[Highwayman]

Look who else is selling us out on the illegal immigration issue.

It was solidarity time inside the great hall along Chicago’s Navy Pier last July. The AFL-CIO was holding its 50th-anniversary convention. And support for mass immigration was a top priority. At various points in the proceedings, federation leaders such as President John Sweeney, and marquee guest speakers such as Jesse Jackson and Sen. Ted Kennedy (D.-Mass.), peppered their speeches with appeals to Congress to grant legal amnesty to millions of “undocumented workers.”

This part caught my eye;

By 1995, Sweeney was a logical heir to the AFL-CIO presidency. Once in office, Sweeney quickly set about transforming the AFL-CIO into a vocal advocate for mass immigration. In 1996, the federation worked with ethnic and business activists to strip from pending immigration-reform legislation key provisions such as mandatory Social Security number verification and strict limits on refugee admissions. In February 2000, the AFL-CIO Executive Council announced its opposition to IRCA employer sanctions and support for amnesty for unauthorized workers.

And this part;

The alliance between labor and business was logical, though rooted in opposite motives. Though union leaders continue to rail against “the corporations” in their press releases and convention speeches, they are full partners on immigration. And why not? Few things are more potentially mutually advantageous than a massive guest-worker program—an amnesty all but in name—in which temporary immigrant workers pay into employer or union benefit funds but do not stay around long enough to collect.

By contrast, the alliance between unions and ethnic radicals owes more to political beliefs than economic interests. Each is an indispensable bloc within the Democratic Party. The ethnic advocacy groups—most of all, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)—are aggressive in filing lawsuits to promote immigration, while pressuring employers to commit themselves to ever-greater ethnic “diversity.”

Labor organizations have come to see America in much the same terms as the allies in MALDEF, the National Council of La Raza and the League of United Latin American Citizens. They believe Hispanic and other Third World immigrants are America’s victims who can be organized into a coalition of “people of color.” In 2001 the AFL-CIO Executive Council, the General Amnesty Coalition and other groups co-sponsored a May Day March for Workers’ Rights and March for Immigrant Rights. The Organizing Committee for Workers Rights held a May Day rally and concert in New York City’s Union Square under the slogan, “Amnesty for all immigrants— present and future.” Later, in October 2003, Sweeney welcomed illegal aliens to a pro-amnesty “freedom ride,” a bus convoy that converged on Liberty State Park in New Jersey.

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