2005 guest worker program

Labor Secretary Elaine Chao said workers accepted into the program would be issued biometric, tamper-resistant cards that would allow them to cross U. Several members of the committee are sponsoring legislation that, in addition to strengthening border security and workplace enforcement, would set up guest worker programs.

Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. John McCain, R-Ariz. Speaking at a Chamber of Commerce forum on illegal immigration Tuesday, McCain said any plan centered on sending illegal immigrants home ignores that businesses rely on immigrant labor and that many immigrants have children born in the United States, who are citizens.

Chertoff said that in the just-concluded budget year , of the , non-Mexican nationals apprehended by the Border Patrol were released, often on their own recognizance, because there is no place to hold them. Visit www.

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Skip to Content. Leadership Voices Podcasts. Events About Newsletters. Featured eBooks. Sources: 1 Steven A. Skip to main navigation. We Need Your Help! The U. The H-2A program brings in an unlimited number of agricultural guest workers. The H-2B program brings in unskilled workers.

The H-1C program brings in foreign nurses. The H-1B program brings in foreign workers in "specialty occupations," including computer programmers, engineers, accountants, doctors, and K teachers. The J-1 program, a work-study program, brings in workers to fill many jobs traditionally filled by American high school and college students.

The L-1 "Intracompany Transferee" visa allows a company to bring an employee who has worked for that company abroad for one year to the United States. There are approximately 20 million Americans who are unemployed or underemployed, and 92 million Americans not in the labor force. Many of the unemployed are low skilled. In the fourth quarter of , there were eight million Americans with a high school diploma or less who were unemployed or who could only find part-time work.

Two-thirds of the more than nine million people with degrees in science, engineering, or mathematics are working in other fields.