Grassley: Guest workers stealing jobs from Americans
Jim Brown

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is urging the Bush administration to reform a guest worker program that he believes has led to the elimination of many American jobs.

Grassley says the administration has not kept the promise it made last August to implement some needed reforms to the H1-B visa process. H1-Bs are the most common type of skilled guest worker visas.

The Homeland Security Department sent a response to Grassley last week on the matter, but he said the response was not worth the paper it was printed on. “It’s easy to see why we’ve got problems here. For instance, some companies are applying for H1 visas for pizza tossers, hotel managers, and llama farm operators. The California Republican Party has hired a Canadian as what they call ‘a State Deputy Political Director.’ They’ve all done these things through the H1 visa programs,â€