What is the Bush Immigration Proposal? Is it a new law?
By: Joseph G. Cella, Esq.* January 21, 2004. On January 7, 2004, President Bush announced an immigration reform proposal that would create a temporary worker program. Although no specifics have been made public, in general terms, the new program would allow people who are present in the united states without legal status to receive permission to work and to travel for an initial period of three years, and a subsequent unspecified period after renewal. It also appears that the new proposal would allow aliens to seek admission in temporary worker status upon certification of a potential U.S. employer that there are no U.S. workers available to fill the position(s). Additionally, the President would like to set up a program of incentives for temporary workers to leave the United States within their allotted time here. Such incentives would have some amount of the alien workers earnings withheld and returned to him or her upon the aliens timely return to his or her country of origin. Of co
