Sentences with phrase «guest worker program in»

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.

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He has long expressed disdain for so - called «guest worker» programs, which was a key provision in the 2007 law.

Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the nonprofit Center for Immigration Studies think tank, told Polis's local paper The Daily Camera that «there is a much stronger case» for Start - up Visas than, say, for expanding guest worker programs or family - based immigration, both of which are included in the larger reform bill.

«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.

Another way that the current crisis hurts those at the bottom of the economic ladder was revealed in a conversation with Lucy Luna, a United Food and Commercial Workers union organizer among immigrant farm workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. Workers union organizer among immigrant farm workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. dollar.

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

Retailers also need a workable program for obtaining visas for guest workers, reform of the H1B visa system for high - tech workers, and a mechanism to provide earned legalization for undocumented workers already in the country.

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.

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.

As things stand, the elite right has to win only once in order to get its preferred combination of upfront amnesty, future immigration non-enforcement, and expanded guest - worker programs.

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.

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.

Let's be clear about The Post's position on immigration: The Post believes immigrants are a boon to our nation, that America is desperately in need of a guest - worker program and...

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