Senate Votes to Cut Guest Worker Program (AP)

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Senate Votes to Cut Guest Worker Program

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, Associated Press Writer

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

(05-23) 13:27 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --

The Senate voted Wednesday to slash the number of foreign workers
who could come to the U.S. on temporary visas as part of a broad
bipartisan immigration bill.

A new guest worker program would be capped at 200,000 a year under
the proposal, which passed 74-24 over strong opposition by the Bush
administration.

Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said the change, proposed by
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., would interfere with a "central component"
of the White House-backed immigration measure. That plan provided
for 400,000 worker visas annually, plus an option to increase that
number to 600,000 if market conditions demand it.

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Republicans sought to respond to conservative critics by trying to
bolster security provisions and make it more difficult for illegal
immigrants to get on a path to citizenship.

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Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/05/23/national/w130028D33.DTL

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1. The bill should be defeated, not modified

I hope this is a start.

[ProSense]

2. The Heritage Foundation doesn't like this bill

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The interesting thing about immigration policy in this country is people on are split on the left and the wingnut right will not stop until they round up all the illegals and throw them in jail.