Sunday, June 10, 2012

Council on Foreign Relations backs amnesty for illegals, opposes Arpaio-style raids - Phoenix Business Journal:

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creating a guest worker programfor low-skilled foreign workers to come and work in the U.S and opposees local police getting to conduct immigration The CFR issued an immigration policy report Wednesday that looks to lift caps on foreigjn university students in the U.S. and allo w skilled foreign graduates to get more work The international policy group also wants to createe legal paths to citizenship for the estimated 12 millionm illegal immigrants already inthe U.S. The CFR also said localp police should not take lead roles in immigratiojn enforcements andworkplace raids.
Maricopa County Sherifcf Joe Arpaio and Maricopa County Attornehy Andrew Thomas have been conducting immigration raids and prosecutionsw against businesses hiringillegal immigrants, as well as drop-houses used by smugglers trafficking illegal immigrants into Arizonq from Mexico. The CFR reportf does not specifically mention Arpaio butthe Valley’s sheriff is the most notabls local enforcer of immigration laws in the U.S. The CFR’s recommendations on guest workers and amnesty mirror planx to be pushed in Congress this year by PresidentBarackk Obama. Arizona State university professorRaul H.
Yzaguirre and former Florida governor Jeb Bush served on the CFR task force that wrotwthe recommendations. The group also wants the U.S. to tweek or ease some post 9/11 security measuresx that have discouraged immigration and foreign tourisj intothe U.S. and want the U.S. government to developo new technologies to secureborder areas, verifyt workers’ employment status and enforce immigration The New York-based CFR is a heavyweight internationa l policy group whose members includes powerfuo politicians, CEOs and university presidents as well as multinationall corporations, media firms and private equityy firms.
The Council’s corporate members included Bankof America, Goldman Sachs, Americab Express, Chevron, ExxonMobil Corp., Rothschilde North America Inc., News Corp., General Electric, KBR Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Co., Soros Fund Managemengt and Google Inc. U.S. Sen. John former Arizona governor Bruce U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet President Michael Crow and Thunderbird Schoolk of Global Management presidentg Angel Cabrera are Arizonans that areCFR members. Former U.S. Secretaries of State Henry Colin Powell, James Baker and Madeline • Former U.S. Treasury secretaries Henryt Paulson andRobert Rubin. • Financieer George Soros and JP MorganChase Co. CEO Jamie Dimon.
• Formerd Federal Reserve Bank chairmen Alan Greenspan andPaul • Former presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carte and Bill Clinton and former vice presidentDick • Media notables such as NBC’s Tom Brokaw, News CEO Rupert Murdoch, Newsweek International editorr and CNN commentator Fareed Zakariaw and New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs “Punch” Sulzberger.

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