Saying the political landscape will not be more conducive to amnesty legislation in two or four years, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue wrote on Monday that immigration reform must happen now.
Donohue has previously said that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce would "pull out all the stops" to get immigration reform this year. The group reportedly plans to spend $50 million to blunt the influence of the Tea Party, largely because it opposes amnesty, and millions more to push for immigration reform legislation that the Congressional Budget Office has said would lower the wages of American workers.
Donohue wrote that
"a system in which more than 11 million undocumented immigrants are living and
working in our communities in de facto amnesty is indefensible" and claimed that
"immigrants do not typically compete with Americans for jobs" and "serve as a
complement to U.S.-born workers and can help fill labor shortages across the
skill spectrum and in key sectors."
He claims that "support
for reform has never been stronger" even though Gallup found that only three
percent of Americans view it as a top issue. He also said amnesty proponents
"include lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, as well as labor, business, law
enforcement, ethnic organizations, religious groups, and the high-tech industry"
without mentioning that many of these groups are front-groups supported by left-wing
donors like George Soros.
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