Thread: Big Trouble this week -H-1B, Green cards, H-2B

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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Have the politicians that pull this crap gone insane! EXPOSE THEM and anyone voting for this crap must be axed. Follow this garbage closely folks. Call, fax and e-mail...and tell them NO Way No How!!!

And don't forget the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) which is a blanket give-a-way of our soverignity to the U.N. and a loss of our Constitution which gets trumped by International Corurts! It will be voted on soon, as well.

Tell your Senators to STOP THE MADNESS!!!

This is my message to the Senators when I fax them:

Senator:

I have decided that I will make a journal of this Congress. I will post names of those who stood for my children and those who did not. I will give them the names of those running for the Presidency and how they stood, or did not stand for the American citizen. I will give them the names of the senators and the party they represented, so that for generations they can teach their children, which party did, and which party did not truly represented them, the law-abiding American citizen.

I will ask them to teach those names to their children and children’s children. I want to make a legacy for them that their mother cared enough to fight for them. I hope it will be a legacy of which they can be proud. I hope it will last for generations and the memory of this time will never be allowed to fade. They will be able to recognize those who took their solemn oath to protect the United States of American, and its citizens seriously, and those who did not, but sold it to the highest bidder.


XXXXXXXXXXX
American Citizen

NO to ANY Amnesty:
Dream Act
Skil
Agsjobs

I will remember in 2008

Great letter, GoGo. I hope you are able to send it to every one of the Senators.

It's my fax letter.

All..... if you didnt think this country was in trouble before... you better get the hint now....

There are those that will flood the streets with Immigrants so they can fill thier pockets with kick backs

Go after them America

FAIR states that Hutchisons offered an Amendment for visa increases!

Finally, there is one more threat on the Hill at this very moment.
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has filed an amendment to the FY08
Labor-Health and Human Services Appropriations Bill (H.R. 3093) that may increase employment-based green cards by up to 300,000. These green cards would be aimed at importing nurses and high-tech employees to compete with American workers.

Dixie wrote:

FAIR states that Hutchisons offered an Amendment for visa increases!

Are Hutchison and Cornyn (both Texas Senators) switch-hitting now? Wasn't it Cornyn that attempted to pass a similar amendment during the last immigration reform (amnesty) attempt?

Is there something in the drinking water in Texas that we need to know about?

Last Friday when I called Hutchison's office the lady who answered the phone did not like hearing me say I oppose any form of Dream Act ...etc...She was so rude. Plus, since the D.C. office line is busy most of the time I call the other offices. I really think the D.C. office must take their phone of the hook.......Do the illegals have their own toll free number to call OUR senators, they did last time??




SENATOR KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON
284 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-4304
202-224-5922
202-224-0776 (FAX)
202-224-5903 (TDD)

SENATOR KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON
961 Federal Building
300 East 8th Street
Austin, Texas 78701
512-916-5834
512-916-5839 (FAX)

SENATOR KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON
LB 606
10440 N. Central Expressway
Suite 1160
Dallas, Texas 75231
214-361-3500
214-361-3502 (FAX)

SENATOR KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON
1919 Smith Street
Suite 800
Houston, Texas 77002
713-653-3456
713-209-3459 (FAX)

SENATOR KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON
145 Duncan Drive
Suite 120
San Antonio, Texas 78226
210-340-2885
210-349-6753 (FAX)

SENATOR KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON
500 Chestnut Street
Suite 1570
Abilene, Texas 79602
325-676-2839
325-676-2937 (FAX)

SENATOR KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON
222 East Van Buren Street
Suite 404
Harlingen, Texas 78550
956-425-2253
956-412-1468 (FAX)

I can NEVER get in to her DC office.