Sentences with phrase «guest worker program»

You will find politicians inserting expansions of low - skill guest worker programs into end - of - the - year legislation in the hopes that the public will not notice.

One of the most challenging writing tasks for me was an essay about my father's experience in an agricultural guest worker program in the late 50s.

But border security in and of itself is not complete unless you have a meaningful guest worker program to go along with it, to create that way for a legal avenue of labor.

Just take a break from trying to pass guest worker programs and middle - class tax increases.

But how realistic is it to support low - skill guest worker programs and to leave the door open for future waves of illegal immigration?

Both candidates favor guest worker programs for farmers.

Rubio got so carried away with the findings of the autopsy that one of his aides explicitly argued for expanding guest worker programs as an alternative to the hiring of American workers who «can't cut it.»

The House principles also come out in favor of guest worker programs aimed at the desires of «the agricultural industry, among others.»

The H - 2A was not the first agricultural guest worker program implemented in the United States.

And a story that revealed inequities in the U.S. guest worker program led to a congressional outcry and earned BuzzFeed a National Magazine Award earlier this month.

A stable workforce is vital to the success of farms, and Americans have failed to fill that gap as have the federal guest worker program called H - 2A.

«A successful guest worker program will help alleviate the current labor shortage in the residential construction sector, quicken the rebuilding efforts in Texas and support the overall economic growth of this nation,» said NAHB Chairman Granger MacDonald in a press release.

He said efforts to revise the H - 2B guest worker program have been stalled by opposition from labor groups, which have argued that companies don't try hard enough to hire Americans or pay a living wage before turning to the program.

We believe that the core elements of President George W. Bush's immigration reform proposals were correct: effective border security, a functioning and humane guest worker program, and a pathway to earned legal status for the undocumented.

Meanwhile, a Rubio advisor has been caught arguing for a larger low - skill guest worker program despite double....

He could also come out against guest worker programs and argue that those we invite to come to our country should be welcomed as future citizens rather than helots to be exploited and discarded if they should face a spell of unemployment.

This contrasts sharply with Rand Paul's proposal for a virtually unlimited guest worker program and Paul's opposition to workplace verification.

In private, a Rubio aide argued for expanded, low - skill guest worker programs so that businesses would not be stuck with having to hire American workers who «can't cut it.»

Though the H - 2A guest worker program has helped soften the crisis, farm labor remains a top issues for Santa Maria growers.

We anticipate meeting with Governor Perdue soon, and working with him on critical issues such as securing an adequate workforce through immigration reform and a new guest worker program, bolstering free and fair trade, serving the neediest Americans through federal feeding programs, and more.»

Sanders has recently argued that he voted against the bill because of guest worker program provisions which he believed would have created vulnerabilities for workers and exploitation.

Fighting for Florida and beyond, Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders tangled in an intense debate last night over who's the true friend of American Hispanics, trading accusations over guest worker programs «akin to slavery» and the embracing of «vigilantes» against immigrants.

But, if guest worker programs are allowed to flourish, the ghettoization creeps up the wage scale to areas like food service, retail sales, construction and even sectors like IT and health care.

We take this position because Canada doesn't need an exploitative guest worker program.

BuzzFeed News has published the two definitive profiles of Donald Trump — and countless scoops about the Republican nominee, including disproving his claim that he always opposed the Iraq War, and investigations into his surveillance operations, and the U.S. guest worker program that Trump used to hire foreign workers.

On March 14, 2013, the Workforce Protections Subcommittee of the Education and Workforce Committee held a hearing on «Examining the Role of Lower - Skilled Guest Worker Programs in Today's Economy,» which discussed H - 2B visas.

The numerous shortcomings of the guest worker program have brought together farmers and immigration reform advocates who want to create a system that meets the ever - changing needs of farm owners and is fair to immigrant workers.

I don't agree very much with a lot of things our president is doing, but I do agree with his guest worker program, so that people could work here and remit taxes, for crying out loud.

Now, businesses are asking President Donald Trump for help, in the hope that the guest worker program doesn't get lost in the administration's efforts to tighten immigration policies.

The 45 - minute meeting with Rep. Duncan touched on a number of issues: softwood lumber, labor shortages and the need for a guest worker program, the long - term renewal of the National Flood Insurance Program, housing finance reform, and local growth and development.

Levin's suggestions include mandating the near - term adoption of E-Verify for all employees, eliminating the guest worker program and shifting future immigration toward high - skill....

Levin's suggestions include mandating the near - term adoption of E-Verify for all employees, eliminating the guest worker program and shifting future immigration toward high - skill immigrants for the sake of current low - wage American residents (to include many such residents who would be getting amnesty.)

Rich Lowry hopes that Ted Cruz will take a more prominent (and Ramesh Ponnuru hopes Cruz takes a more wide - ranging) stand against the Gang of Eight plan to give amnesty to people who have already been deported, and implement a guest worker program for low - skill immigrants.

At most, guest worker programs are a policy that a faction within the Republican party happens to support — and Gardner is a member of that faction.

As a matter of policy, guest worker programs are wrong.

Whatever the Republican party's electoral problems, support for guest worker programs is not the solution.

Are guest worker programs a good idea or a bad idea?

The House Republican leadership has already started the process with their proposal for low - skill guest worker programs.

The congressional Republicans voted to expand a low - skill guest worker program.

By not taking on the guest worker program, by not focusing on internal enforcement, and by coming out for increased low - skill immigration, Jindal basically agrees with the Chamber 0f Commerce - Chuck Schumer Axis that produced the Gang of Eight plan while offering conservative opponents a border certification process.

The CBO estimates that one major channel for future illegal immigration under the Gang of Eight plan would be the low - skill guest worker program, as temporary worker overstay their visas.

So if you are really about preventing the creation of a large new class of illegal immigrants, stopping the Gang of Eight's guest worker program and mandating near - term employment verification are probably even more important than «border security.»

What swing - voters want is amnesty that comes before immigration enforcement, expanded low - skill guest worker programs and for social conservatives to either take a vow of silence or leave politics entirely.

They offered superficial concessions on border security (most of them conveniently to take effect — or not take effect — after legalization) while expanding low - skill guest worker programs.

USA has both diversity visa program, and investment based immigration, and guest worker program.

A new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) says there is little evidence to support the expansion of high - skilled guest worker programs, like those proposed in the immigration bill being debated in the Senate.

Most unions and the League of United Latin American Citizens opposed the 2007 proposal because of its expanded guest worker program, which the organizations complained would lead to «exploitation.»

In other parts of the world, guest worker programs have turned whole economic sectors into low - wage ghettos.