Idiot Congress imports more foreign workers

Idiots on Parade
In a landslide the Morons in Congress make it easier to import foreign workers into a U.S. battered by unemployment

Here is yet more proof that we are ruled by bi-partisan idiots who don't give a crap about this country.  The House of Representatives voted 389 to 15 to ease restrictions on the entry of highly skilled immigrants to the U.S.

The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2011 was sponsored by conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats alike.  The bill eliminates country-specific caps on immigrant engineers, computer scientists and the like.

For reasons unknown the brain dead members of Congress think it is a good thing to import tens of thousands of brand new workers into a United States where our own citizens cannot get jobs.  The thought never entered their tiny minds that cutting off immigration would help Americans get jobs.

Under current law, immigrants from an individual country can claim no more than 7 percent of the 140,000 employment green cards issued annually. As Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat of Tennessee, pointed out, that cap applies equally to Iceland (population 300,000) and India (1.2 billion and rising).

Removing the caps will enable U.S. companies to import more skilled immigrants from countries such as India and China, which have a surfeit of scientists and technologists eager to work in the U.S.

The legislation would raise the country limit for family green cards from 7 percent of a total of 226,000 to 15 percent, thereby easing backlogs for immigrants from Mexico and the Philippines.

The U.S. has proudly accepted peoples from all over the world, but importing more
workers in a time of massive unemployment is an act of insanity.

The bill would have benefitted highly-skilled Indian workers seeking to stay in the US has been blocked by an influential Senator, saying "it does nothing to better protect Americans."

The bill, the "Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act" (HR 3012), which sailed through the US House of Representatives last week on a 389 to 15 vote, had been sent to the Senate for consideration, reports the Economic Times of India.

Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has been fighting for major changes in the H-1B rules, placed a "hold" on the bill, saying "it does nothing to better protect Americans."

"I rise to inform my colleagues that I am placing a hold on H R 3012, the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act," Grassley said on the Senate floor.

"I have concerns about the impact of this bill on future immigration flows, and am concerned that it does nothing to better protect Americans at home who seek high-skilled jobs during this time of record high unemployment," He said.

The bill if signed into law will completely eliminate the per-country caps for employment-based visas and raises the per-country cap from seven per cent to 15 per cent for family-based visas.

The current Immigration and Nationality Act generally provides that the total number of employment-based immigrant visas made available to natives of any single foreign country in a year cannot exceed seven per cent of the total number of such visas made available in that year.

This has resulted in applications, in particular by large number of qualified Indians, being rejected. Many people seeking the card had to wait for as long as 70 years to get a green card under the existing law.

(Economic Times of India)