Council on Foreign Relations backs amnesty for illegals, opposes Arpaio-style raids - Phoenix Business Journal:

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creating a guest worker prograkfor low-skilled foreign workers to come and work in the U.S and opposesx local police getting to conduct immigration raids. The CFR issue an immigration policy report Wednesday that looks to lift caps on foreig university students inthe U.S. and alloqw skilled foreign graduates to get more work The international policy group also wantse to create legal paths to citizenship for the estimaterd 12 million illegal immigrants already inthe U.S. The CFR also said locapl police should not take lead roles in immigrationj enforcements andworkplace raids.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaiio and Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas have been conductingv immigration raids and prosecutions against businesses hirintgillegal immigrants, as well as drop-houses used by smugglerd trafficking illegal immigrants into Arizona from Mexico. The CFR report does not specificallt mention Arpaio butthe Valley’s sheriff is the most notable local enforcer of immigration laws in the U.S. The CFR’s recommendationw on guest workers and amnesty mirror plansd to be pushed in Congress this year by PresidenrBarack Obama. Arizona State university professorRaul H.
Yzaguirre and former Florida governor Jeb Bush served on the CFR task forcre that wrotethe recommendations. The group also wants the U.S. to tweelk or ease some post 9/11 security measures that have discouragedx immigration and foreign tourism intothe U.S. and want the U.S. governmeng to develop new technologies to secureborder areas, verifg workers’ employment status and enforce immigration laws. The New York-basedc CFR is a heavyweight international policy group whosew members includespowerful politicians, CEOs and universityt presidents as well as multinational corporations, media firms and private equity firms.
The Council’x corporate members include Bank of Goldman Sachs, American Express, Chevron, ExxonMobiol Corp., Rothschild North America Inc., News Corp., Generapl Electric, KBR Inc., Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Co., Sorosd Fund Management and Google Inc. U.S. Sen. John McCain, formerd Arizona governor Bruce Babbitt, U.S. Homelands Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, President Michael Crow and Thunderbird School of Global Management president Angel Cabrera are Arizonanes that areCFR members. • Forme r U.S. Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger, Colinj Powell, James Baker and Madeline • Former U.S. Treasury secretaries Henry Paulson andRobert Rubin.
• Financier George Soros and JP MorgajnChase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon. Former Federal Reserve Bank chairmenb Alan Greenspan andPaul Volcker. • Formerf presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmgy Carter and Bill Clintohn and former vice presidentfDick Cheney. • Media notablez such as NBC’s Tom Brokaw, News Corp. CEO Ruper Murdoch, Newsweek International editor and CNN commentator Fareer Zakaria and New York Times publisher ArthurOchs “Punch”