By Capt Joseph R. John, on December 17, 2015 

By reading the below listed article, you will be able to understand just how Speaker Ryan showed his disregard for the American workers, 94 million of whom are unemployed and seeking employment, by jamming through a provision in the 2000 page Omnibus Spending Bill that is allowing over a quarter of a million new low-skilled foreign workers to enter the US and be issued work permits each year and is funding Obama’s ability to migrate 85,000 new UN Muslim Refugees and secretly resettle them in various locations throughout the United States in 2016.

The Omnibus Spending Bill is another 2000 page bill that no one in Congress has read, before they had to vote to pass it----shades of Pelosi.  

The Omnibus Spending Bill would allow more than a quarter-of-a-million low-skilled foreign guest workers to enter the US on H-2B Visas each year, to fill jobs for low income American workers and part time students, allowing the foreigners to fill jobs to work in the construction industry, hotel-motel services, as truck drivers, food processing, in forestry, and many other fields that don’t require a college education.

The bill does nothing to stop the proliferation and restrict the funding of “Sanctuary Cities.”

Passage of the reckless Omnibus Spending Bill demonstrates how completely out of touch House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader McConnell are with the threat American citizens feel about the influx of Muslim refugees from the Middle East and Africa, especially after the murder of 14 Americans and wounding of 22 others by radical Islamic terrorists in San Bernardino, California.  

American citizens will have a new group of 85,000 Muslim Refugees from the Middle East and Africa secretly resettled throughout the US without informing elected officials and law enforcement officials in 50 states where they will be resettled, even after the FBI told Congress and  the American people that they have no way to determine if those refugees have terrorist ties.

House Speaker Ryan, reportedly helped negotiate the 2000 page Omnibus Spending Bill.  He will use the “Power Of The Purse” not to defund the Illegal Immigration and Refugee Resettlement Program, but instead to fund everyone of Obama’s illegal programs through 2016. 

The Omnibus Spending Bill not only includes full funding for Obama’s Muslim Refugee Resettlement Program at a cost of $1.6 billion of taxpayer money, but it also provides additional funding of the new 2016 UN Muslim Refugee Resettlement Program that will bring in an additional 85,000 Middle East and African Muslim refugees, many of them who are from jihadist hotbeds like Syria, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Speaker Ryan, Senator McConnell, and the Republican Leadership in Congress worked hand in glove with Obama and the Democratic Leadership in Congress (Pelosi and Reed) to craft this reckless piece of Un-American legislation and passed it over the vocal objection of hundreds of millions of American citizens.

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) who opposes the reckless Un-American legislation said  “As feared, the effect (of the Omnibus Spending Bill) is to fund the president’s entire (Illegal) immigration agenda.”

There’s a reason that GOP voters are in “open rebellion,” Sessions said.

“This legislation represents a further disenfranchisement of the American voter,” Sessions said.

Since 9/11, there has been 72 terrorist attacks by Radical Islamic Terrorists on the United States that have killed thousands of Americans.  The FBI recently notified Congress that 250+ Middle East and African refugees, admitted as US citizens through Obama’s fast track citizenship program, and/or of first generation Americans of Middle East and African descent have traveled to Iraq and Africa to participate in ISIS’ genocide of Syrian, African, and Assyrian Christians.  In a recent press release, Americans learned that 82 ISIS Radical Islamic Terrorists plots over the last two years have been foiled by the FBI, and the participants have been arrested for plotting to kill Americans, like the 14 Americans who were recently murdered by a female and male Radical Islamic Terrorist Disciple of ISIS in San Bernardino, California.  

The FBI also informed the Congress that they have opened 900+ terrorist related cases in all 50 states, and that the Bureau is not adequately staffed to properly investigate and prevent ISIS Radical Islamic Terrorist from future murderous terrorist attacks on Americans.  

What will it take for the rank and file members of Congress to understand that American citizens feel seriously threatened by the wholesale secret resettlement of Muslim refugees from the Middle East and Africa by Obama in cities throughout the 50 states, without determining if they have terrorist ties, and without informing elected state officials and law enforcement officials where they are being resettled for security reasons?

