How Big Labor is working with Obama to kill immigration reform

Red States:

Notwithstanding a $300,000 ad buy by the SEIU, as the immigration reform drums beat on in the media and Washington, there is a fight being waged by union bosses that may, ultimately, doom any chances for their purportedly long-sought after immigration reform.

Though partisan bickering and back-door deal making is nothing new in Washington, on the issue of immigration reform, it is beginning to appear that Barack Obama (through Democrat surrogates) and the AFL-CIO–as they did in 2007–are intent on doing all they can to blow up any chance of a bi-partisan deal through the use of poison pill amendments.

Millions of immigrants–legal and illegal–are pinning their hopes on Washington politicians enacting some sort of bipartisan immigration reform legislation.

However, recent actions by the AFL-CIO and Barack Obama’s Democrat surrogates in the Senate signal three areas that there may be more interest in keeping the political problem out there for Democrats and unions to cynically and calculatingly use for the next several election cycles. 

1. ObamaCare for illegals

Last Friday, the Senate voted along party lines (43-56) to kill an amendment that would have prevented illegal immigrants from receiving benefits under ObamaCare.

According to The Daily Caller, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions stated that the vote put immigration reform in jeopardy.
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2. Discriminatorily higher wages for low-wage guest workers

Another fight that is appearing to be a immigration reform deal killer is the issue of what wage price controls should be set (if any) for low-wage guest workers. That is, unions want any low-wage guest workers to be paid above what the market dictates–and what comparable American workers are paid.
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3. AFL-CIO Boss: Guest workers should be able to bring their families too…

To make matters worse, last week, AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka stated in an interview that any guest worker program enacted should allow workers to bring their families too.
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The reality is, unions–especially building trade unions (many of whose members remain unemployed)–cannot afford to have more non-union competition.
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This is more evidence that Ted Cruz was right about  the intentions of the Obama administration to kill immigration reform and blame it on Republicans.  They then get to keep the issue out there and also protect the Big Labor bosses who fund the Democrat party.