During an investigation of these allegations. I discovered that it is perfectly legal for a company to do this. The Immigration and Nationality Act permits the issuance of temporary visas for certain foreign persons who plan to work as crewmembers on an American vessel or aircraft which either departs from c r arrives at a foreign country. that is. one of the landings is in the United States and other must be in a foreign country. These are celled nonimmigrant crew visas. The act also allows the it.suance of temporary visas for other types of nonimmigrant aliens for purposes of perorming temporary labor in this countryfor e (ample. temporary farmworkers. However. regulations prohibit the issuance of these visas during strikes to all other temporary workersthose nonimmigrant aliens who come temporarily to the United States to perform temporary services or labor other than as crewmembers. There is no such prohibition against the issuance of nonimmigrant alien crewmember visas during strikes of American crewmembers. This a a gap in the law. and in my opinion an unintentional one. permitting unfair competition against American workers which must be closed. I feel very strongly that aliens should not be allowed into this country to hurt American employees by working as strikebreakers. The Government should certainly not help them do so by issuing special visas. My amendment will close this gap in the law. The amendment. which is entitled "Denial of Crew Member Nonimmigrant Visas in Cases of Strikes." simply states that an alien may not be admitted to the United States as an alien crewman "for the purpose of performing service on board a vessel or aircraft at a time when there is a strike in the bargaining unit of the employer in which the alien intends to perform such service." To repeat. this will make the law regarding the issuance of temporary nonimmigrant visas to alien crewmembers consistent with the prohibition against issuing visas to other categories of temporary alien workers. It is an important and necessary amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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