Post by rinoHUNTER on Sept 16, 2008 22:39:42 GMT -5
Dear Faxer:
Urge your State's Representatives to fight for American Jobs
This new fax has been posted in your Action Buffet based on your answers to the Interest Survey.
You can find this fax by proceeding to
www.numbersusa.com/faxes?ID=10669
The House Judiicary Committee will be meeting this week to continue debating two immigration bills: a bill to create 550,000 additional green cards and a bill to make it easier for foreign nurses to come to the United States.
Given that our economoy is slumping, unemployment is skyrocketing, and some of America's largest corporations are in the process of failing, is it not absolutely preposterous that the Congress is considering giving away more than a half-million American jobs? Send a fax to the Representative(s) on the Judiciary Committee who are from your state and remind them that their duty is to protect Americans and American jobs and not to import foreign workers for the benefit of big businesses. Urge them to oppose H.R. 5882 and H.R. 5924!
Click here to read Roy's latest blog on the financial industry's fall.
The primary danger we face - and what we must defeat - is the visa "RECAPTURE" scheme at the heart of these proposals. Supporters claim that the U.S. is "losing" thousands of unused visas every year and are trying to convince the rest of Congress that these visas must be recaptured. However, the fact is that there ARE NO UNUSED VISAS...ever.
These bills would add over 1 million additional permanent immigrants over the next ten years. That is one million more workers, plus their families, to compete for American jobs and wages. For more on how the "recapture" scheme works, read on. Otherwise, please send this fax today!
How the "recapture" scheme works:
Legal permanent immigrant visas are mostly comprised of two categories: family-based visas and employment-based visas. Each category has a "pierceable" cap, meaning there is a loose limit to how many visas can be allocated in each category every year. In theory, these caps exist to protect Americans from unfair labor competition and from runaway population growth (we know, of course, that the law was written with loopholes to undermine these protections).
The law (written by Sen. Ted Kennedy in 1965) says that any unused visas from one category automatically roll over into the other category for the following year. Hence, the cap on family-based visas is increased by the number of unused employment-based visas from the previous year, and vice-versa. In other words, Sen. Kennedy specifically wrote the law to guarantee that there would never be any unused visas.
The "recapture" scheme maintains Sen. Kennedy's formula, but adds a provision that essentially counts the "unused" visas twice (once to roll over into the other category and once to add that number again to the existing category). Therefore, the authors of the new bill aren't "recapturing" anything, they are simply increasing the number of permanent foreign workers plus their families who are admitted to the U.S. every year.
Urge your State's Representatives to fight for American Jobs
This new fax has been posted in your Action Buffet based on your answers to the Interest Survey.
You can find this fax by proceeding to
www.numbersusa.com/faxes?ID=10669
The House Judiicary Committee will be meeting this week to continue debating two immigration bills: a bill to create 550,000 additional green cards and a bill to make it easier for foreign nurses to come to the United States.
Given that our economoy is slumping, unemployment is skyrocketing, and some of America's largest corporations are in the process of failing, is it not absolutely preposterous that the Congress is considering giving away more than a half-million American jobs? Send a fax to the Representative(s) on the Judiciary Committee who are from your state and remind them that their duty is to protect Americans and American jobs and not to import foreign workers for the benefit of big businesses. Urge them to oppose H.R. 5882 and H.R. 5924!
Click here to read Roy's latest blog on the financial industry's fall.
The primary danger we face - and what we must defeat - is the visa "RECAPTURE" scheme at the heart of these proposals. Supporters claim that the U.S. is "losing" thousands of unused visas every year and are trying to convince the rest of Congress that these visas must be recaptured. However, the fact is that there ARE NO UNUSED VISAS...ever.
These bills would add over 1 million additional permanent immigrants over the next ten years. That is one million more workers, plus their families, to compete for American jobs and wages. For more on how the "recapture" scheme works, read on. Otherwise, please send this fax today!
How the "recapture" scheme works:
Legal permanent immigrant visas are mostly comprised of two categories: family-based visas and employment-based visas. Each category has a "pierceable" cap, meaning there is a loose limit to how many visas can be allocated in each category every year. In theory, these caps exist to protect Americans from unfair labor competition and from runaway population growth (we know, of course, that the law was written with loopholes to undermine these protections).
The law (written by Sen. Ted Kennedy in 1965) says that any unused visas from one category automatically roll over into the other category for the following year. Hence, the cap on family-based visas is increased by the number of unused employment-based visas from the previous year, and vice-versa. In other words, Sen. Kennedy specifically wrote the law to guarantee that there would never be any unused visas.
The "recapture" scheme maintains Sen. Kennedy's formula, but adds a provision that essentially counts the "unused" visas twice (once to roll over into the other category and once to add that number again to the existing category). Therefore, the authors of the new bill aren't "recapturing" anything, they are simply increasing the number of permanent foreign workers plus their families who are admitted to the U.S. every year.
