U. S. Sen. Jeff Sessions Hails Passage of Lower Cap on Guest Worker Program

U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions Hails Passage of Lower Cap On Guest Worker Program

U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) issued the following statement today after the Senate passed an amendment to the immigration bill that reduces the number of new H-2C low skilled foreign workers who may enter the United States:

"This amendment represented a massive victory over the open borders lobby. It fundamentally changed the low-skill foreign worker caps under the Senate bill by doing two things - reducing the annual low-skill foreign worker cap from 325,000 to 200,000 per year and eliminating the automatic 20 percent increase to the cap that could have occurred annually.

The elimination of the automatic increase is monumental. According to the numerical projection I released yesterday, the bill could have allowed up to 133.4 million new low-skilled immigrants and their families to come to the United States over 20 years. The amendment reduced that number to 8.8 million - a difference of almost 125 million immigrants.

I know we can still do better, and there are many other problems with the bill, but this is a good common sense first step to contain a guest worker program that would certainly spiral out of control.

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