Tillis’ push for more seasonal foreign workers lands in spending deal, angering immigration critics
Story Date: 3/23/2018

 

Source: Brian Murphy and Anita Kumar, NEWS & OBSERVER, 3/22/18


Congress appears poised to allow more temporary, seasonal foreign workers into the country this summer, even as lawmakers skirted around larger immigration issues such as border wall funding and undocumented child immigrants in its $1.3-trillion spending package. A provision pushed by North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis to raise a cap on visas for those workers made its way into the must-pass spending package.

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