CIR is finished

To just clear up a few things:

I have never liked the idea of the CIR from the very beginning. For 12 million people to get amnesty and for everyone to look the other way is just not right. And the issue that all of you need to pay for your immigration fees for yourself as well as family members and they get it paid for by US taxpayers is just not right.

If they have been in the US for the past 20 years, that is one thing. But for those that came here illegally last December and to be included in this is just not right either.

There are many of you that have waited years to do the correct and legal thing. Why should someone that snuck in illegally be entitled to everything that most have to wait five years to get? Makes no sense at all. And this is why it did not pass.

I have spent years here helping foreign nurses, and I do not like to see anyone taken advantage of. You have trusted me in the past to give you honest opinions on things, and I have done just that. And I have stated all along that the CIR was not a good thing, and it was not. Also the idea of inlimited visas for nurses for ten years is also not going to get thru anything. If you were already in the US, you would see that it is not a plausible thing to do.

Democrats are not against nurse immigration at all. We are just against what the CIR was about. And it was not about nurses at all. It was about illegal aliens getting amnesty, and not having to pay for their immigration fees like you are having to do.

I still think that there will be something for nurses this year, but definitely not unlimited visas as many of you want. If you were working in the US, you would see that is not what should be.

The July Bulletin is the one that has made things current but only for a short time, they just have 140,000 visas that are being recapped. And it is an open window since the visa fees are going up significantly the end of July. Bulletins always come out the middle of the month preceding.

I have never liked the CIR from the beginning and have never thought that nurses should be included in it. You are not illegal aliens and you are not under the guest worker program that were the main focuses of that program. You want something like the Schedule A only.