Senator Scott Brown says Irish E3 immigrant visa bill is “about to pop”

Is there any Nation on this planet more deserving to come to this Country than the Irish. our ancesters help to build this great Country.one Nation under God.

wonder if this'll make employers a bit more willing to hire people?over 20 years as a exp. printer 100's of jobs on offer but when you say can you sponser me line goes dead even though jobs are advertised the next day,grrrrrrrr maybe wrong ethnic background?????????

Pardon the length of the prior comment, but it's always good to have a knowledge of an entire bill or two bills to understand and support (or oppose) it.

The legislatiive summary of the Senate Bill 1983 indicates it allows more Chinese and Indian immigrants to be hired. While it is now called "Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act of 2011", I do not see any skill or education requirement at all for these beneficiaries. It also increases family based immigrants, probably to favor Hispanics but hopefully anyone can qualify. It includes Irish as qualifying for E3 visas, which relates to "specialty occupation services" but that's it. This standard sounds high faluting but apparently is defined as a job requiring a college degree or enough work experience in that field to otherwise qualify you for the job. The importance of Brown's SB 2005 is that it ties into the former Irish section but authorizes up to 10,500 E-3 visas per year. While much of 1983 is undecipherable to a non-expert like me and amends prior convoluted laws, it appears to me the Chinese and Indians get more visas without any requirements, with vague language (usually this is to hide the number). If 2005 is 'grafted' into 1983, the Irish actually have to meet higher standards than the Indians and Chinese and have a known (perhaps smaller) authorized number. In short, the 1983 bill continues a strong U.S. Government bias in favor of darker skinned people that has existed for several decades with a bone to the Irish. It is only with the numbers from SB 2005 that any of this will really help Irish nationals. See Thomas.loc.gov for bill summaries.

I guess it's still of no benefit to the mass of undocumented!

Not a chance. I'd say this visa bill is “about to poop”.

It's a pity this guy was not running against John Kerry in November as a vote for him would be a no brainer....