News, Senate plan favors immigrants with skills. (H1B, visa, illegals)

[John1960]

WASHINGTON — The importance of blood ties would be sharply reduced under an immigration proposal being negotiated in the Senate, with emphasis instead placed on welcoming foreigners who demonstrate educational, work and English expertise.

Advocates say a skills-based immigration policy would better serve the national interest, but the Catholic Church and many immigrant rights groups are profoundly wary of any effort to tinker with a decades-old legal immigration system focused on reuniting U.S. residents with their loved ones overseas.

More than two-thirds of legal immigration, which brought in 1.1 million people last year, is family-related.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4794729.html (broken link)

[Hawkeye48]

We have as many as twenty to thirty-million illegals here, by pushing immigrants with high skills the Senate is merely diversifying. It's just another way of bringing in workers that will lower overall wage rates. Currently most H1B visa holders really are not high tech workers, they are just workers with college degrees who are willing to displace American workers by working for less money. So just to keep things above board, what they are trying to do is legalize all the current illegals we have plus bring in a whole new group of them.

In other words, up to this point a huge majority of illegals here are the illiterate ones that suck up American social benefits. They are low skilled workers that don't come over for IT, accounting, or managerial jobs. Now the senate wants to import workers in the IT, accounting and managerial workers as well.

The real nasty secret congress doesn't want us to know is that our immigration/illegal alien problem isn't broke. Nothing new needs to be passed in the way of legislation. All that needs to be done is to enforce our current laws on the books. But for some reason our leaders in Washington don't want to do that.

[GuyPinestra]

"But for some reason our leaders in Washington don't want to do that."

Think 'New World Order'...

[bigtallredhead]

Yes, think-"new world order"=corporate global fascism.

[faith10]

It will lower wages, and it will raise very high housing costs even more so, so that a blue collar working class person will have to live with several working people per rental to afford it in California, not just one or two. It will raise mortgage rates even higher with a single digit percentage of people able to buy any house; right now it's around 15%.

[faith10]

Originally Posted by Hawkeye48

We have as many as twenty to thirty-million illegals here, by pushing immigrants with high skills the Senate is merely diversifying. It's just another way of bringing in workers that will lower overall wage rates. Currently most H1B visa holders really are not high tech workers, they are just workers with college degrees who are willing to displace American workers by working for less money. So just to keep things above board, what they are trying to do is legalize all the current illegals we have plus bring in a whole new group of them.

In other words, up to this point a huge majority of illegals here are the illiterate ones that suck up American social benefits. They are low skilled workers that don't come over for IT, accounting, or managerial jobs. Now the senate wants to import workers in the IT, accounting and managerial workers as well.

The real nasty secret congress doesn't want us to know is that our immigration/illegal alien problem isn't broke. Nothing new needs to be passed in the way of legislation. All that needs to be done is to enforce our current laws on the books. But for some reason our leaders in Washington don't want to do that.

Finally, some anti-immigration news last week on FOX NEWS L.A., ICE officer was interviewed who stated what you said, "enforcing our current laws already on the books is what does work" (daily raids), and that "letting all the illegals in does not work". It showed ICE making raids on illegals to deport them and he said they get 70% to 80% of their targets, the others they have to do more investigation work to find.