Posted on 12/11/2019 8:56:54 AM PST by NobleFree
Rep. Donna Shalala (FL-27) introduced the Resolving Extended Limbo for Immigrant Employees and Families (RELIEF) Act, a bill that would eliminate the family and employment green card backlog by increasing the number of green cards available for those purposes. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) is an original cosponsor of the bill.
The Relief Act is the House companion to S.2603, a bill filed earlier this year in the Senate by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Leahy (D-VT).
“For years now, businesses in my district and across America have been hamstrung when trying to attract the world’s best talent because of our outdated family and employment-based green card policies” said Shalala. “This bill is a commonsense solution that will keep families together, streamline our immigration processes, and make America more competitive in our increasingly globalized world.”
“In Florida, the green card backlog breaks up too many families, sidetracks too many careers and constrains too many businesses to leave unaddressed. These outdated policies benefit no one, and this bill would modernize this flawed system,” Wasserman Schultz said. “The RELIEF Act would make America more competitive and help keep the families of our friends and co-workers together.”
The RELEIF Act would eliminate the family and employment-based green card backlog within five years. Additionally, it would help keep American families together by reclassifying spouses and children of lawful permanent residents (LPR) to be exempt from annual green card limits, protect “aging out” children who qualify for LPR status based on a parent’s immigration petition, and lift country caps on the number of available green cards.
Nearly four million future Americans are on the immigrant visa waiting list, in addition to hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the United States who are also waiting for green cards. However, under current law only 226,000 family green cards and 140,000 employment green cards are available annually.
You can find the full text of the bill here.
I have a better plan. Deport all illegals. No exceptions. That will keep the families of illegals together. No new immigration, so we don’t split any more families.
Green cards and visas haven't been about "the world’s best talent" for decades - they're about cheap labor for corporate globalists, and new Rat voters.
“Nearly four million future Americans are on the immigrant visa waiting list, “
Four million, third world socialists. They are trying to destroy us people and the Republicans are helping them.
Then next week the same Dems will be wailing about stagnent wages.
Exactly right. Illiterate Third Worlders feeding milk cows and roofing and mostly collecting welfare are not the best and brightest. And neither are Indians with crappy computer degrees.
Flimsey Grahamnesty, Micro Rubio and the rest of the Bush League Republicans will line up to support this and any other scheme to flood the country with foreigners.
We MUST replace those who represent fraudulently documented foreigners over the citizens and the rule of law.
Can we deport her?
the “Keep families together” apparently melts the hearts of the soccer moms that are runing out country by supporting policies based on emotions alone. If only those soccer moms would think “wasn’t their family all together before the parents risked the lives of their children by carrying them across hostile deadly deserts and oceans? Maybe we should encourage such dangerous things for children by rewarding it.” If only.
Edited to correct critical missing word.
Terminate the illegal, unconstitutional welfare state & we’ll talk about seeing how much of a ‘backlog’ exists after.
I hate these stupid acronym bills.
Get their DNA, fingerprints, take pictures, and deport them all.
Yeah. Think. Not emote.
And there's your problem, right there.
They can't bear the awful strain of thinking.
White replacement == White Genocide.
They might as well. Corporate America has flooded our country with foreign workers, pushing out American workers. Sad.
While I’m at it, I would like to know if foreigners are getting preferential treatment for small business loans in America.
Indians, Asians have completely taken over the convenience store, hotel industries and more times than not you’ll see Asian/Indian owners of donut shops, nail salons and the like.
Are foreigners playing the system to gain access to small business loans or are they being made available over Americans?
Anyone ever ponder this as well?
I thought we were told that queers were the best and brightest way back in the Clintoon years, so then all the illegals must be queer according to this putz.
I though she left the country after Clinton left office. Or, is this a different Donna Shalala?
She’s always been a traitor. Gotta’ get all those illegal aliens voting privileges, ya’know!
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