There must a “pause in the migration of refugees” into the United States until the Director of the FBI and the Secretary of Homeland Security can guarantee that the refugees approved for admittance have no terrorist ties.

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WND EXCLUSIVE

SECRET DEAL QUADRUPLES FOREIGN WORKERS IN U.S.

Borrows from Rubio's 'Gang of Eight' bill to flood blue-collar job market

LEO HOHMANN

Buried in the 2,000-page omnibus spending bill released by the Senate Wednesday morning is a secret provision that many senators hope unemployed blue-collar workers won’t find out about.

This provision would quadruple the number of H-2B visas for low-skilled foreign “guest workers.” It would allow more than a quarter-of-a-million foreign workers to enter the U.S. each year and work in the construction industry, hotel-motel services, truck drivers, food processing, forestry and many other fields that don’t require a college education.

A vote on the spending bill is expected late Thursday night, possibly after midnight, sources on the Hill told WND.

The bill also includes funding for all of President Obama’s foreign refugee resettlement program and does nothing to stop the proliferation of so-called “sanctuary cities.”

Legal immigration is already at an all-time high, with 1.1 million foreign-born persons coming to the U.S. every year, and a recent Pew Research poll shows 83 percent of the voting public wishes to see the level of immigration frozen or reduced.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., reportedly helped negotiate the omnibus deal. The spending bill also includes full funding for President Obama’s refugee resettlement program, which will cost $1.6 billion and bring in another 85,000 refugees this year, many of them from jihadist hotbeds like Syria, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan.

The timing of the bill comes as a record number of blue-collar American workers can’t find a job at all, said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.

“At a time when the civilian labor force participation rate in the U.S. is approximately 62.4%, now is not the time to advance legislation further depressing wages and employment for U.S. workers,” Sessions said in a letter to the chairs of the Senate appropriations committee.

But this is not the first time Congress has tried to include such a dramatic infusion of foreign labor into the lower rung of the U.S. job market.

The Gang of Eight bill in 2013, co-sponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio, also increased the controversial H-2B visa that brings in foreign workers to fill jobs as construction workers, restaurant employees, hotel maids and industrial workers.

In just the case of construction, there are six unemployed construction workers for each job opening, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute. Yet the omnibus released around 2:00 AMWednesday, would as much as quadruple the H-2B visa in an unadvertised provision secreted into the more than 2,000-page bill.

Labor unions are expected to kick up a fuss, but the bill could be voted on before news of the provision reaches the rank and file.

The last-minute insert was sponsored by Sens. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C. A bipartisan group of senators opposes the bill, including Sessions, Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.

The bill appears to be a copy of the Save Our Small and Seasonal Business Act, or SOSSBA, according to an op-ed in National Review by immigration attorney Ian Smith.

Smith wrote:

“Like SOSSBA, the Mikulski-Tillis bill would exclude returning H-2B temporary workers from the normal annual cap of 66,000. Although SOSSBA was previously in place, Congress failed to renew it in 2008. The H-2B program is designed to import temporary, seasonal, non-agricultural guest workers, mostly in the areas of landscaping, forestry, hotels, seafood processing, restaurants, amusement parks, and construction. Many of these unskilled jobs traditionally go to society’s most vulnerable — including single women, the disabled, the elderly, minorities, teenagers, students, and first-generation immigrants.”

Chamber of Commerce backs guest-worker program

But large corporate employers love the program because, as with the H-1B program for skilled foreign guest-workers, the worker’s visa is tied to his employment. This makes him more easily controllable and less likely to be lured away by a competitor.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce lists expanding the H-2B program as one of its “Policy Priorities for 2015.”

“And like most of our immigration programs, the H-2B operates mechanistically, giving jobs to foreign workers without any consideration for domestic labor conditions: Regardless of the state of the economy, the cap stays the same,” Smith writes.

Although SOSSBA includes a reference to “small businesses,” most H-2B employers, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, are not small or seasonal – they are mid- to large-size companies and recruiters who petition for H-2Bs so they can hire employees who work in the U.S. for 10 months out of the year, year after year, said Smith, who works for the Immigration Reform Law Institute.

