Mitt Romney to take a more aggressive stance on immigration, which could have put the wealthy former governor in the White House...

..."Now, my friend Karl Rove, from the Center for American Progress or something like that," Sessions said in a mistaken reference to the liberal think tank, "raised a bunch of money for Crossroads to run ads in the last election that was supposed to elect Mr. Romney. Didn't do so well, Karl. Sorry about that. Wish you'd been more effective."

Sessions argued that Romney could have won if he had made the case that he would treat undocumented immigrants compassionately but that the country would "have a lawful system of immigration that is enforced."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/21/karl-rove-mocked_n_3479909.html#slide=2073952

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...And the circular firing squad and post mortem continue on.

I'm just curious about how that "compassionate" self-deportation thing could have pushed Romney over the top.

[Uncle Joe]

1. I don't even need to read it, automatic kick and rec for mocking Rove.

Thanks for the thread, Indi Guy.

[tofuandbeer]

2. Some Repubs are getting worried. Good, they should.

[fasttense]

3. They want their cake and eat it too.

RepubliCON NeoCONS love illegal immigrants. That's why their big daddy, Raygun gave them amnesty and created even more illegal immigrants. That's why NAFTA destroyed the remnants of Mexico's economy and created even more illegal immigrants. That's why corporations hire illegal immigrants every time they get the chance to pass up an American citizen. That's why Raygun and every president since have NOT enforced employer sanctions against corporate cheapskates who hire illegally.

Neocons love illegal immigrants because they can get away with paying them so much less. What they don't like are legal immigrants who are not afraid to demand fair treatment. And oh, by the way they want those legal immigrants to vote for them too.

[byeya]

5. That's exactly right! The crapitalists want indentured workers afraid to even ask how much they will

be paid much less ask for a living wage. That's why Silicon Valley wants to import more workers from overseaas when 50% of the American college graduates in the field can't get a tech job. Americans still know when they are being screwed on the job.

Even big US farms won't hire American field workers but prefer the near-slaves brought in from Mexico and Central America.

There's an anti-American movement in this country and it's the capitalists who are paying Congress to keep Americans un- and underemployed.

[pampango]

6. "RepubliCON NeoCONS love illegal immigrants." They do indeed. And they know the only way

to keep them here and keep them 'illegal' is to shoot down immigration reform. They want the 'system' to stay exactly as it now is - keep them here and keep them 'illegal'.

"That's why Raygun and every president since have NOT enforced employer sanctions against corporate cheapskates who hire illegally."

Not quite true.

As Immigration Audits Increase, Some Employers Pay a High Price

L. E. Cook was one of 1,444 businesses to receive an introduction to ICE’s stepped-up worksite enforcement program in 2009 — almost three times the number audited in 2008. Last year, 2,196 businesses were audited. An ICE representative said the agency did not categorize audits by business type and that the law applied across industries.

“Any company is at risk at any given time,” said Leon Versfeld, an immigration lawyer in Kansas City, Mo. In one prominent case, American Apparel, the clothing manufacturer, was forced to terminate 1,800 undocumented workers after a 2009 audit. Chipotle Mexican Grill, the restaurant chain, has let go hundreds of workers since its audit began last year.

While the administration of George W. Bush focused on headline-making raids that resulted in arrests of immigrant workers, the Obama administration has gone after employers with ICE’s I-9 audits on the theory that employers who hire unauthorized workers create the demand that drives most illegal immigration.

After the audit, Mr. Cox started using E-Verify, a federal program that lets employers confirm the authenticity of a job applicant’s Social Security and green card numbers electronically. Although the program’s use is mandatory in some states, its reliability has been debated, and it remains voluntary in California. A bill in Congress that would require all American employers to use the program could go to a vote this month.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/business/smallbusiness/how-a-small-business-can-survive-an-immigration-audit.html?pagewanted=all

U.S. Seizes 14 7-Eleven Stores in Immigration Raids

More than a dozen 7-Eleven franchises took in more than $180 million in revenue by running a “modern-day plantation system,” prosecutors in New York charged on Monday, built on the unpaid labor of dozens of illegal immigrants hired using sham Social Security numbers.

Federal authorities seized 14 7-Eleven stores on Long Island and in Virginia, arresting nine owners and managers, and seized property, including five homes. They are investigating 40 other 7-Eleven franchises in New York City and elsewhere in one of the largest criminal immigrant employment investigations ever conducted by the Justice and Homeland Security Departments, officials said.

Under the Obama administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has moved away from high-profile workplace raids in which dozens of workers in the country illegally were rounded up for deportation. Instead, agents from ICE, as the agency is known, have relied on audits of employers’ hiring records to detect illegal immigrant workers.

The audits were low profile but often very effective at forcing illegal immigrants to leave their jobs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/nyregion/us-seizes-14-7-eleven-stores-in-immigration-raids.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

[YeahSureRight]

4. Have no fear the Moderate Corporate Third Way Dems will save Karl's and their Corporate

Pals Bacon!

They always do, that is why it your Government Approved Corporate Screwing is always Bi-Partisan!

Some will call it being pragmatic most call it what it is 100% pure BS.

[Crowman1979]

7. Oh how cute! Now the Rethugs are trying to distance themselves from their glorious past.

Because being associated with anyone from the Bush crime family means voting booth poison.

[Iliyah]

8. Pass the popcorn!

The insanity vs. the crazies. Who will win?

Rove wants back into his house - WH and have sole his soul to the devil. But alas, so have majority of the GOP party. Romney did not win because of who he is, a spoiled rich guy who cares for no one outside his tiny bubble.

[kimbutgar]

9. It's not just rove it's the entire GOP who are out of touch with the people and they

Don't care about the people or their needs just the rich , christofascists and the tea party thugs.