H-4A Visa Would Dwarf H-1B
H-4A Visa Would Dwarf H-1B
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 10:27 PM
JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER
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I have been warning the readers of this newsgroup that an impending
guest worker/amnesty bill is emerging from Arizona. Thanks to the
breaking information from NumbersUSA we now know the visa will be
called H-4A.
While the bill is ostensibly for "unskilled" jobs, it may also affect
white collar workers - read item #7. The term unskilled will probably
be defined as any job that doesn't require an advanced college degree.
H-4A visa holders could take these jobs and there are no numerical
limits!
So far the largest pro-immigration newspaper (Arizona Republic) hasn't
even done a story on this bill. It was covered by the much smaller
"Tucson Citizen". The Arizona Republic allowed one LTE that supported
it but rejected my LTE that was a condensed version of the newsletter
titled "Presidente de Estados Unidos".
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Immigration@numbersusa.com [mailto:Immigration@numbersusa.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 6:35 PM
URGENT ACTION SOUGHT FROM CITIZENS OF ARIZONA
DATE: 8:30 p.m. TUE 10jun03
Three of Arizona's Members of Congress are set to introduce the most
radical immigration bill ever seen in U.S. history.
Sen. McCain, Rep. Flake and Rep. Kolbe have created a bill -- expected
to be introduced any day -- that would come closer to eliminating our
U.S. borders than anything ever introduced while setting up a two or
three-step process to give an amnesty to almost all 10 million or so
illegal aliens now in the country.
ACTION-----Start calling all three on Wednesday
Although it is doubtful that any of these three would back off their
ideological commitment to adding millions of new foreign workers to
every aspect of our society, your phone calls just might shake an ounce
of sense into the staffs of these men.
Frankly, we have no real understanding what these staffs are thinking.
As soon as you start getting answers, please email them back to us so
that we can start trying to figure out how anybody could come up with
legislation like this.
We have assembled the descriptions of their upcoming bill below based
on information their offices are putting out to potential allies --
information that has seeped to us. Perhaps if they hear enough outcry
they will decide to change some of it -- although, frankly, there
doesn't appear to be any way this bill could be made acceptable.
THESE 3 ARIZONA REPUBLICANS ARE FAR MORE RADICAL THAN ANY DEMOCRATIC
LEADER
Although the stereotype of open-border advocate is Sen. Kennedy of MA
or Sen. Daschle of SD or Rep. Gephardt of MO, these Democratic leaders
have tended to stick to the idea of legalizing all 10 million illegal
aliens in the country. But they haven't proposed bringing millions
more foreign workers in at the same time.
The worst thing about this whole mess is that Rep. Flake is a key
member of the House immigration subcommittee. He is in a position to do
incredible damage to this country's future if he really believes in the
philosophy espoused in his bill.
Interestingly, Rep. Flake has introduced some other decent legislation
to help curb illegal immigration. Let's hope that this bill is just an
example of a staff gone mad and of the congressman being seriously
misled.
TALKING POINTS ON THE PHONE
Pick and choose among the following:
1. The internet is buzzing with news of a pending bill to be introduced
by Sen. McCain, Rep. Flake, Rep. Kolbe (Coal'-bee) and Rep. Reyes
(Ray'-yez, D-TX).
2. We are told that the bill has a new, unlimited "guest worker"
program for every foreign worker who can find a job in the U.S.
At a time when 18 million American workers cannot find a full-time job,
why would you be bringing in hundreds of thousands if not millions of
foreign workers each year -- in ALL categories of jobs?
3. Your bill would issue H-4A visas to workers for 2 years and allow
them to renew twice for a total of 6 years.
These aren't guest workers. These are permanent workers to destroy the
wage structure of working Americans.
4. It is clear that McCain, Flake and Kolbe think that Americans don't
have enough sprawl, enough traffic, enough congestion. The Census
bureau states that current immigration policies will force an
additional 300 million people into this country this century -- hitting
nearly 600 million.
But McCain, Flake and Kolbe want to force millions upon millions more.
They want all the unlimited guest workers to be able to move their
families here permanently.
All H-4A visa holders can apply for and receive a green card after
working in the US for three years. At the end of six years, they must
either leave the US or apply for a green card.
How many do you think will choose to leave?
5. Although the authors of this bill have the gall to say the bill does
not provide an amnesty, it is in fact a giant amnesty bill.
First, it allows nearly all illegal aliens to remain in this country
for five years as legal workers. That is an amnesty from the penalty of
being deported and being barred from re-entry for 3-10 years.
