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Brown’s Bill on Irish Work Permits Encounters Intraparty Resistance
By David Harrison, CQ Staff
Sen. Scott P. Brown last week thought he was close to a legislative
breakthrough that would help him in his tough re-election campaign in
Massachusetts. Then came the letdown.
Brown’s idea — creating 10,500 new work permits each year for people from
Ireland — was “about to pop,” the first-term Republican told the Boston
Herald on Feb. 8, thus raising expectations among his state’s sizeable
Irish-American community.
But Brown’s legislation (S 2005) has run into opposition from others in his
party — particularly Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa — and now appears
to be dead in the water and looking for a tow.
“I’m trying to get some type of closure so we can move forward in some way
, shape or form,” Brown said Feb. 9.
The measure’s foundering is a significant setback for Brown, and it
suggests that many Senate Republicans’ commitment to a tough immigration
policy trumps their desire to help one of their own win an election — even
in a year when the GOP believes it has a chance to regain control of the
Senate.
The Irish-American community in Massachusetts is frustrated. “As registered
voters, to back Brown in his coming election for the Senate, we would need
to have him deliver on this, not just propose it,” said Francis J.
Gallagher, an Irish-American advocate from Massachusetts.
Brown’s best hope now is a broader immigration bill (S 1983) sponsored by
the third-ranking Senate Democrat, New York’s Charles E. Schumer, that
would remove country-by-country caps on employment visas. The current system
assigns each country a certain number of visas, with the result that
applicants from high-demand countries, including China and India, must wait
decades.
A Republican-sponsored bill (HR 3012) removing country caps breezed through
the House, 389-15, in November but has been held up by Grassley, who wants
protections for American workers.
Aides to Grassley and Schumer have been talking, and Grassley has also been
working with Brown to see whether they can find common ground on Irish visa
language, according to a Republican aide.
Schumer is a long-time immigration advocate and has worked with the Irish
community to help increase legal immigration from Ireland. His bill would
allow Irish immigrants living in the United States illegally to apply for a
visa, but Republicans consider that amnesty. Brown’s bill does not include
such a provision.
Schumer also proposes to create 10,500 new work visas a year for Irish
people with a high school diploma or two years of work experience. The visas
would be renewable indefinitely.
Anti-immigration groups say they have no strong feelings about the House-
passed legislation because it would not increase the overall number of work
authorizations. But they are lobbying against the Irish visas.
“We don’t need additional low-skilled workers in this country,” said
Rosemary Jenks, director of government relations for Numbers USA, which
supports tighter immigration restrictions. “There is no justification
whatsoever for creating a program specifically designed to benefit one
nationality.”
Even if Brown gets his Irish visa language through the Senate, its prospects
will be uncertain in the House. Republicans there are cool to loosening
immigration policy.
Gallagher said he hopes Congress will be spurred to act by the approach of
St. Patrick’s Day. The legislation’s demise, he warned, “would be
detrimental to Scott Brown’s re-election.”
Jenks said the senator may have overpromised. “It seems that Brown got a
little ahead of himself,” she said.
Brown’s Bill on Irish Work Permits Encounters Intraparty Resistance
By David Harrison, CQ Staff
Sen. Scott P. Brown last week thought he was close to a legislative
breakthrough that would help him in his tough re-election campaign in
Massachusetts. Then came the letdown.
Brown’s idea — creating 10,500 new work permits each year for people from
Ireland — was “about to pop,” the first-term Republican told the Boston
Herald on Feb. 8, thus raising expectations among his state’s sizeable
Irish-American community.
But Brown’s legislation (S 2005) has run into opposition from others in his
party — particularly Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa — and now appears
to be dead in the water and looking for a tow.
“I’m trying to get some type of closure so we can move forward in some way
, shape or form,” Brown said Feb. 9.
The measure’s foundering is a significant setback for Brown, and it
suggests that many Senate Republicans’ commitment to a tough immigration
policy trumps their desire to help one of their own win an election — even
in a year when the GOP believes it has a chance to regain control of the
Senate.
The Irish-American community in Massachusetts is frustrated. “As registered
voters, to back Brown in his coming election for the Senate, we would need
to have him deliver on this, not just propose it,” said Francis J.
Gallagher, an Irish-American advocate from Massachusetts.
Brown’s best hope now is a broader immigration bill (S 1983) sponsored by
the third-ranking Senate Democrat, New York’s Charles E. Schumer, that
would remove country-by-country caps on employment visas. The current system
assigns each country a certain number of visas, with the result that
applicants from high-demand countries, including China and India, must wait
decades.
A Republican-sponsored bill (HR 3012) removing country caps breezed through
the House, 389-15, in November but has been held up by Grassley, who wants
protections for American workers.
Aides to Grassley and Schumer have been talking, and Grassley has also been
working with Brown to see whether they can find common ground on Irish visa
language, according to a Republican aide.
Schumer is a long-time immigration advocate and has worked with the Irish
community to help increase legal immigration from Ireland. His bill would
allow Irish immigrants living in the United States illegally to apply for a
visa, but Republicans consider that amnesty. Brown’s bill does not include
such a provision.
Schumer also proposes to create 10,500 new work visas a year for Irish
people with a high school diploma or two years of work experience. The visas
would be renewable indefinitely.
Anti-immigration groups say they have no strong feelings about the House-
passed legislation because it would not increase the overall number of work
authorizations. But they are lobbying against the Irish visas.
“We don’t need additional low-skilled workers in this country,” said
Rosemary Jenks, director of government relations for Numbers USA, which
supports tighter immigration restrictions. “There is no justification
whatsoever for creating a program specifically designed to benefit one
nationality.”
Even if Brown gets his Irish visa language through the Senate, its prospects
will be uncertain in the House. Republicans there are cool to loosening
immigration policy.
Gallagher said he hopes Congress will be spurred to act by the approach of
St. Patrick’s Day. The legislation’s demise, he warned, “would be
detrimental to Scott Brown’s re-election.”
Jenks said the senator may have overpromised. “It seems that Brown got a
little ahead of himself,” she said.
