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Guest Worker Program
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration bill clears Senate Judiciary Committee
AP is reporting that an Immigration bill has cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee. The story is here. The bill contains a guest worker provision, which allows unauthorized migrants to apply…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Frist Has An Alternative Ready
With Judiciary Committee members struggling to craft compromises on a host of controversial provisions in their immigration reform package, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has prepared an alternate bill…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Brownback-Chambliss Guestworker Proposal Criticized
Reject Chambliss Agricultural Guestworker ProposalWhich Senator Brownback Circulated to Judiciary Committee The Farmworker Justice Fund, a national advocacy and education organization for migrant and seasonal farmworkers, urges you to oppose…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Op-Ed on Rally in Chicago
Immigrants have decided they will no longer be passive punching bagsJoshua Hoyt, executive director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, a statewide organization committed to the full…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Voice of Agriculture on Immigration Reform
AFBF Study: Immigration Reform Must Include Guest-Worker ProvisionsWASHINGTON, February 7, 2006 – Failure to include comprehensive guest-worker provisions in any new or reformed immigration law could cause up to $9…
ImmigrationProf Blog
AFL-CIO Still Opposed to Guestworkers
AFL-CIO leaders on Tuesday said they would reject guest worker proposals now in Congress, saying that all foreign workers who come to the United States to fill labor shortages should…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Problems With President Bush’s Guest Worker Proposal
Alan Lee, Esq. writes "So there are valid concerns at this time whether any immigration reform package besides one that only has enforcement provisions can be passed during this Administration."http://www.ilw.com/articles/2006,0301-lee.shtmhttp://www.alanleelaw.comKJ
Labor Law Prof Blog
Commentators See McCain Guest Worker Bill Providing Stronger Protections for Immigrant Labor
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has introduced a Guest Worker Bill for consideration by the Senate. As described by Peter Rousmaniere over at the Working Immigrants blog, the bill has some…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Anti-Guest Worker Program by Center for Immigration Studies
Guestworker Programs: Do They Make Sense for America? WASHINGTON -- Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter has just circulated his version of a bill to establish a vast guestworker program…
ImmigrationProf Blog
SEIU weighs in supporting a guest worker program
Eliseo Medina, vice president of the Service Employees International Union - the second largest union in the United States - has weighed in on immigration reform, calling for the implementation…