As long as they can't be proven to be felons, terrorists or public
charges, illegal aliens -- along with their spouses and children --
would be issued an H-4B visa, good for five years of work and residence
here.
At the end of five years, the illegal aliens have to either leave the
country or apply for an H-4A visa (the two-year guest worker visa). Of
course, once they get the H-4A visa, they can apply for a green card
three years later.
The last mass amnesty, encouraged an additional 10 million people to
break our laws and become illegal aliens here.
The McCain/Flake/Kolbe/Reyes Amnesty will be sure to entice tens of
millions more illegal aliens to enter.
6. Let's emphasize again that there are NO NUMERICAL LIMITS on either
category of visa.
When the 1965 immigration act was passed with no overall ceiling,
average annual immigration eventually quadrupled and is still rising.
But that law had some internal sub-caps.
7. Proponents of this virtually open-borders bill will claim that the
number of foreign workers will be limited because many of these foreign
computer programmers, restaurant workers, construction workers,
janitors, small business entrepreneurs, manufacturing workers, etc.
won't be able to find an American business to give them a job.
Or they will be screened out as undesirable and not allowed to
participate.
What do you think all of those foreign workers will do? Do you suppose
they may cross the border illegally just like such workers do today?
Yet, this bill provides no increased border control. No increased
controls to ensure that the people who work in U.S. jobs have the new
visas and aren't just illegal aliens.
Illegal aliens will be able to outcompete even the new guest workers.
The sponsors of this bill are making incredible claims that their bill
will eliminate the majority of future illegal immigration, but the same
incentives for coming illegally would exist under their bill as now.
8. McCain/Flake/Kolbe/Reyes have made sure that anybody who comes
illegally in the future won't be left out of the grabbag of goodies.
Future illegal aliens only have to avoid arrest for three years while
working illegally here and the Open-Borders Four allow them to apply
for an H-4B visa.
Can there be a much brighter gigantic neon sign to the world to break
our laws and start working?
SEND THIS TO EVERY ARIZONAN YOU KNOW
Polls show that the majority of Arizonans want far less immigration --
not MORE. They want less sprawl and congestion -- not MORE. They want
less illegal immigration -- not MORE.
The only way McCain, Flake and Kolbe will back off their bid to open
the border with Mexico is if they feel that the wrath of that Arizona
majority has been raised.
PHONE NUMBERS -- PLEASE START CALLING AND KEEP CALLING
Depending on your sense of outrage, you may want to not only call the
Capitol Hill offices of all three of these men, but also their Arizona
offices. The more calls, the more impact.
If the staff tries to tell you something that disagrees with what we
have told you here, politely take down the information and email it to
us. If we can tell you the info is wrong, we will arm you for a
followup call.
McCain, John AZ (R)
202-224-2235 SR-241 Washington, DC 20510
602-952-2410 Building No. 1 Phoenix, AZ 85016
520-670-6334 450 West Paseo Redondo - Suite 200 Tucson, AZ 85701
480-897-6289 4450 South Rural Road - Suite B-130 Tempe, AZ 85282
Flake, Jeff AZ06 (R)
202-225-2635 512 CHOB Washington, DC 20515
480-833-0092 1201 S. Alma School Road, Suite 2950 Mesa, AZ 85210
Kolbe, Jim AZ08 (R)
202-225-2542 2266 RHOB Washington, DC 20515
520-881-3588 1661 North Swan Road, Suite 112 Tucson, AZ 85712
520-459-3115 77 Calle Portal, Suite B-160 Sierra Vista, AZ 85635
TELL EVERYBODY TO STAY TUNED BY JOINING THE ACTION NETWORK
Every Arizonan who wants to keep up with what his/her Members of
Congress are tyring to do TO Arizona or FOR Arizona needs to sign up
for the NumbersUSA Action Network at:
http://www.numbersusa.com/action/index.html
These three Arizona Members of Congress would never have created such
an outlandish bill if Arizonans had been telling them what kind of
immigration policies they truly want. Yes, some Arizonans have tried.
But these fellows need to hear from thousands.
I'm sure they have seen the polls and know what they are doing is
against the wishes of the majority.
But they have calculated that the majority doesn't care enough to give
them significant trouble while they gain tremendous benefits by
rewarding unscrupulous, unpatriotic corporations with virtually
unlimited cheap foreign labor.
This kind of behavior will stop only when the Arizona majority speaks
clearly and forcefully back to these Members.
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