ProjectUSA analysis of CAFTA

Date: Monday, July 28, 2003 4:55 PM

JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

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Until I sent the newsletter "TPA is H-1B on Steroids" on May 23, 2002,
most of the opposition to H-1B didn't pay much attention to the Trade
Promotion Authority granted to president Bush.

Thanks to ProjectUSA for publicizing my early efforts. Unfortunately
the mass media has kept the lid on this story even as Congress is days
away from approving the Chile and Singapore Free-Trade ageements. Now
it seems that this runaway train can't be stopped.

http://projectusa.org/Ezine/2003/03-07-22-free-trade.html

Bush giving corporations control over immigration policy

Issue 160: July 23, 2003
contact@projectusa.org

Reports are circulating that President Bush has already raised $34
million for his 2004 bid to hold on to the presidency a war chest that
will approach a quarter of a billion dollars by the time all is said
and done. Meanwhile, in a related story, the Associated Press is
reporting that (surprise!) politicians mostly vote "the way their
donors wanted."

Some of the biggest check writers in American politics are American
corporations, and, for big multinationals, the palm greasing is paying
off. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick said in a recent Wall
Street Journal op-ed that the Bush Administration is seeking to make
its foreign and economic policies "mutually supportive."

If the free trade agreements with Chile and Singapore Zoellick's office
recently negotiated are any indication, "mutually supportive" means
that global conglomerates make out like bandits at the expense of the
American people. The Chile/Singapore free trade agreements will allow
"American" corporations to move an unlimited number of "employees" from
those countries to ours. Congress, to which the Constitution gives
complete power over all immigration matters, will have no way to set
restrictions. In other words, multinational corporations not the
American people will dictate the number of foreigners allowed into the
United States.

As the Federation for American Immigration Reform points out, "making
these provisions especially dangerous, the Bush Administration is
touting them as a model to be replicated in future trade agreements
with numerous other countries."

Rob Sanchez, a long-time critic of the corporate abuse of work visas,
was the first to warn of the dangers to the American worker of Bush's
"trade promotion authority." "These trade bills," Mr. Sanchez wrote in
May 2002, "are unique from other types of immigration laws in one major
way: they cannot be repealed by Congress without the consent of the
country the agreement was made with. Once these agreements are passed,
American workers will be powerless to stop the flood of workers that
will arrive to compete with them in the job market."

With eighteen million Americans struggling to find full-time
employment, the Bush Administration has no business making agreements
with foreign nations to flood the labor market with an unlimited amount
of imported labor
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Undermining American workers (must read: Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-immigration29jul20.story

Votes in Congress mostly follow the money (Associated Press)
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=buyvotes20&date=20030720

Bush's Trade Promotion Authority: H-1b on steroids (Rob Sanchez)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R35332855

Heart-breaking personal stories of American victims of our
corporate-friendly immigration policies
http://victimsvoice.org/wall/greed/index.html

+== TAKE POSITIVE ACTION ==+

Every year, business interests spend millions of dollars to manipulate
government policy to their economic benefit. In the United States, we
call this "making a campaign contribution." In other countries, it's
called "bribery" or "corruption." If the United States is ever to
achieve a more moderate immigration policy, Americans must seize
control of immigration from selfish business interests and insist,
loudly, that the United States remain a nation, and not become a
teeming cheap labor camp and corporate feeding ground.

We must make our voices heard. Please make a point of devoting 15
minutes today to rescuing our country from the predations of the
profiteers. As NumbersUSA proved last week with its key role in getting
the Hostettler/Gallegly amendment passed on the State Department
reauthorization bill, citizen activism really works.

Congress votes on these trade agreements as early as today, so please
help by calling now your Senators and Representative and asking them
to oppose the immigration provisions of the Chile and Singapore free
trade agreements. You can tell them that you aren't against free trade,
necessarily, but that free trade agreements are not the proper place
for immigration policy. Tell them that they should vote down the
agreements and force the Administration to take out the immigration
provisions.

You can get contact numbers at:

http://www.numbersusa.com/congressinfo/

If you haven't sent free faxes to Congress yet, you will find them at:

http://www.numbersusa.com/fax

And, by the way, where is the mainstream media on this? The globalist
ideologues in the Bush Administration are in the process of removing
control of our immigration policy from the American people, and the
media watchdogs remain silent and the American people ignorant in the
face of this radical revolution.

Please call your local paper and ask for the newsroom editor. Tell him
or her about the Chile/Singapore free trade agreements, and the attempt
by the Bush Administration to reward its corporate friends with the
power to control immigration. Politely express your desire to see the
paper cover this important and controversial development.

You can find newspaper contact info at:

http://www.newsdirectory.com/news/press/na/us/

+== QUOTE OF THE WEEK ==+

Trade and the streets ensnare us,
Our bodies are weak and worn;
We plot and corrupt each other,
And we despoil the unborn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

+== EMAIL OF THE WEEK ==+

I'd like to say that I support your organization and will be making a
donation soon. I especially like reading the letters some of your
opponents write complaining about FILE and ProjectUSA. Many are so
ignorant of the facts (like Doug in the July 8 email of the week) that
I almost have to laugh.

P. Hall
Denver, CO

+== SPECIAL ==+

Congressman Tom Tancredo and the Congressional Immigration Reform
Caucus will be hosting a day of remembrance for the victims of mass
immigration on September 10 & 11 in Washington, DC. You are invited to
attend.

For more information and to register go to:

http://victimsvoice.org/events.html

Also, you may tell your story of how you personally have been affected
by mass immigration at:

http://victimsvoice.org/your_voice.html

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