Democrats and business allies are hiding two huge changes to legal immigration law under their media-magnified demands for the amnesty of illegal migrants.
But the rising GOP opposition is forcing the advocates to defend their power-grab as the Democrats’ “Build Back Better” spending bill faces a vote on Friday, November 5: “These provisions would be largest update to our immigration system in 30 years,” tweeted the Niskanen Center, which supports the expansion of legal immigration.
The rising GOP opposition includes an op-ed from Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN):
Buried in the “Build Back Better” legislation … are several jaw-dropping immigration provisions that would sell out American workers for the benefit of the largest and most influential corporate interests.
“It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and the sheep is in a hula skirt so you focus on the skirt and not the wolf underneath,” said a Hill source who opposes the immigration expansions.
The bill offers fast-track green cards for just $5,000 to at least one million foreign temporary contract workers already in the United States. Those green cards would let them permanently work in the United States and also become U.S. voters in five years.
The green card giveaway would drain wealth and political power from the 800,000 Americans who graduate each year with technology-intensive degrees in healthcare, business, math, science, engineering, and science.
Those green cards also would not count against the nation’s roughly one million annual cap on legal immigrants.
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