I have also today filed an amendment on another part of the bill. The second amendment is aimed at addiessing a different issue related to the Y2 temporary worker program. Now. the Y2 program is a temporary worker programn. and it revises and incorporates the existing H2B seasonal nonagricultural program. As I mentioned earlier. this amendment would address the problem of people whom we bring into the country for up to 10 months. allow them to work here. whether they are working at resorts or working at some kind of seasonal employment. nonagricultural seasonal employment. and then we require them to go home for 2 months. Then they can do that each year. As Senators have discussed this program. and as it has been discussed in the press. its been stated that the underlying substitute amendment provides for an annual allocation of visas from 100.000 initially to up to 200.000 each year. depending upon the market demand. I have a chart I can pot up that I think will describe what the Y2 guest worker programif. in fact. the 15 percent increase is triggered in the years. the first 4 years of the program. and how you get from 100.000 up to 200.000. Well. that is the description.
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