Speech #1140037146

TISA. will be modeled on the General Agreement on Trade in Services. GATS. This provides insight into how TISA will affect U.S. immigration procedures. When the United States became a member of the WTO in 1994. it signed on to the GATS and committed to issue certain numbers of work visas each year. immigration visas. Congresss ability to control the U.S. temporary entry programs has therefore been curtailed. as it would open up the United States to foreign lawsuits in an international tribunal. In other words. they made an agreement on immigration visas under work ideas as part of GATS in the WTO. and it violates and complicates our ability to enforce American immigration law. But if we enforce the law the way it is written. then we will get disciplined by the foreign body. So when we sign up to a foreign body. we agree to rules. They say we have to do this. So it is not being enforced. So who wrote the law for the United States of America with regard to immigration? Under the Constitution. it is Congress. but in reality. once you join an international union. they have certain powers to enforce their will over the elected representatives. the accountable representatives of the people of the United States. and some other group does it. TISAthis services agreementwill. as the European Union suggests. re quire the United States to make additional legislative commitments on a much larger scale.