Proposal would allow more women to come to U.S. under immigration bill

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Source: Washington Post

A group of female senators is planning to introduce a proposal Thursday that would ensure that more women would be admitted to the United States under a comprehensive immigration bill, representing an early attempt at leverage by the Senate’s emerging bloc of women.

The lawmakers say pending immigration legislation is unfairly weighted toward male workers because it rewards applicants who are better educated and have more technical skills.

Under their amendment, the female senators propose reserving 30,000 residency cards each year for fields in which women hold most of the jobs, such as nannies, home health-care workers and early childhood educators.

At least 12 women have signed on to co-sponsor the amendment, including Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), whom Democrats hope will play a key role in winning more GOP support, aides said. The Senate has a record contingent of 20 women this session, 16 of whom are Democrats.

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[DreamGypsy]

1. Female nannies, health-care workers, and educators are fine...

...but NOT unless there is some provision to ensure that we break the cycle of discrimination - educational, counseling, support, and protection services for the less-skilled or less-educated immigrant women and men; equal education, health care, nutrition, and opportunity for the children of their families.

We also need to ensure that foreign women WITH better education and technical skills are sought as immigrants as least as actively as their male counterparts to ensure that role models exist in our society for their immigrant countrywomen and countrymen.

Of course, the same arguments apply to our current population of female and male citizens who are poor, poorly educated, and under-appreciated as workers.

Fifty female senators and 218 female representatives would contribute significantly to the progress of these efforts.

[TM99]

2. How about we simply

employ all of the eligible and highly education women here in the US before we start proposing to bring in more immigrants to keep with Americans for already difficult to find employment?

[Bluenorthwest]

3. This bill will discriminate against women in same sex relationships same as the men

This bill is discriminatory, bigoted, and the insistence upon calling it 'comprehensive' when it is exclusionary and limited is insulting.