Peterson/Perryvisas Aff/Neg

ADI 20101

Peterson/PerryVisas Aff/Neg

Table of Contents

**Advantage Ev**

Protectionism Tanks Economy

Illegal Employment Results in Atrocities

Hard Power Bad

Families Have Right to Unite

**Temp Workers Aff Ev**

H-2A Solve Displacement

H-1Bs Attracts Intelligence

High Skilled Visas Solve Technology/Jobs

A2: H-1B Job Displacement

Temp Visas Solve

***Temp Workers Neg***

Temp Visas Cause Abuse

Temp Visas Fail - Athletes

Temp Visas Cause Unemployment

**Family Visas Aff**

Immigration Reform Benefits GL Communities

A2: K-1 Visa Waiting Times

A2: V-Visa Wait Times

CSPA Protects Children

A2: Immigration Flood

Types of Family Visas are Unlimited/Limited

Remittance Hurts US Econ

**Family Visas Neg**

K-3 Visas Fail

K-3 Visas Trade-Off

Family Visas Fail – Wait Time

Visas Fail – Unfair Laws

Visas Impede on Traditions

Family Visas Cause Illegal Immigration

**T-Visas Aff/Neg**

Uncapping T-Visas Solves

T-Visas Fail – Paranoia

**Work Immigrant Visas Good**

Solves Wages

Solves Wages Extension

Solves Innovation

Solves Economy

**Work Immigrant Visas Bad**

Backlog kills solvency

No Economic Solvency

Decreases Wages

**Misc**

Health Care Solves Econ

Health Care Solves Econ Ext

Backlog Causes Illegal Immigration

**Advantage Ev**

Protectionism Tanks Economy

Protectionism bad, causes closed economy and stagnation

Friedman ‘9

(internationally renowned author, reporter, and columnist—the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes and the author of five bestselling books February 11, 2009 OP-ED COLUMNIST The Open-Door Bailout By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Bangalore, India) HRL

“If you do this, it will be one of the best things for India and one of the worst for Americans, [because] Indians will be forced to innovate at home,” said Subhash B. Dhar, a member of the executive council that runs Infosys, the well-known Indian technology company that sends Indian workers to the U.S. to support a wide range of firms. “We protected our jobs for many years and look where it got us. Do you know that for an Indian company, it is still easier to do business with a company in the U.S. than it is to do business today with another Indian state?” Each Indian state tries to protect its little economy with its own rules. America should not be trying to copy that. “Your attitude,” said Dhar, should be “ ‘whoever can make us competitive and dominant, let’s bring them in.’ ” If there is one thing we know for absolute certain, it’s this: Protectionism did not cause the Great Depression, but it sure helped to make it “Great.” From 1929 to 1934, world trade plunged by more than 60 percent — and we were all worse off.

Illegal Employment Results in Atrocities

Illegal employment leads to atrocities

Griffith ‘9

(Kati L. Griffith CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ILR SCHOOL, Ithaca, New York Assistant Professor of Employment and Labor Law. UNITED STATES: U.S. MIGRANT WORKER LAW: THE INTERSTICES OF IMMIGRATION LAW AND LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal
Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal Fall, 2009 31 Comp. Lab. L. & Pol'y J. 125) HRL

The work visa program for temporary foreign workers in the United States is "not only the longest-running, but also the largest such program in the world." n1 Close to one million foreign workers receive work visas each year for both skilled and unskilled temporary jobs in the United States. n2 Nevertheless, the number of foreign workers laboring in the United states that do not have the legal documentation necessary to work in the United States ("undocumented migrant workers") dwarfs the number of temporary foreign workers that receive visas to work in the United States ("documented migrant workers"). As of 2008, there were an estimated 8.3 million, mostly low-wage and low-skilled, undocumented migrant workers in the U.S. labor force. n3 Some estimates suggest that the number of undocumented migrant workers in the United States may be even higher. n4 Thus, when discussing "migrant worker law," the laws that affect undocumented migrant workers deserve special attention in the U.S. context.[*126] Migrant workers, both documented and undocumented, are currently the subject of a significant amount of debate in the United State. Some of the concern centers on the treatment of low-wage migrant workers in low-skill occupations. A host of new studies and reports graphically depict how low-wage migrant workers too often work in unsafe conditions and suffer severe mistreatment from their employers. n5 For example, a New York Times article revealed a host of alleged labor abuses that came to light in the aftermath of a large-scale immigration raid at a meatpacking company in May 2008.The immigration raid resulted in the arrest of hundreds of workers suspected of using fraudulent documents to obtain employment. n6A search warrant issued before the immigration raid detailed one occasion when "a floor supervisor had blindfolded an immigrant [worker] with duct tape" and "then took one of the meat hooksand hit the [worker] with it." n7While the incident reportedly did not result in "serious injuries"it represented the tip of the iceberg of alleged labor and employment law violations. n8 Immigration agents also identified child workers, "some as young as 13." n9Thesechildrenreported that they were working "shiftsof twelve hours or morewielding razor-edged knivesand saws to slice freshly killed beef." n10Otheralleged labor and employment violations included complaints from migrant meatpackers of discrimination, sexualharassment, and wage and hour violations.n11

Hard Power Bad

Increasing military leadership is dangerous as a basis for policy. Not key to US global leadership.

