President Barack Obama met Tuesday with the usual suspects of left-wing advocacy groups to discuss immigration. The White House calls them “progressive and labor leaders” and “business leaders.”
The White House described the summit this way:
In the afternoon, the President will continue his dialogue with outside leaders on a number of issues – including immigration reform and how it fits into his broader economic agenda, and his efforts to achieve balanced deficit reduction. The President will host two separate meetings at the White House, one with progressive and labor leaders and the other with business leaders. These meetings in the Roosevelt Room are closed press.
Take a look at the guest list. First, the “progressive and labor leaders”:
Deepak Bhargava, Center for Community Change
Marshall Fitz, Center for American Progress
Wade Henderson, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Marielena Hincapie, National Immigration Law Center
Deepa Iyer, NCAPA/SAALT
Ben Jealous, NAACP
Cristina Jimenez, United We Dream
Eliseo Medina, SEIU
Mee Moua, Asian American Justice Center
Janet Murguia, National Council of la Raza
Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum
Arturo Rodriguez, United Farm Workers
Frank Sharry, America’s Voice
Rachel Tiven, Immigration Equality
Gustavo Torres, Casa de Maryland
Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO
And the business leaders:
Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs Group
Greg Brown, Chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions
Steve Case, Chairman and CEO, Revolution LLC
Joe Echevarria, CEO, Deloitte LLP
Paul Jacobs, Chairman and CEO, Qualcomm
Muhtar Kent, Chairman and CEO, The Coca Cola Company
Klaus Kleinfeld, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa
Monica Lozano, CEO, Impremedia
Marissa Mayer, President and CEO, Yahoo!
Greg Page, Chairman and CEO, Cargill
Jeff Smisek, Chairman and CEO, United Continental
Arne Sorenson, President and CEO, Marriott International
Funny, Walmart isn’t represented.