{"id":1816,"date":"2008-09-10T18:12:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T22:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2008-09-10T18:12:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T22:12:45","slug":"alert-house-leadership-to-give-550000-jobs-to-foreign-workers-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/10\/alert-house-leadership-to-give-550000-jobs-to-foreign-workers-caps\/","title":{"rendered":"Alert! House Leadership to Give 550,000 Jobs to Foreign Workers!&#8230; CAPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From CAPS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alert! House Leadership to Give 550,000 Jobs to Foreign Workers! <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even though the official unemployment rate climbed to its highest level in the last five years, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), the chair of the House immigration subcommittee, is seeking to add 550,000 green cards for foreign workers next year.<\/p>\n<p>The Judiciary Committee may vote this week on HR 5882 to give hundreds of thousands more American jobs to foreign workers. The bill is packaged as a means of &#8220;recapturing&#8221; unused visas from previous years, but, in fact, unused visas already roll over to the following year. The legislation contrives a formula to double-count the unused visas by adding them to multiple categories to effect a huge total increase.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To learn more and to take action, <a href=\"http:\/\/capwiz.com\/caps\/issues\/alert\/?alertid=11909301\">click here.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CAPS: Alert! House Leadership to Give 550,000 Jobs to Foreign Workers! Even though the official unemployment rate climbed to its highest level in the last five years, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), the chair of the House immigration subcommittee, is seeking to add 550,000 green cards for foreign workers next year. The Judiciary Committee may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}