Thom Tillis and THE WORK NO ONE ELSE WILL DO
North Carolina’s junior senator participated in yet another pro-amnesty photo op, and the driveby media assumed position, ready to drool and take dictation:
Representatives from the construction, hospitality, farming and seafood industries sat down with U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis in Raleigh on Monday to share their concerns about possible immigration reform.
Tillis has been hosting a series of roundtable discussions with New American Economy, a coalition of business leaders and mayors working toward comprehensive immigration reform, to get different perspectives as Congress once again tries to tackle U.S. immigration policies, which have proved nettlesome for decades.
“What we’re really trying to do is connect to the individual impact, the impact on employers. I think it’s really trying to make this real,” the North Carolina Republican said.[…]
Make WHAT real? The idea of enforcing the law? (*You know, about only employing people in this country lawfully.*)
Oh, the things a senator has to do to “earn” his “donations.”
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[…] Richard Gephart said many of the workers at Gephart Building Company are undocumented, but his business couldn’t survive without them.
“They build our houses. They pave our roads,” Gephart said.
The self-described political conservative said he can’t get on board with the Trump administration’s immigration plans, noting chants of “build the wall” and “ship them out” make him sick with worry for his workers.
“I have one [worker] who is raising three wonderful girls, all on the honor roll, all born here legally,” Gephart said. “The father was not born here legally, and he really worries about driving home every night that he’s going to be picked up and sent back.” […]
This guy ought to be “sick with worry.” He’s confessed to violating federal law on a major regional news broadcast. (*Of course, though, WHO is watching this station anymore? Maybe ICE won’t find out.*)
Can’t survive without a bunch of illegal aliens? Hogwash. I have family members that ran a successful, multi-million dollar commercial construction firm for 15 years. Did it with one hundred percent legal, documented American labor. Guys like this one just don’t want to have to pay real wages the law requires you to pay American workers. *These folks from across the border will work for next to nothing, and they won’t complain about it.*
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[…] Business leaders said the red tape required for visas for immigrant labor is often too overwhelming and too expensive. Like Gephart, others expressed concern that stepped-up enforcement of immigration laws will hurt their companies.
“There is a great nervousness not only on the part of the farm workers but the employers as well because these people are vital to the success of these farms and businesses,” said Larry Wooten, president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau.
North Carolina’s unemployment rate for April 2017 was 4.7 percent. The national rate was 4.4 percent. And these people want to import a bunch of Third World labor who inflate the labor market and drive down wages. (Just sayin’.)
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[…] Tillis said his efforts to hammer out a compromise in Washington, D.C., will include solutions, such as pairing tighter border security with a revamped work visa program, that make many in the industries that rely on immigrant labor nervous.
“We’re going to propose things that push people out of their comfort zones, but it’s absolutely necessary to get those votes in the middle that I think exist,” he said. “Until we start coming up with these policies that are balanced, that address the legitimate concerns from either side of the aisle, then we’re going to be at the same place 40 years from now if we don’t have somebody step up and be willing to take the kinds of political hits in the interim work products that are necessary for you to get something done.”[…]
I don’t think these people have a lot to worry about from ol’ Thom. He did a great job of watering down E-verify while he was Speaker of the state House.
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[…] Many in the room said they didn’t expect to agree with Tillis, but they left feeling surprisingly satisfied.
“I think I was encouraged,” said Jennifer Dionne of the American Seafood Jobs Alliance. “The fact that Sen. Tillis is willing to look at pairing certain issues together and taking this at bite-size chunks and not trying to fix all of it at once is probably the only way we’re going to get this done.”
Wow is liberal Thom Tillis out of touch.
British Prime Minister Teresa May has just called for a new annual charge of 2,000 pounds ($3,000) for each foreigner a British company hires, as an encouragemrnt to hire British citizens instead. She is also raising the financial guarantees necessary for someone to sponsor a relative as an immigrant.
Just a couple of weeks ago, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that his government was scrapping the section 457 visa program for skilled foreign workers in order ”to put Australians first”. He has also toughened naturalization requirements for immigrants to require them to exhibit Australian values and speak English.
Yah for Prime Ministers May and Turnbull. Boo for Thom Tillis.
This is the same crap Rep. Harry Warren (R- Rowan County) did while attempting to offer driver licenses to illegals in NC. Meeting with all the “stakeholders” to determine what’s best for them, instead of meeting with NC citizens and determining what’ was best for them.
Doing the job RINO’s do.
Oh and another thing, I just reported Gephart Building Company to the NCDOL for employing illegal aliens using this form: http://ncfire.info/E-VerifyComplaintForm.pdf(2)
Slavery is still alive and well in NC agriculture…and the Farm Bureau is all for it. Can Thom Tillis be deported?