Thread: House OKs more visas, rollover green card allotments

House Panel OKs More Visas for Foreign Nurses, Rollover Green Card Allotments

Bills that would allow more foreign nurses to work in the United States and make changes to the overall green-card system were approved Friday by a House panel.

The nurses bill (HR 5924) would authorize 20,000 visas per year for foreign nurses and authorize grants to U.S. nursing schools to increase their enrollment and create new training programs.

Hospitals have more than 115,000 nursing vacancies now, according to Robert Wexler , D-Fla., the sponsor of the bill, and the Department of Health and Human Services says the nation will face a shortage of more than 1 million nurses by 2020.

The Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law Subcommittee approved the bill by a 7-2 vote.

Luis Gutierrez of Illinois was the sole Democrat to vote against the measure. He said he opposed granting visas to any one group of foreign workers because that undermined the case for a more comprehensive immigration overhaul.

“We give the high tech industry what they want, we give the landscapers what they want, we give the nurses what they want,â€

And who is going to make sure the visa holders go home instead of illegally overstaying and working? That's what our dear congress should be focused on. Vote these anti-Americans out!

I read the bill and it calls for the persons family to come and live with them while they are here working! Again looks like chain migration,after they over stay their visas. This makes my blood boil! Ill'' be calling my Reps on this Trash!

How can fools like Lofgren, with a straight face, claim that they are on the side of working men and women when they are trying to import hundreds of thousands lower-skilled foreign workers (I think Numbers said they only have to have 2 years of college) -- at the time when unemployment is at a 4-year high.

Unbelievable. Wake up America!!