Conry, ’97 (Barbara, Foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute, JS

"Global leadership" has gained increasing prominence as a guiding principle for American foreign policy. Yet the concept itself remains largely unexamined. Although "leadership" sounds benign, today's proponents of global leadership envision a role for the United States that resembles that of a global hegemon--with the risks and costs hegemony entails. Global political and military leadership is inadequate, even dangerous, as a basis for policy. The vagueness of "leadership" allows policymakers to rationalize dramatically different initiatives and makes defining policy difficult. Taken to an extreme, global leadership implies U.S. interest in and responsibility for virtually anything, anywhere. Global leadership also entails immense costs and risks. Much of the $265 billion defense budget is spent to support U.S. aspirations to lead the world, not to defend the United States. There are also human costs. Moreover, it is an extremely risky policy that forces U.S. involvement in numerous situations unrelated to American national security. There are no concrete benefits that justify the costs and risks of U.S. global leadership. Advocates' claims that leadership enables Washington to persuade U.S. allies to assume costs the United States would otherwise bear alone and that failure on the part of the United States to lead would cause global chaos do not hold up under scrutiny. There are several alternatives to global leadership, including greater reliance on regional security organizations and the creation of spheres of influence or regional balance-of-power arrangements. The United States would then act as a balancer of last resort. Such a strategy would preserve U.S. security without the costs and risks of an unrealistic crusade to lead the world.

Increasing U.S. hard pwer bad. Increases anti-US ideology, destroys counties, decreases US economy

Messerli 9 (Joe. Balanced Politics Author. JS

It could increase an already growing anti-American sentiment around the world. We could make many wrong decisions (e.g. when we armed & financed Saddam Hussein). U.S. soldiers would be put in harm's way. Civilians would be killed on many of the missions. Much of a country could be destroyed in a liberation attempt. The financial cost of being a world policeman is extremely high. People from other countries have different cultures & values; thus, we must respect the rights of those citizens to determine their own government.

Families Have Right to Unite

Families have the right to unity, covered by international law.

Jastram 2003

(Katie Jastram, University of California, Berkeley, “Family Unity: The New Geography of Family Life” May 2003

A family's right to live together is protected by international human rights and humanitarian law. There is universal consensus that, as the fundamental unit of society, the family is entitled to respect, protection, assistance, and support. A right to family unity is inherent in recognizing the family as a group unit. The right to marry and found a family also includes the right to maintain a family life together.
The right to a shared family life draws additional support from the prohibition against arbitrary interference with the family. Finally, states have recognized that children have a right to live with their parents. Both the father and the mother, irrespective of their marital status, have common responsibilities as parents and share the right and responsibility to participate equally in the upbringing and development of their children.

Interest of dependents should be strongest reason families stay together.

Jastram 2003

(Katie Jastram, University of California, Berkeley, “Family Unity: The New Geography of Family Life” May 2003

Equally defining will be the efforts of families to reunite through migration, and the ways in which states will choose to respond. The rights on which family unity is based are often qualified with provisions for the state to limit the right under certain circumstances. It should be noted, however, that the most important, and sometimes only, qualifier is the imperative to act in the best interests of the child. The nature of the family relationship shapes the right to family unity, with minor dependent children and their parents having the strongest claim to remain together or to be reunited. Maintaining the unity of an intact family poses different issues than reconstituting a separated family. Finally, the immigration status of the various family members has an impact on how the right to family unity should be implemented.

US is founded on immigrant families and their unity.

Integrity Legal 2009

(Integrity Legal Law Firm, immigration law firm and blog, “The Current State of US Family Immigration” October 30, 2009

The United States of America is a nation founded by Immigrants and the descendants of Immigrants. US Family Immigration is one of the most important aspects of the American Immigration system as it helps bind multinational families to the United States of America. In a recent article in the Immigration Impact blog, issues correlating to US Family Immigration were discussed at length. Below are some of the ideas conveyed regarding the system of bringing families together in the USA: “The U.S. immigration system has always promoted family unity by awarding the majority of visas to the families of current U.S. residents, which ensures that close family members are not kept apart. The principle of family unity has long been a central tenet of our immigration laws and has contributed to the economic and social prosperity of our country and immigrant populations.”

