Capping low-skilled worker U.S. visas central to compromise

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(Bloomberg) — Two years ago, the U.S. certified about 75,000 low-skilled laborers for guest-worker visas.

Under the first year of a new plan that business and labor leaders have tentatively approved as part of a Senate proposal to revise the nation’s immigration laws, employers would be able to bring in another 20,000 a year. That would gradually rise to 75,000 — though never exceed more than 200,000 a year.


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