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Immigration Voice Announces -- "Dancing with the Schumer" event in Front of Senator Chuck Schumer's Home
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Immigration Voice, a national non-profit organization with over 130,000 members that advocates for the alleviation of restrictions on employment, travel, and working conditions faced by legal high-skilled immigrants in the United States working as doctors, researchers, scientists, and engineers at many of America's Fortune 500 companies will be holding a "Dancing with the Schumer" event in front of his New York City home at 6 PM on Thursday, September 2, 2021.
They will be dancing in support of adding a provision to the Budget Reconciliation bill to help over 1 million people here legally in the United States with master's degrees and PhDs who are currently banned from getting green cards under U.S. law because of a discriminatory provision from the Jim Crow era that limits green cards by country of birth.
Democrats are getting ready to include immigration reform in their upcoming Budget Reconciliation bill and have guaranteed that this bill will help millions of people who came here illegally to earn a path to citizenship. But they have said nothing about helping these valuable legal immigrants who have been on the front-line treating people with COVID-19 and developing the technologies that have made coping with our new world possible.
Adding one line to the bill would help all of these 1 million backlogged individuals to receive green cards and would actually raise $5-10 billion in revenue for the federal government to pay for other parts of the bill.
Senator Schumer is currently undecided about whether to help these highly-skilled legal immigrants.
Aman Kapoor, the Co-Founder and President of Immigration Voice stated that:
"We know that Senator Schumer loves to dance and to express himself by dancing. Well, times have been tough for us backlogged New Yorkers for decades?as we cannot change jobs, start companies, travel abroad to visit sick and dying relatives, or even ask for a raise without risking deportation. When one member of the nuclear family dies who maintains the work-visa for the rest of the family?not only does the remaining family become widowed/orphaned, they also get deported. The pain of our status is too much to bear any longer without some form of relief.
That is why this afternoon, members of New York's backlogged community will be dancing in front of Senator Schumer's house---hoping that our dancing will finally draw his attention to the importance of our cause. All we are asking for is equal treatment --- legal backlogged immigrants cannot be the only group of immigrants disinvited by Senator Schumer from the Budget Reconciliation dance."
Media Contact
Vikram Desai, Immigration Voice, +1 202-386-6250, [email protected]
SOURCE Immigration Voice
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