If they manage to pass a bill an enforcement only bill prior to November (likely) then if they at certain point address nurse visas only and do leave out the greencard visa numbers increases and H1B's, then we would be in a very bad shape because if 1. enforcement only bill and 2. visas for nurses are definitely the most critical, pressing issues right now. One can argue that other measures can wait, and it is when we find ourselves "dancing in the dark" for few more years. Let's expect that is not the case :-(
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Congress Returns from Summer Recess
Border Security A Priority
(September 11) House GOP leaders and committee chairmen announced they will hold an unusual hearing on September 12 to try to piece together a package of border enforcement measures for passage before their recess next month. House Republican committee chairmen will testify at the hearing about the lessons they've learned during the summer-long series of immigration "field hearings" around the country, and the measures they believe will increase our nation's border security efforts. The list of measures is expected to be far narrower than those contained in the House-passed immigration bill, H.R. 4437. "It won't be the whole 95 tons of what we've tried to work between the House and Senate, but we will try to get some things done," said House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL). The fate of those measures in the Senate, however, remains uncertain.
House GOP members are expected to push for increased border security funding in the FY '07 spending bills for the Department of Homeland Security, which is in conference with the Senate, and for the Department of Defense. House Republicans also will try to pass some of the border security measures contained in H.R. 4437 as stand-alone bills.
Despite media reports about divisions within their ranks, the vast majority of Republican members are solidly behind an enforcement first approach. It is the fringe elements within the GOP that promote an amnesty, although it is not depicted that way in the media. The strength of GOP opposition to the Senate-passed bill, and the amnesty it contains, is evidenced by the fact that ongoing discussions between the staffs of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees have made no progress. At this point, it seems very unlikely that some compromise involving an amnesty for illegal aliens could pass Congress before the election, even one like that proposed by Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX).
On the Senate side, Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) has said Congress could agree on a limited immigration reform bill dealing with securing the border, but may leave the issue of what to do with the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants to the next Congress. Frist predicted that within the next two weeks, the Senate will pass a DHS appropriations bill with additional money for border security.
It is important to note that Congress plans to hold a lame duck session beginning on November 13 which could include action on some immigration-related measure. As a result, we urge you to continue to make your voice heard and not let up until our immigration system has been fixed.
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techy2468 said:
the most funny thing i see in this whole deal is the way US immigration dept is doing their job....
1. Security check when some one goes for H1 stamping from usa to come back to usa........isnt the person already in USA......if he was a terrorist do you think he will go for a stamping???
2. FBI namecheck....people already present in usa???......i guess their intention here is to remove any bad apples......who are well behaved but may have bad mind (like some islamic activist who went to college....and is in a stable job.........but who can again go back to old ways.....)
i dont even know the true intentions of Bureacrats......they all look like suckers......just doing their job mindlessly........misusing their power.....acting like god because the gov gives them power..........
i guess 80% of people dont even know about this bureacrats.....the unlucky 20% like us have to suffer......