**Temp Workers Aff Ev**

H-2A Solve Displacement

H-2A visas protect American workers from job displacement

Shaver ‘9

the DOL proposed a rule called "Temporary Agricultural Employment of H-2A Aliens in the U.S.," which was published in the Federal Register on September 4, 2009. n27In describing the need for new rule making, the DOL noted that "the policy underpinnings of the 2008 Final Rule, e.g. streamlining the H-2A regulatory process to defer many determinations of program compliance until after an Application has been fully adjudicated, do not provide an adequate level of [*100] protection for either U.S. or foreign workers." n28The Department, noting the INA's purpose of protecting U.S. workers even while enabling the importation of foreign workers, "believes that its statutory mandate justifies returning to the previous methodology as it better ensures U.S. workers are not adversely affected." n29 Under the new rule, employers are only to hire foreign workers if "there are demonstrably no available domestic workers for these jobs." n30To ensure American workers are given the first shot at these jobs, the new rule would require, for the first time, that these jobs be posted on an electronic job registry. n31 In addition, the new rule would require farmers to once again submit documentation to prove they tried to hire American workers first. n32 After the 2008 rule change, farmers were only required to attest to this effort, relying heavily on "post-adjudication integrity measures to review selected documentation from a percentage of employers to compensate for a lack of hands-on review." n33

H-1Bs Attracts Intelligence

An open and flexible economy is best: H-1B visas attract brain power.

Friedman ‘9

Leave it to a brainy Indian to come up with the cheapest and surest way to stimulate our economy: immigration.

“All you need to do is grant visas to two million Indians, Chinese and Koreans,” said Shekhar Gupta, editor of The Indian Express newspaper. “We will buy up all the subprime homes. We will work 18 hours a day to pay for them. We will immediately improve your savings rate — no Indian bank today has more than 2 percent nonperforming loans because not paying your mortgage is considered shameful here. And we will start new companies to create our own jobs and jobs for more Americans.”While his tongue was slightly in cheek, Gupta and many other Indian business people I spoke to this week were trying to make a point that sometimes non-Americans can make best: “Dear America, please remember how you got to be the wealthiest country in history. It wasn’t through protectionism, or state-owned banks or fearing free trade. No, the formula was very simple: build this really flexible, really open economy, tolerate creative destruction so dead capital is quickly redeployed to better ideas and companies, pour into it the most diverse, smart and energetic immigrants from every corner of the world and then stir and repeat, stir and repeat, stir and repeat, stir and repeat.”

While I think President Obama has been doing his best to keep the worst protectionist impulses in Congress out of his stimulus plan, the U.S. Senate unfortunately voted on Feb. 6 to restrict banks and other financial institutions that receive taxpayer bailout money from hiring high-skilled immigrants on temporary work permits known as H-1B visas.

Bad signal. In an age when attracting the first-round intellectual draft choices from around the world is the most important competitive advantage a knowledge economy can have, why would we add barriers against such brainpower — anywhere? That’s called “Old Europe.” That’s spelled: S-T-U-P-I-D.

High Skilled Visas Solve Technology/Jobs

Attracting smart people best way to create jobs and further technology

Friedman ‘9

We live in a technological age where every study shows that the more knowledge you have as a worker and the more knowledge workers you have as an economy, the faster your incomes will rise. Therefore, the centerpiece of our stimulus, the core driving principle, should be to stimulate everything that makes us smarter and attracts more smart people to our shores. That is the best way to create good jobs. According to research by Vivek Wadhwa, a senior research associate at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, more than half of Silicon Valley start-ups were founded by immigrants over the last decade. These immigrant-founded tech companies employed 450,000 workers and had sales of $52 billion in 2005, said Wadhwa in an essay published this week on BusinessWeek.com. He also cited a recent study by William R. Kerr of Harvard Business School and William F. Lincoln of the University of Michigan that “found that in periods when H-1B visa numbers went down, so did patent applications filed by immigrants [in the U.S.]. And when H-1B visa numbers went up, patent applications followed suit.” We don’t want to come out of this crisis with just inflation, a mountain of debt and more shovel-ready jobs. We want to — we have to — come out of it with a new Intel, Google, Microsoft and Apple. I would have loved to have seen the stimulus package include a government-funded venture capital bank to help finance all the start-ups that are clearly not starting up today — in the clean-energy space they’re dying like flies — because of a lack of liquidity from traditional lending sources. Newsweek had an essay this week that began: “Could Silicon Valley become another Detroit?” Well, yes, it could. When the best brains in the world are on sale, you don’t shut them out. You open your doors wider. We need to attack this financial crisis with green cards not just greenbacks, and with start-ups not just bailouts. One Detroit is enough.