From Rob Sanchez' Job Destruction Newsletter

<<<<< JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER No. 1774 -- 10/22/2007 >>>>>

Trouble is brewing again in Washington DC. This time a broad range of
amnesties and visa amendments are being offered to the Senate Commerce,
Justice and Science (CJS) Appropriations bill. Unfortunately I don't have
many specifics at this point but thought I should get this newsletter out
to alert you. As I get more information I will share it with you.

Here is a brief summary of what is brewing this week in Washington DC:

1) H-1B
Nothing specific but the rumors are flying that an amendment will be added
to the CJS to expand H-1B visas. This late breaking information came from a
credible source -- the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI). According
to a separate alert by NumbersUSA, the most likely scenario is for the SKIL
bill to be reintroduced, which has a massive H-1B increase and many other
things that are even worse!

2) Green Cards
Senators Schumer (D-NY) and Hutchison (R-TX) introduced SA 3404 that will
make available an additional 300,000 employment based green cards.

3) H-2B
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) offered an amendment that exempts H-2B
visas from being counted towards the cap if they are renewals. Currently
the cap is 66,000 per year, which means that every year the cap would
effectively increase by 66,000.

4) DREAM Act
Senator Durbin's (D-Ill) DREAM Act is back as expected -- this time thanks
to Harry Reid (D-NV). In addition to providing amnesty to millions of
illegal aliens, this bill will require states to provide illegals with
in-state tuition. According to an alert today by NumbersUSA, Reid invoked
Rule 14 on the new stand-alone DREAM Act in order to spring the amnesty the
bill at any time without hearings or committee action. For the Majority
Leader to invoke Rule 14 means that he can bring a bill to a floor without
it going through the debate and markup of a committee.

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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show ... 4268.shtml

Mikulski Slips Anti-Labor Amendment onto Commerce, Justice and Science
Appropriations Bill
Posted on : 2007-10-22 | Author : Federation for American Immigration
Reform
News Category : PressRelease


WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- While many workers in the
United States are struggling to avoid slipping into poverty, Senator
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) has quietly added an amendment to the Commerce,
Justice and Science (CJS) Appropriations bill that will further grease the
skids for many workers. Mikulski's amendment, designed to benefit the
Maryland seafood industry, would incrementally increase the number of
unskilled foreign H-2B workers allowed to compete for jobs in the U.S.

Technically, the limit on H-2B visas is 66,000 per year. However, the
Mikulski amendment extends an exemption from the cap for returning H-2B
workers. Thus, in 2006, the actual number of H-2B visas issued was 122,536.
If the amendment is included in the final version of the CJS funding bill,
that figure is certain to rise again.

"Unfortunately, while every member of Congress pays lip service to the
plight of middle class workers many are quietly selling out their
interests," noted Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American
Immigration Reform (FAIR). "Big business has lobbyists and they have
campaign dollars to throw around. Millions of lower skilled American
workers have neither. Sadly, when these interests collide in Washington,
the interests of ordinary workers lose out."

The "need" for additional unskilled foreign workers amounts to a
self-fulfilling prophesy, asserts FAIR. "In H-2B workers, industries have a
supply of workers who will work for the wages the companies wish to pay,
and under working conditions that most Americans are unlikely to accept,"
said Stein. "A lack of workers prepared to work for substandard wages and
conditions is not the same as an actual worker shortage. Nor should the
government be perpetuating conditions that drive American workers out of
certain sectors of the labor market."

FAIR is urging Congress to strip the Mikulski amendment from the final
version of the CJS Appropriations when it reaches conference committee. "We
need restraint in our immigration policies so that one group of workers
after the next are not incrementally squeezed out of their jobs and their
livelihoods. Sometimes the best program to help struggling American workers
is no program at all -- just a chance to compete for an honest job and an
honest wage," Stein concluded.

Federation for American Immigration Reform

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http://thomas.loc.gov/

[Page: S13160]

SA 3404. Mr. SCHUMER (for himself and Mrs. HUTCHISON) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 3043, making
appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30,
2008, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:


On page 126, between lines 7 and 8, add the following:

Sec. 521. Section 106(d) of the American Competitiveness in the
Twenty-first Century Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-313; 8 U.S.C. 1153 note)
is amended--

(1) in paragraph (1)--

(A) by inserting ``1996, 1997,'' after ``available in fiscal year'';
and

(B) by inserting ``group I,'' after ``schedule A,'';

(2) in paragraph (2)(A), by inserting ``1996, 1997, and'' after
``available in fiscal years''; and

(3) by adding at the end the following:

``(4) PETITIONS.--The Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide a
process for reviewing and acting upon petitions with respect to immigrants
described in schedule A not later than 30 days after the date on which a
completed petition has been filed.''.


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