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H.R. 1843, The Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 2007 (18 comments ↓)
- This item is from the 110th Congress (2007-2008) and is no longer current. Comments, voting, and wiki editing have been disabled, and the cost/savings estimate has been frozen.
H.R. 1843 would extend the termination date for the exemption of returning workers from the numerical limitations for temporary workers.
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Ellen
April 10, 2007, 9:47am (report abuse)This bill allows LEGAL immigrants to fill temporary seasonal jobs only after no Americans can be found to fill them.
Help stop ILLEGAL immigration by supporting this bill.
David Ellis, President Renewable Forestry Ser.
July 10, 2007, 11:38am (report abuse)We were the 1st to open the H2B door back in 1996. The law is manator if small business America is to stay in business. A better visa plan will include a H2B-US1 visa for the est. 10 million undoc currently here. Mandate that within 5 years they leave and reenter through a greatly expanded H2B program. Do the math I did 10 million H2B workers at $8/hr will contribute 25+billion to the Social Security Trust Fund. We need a better vias program now!
david@renewforest.com
Dina Fisher, HR
October 30, 2007, 10:44am (report abuse)The H2B visa program is not only critical to our ECONOMY to have the worker base to support small and seasonal (tourist) businesses. The labor base protects the higher-paying U.S. jobs. Additionally, the H2B LEGAL worker program is critical to our SECURITY - we need to know who is here, and where they are! The LEGAL workers are all approved by the Dept. of Homeland Security.
Wake up America! This is not an ILLEGAL immigration issue, it is the critical step to FIXING the ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION! Without a legal foreign workforce, U.S. citizens will need to get used to alot less services and service industries. Support this legislation now, before it's too late!
Keith
November 13, 2007, 4:54pm (report abuse)If the H-2b Returning Worker bill is not passed, there will be even more illegal workers brought in to meet the needs.
Pablo Bedorrou
November 19, 2007, 10:59am (report abuse)I´m a Pro snowboarder instructor,I`had teaching 3 winter sassons in U.S.A. and 1 in Europe,this year I got no job, because this bill is not aceptted soon. so please work it on and let me go there work for the seasson and come back to Argentina again like I allways do
Maurice Dowell
December 3, 2007, 10:45am (report abuse)It is imperative that we pass this bill. The trickle down effect of the business loss will effect us all! TIME IS RUNNING OUT.
Sandra - New Orleans
January 7, 2008, 1:09pm (report abuse)There is not one good reason NOT to pass this bill. I feel it is got caught up in all the Anti-Immigration propoganda being thrown around lately by people who do not understand what the H-2B Program does for the economy of this country - without this bill many small seasonal U. S. businesses will go under, we need these workers to fill our temporary needs where U.S. workers are not available. This country needs this bill to PASS, immediately before it is too late for many small U. S. businesses.
janet ritchey
February 25, 2008, 7:47pm (report abuse)We have employed H2-b visa workers in our thoroughbred race horse business for the last 12yrs. We need the workers,they need the work, they send home the money, which in turn improves their economy to become consumers of US exports. No criminal records, pay taxes, fingerprinted, documented and return to their homeland and families. What's the problem?? Holding employers more accountable should solve the illegal immigration problem, not punishing employers and workers who try to do everything legally.
Nancy Adams, Human Resources
March 5, 2008, 6:14pm (report abuse)Our resort has been utilizing the H2B program for 8 years. The program allows my year round staff the priviledge of working year round rather than having to be laid off in the winter as in the years before the program. People think that bringing the workers weakens America's workforce - for us it lowered our turnover ratio by 39% because I do not have to double work my year round staff only to lay them off when the holidays come around. That was one reason that our jobs do not attract American workers. These people pay taxes - have medical insurance through their government - even pay social security taxes of which they will never see a dime. --- Everything has been handled legally down to the last letter. Please pass the returning worker bill so that they can work and we can continue to provide a high level of service to our guests which brings more jobs & revenue into our community.
