http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/10/obama-courting-ceos-on-immigration-widens-conservative-split-raises-issue/Obama courting [LaRaza NCLR supporting] CEOs on immigration widens conservative split, raises issue of corporate motivesPublished November 10, 2013
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President
Obama's courting of top U.S. executives this week to help get the
Republican-controlled House to pass immigration reform is
furthering the divide among conservatives, with a top GOP senator and
others suggesting corporate America is lending its support with hopes of
getting more access to low-cost immigrant labor.
The president
said before the White House meeting Tuesday that he and others who
support comprehensive immigration reform passed in the Senate know the
“politics are challenging” in the House and that they “want to make it
as easy as possible” for Speaker John Boehner to get enough votes for
passage.
However, that
McDonald's Don Thompson and
Marriott’s Arne Sorenson,
whose companies depend on low-skilled inexpensive labor, were among
those at the meeting has raised questions from some conservatives,
especially at a time when
millions of Americans remain out of work.
“Many
of the same corporations demanding more immigrant workers are laying
off American workers,” Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on
the Senate Budget Committee, told FoxNews.com. “House Republicans
should tell the White House simply:
We work for the American people, not this group of CEOs.”
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http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/obama-obamacare-problems-immigration-99834.htmlObama: Don't let ACA problems stop immigrationBy REID J. EPSTEIN | 11/13/13 7:04 PM EST
President Barack Obama gave immigration reform advocates a simple message Wednesday:
Don’t let Obamacare get you down.
In
an Oval Office meeting with eight Christian faith leaders, the
president said he remains engaged on immigration legislation and hopes
the reform effort can get a fair hearing despite his other political
problems, several faith leaders told POLITICO.
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“He said he
doesn’t want other debates that are going on to hurt this,” said Jim
Wallis, the president and CEO of the Christian social justice agency
Sojourners. “He doesn’t want all the other debates going on to prevent
this from passing. It’s caught up in all the other debates and he wants
this to be looked at on his own merits.”
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Obama’s exhortation came during a meeting just hours before
his administration released the first batch of Affordable Care Act enrollment numbers – a figure the White House had for weeks telegraphed as far lower than expected.
Much of
Obama’s Oval Office conversation with the faith leaders,
Biden and top aides Valerie Jarrett, Cecilia Munoz and Melissa Rogers
centered around the idea that contemporary Washington politics is
blocking reform efforts, the faith leaders said.
Obama, they said, didn’t make a direct ask for them to press Congress to back the reform effort, as
Vice President Joe Biden implored Catholic leaders
to do during a call Tuesday night. Instead he asked for their input on
how the current immigration system is harming their communities and
echoed
the urgency to pass reform legislation by the end of the year.
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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/190133-obama-rallies-faith-leaders-on-immigrationObama rallies faith leaders on immigration By Justin Sink - 11/13/13 01:21 PM EST
President
Obama on Wednesday rallied faith leaders to pressure Republicans to
pursue comprehensive immigration reform during a morning meeting at the
White House
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The meeting comes on the heels of a similar gathering last week with business executives, as the White House looks to regain momentum on a reform effort that has largely stalled in the House.
In addition to the president, Vice President Biden,
senior
adviser Valerie Jarrett, Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Muñoz
and director of faith-based partnerships Melissa Rogers attended the
meeting."The President and the leaders discussed their shared commitment to raise the
moral imperative for immigration reform and said they will continue keeping the
pressure on Congress so they can swiftly pass commonsense reform," the White House said in a statement.
According to the White House, Obama told the leaders there was "no reason for
House Republicans to continue to delay action on this issue that has garnered bipartisan support."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Mu%C3%B1ozCecilia Muñoz (born July 27, 1962) is director of the White House Domestic Policy Council.
Prior to that, she served as the White House Director of
Intergovernmental Affairs. A longtime civil rights advocate, she worked
as
Senior Vice President for the Office of Research, Advocacy and Legislation at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), ...
http://www.brookings.edu/experts/rogersmMelissa Rogers
serves as director of Wake Forest University Divinity School's Center
for Religion and Public Affairs. She was a nonresident senior fellow at
Brookings until March 2013.
While at Brookings, her
research focused on religion’s intersection with policy, law, and
politics, including religious expression in American public life and the
social service partnerships the government forms with religious and
secular organizationshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_JarrettValerie Bowman Jarrett
(born November 14, 1956) is a Senior Advisor to the President of the
United States and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and
Intergovernmental Affairs in the Obama administration.
She is a Chicago lawyer, businesswoman, and civic leader. Prior to that she served as a co-chairperson of the Obama-Biden Transition Project
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Jarrett continued to work in the mayor's office in the 1990s.
She was Deputy Chief of Staff for Mayor Richard Daley,
during which time (1991) she hired Michelle Robinson, then engaged to
Barack Obama, away from a private law firm. Jarrett served as
Commissioner of the Department of Planning and Development from 1992
through 1995, and was Chair of the Chicago Transit Board
from 1995 to 2005
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Until
joining the Obama Administration, Jarrett was the CEO of The Habitat
Company, a real estate development and management company[11] which she
joined in 1995. She has been replaced by Mark Segal, a lawyer who joined
the company in 2002, as CEO. Daniel E. Levin is the Chairman of
Habitat, which was formed in 1971.[12] Jarrett was a member of the board
of Chicago Stock Exchange (2000–2007, as Chairman, 2004–2007).
She
was a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago
Medical Center from 1996 to 2009, becoming Vice-Chair in 2002 and Chair
in 2006.[13] She also
served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago and a Trustee of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.[14]
Jarrett serves on the board of directors of USG Corporation, a Chicago based building materials corporation.
Jarrett's
previous year's income, in a 2009 report, was a $300,000 salary and
$550,000 in deferred compensation from The Habitat Executive Services,
Inc. The Wall Street Journal also reported she disclosed payments of
more than $346,000 for service on boards of directors that reflect her
political ties, and work in Chicago real estate and community
development. She was paid $76,000 for service as a director of Navigant
Consulting, Inc. a Chicago-based global consulting group with
governmental clients. She received $146,600 from USG, and $58,000 to
serve on the board of Rreef American REIT II, a real estate investment
trust based in San Francisco. The Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc., paid her
$34,444.[15]
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