{"id":11416,"date":"2013-10-31T12:42:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T12:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11416"},"modified":"2013-10-31T12:42:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T12:42:38","slug":"billionaires-manufacturing-consent-on-open-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11416","title":{"rendered":"Billionaires manufacturing consent on open borders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Soros-funded National Immigration Forum (NIF) organized today\u2019s \u201cfly-in\u201d of some 600 people to lobby the American House Republicans to pass the Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill (which Senator Rubio himself has now disavowed). It started with a two-hour teach-in at the U.S Chamber of Commerce, with the usual suspects saying the usual things.<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t stomach the whole thing, but there were some amusing bits: Al Cardenas, head of the American Conservative Union, said that we need immigration because our population is declining (in fact, even with zero immigration \u2014 zero \u2014 our population would continue to increase for generations, beyond which projections are meaningless). Also, Tony Massif, lobbyist for California agribusiness, said that if we we don\u2019t import more stoop labor from abroad, then we\u2019ll have to import more food, meaning our enemies would \u201ccontrol our food supply.\u201d (You know, because all that corn and wheat in the Midwest is being hand-harvested by Guatemalan peasants.) Speakers were also pretending that amnesty and increased immigration were conservative initiatives by claiming that environmentalists and labor unions are responsible for the opposition to the Schumer-Rubio bill when, obviously, they\u2019re among the bill\u2019s chief backers.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that\u2019s all boilerplate and hardly worth commenting on, as much as it might irk me. But I got to thinking about the groups hosting this thing and thought it\u2019d be interesting to match up their principals and supporters with the Forbes 400 list. Turns out that \u201cBillionaires for Open Borders\u201d isn\u2019t just a catchy name \u2014 it\u2019s the reality. Joining Soros (#19 on the Forbes 400) in backing today\u2019s lobbying effort are a broad collection of his fellow billionaires. One of the co-hosts was Partnership for a New American Economy. Among the group\u2019s co-chairmen: Michael Bloomberg (#10 on the Forbes 400), Steve Ballmer (#21), Rupert Murdoch (#30), Douglas M. Baker Jr. (#161), and Bill Marriott (#296).<\/p>\n

Another co-host was Fwd.us, founded by Mark Zuckerberg (#20) and including among its supporters Bill Gates (#1), Eric Schmidt (#49), Reid Hoffman (#103), John Doerr (#184), Stanley Druckenmiller (#184), John Fisher (#193), Barry Diller (#260), Sean Parker (#273), Jim Bryer (#352), Mark Pincus (was #212 in 2011, but fallen off since), Matt Cohler (worth a measly $400 million, but on the Forbes Future 400 list), Fred Wilson (#16 on Forbes Midas List of top tech investors), Ron Conway (#41 on the Midas List), and Richard Kramlich (#73 on the Midas List). That\u2019s not to mention a whole list of mere multi-millionaires and even billionaires who didn\u2019t make the cut.<\/p>\n

To adapt WFB\u2019s famous quip, I\u2019d rather be governed by the first 400 names in the Boston phone directory than the Forbes 400 List. – nationalreview.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Soros-funded National Immigration Forum (NIF) organized today\u2019s \u201cfly-in\u201d of some 600 people to lobby the American House Republicans to pass the Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill (which Senator Rubio himself has now disavowed). It started with a two-hour teach-in at the U.S Chamber of Commerce, with the usual suspects saying the usual things. I couldn\u2019t stomach … Continue reading “Billionaires manufacturing consent on open borders”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[2212,1064,7222,4822],"class_list":["post-11416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-george-soros","tag-immigration","tag-national-immigration-forum","tag-open-borders"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/soros.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11418,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11416\/revisions\/11418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}