Business, Industry Groups Join Immigration Debate
- April 11, 2007 |
- evans
A coalition of business and industry groups are stepping up their roles to shape the next round of debate on immigration reform, in hopes to convince Congress to rework outdated visa programs and create a useful system to help businesses identify legal workers. But the new strategy includes some unlikely allies industry associations are aligning with immigration advocates. And the groups are united by a single goal: to ensure that new legislation includes a way for immigrants to work legally. The debate has national security and language aspects to it, but primarily for business this is a workforce issue and ensuring that we have enough workers to grow, said John Gay,… Read More