A number of female senators, including arch-feminist Patty Murray, have introduced an amendment to the immigration bill in front of the senate, proposing that women should be given preference despite their qualifications (or lack thereof).
Saying the immigration overhaul bill now before the Senate would discriminate against future immigrants who are women, 13 female senators have introduced an amendment that would make it easier for foreign women to come to the United States under a new merit system in the legislation.
The amendment is part of a new effort by supporters of the bill to attract votes by framing immigration as a women’s issue. Its lead sponsors are two Democrats, Senator Mazie K. Hirono of Hawaii and Senator Patty Murray of Washington, and sponsors also include a Republican, Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
On Tuesday, dozens of women from local and national organizations waged a lobbying blitz on Capitol Hill. Pramila Jayapal, a leader of a coalition that organized the women’s campaign, said some of them visited senators who are leading the effort to pass the bill — including Senator Patrick J. Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont — wearing colored fedoras that they tipped to show their support. Other women turned up with feather dusters in the offices of a dozen senators who earlier this month voted against allowing the Senate to debate the bill, to encourage those lawmakers to “clean up their act,” Ms. Jayapal said.
So how do they propose to stop “discrimination” against women? In the usual manner — they lower the bar for them:
The amendment the senators introduced late Wednesday would make a major change to the bill now on the Senate floor. It would create a separate tier for professions typically held by women, under a new merit-based point system for future immigration that would place more emphasis on job qualifications and less on family ties, which are the priority in the current system.
The senators said women in foreign countries often do not have the same educational and career opportunities as men. “We should not cement those inequalities into our immigration laws,” Ms. Hirono said.
What a load. Women have more education in most developed – and developing – countries. What they don’t have is in-demand skills such as engineering, programming and the like. This amendment is another example of how this immigration bill is really just another swindle designed to rip off ordinary Americans, including earlier immigrants, for the benefit of the elite.
Pramila Jayapal, who is a racial activist, is trying to sell the amendment as a way to get women on board, but I don’t think most women would support it if they thought for more than a second or so about what it means. Each young woman immigrating from abroad is another option for American men, and there are millions of women from less obese regions of the world who would make the trip if it were convenient to them. In fact, a program allowing healthy, attractive and mentally stable women to immigrate might not be a bad thing from a male perspective.
So one might wonder what these feminist senators are thinking in carving out an exception for low-skill females. Actually, it’s pretty simple if you think about it: they want more cheap maids and nannies.
