Thread: King opposes lifting immigration cap for nurses

King opposes lifting immigration cap for nurses
By Douglas Burns 9/12/08 8:39 AM

According to Right Side News.com, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, is opposed to legislation Congress is expected to take up soon that would lift a cap on immigration of nurses and physical therapists to deal with a shortage. King is the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law.

[quote]H.R. 5924 addresses perceived worker shortages in nursing and therapy fields by lifting the cap on employment-based visas for physical therapists and nurses until 2011. Rep. King has also expressed opposition to this bill, arguing that it would only exacerbate a shortage of nurses in other countries. King has said that the nursing shortage in the United States can be attributed to a lack of teachers at the graduate nursing level, a problem that won’t be solved by “throwing money at it.â€

Oh please let's open all the jobs up?

Is there a problem?

Why are we guarding these few fields of American jobs?

Can't the smart doctors in America handle the on-slaughter of foreign legal immigrants taking the jobs of Smart Hard Working Americans in their very own doctors' offices?

But now is it or is it not odd about the money of overpopulating all other American jobs with foreign legal or illegal immigrants for these very same smart doctors to have more money at taxpayers expense?

And if this is not enough many in the medical fields are probably cheering for the 550,000 visas before the committee into acceptance. Not caring about the burden onto other fields of work in America. (Just guard the medical industries.)

Interpretations might be overdue?

Oh my that is right! There might be a language barrier. Gee!
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VOTE NO!!! VOTE NO!!! VOTE NO!!! VOTE NO!!!

H.R. 5882 would reach back to 1992 and "recapture" employment-based and family-based visas, potentially adding over 550,000 new green cards.

H.R. 5924 would lift the cap on employment-based visas for nurses and physical therapists until 2011.

H.R. 6020 would grant amnesty to illegal aliens who are family members of armed forces personnel.

H.R.5950, details vast new immigrant detainee healthcare requirements that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would have to implement in all of its detention centers.

VOTE NO!!! VOTE NO!!! VOTE NO!!! VOTE NO!!!

Lets hope the rest of them oppose this bill too.

We dont need to keep recruiting foreign nurses. What we need are instructors to teach nursing.

But why are we only guarding nurses?

Originally Posted by butterbean

Lets hope the rest of them oppose this bill too.

We dont need to keep recruiting foreign nurses. What we need are instructors to teach nursing.

You are absolutely correct. Their really isn't a shortage of nurses or PTs. The shortage is of teachers. Every nursing school in the country turns away thousands of students every semester, simply due to a lack of teachers. It's been this way for years !

Fortunately, my youngest daughter was accepted this year at Mt Carmel School of Nursing. The down side for me is $20,000 per year, including room and board.

If we had more schools and teachers, thew costs might decrease.