Obama Advisers Meet With Leaders of Business Groups
President Barack Obama‘s top economic advisers are meeting with leaders from business groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Retail Federation to enlist their support for the White House’s plans to overhaul the immigration system and to avert automatic spending cuts set to kick in next month. [Wall Street Journal]
Business and Labor Unite to Try to Alter Immigration Laws
After decades of friction over immigration, the nation’s labor unions and the leading business association, the Chamber of Commerce, have formed an unusual alliance that is pushing hard to revamp American immigration laws. These oft-feuding groups agree on the need to enact a way for the 11 million immigrants illegally in the United States to gain citizenship. And they are also nearing common ground on a critical issue — the number of guest workers allowed into the country — that has deeply divided business and labor for years and helped to sink President George W. Bush’s push for an immigration overhaul in 2007. [Washington Post]
