This is bad news! We need to get on the Senators to stop the Frist appointment. Frist is to the Left of Lott...a big spender, pushes bipartisanship, looks to be a globalist in attitude, involved in the Aids in Africa deal and others around the world...which means hold onto your wallets. Here's his immigration record:
Here's what NumbersUSA.com had on him:
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View Report Card of Sen. Frist's Immigration Actions
Career Record Source: Congressional Record Usually supports higher immigration, population growth, foreign labor.
Each symbol in the left-hand column below signifies an action for HIGHER immigration. Voting Key Each symbol in the right-hand column below signifies an action for LOWER immigration.
Chain Migration
Voted in 1996 to continue chain migration Sen. Frist voted to continue a chain migration system that has been the primary reason for annual immigration levels snowballing from less than 300,000 in 1965 to around a million today. Sen. Frist voted AGAINST both the Simpson Amendment and the Feinstein Amendment to S. 1664.
Has done nothing in the 107th Congress to reduce chain migration Sen. Frist has not introduced, co-sponsored or spoken in favor of legislation in the 107th Congress that would reduce chain migration. Legislation has been introduced in the House to eliminate chain migration, a recommendation of the bi-partisan, national Barbara Jordan Commission which noted the role of chain migration in harming economically vulnerable Americans. Chain migration leads to snowballing U.S. population growth due to large extended families entering the country, with each new entrant potentially making it possible for many more to qualify to come. Sen. Frist is among the majority of Senators who support the federal government's program of forcing rapid population growth through chain migration, either by explicit spoken approval or through silence about the program.
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Importing Specific Foreign Workers Cosponsored legislation to import more foreign workers through an agricultural guestworker program in 2001 Sen. Frist is cosponsoring S.1161 an agricultural guestworker program that would adjust the status of certain alien agricultural guestworkers. This would not only increase U.S. population by adding new residents, but in some cases it would provide a form of amnesty for illegal aliens who have been working illegally in the agricultural industry. Click here to see a list of cosponsors.
Voted for a foreign worker bill with no anti-fraud measures in 2000. Sen.Frist voted for S.2045, the Abraham foreign worker bill to nearly triple the number of foreign high-tech workers. On the heels of the release of a GAO report finding no proof of a high-tech worker shortage and evidence of abuse in the H-1B program, Sen. Frist voted for this foreign worker bill that contained no worker protections or anti-fraud measures. The bill passed the Senate 96-1.
Nearly doubled H-1B foreign high-tech workers in 1998 Sen. Frist helped the Senate pass S.1723 in a 78-20 vote. Enacted into law, it increased by nearly 150,000 the number of foreign workers high-tech American companies could hire over the next three years. Although the foreign workers receive temporary visas for up to six years, most historically have found ways to stay permanently in this country. Sen. Frist voted for more foreign workers even though U.S. high tech workers over the age of 50 were suffering 17% unemployment and U.S. firms were laying off thousands of workers at the time.
Voted to allow firms to lay off Americans to make room for foreign workers in 1998 Before the Senate passed the H-1B doubling bill (S.1723), Sen. Frist had an opportunity to vote for a measure requiring U.S. firms to check a box on a form attesting that they had first sought an American worker for the job. Sen. Frist voted against that, joining those who said the requirement would give government too much authority over corporations’ right to hire whomever they please from whatever country.
Voted to allow firms to lay off Americans to make room for foreign workers in 1998 Before the Senate passed the H-1B doubling bill(S.1723), Sen. Frist had an opportunity to vote for a Kennedy amendment that would have prohibited U.S. firms from using temporary foreign workers to replace Americans. Sen. Frist opposed that protection. The Amendment failed 38-60.
Citizenship for Illegal Alien Babies
No actions in this category.
Inviting/Repelling Illegal Aliens Voted for comprehensive alien tracking and identification system in 2002 Sen. Frist voted in favor of H.R. 3525, the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2001. H.R. 3525 will significantly reduce future population growth from illegal immigration by making it much harder for temporary visa holders to stay in the country illegally after their visa expire. H.R. 3525 provides for an entry-exit system in which every visa holder is checked with a biometric identifier when he\she enters and leaves the country. This information is included in an integrated database that is shared by the appropriate law-enforcement officials. H.R. 3525 passed the Senate unanimously by a vote of 97-0 and is expected to be signed into law by President Bush.
Voted against an amnesty for illegal aliens in 2000
Sen. Frist voted against a procedural vote to include an amnesty for illegal aliens from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Haiti in the Senate H-1B bill (S.2045). This was not necessarily a vote against the amnesty but rather a vote against including it with the H-1B bill. The move to include the amnesty with the H-1B legislation failed43-55 in a procedural vote on the Senate floor.
Voted to grant amnesty to close to one million illegal aliens from Nicaragua and Cuba in 1997 Sen. Frist voted to grant legal status to Nicaraguans and Cubans who had lived in the United States illegally since 1995, along with their spouses and minor unmarried children. The overall ten year impact of this legislation will be the addition of some 967,000 people to U.S. population. There was no separate vote on the amnesty, as it was inlcuded in the DC Appropriations bill. The only opportunity Senators had to vote in favor of or against the amnesty was the Mack Amendment to S.1156. The Mack Amendment passed 99-1.
Voted in 1996 for major law that cracked down on illegal aliens. Sen. Frist was part of a 97-3 majority which passed S.1664. It was a large omnibus bill with dozens of provisions aimed at reducing illegal immigration. It authorized major increases in the border patrol forces. But it also had many provisions aimed at making life more miserable for illegal aliens who manage to get into the country, half of whom arrive with legal visas but then illegally overstay. Until passage of the bill, a person could be apprehended as an illegal alien, be deported and then turn around and come back to the U.S. on a legal student, tourist, worker or relative visa. After the bill, an illegal alien was barred from any kind of legal entry for 10 years.
Tried to kill voluntary pilot programs for workplace verification in 1996 Sen. Frist voted IN FAVOR of the Abraham Amendment to S.1664. He was part of a coalition of pro-business conservatives and liberal civil libertarians who tried to use the amendment to kill the establishment of voluntary pilot programs in high-immigration states. The programs were intended to assist employers in verifying whether people they had just hired had the legal right to work in this country. Such verification is considered by many experts to be an essential tool for withdrawing the job magnet from illegal aliens. The verification system established by S.1664 did not involve an ID card. Rather it provided that when new workers wrote down their Social Security number on an application, employers could phone into a national verification system to help assure that the number was a real number and belonged to the person giving it. In earlier smaller pilot programs, businesses had hailed the verification system for making it easier for them to avoid hiring illegal aliens. Sen. Frist was unsuccessful in stopping the voluntary verification system. The Senate tabled the Abraham Amendment by a 54-46 vote.
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