And that’s why the corporate lobby, led by the Chamber, is pushing hard for this provision. This lobby has invested heavily in North Carolina’s junior senator, Thom Tillis, and in Maryland’s Mikulski.

“In 2008, CIS found that Mikulski, a long-time champion of SOSSBA, received tens of thousands of dollars of campaign contributions from the biggest users of the program,” Smith said.

Like Maryland, Tillis’s state of North Carolina is a big user of the program.

“His state in particular was recently the subject of an investigative Buzzfeed report about H-2Bs. The report, which also profiled the nearly identical H-2A program for temporary agricultural workers, zeroed in on the program’s loopholes and its damaging effects on American labor, most notably on African Americans,” Smith writes.

Exploiting loopholes

Although the H-2B program requires employers to advertise job openings prior to petitioning for guest workers, the ads are designed to attract as little attention from American workers as possible, according to Smith.

“Buzzfeed found that while employers do post ads for American workers, they employ numerous strategies to make sure no one actually responds. The investigation found that one guest-worker employer, Talbott’s Honey of South Dakota, ran ads in newspapers in Texas and New Mexico, hundreds of miles away from its area of operation. Similarly, in North Carolina, the state’s online job board incorrectly posted seasonal Christmas-tree-cutting jobs ‘in the wrong counties, sometimes hundreds of miles from any pine forests.’”

As a result, Buzzfeed reported, “workers looking for Christmas-tree work close to home face a peculiar paradox: The only way to find the openings nearby is to search in a faraway corner of the state.” Other ads across the country simply failed to include contact information or the name of the company.

Another clever tactic of H-2B employers is to include overly stringent requirements in the want ads.

Lori Johnson, a lawyer from Legal Aid of North Carolina, told Buzzfeed that there is little evidence such requirements are ever imposed on the foreign guest workers who ultimately get the jobs. The ads are designed to “filter out U.S. workers,” Johnson concludes.

This may explain why, in fiscal 2015, only 505 American farmworkers in North Carolina found jobs from listings on the state’s Department of Commerce’s website, even though more than 7,000 American farmworkers in the state had registered with the agency to seek work.

“Quadrupling the number of H-2B visas will artificially increase competition for the jobs that typically go to the nation’s most vulnerable. Black unemployment in North Carolina, for instance, is 17 percent, four times the U.S. average and the fourth-highest rate for blacks across the nation. Members of Congress from Maryland and North Carolina, such as Congressional Black Caucus chairman G. K. Butterfield (D., N.C.), should join the bipartisan effort to condemn the bill,” Smith concluded.

There’s a reason GOP voters are in ‘open rebellion’

Sessions is leading the opposition from the conservative side.

The voters put Republicans in a majority in the 2014 midterm elections – a vote that constituted a clear decision to reject the abuse of our immigration system.

That loyalty has been repaid with betrayal, Sessions said in a statement released Wednesday.

“On top of this provision, the omnibus approves – without conditions – the president’s request for increased refugee admissions, allowing him to bring in as many refugees as he wants, from anywhere he wants, and then allow them to access unlimited amounts of welfare and entitlements at taxpayer expense. This will ensure that at least 170,000 green card, refugee and asylum approvals are issued to migrants from Muslim countries over just the next 12 months.

“In March, … I sent appropriators a list of several dozen provisions for inclusion in our funding bills to improve immigration enforcement and block presidential lawlessness; those provisions were rejected – yet industry’s request for more foreign workers, and the president’s request for refugee funds, were unconditionally approved.

“The bill also funds sanctuary cities and illegal alien resettlement, allows the president to continue issuing visas to countries that refuse to repatriate violent criminal aliens, and funds the president’s ongoing lawless immigration actions – including his unimpeded 2012 executive amnesty for alien youth.

“As feared, the effect is to fund the president’s entire immigration agenda.”

There’s a reason that GOP voters are in “open rebellion,” Sessions said.

“This legislation represents a further disenfranchisement of the American voter,” Sessions said.