Fear of Sharia? Oh, Please.
Posted by Jim Harper
One of the dumbest bills I’ve seen in a while was introduced in Congress this week. H.R. 6975 would require aliens to attest that they will not advocate installing a Sharia law system in the United States as a condition of their admission to our country.
First, there’s the simple bureaucratic nonsense of administering this [...]
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Immigrant Bashing? Or Kind of a Funny Joke?
Posted by Jim Harper
Debate is running fast and furious on H.R. 5924, The Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act. The bill would increase the number of nurses and physical therapists that are allowed to immigrate into the country.
The bill apparently responds to a shortage of nurses in the country, but there are many commenters who don’t trust foreign nurses, [...]
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Global Nurse Shortage Facts
Posted by Jim Harper
H.R. 5924, The Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act, is one of our often-visited and much-commented-upon bills. Its intent is to “provide relief for the shortage of nurses in the United States.” It would take various steps toward that end, including providing more visas to nurses seeking to enter the United States from abroad [...]
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Helping the ‘Terps
Posted by Jim Harper
I’ve been thinking for months about starting this blog, but one of the things that really got me moving was a recent comment on a bill that increased the number of Iraqi and Afghani translators and interpreters allowed into the United States. Our service members call them “‘terps” for short.
Whether you’re good, bad, or [...]
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