But H-2B Increases Remain!
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) stripped the AgJOBS amnesty from the Iraq supplemental spending bill (H.R. 2642) last night as well as the increase in visas for employment-based permanent workers. Provisions to increase H-2B visas for unskilled seasonal workers remain in the bill.
The Senate has adjourned for the day, so please call your Senators tomorrow to tell them to remove the H-2B visa increases as well, and to keep the AgJOBS amnesty and employment-based permanent worker increases off the bill.
The H-2B provisions still in the bill, which were sponsored by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), would exempt from the annual cap of 66,000 any H-2B nonagricultural seasonal workers who were admitted during the previous three years. This could increase the annual number of H-2B workers to over 400,000 by FY 2011.
Editor’s Note: Clearly, all of your phone calls and faxes helped deliver a political victory for our nation and people. But of course, there will always be much more to do. Stay vigilant. Stay informed. Engage them to change them! We are the boss, not them! Contact the Hill again ASAP to remove this onerous H-2B visa allowance (Here).