FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., is urging Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to oppose immigration provisions in the proposed budget reconciliation bill that would make hundreds of thousands more employment-based green cards available – provisions Hagerty calls “the crown jewel of corporate lobbying.”
In a letter to the Vermont senator, Hagerty notes that Sanders has spent much of his career as an “outspoken critic of large-scale migration that displaces American workers” and noted comments in 2007 in which Sanders said that the U.S. should not bring “millions of people into this country who are prepared to lower wages for Americans workers.”
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“For most of your career, you have been an outspoken critic of large-scale migration that displaces American workers – especially corporate-driven immigration policies – citing the substantial harm they inflict upon American job opportunities, wages, and employment conditions.”
Hagerty points to provisions in the House version of the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act – which Democrats are seeking to get through the Senate via the budget reconciliation process – including language that would “recapture” employment-based green cards.
“Entirely separate from the controversial provisions in the House bill providing legal status to illegal immigrants, the bill includes several provisions that effectively terminate, for at least 10 years, all numerical limits on the annual allotment of green cards,” he writes. “Of particular concern is the elimination of statutory caps on the entry of foreign workers employed by many of America’s largest and most powerful corporations.”
The language, would allow “unused visas” – or the difference between the visa cap and the visas actually allotted – to be “recaptured” and re-used. This provision would recapture visas all the back to 1992. This would make hundreds of thousands of…
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