Saturday, September 20, 2014

BORDER SHERIFFS FEND OFF THE OBAMA - MEXICO - LA RAZA INVADERS and do it by themselves


Isis Muslim beheadings OR LA RAZA Mexican

beheadings in and on our open borders. Which one

is ALREADY on our doorsteps?


LA RAZA McCAIN’S STATE is OVERRUN BY ILLEGALS AND THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS. THEY COST AZ MILLIONS and McCain has only partnered with the great hispanderer Obama for WIDER OPEN BORDERS…

On CNN, McCain said America's "porous" border with Mexico makes the country more vulnerable to a terrorist attack from ISIS. Former Homeland Security officials have previously conceded that ISIS terrorists may have already illegally entered the country through the porous U.S.-Mexico border. 


MCCAIN’S STATE SURRENDERS TO LA RAZA – Which side do you think the GREAT HISPANDERER was on???

MEXICO’S!!!


 
Newsmax



Sheriffs in Southwest: The Border Is 'Spiraling Out of Control'

Wednesday, September 17, 2014 10:04 PM

By: Rob Nikolewski, Watchdog.org

Sheriffs along the U.S. border with Mexico do not like what they're seeing.

Describing the immigration crisis as "spiraling out of control," a coalition of five sheriffs' organizations in the Southwest released a three-page statement calling on the federal government to resist "outright amnesty" for people in the country illegally.
The document obtained by New Mexico Watchdog called for increased funding for border security programs, including removal programs supervised by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and DNA samples, fingerprinting, and iris scans for people apprehended for entering the United States without documentation.
"The immigration crisis has overwhelmed the capabilities of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and all the federal agencies attempting to assist in the efforts to secure our borders," said the statement, approved by the boards of the Western States Sheriffs' Association, the Texas Border Sheriff's Coalition, the Southwestern Border Sheriffs' Coalition, the New Mexico Sheriffs' Association, and the National Sheriffs' Association.

The groups met in Santa Fe, New Mexico, through Wednesday.

"We're not just saying we have problems," said Donald Reay, executive director of the Texas Border Sheriff's Coalition, based in El Paso, Texas. "We're saying we have solutions to those problems."
The sheriffs' statement went on to say the coalition is willing to form a "united security zone in sufficient depth along the border" to ensure safety.
That prompted criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union.
"Sheriff's deputies may need more resources to do their jobs, but enforcing federal immigrations laws is not one of them," said Vicki Gaubeca, director of the Regional Center for Border Rights of the ACLU of New Mexico

BLOG COMMENT: WHILE THE ACLU HAS THEIR HANDS OUT FOR CONTRIBUTIONS FROM AMERICANS (LEGALS) THEY WORK TIRELESSLY FOR MEXICO AND THE LA RAZA INVADERS!

Two months ago the border issue made national headlines after tens of thousands of unaccompanied children — largely from Central America — entered the United States. Yet, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, told reporters, "the border is secure."

Sen. Martin Heinrich, a Democrat from New Mexico, took to the Senate floor one day later.

BLOG COMMENT: THE BORDER MAY NOW HAVE MORE GUARDS THAN THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE, BUT THEY ARE TOLD TO KEEP THEIR HANDS TIED BEHIND THEIR BACKS AND NOT DISTURB LA RAZA’S INVASION OR OBAMA’S AGENDA OF BIT BY BIT BY BIT AMNESTY UNTIL THERE ARE ENOUGH ILLEGALS VOTING FOR THE LA RAZA SUPREMACY AGENDA.

"The border today is more secure than it has ever been," Heinrich said, adding, "There are more border patrol agents on the ground and more resources and technology deployed on the border than in any time in our nation's history. These resources have been effective."

"We've never been in more disagreement with them," Reay said. "It's an open border. It's not supposed to be, but it is. And when people cross the border other than [through] a port of entry, they have committed a violation of federal law."

The sheriffs' coalition statement says, "Amnesty is not the answer."

BLOG COMMENT: MOST NON-GOV FIGURES ON THE NUMBER OF ILLEGALS LOOTING IN OUR BORDERS IS 40 MILLION. COME TO LOS ANGELES, MEXICO’S SECOND LARGES CITY, AND YOU CAN EASILY COUNT 15 MILLION OF THOSE “11 MILLION”.

But it's been estimated at least 11 million people without documentation are living in the United States.

"We're not talking about a roundup," Reay said. "Our sheriffs realize that would be virtually impossible to do because it would have a huge economic impact on the communities they represent."

Instead, Reay said, the sheriffs favor having undocumented workers come forward and take part in a pathway to legalization.

