| House Judiciary Considers Measures that Will Harm American Workers |
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| Written by FAIR |
| Tuesday, 16 September 2008 17:24 |
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September 16, 2008
House Judiciary Renews Consideration of Measures That Will Harm American Workers FAIR Action Alert Thanks to your calls and e-mails last week, efforts to pass four detrimental immigration-related bills stalled in the House Judiciary Committee. Unfortunately, victory was short-lived. Committee leaders remain committed to passing these bills, which would flood the workplace with hundreds of thousands of worker visas.
The Judiciary Committee is meeting again Wednesday, September 17th for another try!
Three of the four bills to be considered in Wednesday's markup amount to nothing more than gifts to big business special interests seeking to dramatically increase the stream of cheap foreign labor coming into the American workforce during these tough economic times:
In addition, the House Judiciary Committee will be considering H.R.5950, which sets forth vast new alien detainee healthcare requirements that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would have to implement in all of its detention centers. ICE facilities - which have a mortality rate far below the averages for both the U.S. jail system and the general public - already provide every detainee with comprehensive medical screenings, which often result in original diagnosis and treatment of chronic conditions. This unnecessary bill - a clear tactic by open borders advocates to slow law enforcement - will only serve to add extra bureaucratic burden to ICE. Please, call your Representative right now and remind them that the economy is ailing and the last thing America needs is more work visas. Tell them you want them to pass true immigration reform legislation that restores common sense and integrity to our immigration system, secures the border, and imposes tough sanctions on employers addicted to cheap labor. Then, please call Members of the House Judiciary Committee today and tell them not to bow to cheap labor interests and that you oppose each one of these bills!
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  written by One Old Vet, September 18, 2008
Who indeed?
Because at a time when we're facing the greatest collapse of our financial institutions, the highest rate of foreclosures and rising unemployment rates since the Great Depression, it is absolutely unbelievable our "leaders" would take steps to import more foreign workers. If Congress has some "do something before the elections" mandate then do something to put AMERICANS back to work! This is a national outrage!
 written by pantera, September 18, 2008
This is a competitive world, and if a company has to hire someone by 75 000 annually, will tilt the most valuable professional, whether American or foreign. If the Americans are well trained professionally, because they fear this law, as companies are turning to them! Or prefer that American companies are obliged to hire only Americans regardless of which have foreign professionals with many more skills? I think that if against the U.S. economy.
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