opposed by FAIR<\/a> for different reasons), which passed the House of Representative on Friday, calls for converting the 55,000 green cards currently allocated each year through the so-called Visa Lottery into visas for foreign students who earn post-graduate degrees from U.S. universities in STEM fields. One might think that support for such legislation by a group such as CEI would be a no-brainer. But that was not the case. CEI came out against the bill because \u201cit seeks to use the illusion of immigration reform to decrease immigration.\u201d Their concern is that \u201cthere are not enough foreign-born STEM graduates to fill demand for this new visa,\u201d which might result in (gasp!) a slight reduction in overall immigration levels. In addition, CEI objects to a provision that would create a public database of companies that hire immigrant workers instead of Americans.<\/p>\nIn the final analysis, groups like CEI do not seek to make America more competitive by enhancing innovation and productivity, but rather by driving down the cost of labor \u2013 and immigration is nothing more than a means to that end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Unlike the ethnic lobbies, whose campaign for amnesty and open immigration is entirely centered on building political power bases, the business and \u201cfree market\u201d lobbies have couched their arguments for mass immigration in terms of enlightened national self-interest. This has been particularly true for those interest groups seeking near unrestricted admission of workers with degrees<\/p>\n
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