"We believe the rule of law has a process in effect that should be followed," Reay told New Mexico Watchdog. "Citizenship should not be automatic. Citizenship should be earned."

The statement makes nine recommendations calling for collaboration between federal, local, and tribal law enforcement, including $1.1 billion for a justice assistance grant, $280 million in funding for high-intensity drug trafficking areas, $100 million for a readiness program along the border called Operation Stonegarden, and unspecified funding for ICE's criminal removal program.

"The government has already spent a great deal of money on border enforcement resources, last year alone spending close to $11 billion," Gaubeca said in an email to New Mexico Watchdog.

"CBP (Customs and Border Protection) is already the largest law enforcement agency in the nation. It doesn't need more help. In addition, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and CBP are already taking additional steps to build new detention facilities, including wrongly building more facilities for family detention when effective and cheaper alternatives exist."

The sheriffs offered five solutions to the border crisis, including required fingerprints, DNA swabs, and iris scans for everyone apprehended while trying to enter the United States illegally.

But wouldn't that be expensive to administer?

"When you weigh the expense versus the benefit, absolutely not," said Reay, who didn't offer an estimate of the cost. "Because you are saving lives, you are identifying people later who are possibly criminals."

Reay said the statement will go to Capitol Hill.

"This will be put out to every member of Congress," Reay said. "We're hoping to get some of their attention so they can take action on it."

Click here to read the sheriffs' coalition document.

Here's the New Mexico Watchdog interview with Reay: (SEE LINK ABOVE TO ARTICLE)


TED CRUZ and the looting Mexican invaders…

CAN HE TURN BACK OBAMA’S IMPERIAL BIT BY BIT AMNESTY HOAX TO LEGALIZE MEXICO’S LOOTING?



building the  Democrat party one border jumper at a time. the

invading hordes also keep wages depressed and dem office holders’

paymasters happy and generous $$$

Heritage: Amnestied Illegals Will Get $9.4T in Benefits; Increase Debt $6.3T'

what is the REAL cost of all that “CHEAP” Mexican labor? Add it up and then factor in the MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE and the fact that the MEXICAN  now operate in 2,500 American cities!

more at this link – post on your Facebook and email broadcast


Democrat politicians partner with Mexico and the Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA “The Race” to loot America and then send the tax bills to the American middle-class whose jobs LA RAZA owns.



ERICK VALENCIA SALAZAR DRUG CARTEL CRIMINAL - WILL HE GET OBAMA'S LA RAZA AMNESTY? A PLACE IN OBAMA'S LA RAZA INFESTED ADMINISTRATION?

NOW IF THE HIGHLY CORRUPT LA RAZA DEPT. OF JUSTICE HAD ITS WAY, THIS FUCKER WOULD NOT ONLY GET AMNESTY, HE’D GET A POSITION IN OBAMA’S LA RAZA INFESTED ADMINISTRATION!

As television cameras rolled, authorities this morning trotted out Erick Valencia Salazar, known as “El 85,″ and said he was the head of a drug gang called the New Generation Jalisco Cartel.

OBAMA’S DEPT OF JUSTICE PUSHES FOR ILLEGALS VOTES – OBAMA’S CONTEMPT FOR OUR LAWS AND BORDERS:



OBAMA ARMS THE MEX DRUG CARTELS AFTER PROMISING LA RAZA OUR BORDERS WILL BE LEFT OPEN AND UNDEFENDED TO EASE THEM INTO OUR JOBS AND VOTING BOOTHS! 


 OBAMA PUSHES FOR MEXICAN GANGS! THEY’RE HIS NEW LA RAZA PARTY BASE!



Posted: 12 Mar 2012 11:02 AM PDT


As television cameras rolled, authorities this morning trotted out Erick Valencia Salazar, known as “El 85,″ and said he was the head of a drug gang called the New Generation Jalisco Cartel.

Police put a neon orange vest on Valencia before the perp walk, and he looked slightly scruff but alert during the news conference. (These are AP photos.)

Valencia is certainly a notable alleged drug lord, inheritor of the cocaine and methamphetamine routes of Ignacio Coronel, one of the leaders of the Sinaloa cartel at the time of his killing in July 2010. Valencia is also the mastermind behind a group known as “Zeta Killers” deployed to Veracruz stay in mid-2011 to do battle against the archenemy rival gang to Sinaloa, authorities say. The Zeta Killers dumped 35 bodies on the streets of the port of Veracruz one afternoon last September.

