The future of dreamers as Congress Considers a fix to the deferred action for childhood arrivals program. Then representative paul gosar discusses immigration policy and how it could impact a possible government shutdown. Host members of a congressional delegation from puerto rico plan to present credentials to the house and senate today in an attempt to be recognize, which would give them Voting Rights. It is reported to be a larger effort to have the territory be recognized as a state. This is the washington journal. You are watching a threehour program today. The president met with house and Senate Leaders yesterday to work on a plan to keep dreamers, immigrants coming into the country, he gave them until march to hammer out a plan and a california judge has declared that the program make up the dreamers from being deported must remain in place for now. Our first hour devoted to your thoughts on what should be done with the dreamers. If you think the country should let them stay in
If you live in the eastern or central time zones, call us at 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain or pacific time zone, 202 7488001. You can also send us your thoughts on twitter. You can leave a comment on our facebook page. This fight between president elect donald trump and the labor unions started after what appeared to be a victory last week. He had negotiated a deal with a factory in indiana to keep jobs from moving to mexico. That deal became controversial after these comments from a union leader in indiana. Here is the story in the cannotgton. washington post. The story says that chuck jones, the president of united fuel workers, which represents carrier employees have felt optimistic when donald trump announced he had reached a deal until thee 1100 jobs union leader heard that only 730 of the projected jobs wednesday and 550 Union Members would lose their livelihoods after all. Jones hoped donald trump would explain himself. When he got up there, and for whatever reason he
Washington journal continues. Host ted hesson is with labor reporter for that organization. We are talking about temporary visas and a review of that program. Can you tell us what a temporary visa is . Guest it gives a Foreign Worker permission to come to the u. S. Or a Company Permission to bring that Foreign Worker to the u. S. For a period of time. Geared towardss high skilled workers, people stem fields,en in science, technology, engineering, and math. Host how many of those people can come in yearly . Guest in this category, it is 85,000 the year, with 65,000 of what they call general visas and 20,000 reserved for people with masters degrees. Host walk through the process of how to get a visa. Need to company will petition on behalf of that worker. In the case of the h1b, they have to submit an application and explains why they need to bring this worker abroad and also give documentation that they have actually sought a u. S. Worker v4 they go and look for a temporary worker from
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON(Reuters) - A U.S. civil rights group sued the Biden administration over a new policy that bars most migrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally from claiming asylum, threatening to derail the far-reaching enfo.
A U.S. civil rights group sued the Biden administration over a new policy that bars most migrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally from claiming asylum, threatening to derail the. -June 12, 2024 at 05:27 pm EDT
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