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House GOP Leadership: Foreign Worker Increase Needed Because of “Labor Shortage” by MARK KRIKORIAN December 17, 2015 House GOP Whip Steve Scalise sent an e-mail to his members this morning defending the immigration increase that the Republican leadership had secretly slipped into the omnibus funding bill. (It is shown below.) The provision would potentially quadruple the issuance of H-2B worker visas, which are for non-agricultural seasonal jobs. The visas are used to import cheap labor for ski resorts, hotels, factories, landscapers, and others. (See this 2010 paper on this racket by a former State department visa officer.) Most of the...

Buried in the 2,000-page omnibus spending bill released by the Senate Wednesday morning is a secret provision that many senators hope unemployed blue-collar workers won't find out about. This provision would quadruple the number of H-2B visas for low-skilled foreign "guest workers." House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., reportedly helped negotiate the omnibus deal. The spending bill also includes full funding for President Obama's refugee resettlement program, which will cost $1.6 billion and bring in another 85,000 refugees this year, many of them from jihadist hotbeds like Syria, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan. "At a time when the civilian labor force participation...

Note: Contact info deleted by me. # Note: The following text is a quote: Secretary Napolitano Designates 11 New Countries as Eligible for H-2a and H-2b Nonimmigrant Visa Programs Release Date: January 22, 2010 For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano this week designated 11 new countries as eligible to participate in the H-2A and H-2B nonimmigrant visa programs, which allow U.S. employers to bring foreign nationals to the United States to fill temporary or seasonal jobs for which U.S. workers are not available. The 11 newly designated countries—Croatia, Ecuador, Ethiopia,...

Lance Starr says he and other immigration attorneys in Utah had heard complaints about The Alcala Law Firm but didn't have evidence until recently of any possible illegalities in how it handled cases. But then two former employees of the Glendale firm asked him last year to review their applications to legalize their presence in the United States, which had been prepared by principle attorney James Hector Alcala but rejected by the government. Starr spotted what appeared to be forged letters verifying that one of them had worked for Mexican employers. The American Fork attorney -- who had worked for...

All that Eustaquio López wanted was a job. He had plenty of experience and the energy to prove himself. But he never got a chance, he said, because as a worker in the U.S. legally, the employer would have had to pay him regular wages with adequate protections — options seen as luxuries easily skirted by exploiting Mexican workers. López and 18 other South Texans, all U.S. citizens or legal residents, are suing various agricultural companies in the region and the U.S. Labor Department in federal court in Del Rio, alleging they were passed over for jobs because of their...

BROWNSVILLE — Alberto Peña, a former administrative analyst for the Division of Student Affairs at University of Texas-Brownsville/Texas Southmost College, was arrested over the summer in Houston by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents on charges of enticing an undocumented immigrant to enter the United States. He and his twin brother, Bernardo, are implicated in obtaining H-2B temporary work visas for some 88 Indian nationals through their business AMEB Business Group Inc., according to authorities. Bernardo, who has not been charged in the alleged scheme, is listed as AMEB’s registered agent, public records show. Alberto traveled to India on...

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A southeast Missouri legislator will resign his post and surrender his law license after pleading guilty Thursday to fraud charges on immigration matters, his lawyer said. Rep. Nathan Cooper, R-Cape Girardeau, an attorney specializing in immigration law, pleaded guilty to an illegal scheme to obtain temporary worker visas for his clients in the trucking business, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Reap said. Cooper, 33, was not available for comment. But his attorney, Joel Schwartz, said Cooper will step down and give up his law license before his sentencing in October. Representative Nathan Cooper "This has nothing...

Sen. Allen Squishy on Immigration Reform by Amanda B. Carpenter Posted Dec 15, 2005 Potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate Sen. George Allen (Va.) declined Wednesday to support the idea of a fence separating the United States and Mexico, but said he would back a guest-worker plan as envisioned by President Bush. In an exclusive interview with Human Events, Allen passed on the opportunity to take a firm stance on immigration reform -- likely to be one of the key issues among Republicans in the 2008 presidential sweepstakes. When asked directly on whether the United States has the capability to build...

Victory is in sight thanks to your tremendous efforts! The House today passed by a vote of 368-58 the final conference agreement on the Emergency Appropriations Supplemental Act (H.R. 1268) with Rep. Sensenbrenner's (R-WI) REAL ID provisions largely intact. This is a major victory for homeland security and the fight against illegal immigration! These provisions will help keep driver's licenses out of the hands of illegal aliens and the terrorists among them, will close dangerous loopholes in our asylum system, and will improve border security by enabling the completion of the San Diego/Tijuana border fence. Your continuous faxes, emails, phone...

Supporters of H-2B reform have a reason to celebrate today as they’ve overcome yet another hurdle to bringing reform to the temporary worker program. The Save Our Small & Seasonal Businesses Act of 2005, sponsored by Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, was passed on Tuesday by a vote of 94 to six and also was granted cloture by a vote of 83 to 17. The cloture vote ends debate over the bill, which was amended to the Emergency Supplemental spending bill. “The passage of this bill in the Senate is a wonderful thing and it’s really the work of thousands of...

  Finishing lunch at Kuyaba, a restaurant on the beach in Negril, Jamaica, 2,000 miles away from the reality of work, freezing temperatures and a fresh snowfall, a waiter extended a pen to sign the bill.    Reality crept in: the insignia on the pen advertised The Chatham Wayside Inn, Main Street. Wondering if the pen was left from the previous day’s dinner, the question of its origin is posed to the waiter.            “No mon, that’s my pen,” responded Hopeton Lee.            For the past two summer seasons Lee has worked the bar and restaurant at the centerpiece Main Street inn,...

NEW DELHI: Indians will be the biggest beneficiaries of any new immigration policy that US President George W Bush might unveil. Among the large variety of immigrants to the US, Indians constitute the best-educated group of foreign-born migrants, and therefore, most likely to be welcomed. According to a study by the Migration Policy Institute, a considerable number of Indian immigrants — 38 per cent according to 2001 US Census figures — have a master's professional or doctorate degree, 89 per cent are most likely to have a high school diploma, 70 per cent have a bachelor's degree. Its small wonder,...

Successfully employing Hispanic workers at your course isn't just about learning the language. It is early in the Upstate New York golf season. A dozen or so Oak Hill Country Club maintenance workers are gathered in a conference room. A local college student studying to be a Spanish teacher writes the words "hose" and the Spanish equivalent "manguera" on a dry-erase board in the makeshift classroom. The handful of front-line management personnel struggle with the pronunciation of the Spanish word, while a few Hispanic workers sitting in on the weekly class nod approvingly and chuckle at their supervisors' linguistic efforts....

With summer half spent, vacation spots seem to be doing just fine. In April, part of the business lobby claimed summer itself was in jeopardy because a few resorts might not be able to get all the foreign workers they claimed to need. Some in Congress bent over backward to pander to these special interests. They introduced legislation to bring in at least 40,000 more unskilled -- that's right, unskilled -- aliens. The story line purported that some employers couldn't find Americans willing to work at resorts. They employed the favorite "talking point" of the open-borders lobby that there are...

Charlotte, N.C.- When it comes to allowing foreign workers to enter the country, the federal government appears unable to count.Last year, the U.S. State Department issued nearly 79,000 work permits, called visas, for one category of immigrant workers. But that visa has an annual limit of 66,000. So the agency dispensed nearly 20 percent too many.The State Department, while it issues the visas, isnt responsible for counting them, agency spokesman Stuart Patt told the Observer. Patt said no other news media had asked about the overrun on what are called H-2B visas. The visas are used mostly to bring in...