Thread: U.S. CHAMBER RESISTS IMMIGRATION COMMISSION TO CONTROL FLOW

U.S. CHAMBER RESISTS IMMIGRATION COMMISSION TO CONTROL FLOW OF WORKERS

States News Service
June 1, 2009 Monday
Washington D.C.

The following information was released by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce:

Following today's release of immigration reform principles by the National Immigration Forum, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Vice President of Labor, Immigration, and Employee Benefits Randel K. Johnson issued the following statement:

"The free market is by far the best tool for setting immigration quotas and picking immigrants. Employers need and will continue to fight for a market-based immigration system.

"The alternative would be a repeat of the mistakes of 1986, when legalization of undocumented workers did not provide a sufficient number of visas for people to come in legally-leading to the deaths of people crossing the border illegally and 12 million illegal residents in the country.

"If lawmakers wish to create a commission to issue recommendations on the annual level of employment-based immigrants, that would be fine.

However, to give a commission the authority to have such recommendations become law unless Congress could pass a bill within a certain timeframe provides the unelected and unaccountable too much power.

"To succeed, a new future flow visa program should have adequate numbers and must be sufficiently free of bureaucracy to be usable by employers and employees."

The U.S. Chamber is the world's largest business federation representing more than 3 million businesses and organizations of every size, sector, and region.

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These neo-slavers need to be deported also!

provides the unelected and unaccountable too much power.

Funny because that is what I think of their organization!

This is a mayor rift that will bring down Immigration Reform.
If the Chamber of Commerce is not in favor of an Immigration Commision which the Labor unions favor, then this divide will bring down a concensus between labor and employers.

I knew this would happen.