MARY
March 13, 2008, 11:45am (report abuse)WE DESPERATELY NEED PASSAGE OF THIS BILL. WITHOUT TEMPORARY WORKERS, MANY SMALL BUSINESSES WILL BE CLOSING THEIR DOORS. THIS IS AN ECONOMIC ISSUE - NOT IMMIGRATION. LOCAL WORKERS ARE JUST NOT AVAILABLE,
jen
March 25, 2008, 6:44pm (report abuse)we need these workers they provide high quality services to our guest spend back most of their money in food and clothing buying gift to take back home for kids family so they help the economy too pay taxes
cyndi lee
April 17, 2008, 12:15pm (report abuse)There is a very simple solution to worker shortages that has always worked -- higher wages. American workers will gladly do the work if they receive decent pay. It's call the Law of Supply and Demand. This is just like any other immigration bill -- unscrupulous employers want this government action to provide low-cost workers to drive down wages.
faith
April 23, 2008, 8:26pm (report abuse)I think this programme is wonderful this has helped my family and friends to come to america and worked a honest living i dont see why this bill cant be approved
rosemary- Jamaica
April 29, 2008, 9:51am (report abuse)I have been working through this program for ten years. This not only affect American, do you know that most of us don't have a job when we go back home for the four or five month that we are back in our country? We pay taxes in your country without been able to benefit in the long run, we only want to know that we can feed our family.Don't want until October release the cap now, we need your help. Help us while we will in turn help your economy.
JoyceK
May 18, 2008, 9:09am (report abuse)I hear so much rhetoric about approving of immigrants if they enter the country legally; as of now, there is no way for the H2B workers to do that. What does that say about politicians talking out of both sides of their mouths??? Being an election year shows an elected official's backbone. Let's get this legislation passed and be fair about the immigration process.
David Ellis
May 31, 2008, 10:20pm (report abuse)Please read "They Come to Work" you can google H2B-US1 visa and it will come up or go to our www.renewforest.com and click on the Legislative update link. With gasoline at $2.80 per gallon in Mexico and diesel at $2.40 I think we need to get real serious about our overall relationship with Mexico. We can balance each others weak spots. They have hard working people, oil, and minerals, they lack technology, financial services, and resource management.
A better visa and non-immigrate program is a start.
Citizen
July 8, 2008, 12:01am (report abuse)What's UNREASONABLE about these visa programs that benefit some businesses& workers is that liabilities are borne by U.S. taxpayers via higher taxes & reduced resources overall (taxpayers "pay" for the privilege these "small businesses" enjoy). What just may be "benefit" for some poses increased liabilities for the US overall. The ONLY "guest worker program" that actually WORKS is one in which no child or chain-related family member ever gets U.S. citizenship (nor does the "worker"), is housed, fed and medically provided for by their employer (not the U.S. taxpayers) & who goes home after contract work. Right now, "guest workers" arrive, don't leave, they bring their families who then don't leave, bear many children intentionally for purposes of gaining anchors in the U.S., etc. Employers benefit because they're paying substandard wages that U.S. taxpayers can't afford to accept AND taxpayers aren't reaping the benefits of a cash-income without taxation.
Small Business Owner
October 7, 2008, 9:56am (report abuse)Does It Suprise You That We Can't Get This Passed? We Can't Manage To Pass Legislation To Save Our Banking Systems Because Of Election Posturing. Politicians Are To Worried About Themselves To See The Real Issuses. Our Economy Depends On It As We Shall See If It Doesn't Pass. If You Are Running A Legal H2B Operation And Your People Are Returning, And You Are Paying The Fee For Advertising, Legal And Other Costs You Are Doing All You Can To Do The Right Thing. We Will See A Massive Loss Of Revenue As Businesses Fold And Tax Income Is Lost, Not To Mention The Dollars Brought In By Workers Paying For Gas, Food, And Rent.