Posted on 05/24/2017 10:28:47 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Bill would create 500,000 new visas, include path to citizenship, and be open to current aliens
A bill introduced this month by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) would increase foreign guest workers by up to 500,000 a year and offer a back-door amnesty for illegal immigrants.
The legislation, the State Sponsored Visa Pilot Program Act of 2017, has attracted support from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the libertarian-oriented Cato Institute.
“We pretty strongly oppose it. It’s an indefinite renewable visa. In our eyes, that’s a permanent worker.”
The bill would represent a massive increase in the number of non-immigrant visas issued each year by the United States. Unlike the myriad of existing visa programs, Johnson’s proposed program would be a state-based system.
Each state and the District of Columbia would be able to sponsor 5,000 visas each year. Another 245,000 visas would be distributed to the states based on their populations. Visas not used by one state could be claimed by others.
The visas would be good for three years and could be renewed indefinitely.
The federal government would retain responsibility for conducting background checks and issuing the visas. But each state would determine the rules governing the visa holders, such as whether to restrict them to certain industries or employment categories, whether to impose income requirements, or whether to require employers to make a good-faith effort to hire Americans first.
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He’s trying to carry the water for his employers, The Cheap Labor Express.
They own most of the GOP Senators.
Alexander, Corker, Flake, Graham, Hatch, Heller, Hoeven, Murkowsky, McCain, Rubio, Burr, Tillis, Portman, McConnell, Thune, Cornyn, Cochran, Isackson, Blunt, Johnson, Gardner, Toomey, Capito, Fischer, Collins, Wicker are all Cheap Labor Express Republicans.
They have to be removed from office before they give away our country.
“Shhhhhhhh let’s not talk about this so we can sneak it by them.”
According to many articles, Wisconsin dairies are dependent on "immigrant" labor and it's a safe bet that some significant portion would be illegal. How would anyone know since there has been so little effort to check legal status in past years?
If they don't have "immigrant labor", milk would cost $8.00 per gallon, so they say.
Veto time.
Which part of the Constitution gives the Congress the right to surrender their power over immigration to the States?
We already let in 1M legal migrants a year.
We dont’ need another 1/2M on top of that, classed in some shadowy category that, in effect, circumvents the vetting process that legal migrants must meet.
Ron Johnson=Fail
Hey Ron,
Take your sorry ass down to Mexico and stay there!
Another RINO idiot.
This clown is obviously not paying attention.
http://library.uwb.edu/Static/USimmigration/100%20stat%203359.pdf
Why not just keep ignoring this law by hiring illegals, senator?
We should be lining these traitors up against cinderblock walls.
The illegals are in the restaurants, or dealing drugs. Dairying is too much work.
I guessed before I even opened the post it was Ron Johnson. What a jerk.
Yeah. If this gets through, I hope Trump vetoes this piece of crap.
What's behind the obsession of offering any piece of moving human flesh USA citizenship? Is this a MLM program that's run by government employees?
One look at the state the legislator is from speaks volumes.
For whatever reason, you're in denial. Illegals are working throughout the agricultural industries, including dairy farms.
For eight years the Republicans cried for the people to give them the majority in Congress and the White House. The people gave them what they wanted and now it appears since they don’t like the President they are committing political suicide.
Well, I have a friend (legal immigrant) who owns the largest feed lot in WI. He has nothing against illegals and regularly hired them when he ran restaurants. He’d hire him for his cattle operation in a NY minute, but they are not interested in the hard work.
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