Posted on 05/17/2006 4:36:02 AM PDT by Altair333
Feinstein and Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., prevailed 79-18 on an amendment to reduce the number of low-skill guest worker visas from 325,000 a year to 200,000 and to remove an automatic escalator that would have increased the low-skill visas by 20 percent each year that the ceiling was reached.
The Heritage analysis added up all the provisions of the 616-page Senate bill and extended them over 20 years, producing a mid-range estimate of more than 100 million new legal immigrants -- a third of the current U.S. population -- if the guest worker programs grow at 10 percent a year and workers bring their families as currently allowed.
"It all adds up to millions and millions of people," Feinstein said.
Feinstein said she would like to eliminate the 20 percent escalator in the H1B skilled visa category as well.
"It's simply too many," Feinstein said, adding the H1B category -- which has stirred controversy among U.S.-born engineers -- could generate 3.67 million foreign workers over the next 10 years.
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Hmmmm....so I could hire a guest worker or I could hire an illegal...which one do you think would be cheaper?
I send my emails daily to the Whitehouse, the RNC, Republican Senatorial Committee and Republican Congressional Committee.
I also send to my Senators and congressman and state representatives who are the only elected officials that have backed the strong border security and control of Illegal aliens.
Go Issackson, Chamblis, Tom Price, John Wiles and Chip Rogers!
There are a couple of reasons for that, one of which is that it is darned difficult for any Indian to get a visa, temporary or otherwise, to come here. The other is that these lawyers quickly become the best in the world when it comes to American immigration law. Helps them "jump the line".
Mark probably doesn't know about these guys.
"But IF they do nothing to stop the illegals invaders than we will still have the million invaders PLUS the ADDED 200,000, do you really think the illegals will stop flooding in with a "guest"worker program????"
Oh, of course, they'll stop flooding in - we've all seen how they feel about playing by the rules./s
I am not impressed by the "lower" figure of 200,000 - we're already over-loaded so we don't need any more for generations at least.
AND the original senate plan called for raising that base number by 20% each year and allowing them to bring in their families - not just spouses and children but parents and adult siblings. So in c. 20 years we would be talking about a minimum of 5 million a YEAR!
If you want to be the new minority - just allow this to happen.
link to Senator Jeff Sessions page re this issue (got link from Rush's page):
http://sessions.senate.gov/pressapp/record.cfm?id=255553
So it's only random commentary.
But with my husband and my daughter in tech I see what has happened to employment when the visas are given in large numbers.
Most of the people in my husband's office are here on visas and lots of American workers have been fired.
As long as they aren't Mexicans I guess that's okay with Levin.
Ah, ignorance is bliss, or in his case ignorance means a new rant.
*If* the program grows by ten percent a year for 20 years, then there'll be 100 million new immigrants?
I was wondering where this psycho number came from. Brilliant assumption there.
And if the average temperature in the US keeps rising at the same rate it is right now for the next twenty years, then by 2026, it will be over 800 degrees.
OMG!!! WE'RE ALL DOOMED!!!
Had to try a slap at Conservatives. Without us even this paltry reduction would not have been made. They really should reduce it by two more from 200,000 to 00,000.
P.S I have been indicating for almost a year now that I will not vote for McCain. Despite my tag line for this year.
That is precisely the reason. That's why the bracero program was destroyed in the first place. It was a favor done by LBJ to his union supporters, and also to aid Cesar Chavez in establishing the farm workers' union.
In your opinion has the destruction of the bracero program helped or hindered America?
Ok - that would explain it.
Maybe the unions are pricing themselves out of the market - not a surprise at all.
That was my thought. See my post 6.
That's the closest thing to a reasonable explanation (by far) that I have seen.
We may argue it (and could debate the countervailing societal costs), but at least it's a rational, economic argument.
thanks.
Some would add that the 17th Amendment, providing for direct election of senators, also tilted the balance toward a much larger federal government.
At a distance of 40 years, it's hard to say what it's continued existence might have meant. However, it seems to me that having 40 years of an orderly way for people, mostly single men, to come into this country and work for awhile and then return would have slowed down the large numbers who wanted to come in illegally. Obviously, the number admitted would have had to be larger, over the years, as the needs increased.
But I don't see how it would have had any more of an impact on wages than illegal immigrants do, and it would have guaranteed tax collection and other things important to the state.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. There are too few of them on this site these days.
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