issued a letter<\/a> to Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) demanding the legalization of 11 million illegal aliens and increased legal immigration through the creation of new visa programs. As these companies put it in their letter:<\/p>\n[W]e strongly support efforts to bolster the availability of a workforce at all skills levels, through a separate visa program as well as by creating a path to legal status for those already here.<\/p>\n
[Lobbying]<\/p>\n
The companies include well-known names like Hallmark Cards, Disney, CVS, the Cheesecake Factory, American Airlines, Wendy’s, McDonald’s, the Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Coca-Cola, T-Mobile, AT&T, UPS, Rubbermaid, and McCormick spices \u2014 just to name a few examples.<\/p>\n
These companies cite a recent Congressional Budget Office report, arguing that the Senate bill would grow the economy. They conveniently left out the CBO estimate that even though the amnesty might make the economy larger, it would simultaneously make American workers poorer by lowering the wages of American workers for a decade or more. The companies claim the bill is an “opportunity to level the playing field for U.S. employers” but it is more of an effort to level the wages of American citizens.<\/p>\n
It is difficult to understand how these companies can feel justified in demanding the importation of cheap labor with a straight face at a time when tens of millions of Americans are unemployed. The number of working-age (16 to 65) native-born Americans who are not working \u2014 unemployed or out of the labor market \u2014 stood at 57.5 million in the second quarter of 2013. The unemployed population is spread throughout the labor market and includes 25 million with no more than a high school education, 16 million with some education beyond high school, and nine million with at least a bachelor’s degree.<\/p>\n
The letter is available online. The names of the companies pushing to amnesty illegal aliens, double legal immigration, and undermine immigration law enforcement are listed here:
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\nThe Cheesecake Factory, Inc.
\nCVS Caremark Corporation
\nHallmark Cards, Inc.
\nMcDonald’s Corporation
\nThe Wendy’s Company
\nThe Walt Disney Company
\nThe Coca-Cola Company
\nJohnson & Johnson
\nAmerican Express Company
\n21st Century Fox
\nDarden Restaurants, Inc (Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and others)
\nLiberty Mutual Group, Inc.
\nAllstate Insurance Company
\nWestern Union
\nNorthwestern Mutual
\nAmerican Airlines Inc.
\nMotorola Solutions, Inc.
\nThe Procter & Gamble Company (wide range of well-known home and beauty brands)
\nNewell Rubbermaid Inc.
\nAT&T Inc.
\nT-Mobile USA, Inc.
\nCaterpillar Inc.
\nThe ADT Corporation
\nPfizer Inc.
\nHewlett-Packard Company
\nUnited Parcel Service, Inc.
\nGeneral Electric Company
\nVerizon Communications Inc.
\nMarriott International, Inc.
\nHilton Worldwide
\nHyatt Hotels Corporation
\nMcCormick & Company, Inc.
\nCisco Systems, Inc.
\nQuest Diagnostics Incorporated
\nEaton
\nE.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
\nBNSF Railway Company
\nShell Oil Company
\nGeneral Mills, Inc. (many well-known food brands)
\nIngram Industries Inc.
\nKronos Incorporated
\nIngersoll Rand Company
\nGeneral Parts Inc.
\nMerck & Co., Inc.
\nUnited Technologies Corporation
\nHarris Corporation
\nIllinois Tool Works Inc.
\nSears Holdings Corporation
\nUSG Corporation
\nArcher Daniels Midland Company
\nJohnson Controls, Inc.
\nAlly Financial Inc.
\nUS Foods
\nUnivar, Inc.
\nKiewit Corporation
\nAir Products and Chemicals, Inc.
\nW.W. Grainger, Inc.
\nAvery Dennison Corporation
\nHumana Inc.
\nNovelis, Inc.
\nThe Williams Companies, Inc.
\nAvaya Inc.
\nComputer Sciences Corporation
\nHoneywell International Inc.
\nInternational Paper Company
\nDover Corporation
\nDanaher Corporation
\nTRW Automotive
\nAnalog Devices, Inc.
\nEcolab, Inc.
\nAvnet, Inc.
\nWhite Lodging Corporation
\nCoca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.
\nSimon Property Group
\nDaikin McQuay Americas
\nContinental Grain Company
\nMSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc.
\nHospira, Inc.
\nCigna Corporation
\nThe ServiceMaster Company
\nAutomatic Data Processing, Inc.
\nBloomin’ Brands Inc.
\nFiserv, Inc.
\nCarolinas HealthCare System
\nSRA International
\nEmerson
\nRockwell Automation, Inc.
\nParker Hannifin Corporation
\nSaint-Gobain Corporation
\nGeneral Dynamics Corporation
\nA. O. Smith Corporation
\nPraxair, Inc.
\nHCA Inc.
\nEastman Chemical Company
\nManpowerGroup
\nFifth Third Bank
\nPitney Bowes Inc.
\nExpress Scripts, Inc.
\nCardinal Health, Inc.
\nAleris International, Inc.
\nDTE Energy Company
\nU.S. Steel Corporation
\nMortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation
\nCargill, Incorporated
\nAssurant, Inc.
\nXL Global Services, Inc
\nTexas Instruments Incorporated
\nATK
\nWESCO International<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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