But what interested me was less the story of Valencia than what happened on Friday at the time of his capture in Zapopan, a tony area of Guadalajara. As soldiers closed in on Valencia’s safe house, the alleged drug lord mobilized his forces to create as much chaos as possible in Guadalara.

Throughout much of Guadalajara, gunmen commandeered or carjacked vehicles, blocked major thoroughfares with them, and set them afire. By Friday night, Jalisco Gov. Emilio Gonzalez said 25 vehicles had been stolen and most burned.

In some cases, assailants boarded city buses and forced passengers off at gunpoint before pouring gasoline inside and setting them on fire.

The U.S. consulate in Guadalajara got quite concerned and sent out a message via email and Twitter urging “all American citizens (to) stay put while we gather more information. Anyone on the road should continue directly to the nearest safe area and stay put.”

This might seem like minor mayhem. Only one person is known to have died. But it shows what drug lords are capable of if cornered and still able to mobilize forces. It might be called the “nothing to lose” scenario, and the real concern of public security officials is over the more powerful drug lords who have plastic explosives and know-how to make car bombs or who have big arsenals of rocket-propelled grenades or weapons able to down aircraft.

Moreover, a lot of the narco gangs have police and military uniforms. So imagine the chaos if they were to deploy confederates at a delicate moment for one of their leaders.

Even a smaller gang like the New Generation Jalisco Cartel has significant firepower. This is what was found during the raid that netted Valencia: six handguns, 37 long guns (among them 19 AR-15s equipped to fire grenades, two submachine guns, and two Barret 50-caliber sniper rifles), three hand granades, 119 ammo cartridges, 69,000 rounds, three silencers, and communications equipment.

Let’s hope Mexican security officials are planning what to do if one of these drug gangs really lets loose when a capo is captured.
 
LA RAZA McCAIN’S STATE is OVERRUN BY ILLEGALS
AND THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS. THEY COST AZ
MILLIONS and McCain has only partnered with the great
hispanderer Obama for WIDER OPEN BORDERS…
 
On CNN, McCain said America's "porous" border with Mexico makes the country more vulnerable to a terrorist attack from ISIS. Former Homeland Security officials have previously conceded that ISIS terrorists may have already illegally entered the country through the porous U.S.-Mexico border. 
 
 
MCCAIN’S STATE SURRENDERS TO LA RAZA – Which side do you think the GREAT HISPANDERER was on???
MEXICO’S!!!
 
 
JEFF SESSIONS ON OBAMA’S IMPERIAL
AMNESTY TO LEGALIZE MEXICO’S
LOOTING AND GET MORE ILLEGALS
VOTING DEM:
 
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) well expressed the outrage felt by many Americans, when he stated,  “The only thing that is more shocking than Senate Democrats’ support for the president’s planned executive amnesty is the cravenness of asking him to proceed beginning the day after the midterms. Once again, powerful politicians are colluding with powerful interest groups to deny you, the American citizen, the protection of your laws and your voice in government. They don’t care what you want, or what you think—they scorn and mock our good and decent citizens for wishing their laws to be enforced. Never in recent memory has the divide between the everyday citizen, and the political elite, been as wide as it is now.”
 
While you were sleeping, LA RAZA MEXICO was looting and the Democrat Party was handing them amnesty!
NARCOMEX in LA RAZA-OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES – Western gateway for the MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS and MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST CITY.
Federal agents raided Q.T Fashion and numerous other businesses in the downtown fashion district Wednesday, cracking down on a scheme that cartels are increasingly relying on to get their profits — from drug sales, kidnappings and other illegal activities — back to Mexico, authorities said.
Nine people were arrested in raids targeting 75 locations, and $90 million was seized — $70 million in cash. In one condo, agents found $35 million stuffed in banker boxes. At a mansion in Bel-Air, they discovered $10 million in duffel bags.
"Los Angeles has become the epicenter of narco-dollar money laundering with couriers regularly bringing duffel bags and suitcases full of cash to many businesses," said Robert E. Dugdale, the assistant U.S. attorney in charge of federal criminal prosecutions in Los Angeles.
 
LOS ANGELES – GATEWAY FOR THE MEXICAN DRUG
 
CARTELS                
 
 
THE CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY THE
AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS WITH
AMNESTY: Obama’s lies on deportation
 
 
LOS ANGELES TOP 200 LA RAZA
 
CRIMINALS… they’re all registered dems and
 
getting anchor baby breeders’ welfare!
 
206 Most wanted criminals in Los Angeles. Out of 206 criminals--183 are hispanic---171 of those are wanted for Murder.
Why do Americans still protect the illegals??


http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/09/los-angeles-top-200-most-wanted.html


New York City Mayor De Blasio hands the welcome wagon to illegals - LAWS DON'T APPLY TO ILLEGALS? Not when there's a Democrat politician hispandering for the illegals' votes!

