McCain vs Obama: the Boarder
A comparison of Obama vs McCain and where they stand from their own websites, on the Boarder issue.
OBAMA:
Create Secure Borders
Obama wants to preserve the integrity of our borders. He supports additional personnel, infrastructure and technology on the border and at our ports of entry.
McCain:
Setting clear guidelines and objectives for securing the border through physical and virtual barriers.
Ensuring that adequate funding is provided for resources on the ground, but also training facilities, support staff and the deployment of technologies.
Dedicating funding to US Attorney’s offices in border states.
Implementing sound policies for contracting Department of Homeland Security software and infrastructure.
Deploy Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and other aircraft where needed and appropriate in the border region.
Continue implementation of the US-VISIT comprehensive visitor security program.
(Well McCain has a little more thought on the issue then Obama does.)
Obama:
Improve Our Immigration System
Obama believes we must fix the dysfunctional immigration bureaucracy and increase the number of legal immigrants to keep families together and meet the demand for jobs that employers cannot fill.
McCain:
Establish a user-friendly system employing a limited set of secure documents that contain biometric data and are electronically verifiable to check a worker’s identity.
Provide responses to employer inquiries in a prompt and timely manner to provide both the employer and employee security in their hiring decisions.
Update and ensure the accuracy of current databases of government agencies that play a role in employment verification.
Protect the identities of each employee being screened and allow both employer and employee adequate time and opportunity to correct possible errors with any information in the system.
Institute targeted auditing by Department of Labor in order to weed out employers abusing the system.
Highly Skilled workers:
Ensure high skilled workers trained and educated in the United States have the opportunity to stay and work in the United States upon graduation.
Reform caps for H-1B visa program to rise and fall in response to market conditions. Reduce bureaucracy and waiting times for workers to arrive in the United States.
Increase available green card numbers to reflect employer and employee demand.
Extend the ability for H-1B visa holders to renew their H-1B status while waiting for their green card number to become available.
Ensure available and qualified American workers are given adequate and fair opportunities to apply for available positions.
Low-skilled non-agricultural workers:
Implement a usable, market based system for low-skilled workers to enter the United States in an orderly fashion.
Ensure that the cap rises and falls with market demand to meet the changing needs of the economy.
Provide for adequate worker protection to guard against employer abuses of temporary workers.
Protect American workers by designing a program that allows willing and eligible United States workers adequate opportunity to apply for available positions.
Ensure that workers return to their home countries after their temporary period in the United States.
Allow for appropriate visa renewals to assure that both the employer and employee have stability in the workforce.
Offer a limited number of green cards to reflect the small number of workers that may wish to remain in the United States permanently.
Low-skilled agricultural workers:
Reform the H-2A visa program to provide a non-bureaucratic, adaptable, useable program that is reflective of market needs and protects both the immigrant and US workers.
(again McCain spells out his plan with a little depth and thought. Obama just gives sound bites. If you look at the basic plans. Well what little is given by Obama and then McCains. There is no real differance supposedly. However if you listen to Obama speak. He is 180 degrees from what is posted on his website. So I ask what change is he bringing? He is full of platitudes and sound bites. It just depends on who he is speaking to at the moment.)
OBAMA:
Create Secure Borders
Obama wants to preserve the integrity of our borders. He supports additional personnel, infrastructure and technology on the border and at our ports of entry.
McCain:
Setting clear guidelines and objectives for securing the border through physical and virtual barriers.
Ensuring that adequate funding is provided for resources on the ground, but also training facilities, support staff and the deployment of technologies.
Dedicating funding to US Attorney’s offices in border states.
Implementing sound policies for contracting Department of Homeland Security software and infrastructure.
Deploy Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and other aircraft where needed and appropriate in the border region.
Continue implementation of the US-VISIT comprehensive visitor security program.
(Well McCain has a little more thought on the issue then Obama does.)
Obama:
Improve Our Immigration System
Obama believes we must fix the dysfunctional immigration bureaucracy and increase the number of legal immigrants to keep families together and meet the demand for jobs that employers cannot fill.
McCain:
Establish a user-friendly system employing a limited set of secure documents that contain biometric data and are electronically verifiable to check a worker’s identity.
Provide responses to employer inquiries in a prompt and timely manner to provide both the employer and employee security in their hiring decisions.
Update and ensure the accuracy of current databases of government agencies that play a role in employment verification.
Protect the identities of each employee being screened and allow both employer and employee adequate time and opportunity to correct possible errors with any information in the system.
Institute targeted auditing by Department of Labor in order to weed out employers abusing the system.
Highly Skilled workers:
Ensure high skilled workers trained and educated in the United States have the opportunity to stay and work in the United States upon graduation.
Reform caps for H-1B visa program to rise and fall in response to market conditions. Reduce bureaucracy and waiting times for workers to arrive in the United States.
Increase available green card numbers to reflect employer and employee demand.
Extend the ability for H-1B visa holders to renew their H-1B status while waiting for their green card number to become available.
Ensure available and qualified American workers are given adequate and fair opportunities to apply for available positions.
Low-skilled non-agricultural workers:
Implement a usable, market based system for low-skilled workers to enter the United States in an orderly fashion.
Ensure that the cap rises and falls with market demand to meet the changing needs of the economy.
Provide for adequate worker protection to guard against employer abuses of temporary workers.
Protect American workers by designing a program that allows willing and eligible United States workers adequate opportunity to apply for available positions.
Ensure that workers return to their home countries after their temporary period in the United States.
Allow for appropriate visa renewals to assure that both the employer and employee have stability in the workforce.
Offer a limited number of green cards to reflect the small number of workers that may wish to remain in the United States permanently.
Low-skilled agricultural workers:
Reform the H-2A visa program to provide a non-bureaucratic, adaptable, useable program that is reflective of market needs and protects both the immigrant and US workers.
(again McCain spells out his plan with a little depth and thought. Obama just gives sound bites. If you look at the basic plans. Well what little is given by Obama and then McCains. There is no real differance supposedly. However if you listen to Obama speak. He is 180 degrees from what is posted on his website. So I ask what change is he bringing? He is full of platitudes and sound bites. It just depends on who he is speaking to at the moment.)
