Sentences with phrase «guest worker programs»

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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

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.

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.

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....

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.»

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.»

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

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.

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.»

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

Why are bishops taking public stands on the feasibility of border fences, on guest - worker programs, on workplace enforcement?

The Republicans offer no choice to the 89 percent of their own voters who oppose expanded immigration, and instead take every opportunity to expand low - skill guest - worker programs.

Now, Ryan supports guest - worker programs so that American employers don't have to be stuck with hiring from America's troubled population of lower - skill workers.

The demagogues and flakes have many vices, but at least they don't pretend that our problems will be solved by reducing the top income - tax rate and increasing low - skill guest - worker programs.

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.

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...

Senior Assemblyman Peter Rivera released a statement calling her immigration positions, including her opposition to amnesty and support for a guest - worker program that he likened to «21st - century slavery,» as «border [ing] on xenophobia.»