An article in Roll Call highlights thesignificant damage that the Fairness Act would do to American healthcare, apoint that we have raised in the past. As we said then,
The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Acthas a worthwhile aim: eliminating the incredibly long backlog for Indian EB2and EB3 applicants. Musillo Unkenholt is in favor of the bill,provided that it is modified in a way to allow nurses to continue to come tothe US. As it is currently structured, the Fairness for High-SkilledImmigrants Act would eliminate nurse immigration into the US.
Fortunately, there is a betterway. Last week, Sen.Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced the BELIEVE Act. This Act merges the Fairness Act withincreased employment-based immigration numbers and preserves visas for thoseoccupations that are in such short supply that the importation of these workershas no negative impact on the wages and working conditions of US labor. Musillo Unkenholt strongly supports theBELIEVE Act.