After months of negotiations, a bipartisan group of senators unveiled sweeping landmark legislation, proposing substantial changes to the country’s immigration laws.
The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013, filed April 16, 2013, lays out a 13-year path to citizenship for most of the 11 million people living in the United States illegally, allocates billions of dollars to be spent on border security, creates new legal guest worker programs for low-income jobs and farm labor, mandates the use of E-Verify for most companies hiring new workers and expands overall immigration to the U.S. by 50 percent in the next 10 years.
The bill proposes ways to clears up green card backlogs, raises the cap for H-1B workers and creates a new “W-visa” program for lower-skilled workers.
The bill was crafted by four Democratic senators: Charles Schumer of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Michael Bennet of Colorado; and Republicans John McCain of Arizona, Jeff Flake of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida.
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