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This is not 1900s America and we cannot afford to be a country of open and welcoming society. We are running out of natural resources and the immigrants that are entering today are not the same immigrants that built this country.
IF the are gaps or shortages in our workforce cannot find all the worker they need and will have to move their businesses elsewhere it is because greedy businesses to not want to pay a days wages for a days work so they look for the cheapest labor they can get and that is illegal aliens. Immigration Reform is all about cheap labor and cheap votes.
Our current system isnt serving the interests of our economy, businesses, workers, or security. Most important talking points left out of the bill and discussion is how it serves the interest of the American people
Whose pockets is the Chamber of Commerce in? Same old tired bs rhetoric and propaganda coming out of the mouth of the Chamber of commerce as out of the mouths of the Gang of Eight.
American people? :Fool me once shame on me, fool me twice shame on you
The clash is set to play out in a Capitol Hill hearing room this week as the Senate Judiciary Committee resumes consideration of amendments to sweeping legislation remaking the nation's immigration system. At issue are the highly sought-after H-1B visas that allow companies like Google and Microsoft to bring workers to the U.S. to fill job openings for engineers, computer software experts, and other positions where employers say there's a shortage of U.S. workers. The legislation increases the number of these visas that are available, but also adds in a number of restrictions designed to ensure U.S. workers get a first shot at jobs.
Those protections were championed by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., a Judiciary Committee member who's also part of the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" senators who authored the immigration legislation. But high-tech companies have their own champion on the Judiciary Committee: Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, who's prepared a slew of amendments to help their cause.
Hatch is seen as a potential swing vote on the immigration bill so backers of the legislation, who are working assiduously to ensure their bill passes the Senate with as many votes as possible, would like to court his support. But Durbin opposes Hatch's efforts and he and other Democrats are under pressure from organized labor not to go along. "We deemed the current language in the bill to be the compromise. After all, high tech got an awful lot of what it wanted, including the visa limit going up nearly threefold," said Tom Snyder, immigration campaign manager for the AFL-CIO. "Now they want to compromise the compromise."
Robert Hoffman, senior vice president for government affairs at the Information Technology Industry Council, disagreed. He said that the changes sought by Hatch, whose state is increasingly becoming a major high-tech employer, mostly amount to mechanical fixes to ensure the high-tech provisions work to boost economic growth and job creation in the U.S. "It's very important that the H-1B be workable and I think that's what we're trying to fix," Hoffman said. "Because the reality is the legislation as drafted in our view runs the risk of pushing work and investment that could come through temporary visas outside the United States."
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