(May 22)
Today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)
removed the final objectionable immigration measure from the Iraq
supplemental spending bill (H.R. 2642) when he stripped provisions
that would have increased H-2B visas for unskilled seasonal workers.
These provisions would have exempted from the annual cap of 66,000
any H-2B nonagricultural seasonal workers who were admitted during
the previous three years. This could have increased the annual
number of H-2B workers to over 400,000 by FY 2011.
On
May 20, Sen. Reid stripped AgJOBS provisions that would have
required the Department of Homeland Security to grant “emergency
agricultural worker status” (i.e., amnesty) for up to five years to
as many as 1.35 million illegal aliens, plus their spouses and
children (bringing the total amnesty to about three million), if the
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