NEWS ALERT: Republican Leaders Push Bill to Import Foreign Nurses
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Republican and Democrat legislators want to help hospital chains import at least 25,000 extra foreign nurses, even though tens of thousands of Americans are being denied places in underfunded nursing schools.
“If there’s one thing I hear from my hospitals in Texas, it’s the shortage of nurses because of the burnout factor associated with COVID-19 and the like,” Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn said at a March 15 hearing. “Now hospitals are having to pay incredible multiples of what they ordinarily would pay to nurses to contract with companies that basically will provide the [travel] nurses.”
The article goes on to state the following:
The foreign nurses should get U.S. nursing jobs because not enough Americans are interested in nursing careers, said a statement from Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK). “Federal resources are scarce and inadequate to finance an expansion of our medical training system,” he said in a February 25 statement to Breitbart News.
The report notes that Democrats are also calling for more nurses, but they are also voicing the need to train more Americans for nursing careers.
Thousands of American healthcare workers have been fired for refusing to take the coronavirus vaccine.
Legislation is being pushed by Democrats that would combine the nurse bill with a bill to help H-1B contract workers get citizenship for their children, in hopes of winning over 12 or more Republicans in order to get an immigration bill on Joe Biden’s desk.
In the March 15 hearing, Cornyn and Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) agreed to negotiate the immigration bill, and Durbin was heard touting, “You may have seen history in the making.”
“You may have seen history in the making.”
Thank you, Senator @JohnCornyn, @SenatorDurbin and @SenAlexPadilla for your commitment to moving bipartisan immigration reform this year. pic.twitter.com/oKhiugIhyv
— Improve The Dream (@ImproveTheDream) March 18, 2022
The lengthy and detailed report also includes the following:
For now, 13 GOP Senators — and at least 12 Democrat Senators — are sponsoring the new bill that would import at least 25,000 foreign nurses for stable careers that would otherwise go to young Americans. The Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act would create green cards for at least 25,000 foreign nurses.
The “workforce resilience” bill is sponsored by Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. Todd Young (R-IN).
The bill is co-sponsored by GOP Sens. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Rob Portman (R-OH), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), John Bo0zman (R-AR), Roy Blunt (R-MO), John Thune (R-SD), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Susan Collins (R-ME). and Rand Paul (R-KY). The senators’ states include roughly 4 million high-school students.
The report explains that Rep. Tillis is also supporting a Democratic-backed bill to fast-track green cards to foreign workers from India.
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Last week, #OK04‘s own @OUNursing announced plans to admit all qualified nursing applicants this fall in an effort to address our state’s nursing shortage in the coming years. #FourthDistrcitFriday https://t.co/bmsap3m1w7
— Rep. Tom Cole (@TomColeOK04) March 18, 2022
Breitbart writer Neil Munro said in a Twitter post, “Republicans are eager to import more nurses for hospital CEOs – but won’t spend enough $$ to train Americans.
In 2019, 80K were denied nursing-school slots as investors imported about 20K low-wage, compliant nurses. Money drives Immigration politics.”
Republicans are eager to import more nurses for hospital CEOs – but won’t spend enough $$ to train Americans.
In 2019, 80K were denied nursing-school slots as investors imported about 20K low-wage, compliant nurses.
Money drives Immigration politics. https://t.co/TE5eSO0ua1— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) March 25, 2022
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