Thread: Businesses target failed immigration bill

Here comes big biz....
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Businesses target failed immigration bill

By Sue Kirchhoff, USA TODAY
July 1, 2007

WASHINGTON — — The business community is already pushing to resurrect portions of a wide-ranging immigration bill that died in the Senate last week.
Among the priorities for business are provisions to allow more highly skilled workers into the country each year and expand programs for farm workers

"We're going to have to go back and see how many things from the bill we can pull out and get fixes," says Angelo Amador, director of immigration policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who also said his group would push to give undocumented students who have been raised in the USA a chance to earn legal status and finish their education.

"At the very least a fix for a year or two while we work on comprehensive reform is needed," Amador said.

Amador added that businesses face increasing immigration raids and new legislation at the state and local levels.

It's not clear how eager lawmakers will be to dive back into the controversial issue, though Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., has indicated a willingness to consider parts of the bill separately. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, said the House should "take stock of the situation to determine whether anything can be done to improve the current unsatisfactory system."

The Senate failed to muster the 60 votes needed to end debate on the immigration measure. It would have given a path to citizenship for an estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants now in the USA, tightened workplace enforcement and border security and allowed more temporary workers.

With the bill apparently dead, the technology industry will back a more targeted measure increasing the number of annual H1B visas for highly skilled workers. The visas are issued for up to three years but can be extended. The bill would have raised the current cap of 65,000 to as many as 130,000. The industry now will push for an annual level as high as 195,000 annual visas — a number allowed several years ago.

"We've got a lot of companies who want to create a lot of new jobs and keep a lot of good people in the country," says Ralph Hellmann, a senior vice president of the Information Technology Industry Council.

The American Farm Bureau Federation will continue pushing for a farm worker program, probably more expansive than the one in the failed bill. That program provided a path to legalization for about 1 million current agricultural workers and made it easier to use a guest worker program.

"It's an issue we've been working on for a long time … we're not going to stop," says Paul Schlegel, director of public policy for the American Farm Bureau Federation.

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Yup, here comes the suits. They couldn't get the whole ball of wax so they'll try to do it piecemeal. I hope Alipac, FAIR and other groups keep the momentum going to so we can switch to offense and get the focus (finally) where it should be -- on border security and interior enforcement.

says Angelo Amador, director of immigration policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

immigration policy what the hell?????????US chamber of Commerce what the hell???????????????
Talk about bull nuts...these people.... all of this is no accident... it has been a long thought out plan...We the People are going to have to clean house

"We've got a lot of companies who want to create a lot of new jobs and keep a lot of good people in the country," says Ralph Hellmann, a senior vice president of the Information Technology Industry Council.

TRANSLATION: THEY WANT CHEAP LABOR.

HOW ABOUT INSTEAD OF SPENDING ALL THAT MONEY TO UP THE CAP OF H1B WORKERS.....THEY USE THE MONEY TO TRAIN AMERICAN WORKERS.

WELL IN FACT THERE ARE ALREADY AMERICANS TRAINED FOR THESE JOBS....THEY JUST DONT WANT TO PAY THEM. BUT LETS SAY THERE ARENT ENOUGH....JUST TRAIN SOME. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH THAT?

OH THATS RIGHT. AMERICANS WANT TO BE PAID TO WORK.....OH YEAH......FORGOT ABOUT THAT PART.

Well, hmmm ... Farm Bureau ... isn't that cute? Here we fine Americans subsidize their constituents with subsidies and the ingrates want to use "immigration policy" to destroy our nation?

I say ... farmers everywhere that don't benefit from "farm subsidies" ... which is about 80% of America's Farmers that don't benefit from "farm subsidies" need to stand up and speak out for the America WE know they love.

Come on Farmers ... we need you to get active and shut these people down!! When they sell US out, they're selling YOU out. Get my drift here?



And I wonder what small business would do if we said ... gee ... we don't need your stuff if you belong to the US Chamber of Commerce? Maybe small business needs to stand up and speak out for the America WE know they love.

Come on Small Business Owners ... we need you to get active and shut these people down! When they sell US out, they're selling YOU out. Get my drift here?



See the drift is ... all the little people of the United States are in this together and we need every single little farmer and small business owner to stand with US and demand our borders be secured and our laws enforced.

"We've got a lot of companies who want to create a lot of new jobs and keep a lot of good people in the country,"

And we've got alot of American people already in the country who need those jobs you're creating. And by the way, which people are you trying to keep here? Are you admitting that you hire illegals and you need to keep them? It sounds like you are, and need to be investigated for that crime, as well as being audited for any tax fraud.

Well, I think we may have to stuff Mr. Schlegl's mailbox and jam his phones and let him know we are keeoing an eye on this and we don't intend to let him get away with it.

Well, I think we may have to stuff Mr. Schlegl's mailbox and jam his phones and let him know we are keeoing an eye on this and we don't intend to let him get away with it.

Yes, indeed, we do. I'm going to bring up the subject of TAX EVASION as being what we activists are DEMANDING be prosecuted.

Contact page for Mr. Richard Schlegl

http://directory.centralbuckschamber...ember_id=13206