[Dubya]

Yet the request appeared to be cruising past state and federal regulators until it was smothered in a union-backed avalanche of U.S. job applicants for the positions that Baystone hoped to fill with unskilled foreign workers.

"I don't think anyone is paying attention," said U.S. Rep. Gene Green, the Houston Democrat who has been meeting with union officials over their concerns that temporary staffing firms have been using the so-called H-2B visa program to import foreign construction workers to Texas for substantially below-market wages.

[domenad]

Sometimes unions do their job. These were jobs Americans can do. Maybe it’s time to start restricting the doling out of these visas a bit.