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Action Alert from FAIR
November 17, 2004 - 9:55 am PSTLast Chance to Stop Stealth Foreign Worker Increase
Call Key Decision Makers RIGHT AWAY!Your continued effort is needed to help stop a sneaky end-of-the-year push for more foreign guest workers. Earlier, we asked you to contact your legislators to build opposition to efforts to expand the H-1B "high tech" and H-2B "seasonal" guest worker programs. Now we ask you to focus on Senate leadership and key committee members. Help us burn up their phone lines. CALL RIGHT AWAY.
Urgent Action Needed:
Call Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) (202-224-3344) and urge him to keep the omnibus appropriations bill free of amendments to expand the H-1B "high tech" and H-2B "seasonal" guest worker programs.Check the list below to see if your senator sits on the Appropriations Committee. If so, call immediately and urge your senator to reject efforts to attach language to the end-of-year omnibus spending bill that expands these guest worker programs. (See below for phone numbers and talking points.)
Keep faxing your legislators and urging them to oppose this. Follow this link to send faxes.
Forward this to others and ask them to get involved.
Background:
Business lobbyists have been pushing for more H-1B "high tech" and H-2B "seasonal" guest workers all year. Now that elections are over, it's payback time, and American workers are going to pay if this end-of-the-year guest worker expansion is passed.Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) are seeking a limitless exemption to the H-1B cap for foreign nationals holding advanced degrees from U.S. universities. Chambliss is pretty good on other immigration issues, but Kennedy is open-borders all the way and is constantly looking for ways to liberalize our current immigration system.
This guest worker expansion is going to be virtually impossible to defeat if added to the Omnibus Appropriations Bill as planned. Please help us convince key decision makers to keep the appropriations process clean. American jobs are on the line.
Senate Appropriations Committee Members
Alabama - Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) 202-224-5744Alaska - Sen. Ted Steven (R-AK) 202-224-3004
California - Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) 202-224-3841
Hawaii - Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) 202-224-3934
Idaho - Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) 202-224-2752
Illinois - Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) 202-224-2152
Iowa - Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) 202-224-3254
Kansas - Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KA) 202-224-6521
Kentucky - Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 202-224-2541
Louisiana - Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) 202-224-5824
Maryland - Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) 202-224-4654
Mississippi - Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) 202-224-5054
Missouri - Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) 202-224-5721
Montana - Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) 202-224-2644
Nevada - Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) 202-224-3542
New Hampshire - Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) 202-224-3324
New Mexico - Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) 202-224-6621
North Dakota - Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) 202-224-2551
Ohio - Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH) 202-224-2315
Pennsylvania - Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) 202-224-4254
South Dakota - Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) 202-224-5842
Texas - Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) 202-224-5922
Utah - Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) 202-224-5444
Vermont - Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) 202-224-4242
Washington - Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) 202-224-2621
West Virginia - Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) 202-224-3954
Wisconsin - Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) 202-224-5653
Talking Points:
As long as Congress allows employers to look overseas to fill jobs, it's always going to be a race to the bottom for wages and working conditions in this country.It's outrageous to expand guest worker programs when general unemployment is high and unemployment among high-tech American workers is at a 30 year high.
In 2003, caps on the H-1B and H-2B visa programs were reached within no time, which is a clear sign that employers are abusing these programs to cut costs at the expense of American wages and working conditions.
These guest worker programs need to be curbed or eliminated, not made more generous.
Check out our press release and the following issue briefs for more information:H-1B Visas: Harming American Workers
Why the IT Industry Doesn't Need More H-1B Workers
How Guest worker Programs Harm American Workers
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