immigration reform
specific accomplishments in senate

Immigration Reform:

• Supports a comprehensive approach to immigration reform that is tough, realistic, and consistent with our moral values, including provisions to increase border security, strengthen enforcement against employers who hire illegal immigrants, and offer to undocumented immigrants who work hard and demonstrate a long-term commitment to be law-abiding, contributing members of our society a chance to pay fines and earn their way to permanent legal status over the course of many years.
  
  
• Introduced legislation known as the DREAM Act to enable young people who were brought to the United States as children and have grown up here to apply for legal status and apply for college on the same terms as other students if they demonstrate good moral character, graduate from high school, and go on to college or service in the Armed Forces.
  
  
• Voted for legislation to provide emergency funding for increased border security and worksite immigration enforcement.
  
  
• Voted against a proposed guest worker program and offered a successful Hire Americans First amendment to require employers to seek American workers for their open positions before they try to bring in guest workers.
  
  
• Voted against a proposal to increase the number of H-1B visas and offered legislation to require employers to make a good faith effort to recruit American workers before offering jobs to H-1 and L-1 visa holders and to pay foreign employees the prevailing wage so that these programs are not used to undercut American workers.