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Nelson and Martinez Betray Florida Workers
The US Senate has passed a huge increase in
H-1B visas. "Rolled", "Train-wreck", "another
nail in the coffin of the American worker"
have been some of the descriptions of the
14-85 defeat of the Byrd Amendment which would
have struck the increases.
Both Florida
Senators voted to sell off American jobs so
CALL to express
your disappointment:
Senator Martinez, Aide Nilda PeDrosa,
telephone 305-444-8332
Senator Nelson, Aide Brent Woolfork,
telephone 202-224-5274
The 350,000 increase in permanent immigration
will harm American students and workers.
Please tell your Senator that he was painfully
mistaken to vote against the Byrd Amendment
and allow these provisions to harm American
workers.
Your NumbersUSA Capitol Hill Team
says that the Specter/Kennedy plan would do
the following:
1. It
would raise the annual cap on permanent
employment-based immigration by changing
the formula as follows: employment-based
visas = 140,000 + any unused family-based
visas from the previous year + (the lesser
of 90,000 or unused employment-based visas
from any prior year).
2. It exempts the spouses and children of
employment-based immigrants from counting
against the numerical cap, beginning in
2004. (In 2003, workers got 36,210 visas,
and their spouses and children got 45,927
visas. Total visas could have more than
doubled under this bill.)
3. It adds a fee of $500 per petition for
most employment-based visa petitions.
4. It allows alien spouses and children of
citizens to adjust to Legal Permanent
Resident (LPR) status if the citizen abused
them, died, or lost or renounced their
citizenship; and it allows alien spouses
and children of LPRs to adjust to LPR
status if the LPR abused them or died.
5. Anytime the H-1B cap is reached, the
lesser of 60,000 or any unused visas in any
prior years are added to the cap.
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According to
www.BetterImmigration.com our senators
immigration voting records are:
Nelson C- /
D
Martinez D- / D-
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The senators can be replaced on the following
dates:
Senator Nelson -
November 7, 2006
Senator Martinez - November 2, 2010
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