JOIN CONGRESSMAN WU AT A TOWN MEETING IN AUGUST

Representative Wu announces the following schedule of town meetings in his district.  Please attend if you can, and ask questions about immigration matters. 

Rep. Wu has a grade of D- on immigration issues as rated by Americans for Better Immigration .

You can see his voting record on important immigration bills on the NumbersUSA website:

http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?DistSend=OR&VIPID=670

McMinnville

Tuesday, August 14, 5:30pm - 6:30pm

McMinnville Community Center

600 NE Evans Street

Portland

Thursday, August 16, 5:00pm - 6:00pm

St. Luke Lutheran Church

6835 SW 46th Avenue

Tigard

Thursday, August 16, 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Tigard City Hall, Town Hall Room

13125 SW Hall Blvd

Rainier

Saturday, August 18, 9:00am - 10:00am

Rainier City Hall, Council Chambers

106 West B Street

Astoria

Saturday, August 18, 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Columbia River Maritime Museum

1792 Marine Drive

Hillsboro

Saturday, August 18, 5:-000pm - 6:00pm

Hillsboro Civic Center, Auditorium

150 East Main Street

SOME BACKGROUND ON REP. WU’S VOTING HISTORY:

In December 2005 Rep. Wu voted against H.R. 4437, the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005. H.R. 4437, as amended and passed, included major improvements in interior enforcement and border security, as well as a reduction in legal immigration numbers. Among its most significant provisions were: a requirement that all businesses must use an electronic system to check if all new hires have the legal right to work in the country; additional security fencing along the Mexican border; a mandate that the federal government cooperate with local authorities in picking up all illegal aliens they detain; and elimination of the visa lottery program that each year awards 50,000 green cards to randomly selected winners. H.R. 4437, referred to informally as the Sensenbrenner bill, passed by a vote of 2 39 to 182, but did not become law because of the Senate’s pursuit of the so-called Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill.

In 2007, Rep. Wu is a cosponsor of H.R. 1758 to increase the number of H-1B visas annually by authorizing DHS to issue up to 65,000 additional H-1B “high skill worker” visas per year (exempt from the extant 65,000-per-year cap) – fiscal years 2008 through 2012 – to aliens who meet H-1B admission requirements and who possess post-graduate degrees.  

There has been widespread abuse of the H-1B visa program to the disadvantage of U.S. citizens in computer fields.  See these informative Issue Briefs from FAIR on the harmful effects of the H-1B visa program:

1. H-1B Visas: Harming American Workers - H-1B skilled worker visas have no protections for job opportunities or wages of American workers.

2. Why the IT Industry Doesn't Need More H-1B Workers - Importing high-tech workers discourages Americans from pursuing those jobs.

3. Lack of Employment Visas Shows Myth of High-Tech Labor Shortage -  Laid-off American workers and replaced foreign workers belie claims of a high-tech worker shortage.

To read these briefs, visit FAIR ’s homepage at http://www.fairus.org.  On the left menu, under Immigration issue centers, click Select an Immigration issue, then select Non-Immigrant Visas.