Pending Disaster - House immigration deal

Date: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 4:19 PM

JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

December 06, 2005 No. 1381

I received this action alert from NumbersUSA. Haven't heard anything from
them today but I will forward any information I receive to you.

Most of us have been operating on the assumption that the Specter
immigration increase that was approved in the Senate would have a rougher
time getting through the House. Now it seems that trouble may be brewing in
the House of Representatives. This is very bad news for American workers.
According to Roy Beck, the House version might be worse - instead of 30,000
H-1Bs that the Senate approved they are back to the 60,000 that were
originally proposed. In addition very large numbers of employment based
Green Cards are being talked about.

I suspect that the House and the Senate want to agree to an H-1B increase
to show the WTO that they are serious about increasing the number of
employment based visas issued in the United States. It would be quite a
jesture for the Doha Round negotiations that are taking place in Hong Kong
next week. Of course that would be a hard one to prove, but it does look
suspicious.

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Date: Monday 5DEC05 3:18 p.m. EST

U.S. House negotiators are accepting Specter's 350,000-a-year immigration
increase in budget bill

Make phone calls the minute you see this.

U.S. House on verge of biggest immigration disaster for American
communities and workers since 1990 Act.

The surprise vote could occur as early as Tuesday.

The only thing that can possibly avert this disaster is if all 124,000
NumbersUSA members take some kind of action today and Tuesday.

Click the link below to get instructions on making your phone call. We
still have a chance to turn this thing around if congressional offices have
their switchboards jammed by angry constituents about something that most
of the staff will know nothing about. Your job is to let them know that
this is VERY, VERY important.

www.numbersusa.com/phones?ID=4343

Our staff is putting up new faxes for you to send right now. Click the link
below to check on new faxes on your Action Buffet corkboard. If you see
this immediately, not everything may be up yet. Just keep coming back to
the board for instructions. We will be updating it regularly -- as well as
our Hot Topics section on the Home page.

www.NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet

Your NumbersUSA Capitol Hill Team has been working on rumors all day about
this extreme new development and sadly has confirmed it with a Congressman.

At the moment, House Republican negotiators are allowing Specter's radical
Senate immigration provisions to stay in this budget bill. This would be
the greatest immigration blow to American communities and workers since the
1990 Immigration Act increased annual immigration by a similar amount. Only
the 1965 Immigration Act had more disastrous consequences than would the
Budget REconciliation bill which easily could come up for a vote this week.

Yes, we came to you when this was going through the Senate and you tried to
stop it there. But we always had some strong hope that House leaders would
stop the insanity and strip Specter from the Budget bill. We were given
many assurances by House Republican leaders that they would not bring the
Budget bill back from Conference Committee if it had Specter's 350,000 a
year increase.

We think many of these leaders may not even know what is happening because
the Budget bill is gigantic and the immigration provisions look like small
stuff and are easily overlooked.

Please do not sit on the sidelines on this one!

Your NumbersUSA Capitol Hill Team says that the Specter/Kennedy plan inside
the Budget Reconciliation bill would do the following:

1. It would raise the annual cap on permanent employment-based immigration
by changing the formula as follows: employment-based visas = 140,000 + any
unused family-based visas from the previous year + (the lesser of 90,000 or
unused employment-based visas from any prior year).

2. It exempts the spouses and children of employment-based immigrants from
counting against the numerical cap, beginning in 2004. (In 2003, workers
got 36,210 visas, and their spouses and children got 45,927 visas. Total
visas could have more than doubled under this bill.)

3. It adds a fee of $500 per petition for most employment-based visa
petitions. (The publicly-stated rationale for all these new greencards is
as a money-making scheme to decrease the federal budget deficit.)

4. It allows alien spouses and children of citizens to adjust to Legal
Permanent Resident status if the citizen abused them, died, or lost or
renounced their citizenship; and it allows alien spouses and children of
LPRs to adjust to LPR status if the LPR abused them or died.

5. Anytime the H-1B cap is reached, the lesser of 60,000 or any unused
visas in any prior years are added to the cap.

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