Speech #1090137775

This effort to sunset the guest worker program is just a rehash of his effort to eliminate the guest worker program. We went into great detail on thatextensive debate. And the evidence was laid out from the Judiciary Committee hearings that there is a minimal impact upon the American worker by the immigrants. It is not true that all of the jobs taken by immigrants would not be handled by American workers. but the impact in terms of lost American jobs is minimal. On the issue of the impact on salaries. again the economists testified in the Judiciary Committee hearings that that impact was minimal. We went into all of that in debate on the earlier amendment. when the Senator sought to eliminate the guest worker program.