Amnesty Battle Looms in Congress
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/h2b-riders-222737
RUSH: This is from The Politico. "New Immigration Fight Looms in Congress." I should add something. There should be a word added to this headline.
"New Immigration [Quietly] Fight Looms in Congress -- A proposal for low-skilled worker visas threatens to drive a wedge through both parties." Let me tell you about this and ask you if you've heard any of this. "Lawmakers on both sides of the Capitol are quietly launching a new effort to expand visas for low-skilled foreign workers in government funding bills ..." In other words, it's a budget bill and they're hiding an expansion of the H-2B visa. In other words, they're quietly doing it, meaning it's not a bill mentioning that; it's a budget bill.
"Oh, as part of it here, Section 14(c)(a)? See that over there? That expands the number of visas for low-skilled foreign works that will be permitted into the country." Hey, it's just like immigration "reform." It's no different than what Disney's doing: Firing Americans and replacing them with educated but foreign workers who are working for much less than Americans. And the number of visas permitting the number of such people to be hired... They're "quietly launching" this effort.
"Republicans and Democrats whose home states rely on immigrant labor are lobbying top appropriators," i.e. congressmen, "to include language in this year's funding bills," budget bills, "to renew controversial provisions from last year's omnibus spending measure that effectively quadrupled the number of low-skilled worker visas." They want even more. "Nine House lawmakers, led by Rep. Billy Long (R-Missouri), sent a letter last week urging the Appropriations Committee to keep those higher numbers intact.
"And key senators have already begun to discuss the issue." Again, "[t]he program in question is the H-2B visa, which covers immigrants who work as landscapers, housekeepers and," of all things, "seafood processors. Those visas are legally capped at 66,000 per year, which pro-business advocates say is an artificially low number that could harm key US industries. ... And this year's Hill push comes against a backdrop of GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, whose hardline view toward immigrants and hire-Americans-first rhetoric has galvanized the right."
The Politico says, "However, Trump himself has" made the case for these kinds of visas. He needs 'em at his hotels and stuff. So, I mean, even as this is all going on -- the campaign's all going on -- over there they're still working to expand the H-2B visa program. Now, this is not the southern border, open border, illegal immigration. We're talking about it's still an expansion on the number of visas granted to foreign workers who will work for less by definition. They're not cheap. They're cheap labor. They're lower wage labor than people who currently have those jobs, at what they're being paid.
I just thought that I would throw that in.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/h2b-riders-222737
RUSH: This is from The Politico. "New Immigration Fight Looms in Congress." I should add something. There should be a word added to this headline.
"New Immigration [Quietly] Fight Looms in Congress -- A proposal for low-skilled worker visas threatens to drive a wedge through both parties." Let me tell you about this and ask you if you've heard any of this. "Lawmakers on both sides of the Capitol are quietly launching a new effort to expand visas for low-skilled foreign workers in government funding bills ..." In other words, it's a budget bill and they're hiding an expansion of the H-2B visa. In other words, they're quietly doing it, meaning it's not a bill mentioning that; it's a budget bill.
"Oh, as part of it here, Section 14(c)(a)? See that over there? That expands the number of visas for low-skilled foreign works that will be permitted into the country." Hey, it's just like immigration "reform." It's no different than what Disney's doing: Firing Americans and replacing them with educated but foreign workers who are working for much less than Americans. And the number of visas permitting the number of such people to be hired... They're "quietly launching" this effort.
"Republicans and Democrats whose home states rely on immigrant labor are lobbying top appropriators," i.e. congressmen, "to include language in this year's funding bills," budget bills, "to renew controversial provisions from last year's omnibus spending measure that effectively quadrupled the number of low-skilled worker visas." They want even more. "Nine House lawmakers, led by Rep. Billy Long (R-Missouri), sent a letter last week urging the Appropriations Committee to keep those higher numbers intact.
"And key senators have already begun to discuss the issue." Again, "[t]he program in question is the H-2B visa, which covers immigrants who work as landscapers, housekeepers and," of all things, "seafood processors. Those visas are legally capped at 66,000 per year, which pro-business advocates say is an artificially low number that could harm key US industries. ... And this year's Hill push comes against a backdrop of GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, whose hardline view toward immigrants and hire-Americans-first rhetoric has galvanized the right."
The Politico says, "However, Trump himself has" made the case for these kinds of visas. He needs 'em at his hotels and stuff. So, I mean, even as this is all going on -- the campaign's all going on -- over there they're still working to expand the H-2B visa program. Now, this is not the southern border, open border, illegal immigration. We're talking about it's still an expansion on the number of visas granted to foreign workers who will work for less by definition. They're not cheap. They're cheap labor. They're lower wage labor than people who currently have those jobs, at what they're being paid.
I just thought that I would throw that in.