Reform bill to double immigration

[jerry611]

Reform bill to double immigration
By Charles Hurt
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
May 15, 2006


The immigration reform bill that the Senate takes up today would more than double the flow of legal immigration into the United States each year and dramatically lower the skill level of those immigrants.
The number of extended family members that U.S. citizens or legal residents can bring into this country would double. More dramatically, the number of workers and their immediate families could increase sevenfold if there are enough U.S. employers looking for cheap foreign labor. Another provision would grant humanitarian visas to any woman or orphaned child anywhere in the world "at risk of harm" because of age or sex.
The little-noticed provisions are part of legislation co-sponsored by Republican Sens. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Mel Martinez of Florida, which overcame some early stumbles and now has bipartisan support in the Senate. The bill also has been praised by President Bush, and he is expected to endorse it as a starting point for negotiations in his prime-time address to the nation tonight
All told, the Hagel-Martinez bill would increase the annual flow of legal immigrants into the U.S. to more than 2 million from roughly 1 million today, scholars and analysts say.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060515-122825-2467r.htm

[Inland]

1. Conservative organ, not happy with der Bushmeister. nt

[MichiganVote]

2. Hope Americans like paying to healthcare and education for immigrants

cuz' with wars, natural disasters, and tax breaks for the rich, there won't be much left.

[Acadia Blue]

3. Corporate "Cheap Labor," competes and lowers the cost of American

labor. A corporate pigs wet dream. Fixing the free enterprise modle by bringing in labor and creating a surplus and driving wages lower. Duh....

[OregonBlue]

6. This is just sickening. What are the Dems thinking? This is not good

for American workers. It's only good for corporations. Don't the dems get it. This is not being done for our benefit but for theirs.

[Megahurtz]

4. I think we're screwed again.

:(

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[sadiesworld]

7. If they're doubling the legal limit and lowering skill levels...

then why the hell do we need a guest worker program?! Corporate rat bastards.

[Bridget Burke]

8. Your earlier thread linking to this article was LOCKED.

Something about a "Right Wing Source"?