House Judiciary Renews Consideration of Measures That Will Harm American WorkersThe Judiciary Committee is meeting again Wednesday, September 17th for another try!
FAIR Action Alert
Thanks to your calls and e-mails last week, efforts to pass four detrimental immigration-related bills stalled in the House Judiciary Committee. Unfortunately, victory was short-lived. Committee leaders remain committed to passing these bills, which would flood the workplace with hundreds of thousands of worker visas.Three of the four bills to be considered in Wednesday's markup amount to nothing more than gifts to big business special interests seeking to dramatically increase the stream of cheap foreign labor coming into the American workforce during these tough economic times:
- 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.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
FAIR against legal immigration as well!
The FAIR gang is out again with anti-immigration action alerts. Here's their latest. This shows that they make no distinction between legal and illegal immigration even though this bill doesn't add any new visa numbers but only reuses those that were wasted because of bureaucratic delays. Here's what they say:
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