Payoff in foreign bodies

An amendment to the proposed immigration bill requires establishment of “a new federal entity called the Bureau of Immigration and Labor Market Research, which is described as ‘an independent statistical agency within U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.’ The head of the Bureau will be appointed by the president, with Senate confirmation. One of the things the Bureau will do is research and designate the occupations for which labor shortages exist, and therefore for which more low-wage guest workers will be allowed to enter the country.”

http://washingtonexaminer.com/in-new-immigration-deal-a-big-favor-for-alaska/article/2532272

“If a particular occupation in a particular area is designated a ‘shortage occupation,’ then firms employing those workers will be allowed to bring in more low-wage guest workers from overseas.”

In a strange set of specifics, the amendment orders that BILMR “’methodology must designate Alaskan seafood processing in zones 1, 2, and 3 as shortage occupations.’ The next paragraph reiterates: ‘Alaskan seafood processing in zones 1, 2, and 3 must be designated as shortage occupations.’”

Does that read like political payoff?

‘In new immigration bill, a big favor for Alaska’

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