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Anti immigrant group mobilises to prevent Irish visa bill
Anti immigrant group mobilises to prevent Irish visa bill
| Published: | 13 Feb at 6 PM |
The anti-immigrant group Numbers USA has mobilised to prevent the Irish E3 visa bill being passed through the senate, according to the Irish Central.
The organisation sent an email to its members, of which there are in excess of one million, targeting Ireland’s visa bill. Their move came after both the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe revealed that Senator Scott Brown had said he was close to passing the Irish visa bill through the senate.
The bill would enable as many as 10,500 non-immigrant visas from Ireland per year. It is similar to the legislation which allows similar numbers of Australian visas. Numbers USA is among the US’s biggest anti-immigrant groups and has more than one million members.
The email they sent is reported to have said that they don’t support bills which increase the number of foreign workers, particularly those which give preference to one nationality above another, pointing out that that’s what Senator Brown’s E3 visa bill does. It encouraged members to oppose it by writing to their senators.
The email went on to state that the US isn’t forecast to reach full employment for several years, insisting that they need more jobs not extra workers, even though Senator Brown’s bill would raise legal immigration by 10,500 visas each year. It finished by stating that Senator Brown’s bill is an example of how the US’s immigration system rarely takes labour market situations into account.
The organisation sent an email to its members, of which there are in excess of one million, targeting Ireland’s visa bill. Their move came after both the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe revealed that Senator Scott Brown had said he was close to passing the Irish visa bill through the senate.
The bill would enable as many as 10,500 non-immigrant visas from Ireland per year. It is similar to the legislation which allows similar numbers of Australian visas. Numbers USA is among the US’s biggest anti-immigrant groups and has more than one million members.
The email they sent is reported to have said that they don’t support bills which increase the number of foreign workers, particularly those which give preference to one nationality above another, pointing out that that’s what Senator Brown’s E3 visa bill does. It encouraged members to oppose it by writing to their senators.
The email went on to state that the US isn’t forecast to reach full employment for several years, insisting that they need more jobs not extra workers, even though Senator Brown’s bill would raise legal immigration by 10,500 visas each year. It finished by stating that Senator Brown’s bill is an example of how the US’s immigration system rarely takes labour market situations into account.
