How much H1-Bs account for jobs in US ?
now why my karma is -2 for asking this question ? why cant I ask this question ?
so another -1 for this too ... whoa
U.S. Senators Advocate H-1B Freeze for 60 Days or Longer
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Re: U.S. Senators Advocate H-1B Freeze for 60 Days or Longer
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They had the Presidency, House and Senate from 2009 through 2011, not 2013. Immigration reform was not a quagmire the Obama administration was going to delve into in the first 2 years of his administration, among all his priorities, however they did signal the desire to create a bipartisan solutions. A comprehensive bipartisan bill did pass the senate in 2013, however it was never brought to the House floor for a vot…
Immigration reform was not a quagmire the Obama administration was going to delve into So, you acknowledge that it's a "quagmire", not a benefit. The Democrats had the legislation all done and ready to go in the previous Congress, when it was just a tool to bludgeon Bush with rather than accomplish anything (otherwise, they could have brought the exact same bill back in the 111th). But that bill failed because 14 Dem…
> So, you acknowledge that it's a "quagmire", not a benefit.
I don't know what this means. After seeing the amount of political capital and time spent by the Bush administration the prior years, there was no way the Obama administration was going to delve into the same "quagmire."
It seems to me that that bill was bipartisan in it's support and detractors. So I'm not sure what the poison pills were that prevented it from passing. But I remember personally being against it because it seemed to me to establish a caste system in the US.
I think you miss the largest issue with the premise that the Democrats could have forced anything. The Democratic party is not a party of fall in line, there are procedural differences between how both parties operate in congress, and those differences create partisanship on the Republican side specifically.
Perhaps the greatest error by the Democrats and Pelosi was to abandon the "Hastert Rule" and be the ones actually implementing steps to be less partisan.