De Blasio is Hillary Clinton's man to buy the illegals' votes with AMNESTY and millions of American jobs.
 
Hillary Clinton’s vow to protect the 1%, banksters and buy the
illegals’ votes with Obama’s amnesty hoax to legalize Mexico’s
looting.

Her record speaks for itself!


DEMS SIMPLY CAN’T HELP THEMSELVES WHEN IT COMES TO HANDING ILLEGALS A WELCOME WAGON OF “FREEBEES” OFF THE BACKS OF LEGALS!

TED CRUZ and the looting Mexican invaders…

CAN HE TURN BACK OBAMA’S IMPERIAL BIT BY BIT AMNESTY HOAX TO LEGALIZE MEXICO’S LOOTING?

 

building the  Democrat party one border jumper at
a time. the invading hordes also keep wages
depressed and dem office holders’ paymasters
happy and generous $$$
 

Heritage: Amnestied Illegals Will Get $9.4T in Benefits; Increase Debt $6.3T'

what is the REAL cost of all that “CHEAP” Mexican labor? Add it up and then factor in the MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE and the fact that the MEXICAN  now operate in 2,500 American cities!

more at this link – post on your Facebook and email broadcast


De Blasio New York Gives Illegal Aliens Perk Package For Getting Free ID

In an attempt to encourage illegal immigrants and other New Yorkers who do not have identification to sign up for the city’s new municipal ID, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced this week that those who participate will be eligible for a wide-range of free city perks. 

“The municipal ID is a powerful tool to bring more New Yorkers out of the shadows and into the mainstream.  It is now also a key that opens the door for hundreds of thousands of more New Yorkers to our City’s premier assets in culture, science and entertainment,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday in a statement

Those who sign up for the municipal ID program, which was approved by the City Council over the summer and begins at the beginning of next year, will be offered free membership to 33 of the cities cultural institutions — from Carnegie Hall to the Botanical Garden and the Metropolitan Museum of Arts to zoos throughout the city. 

The New York Post estimates the value of the benefits to be over $2,000. The card will allow free memberships for a year. 

According to reports an estimated 500,000 illegal immigrants live in New York City and the program in its first year is expected to cost about $8 million. 

The ID card is intended to provide people who do not have a viable form of photo identification the ability to do things like obtain a lease, library card, and bank account — as well as deal with the city government more effectively.

“The Municipal ID Card embodies the values we cherish most about inclusivity and equality, and these memberships are another step forward on providing greater access and opportunity for our people,” de Blasio added. 

 
Democrat politicians partner with Mexico and the
Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA “The Race” to
loot America and then send the tax bills to the
American middle-class whose jobs LA RAZA owns.


JEFF SESSIONS ON OBAMA’S IMPERIAL AMNESTY TO LEGALIZE MEXICO’S LOOTING AND GET MORE ILLEGALS VOTING DEM:

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) well expressed the outrage felt by many Americans, when he stated,  “The only thing that is more shocking than Senate Democrats’ support for the president’s planned executive amnesty is the cravenness of asking him to proceed beginning the day after the midterms. Once again, powerful politicians are colluding with powerful interest groups to deny you, the American citizen, the protection of your laws and your voice in government. They don’t care what you want, or what you think—they scorn and mock our good and decent citizens for wishing their laws to be enforced. Never in recent memory has the divide between the everyday citizen, and the political elite, been as wide as it is now.”



 

BILL GATES PUSHES FOR OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED THEN FIRES THOUSANDS! Microsoft cuts 2,100 jobs, closes Silicon Valley research lab

BILLIONAIRE BILL GATES: Number One enemy of the American worker.

He didn’t get rich paying legals a living wage!!!

"It warned that for the working class, the financial

meltdown meant “rapid growth of unemployment,

poverty, homelessness and social misery,” while

“many of those who precipitated this economic

disaster… will profit handsomely from the debris

they have left behind."

Wealth of world’s billionaires: $7.3 trillion



NO ONE HAS HISPANDERED MORE TO KEEP OUR BORDERS WIDE OPEN THAN BILL GATES.


Microsoft cuts 2,100 jobs, closes Silicon Valley research lab


WELL, PERHAPS LA RAZA PARTY MEMBER MARK ZUCKERBERG TOPS GATES.

AMNESTY IS ALL ABOUT ENDLESS VISAS FOR TECH  COMPANIES TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED!

BILL GATES AND MARK ZUCKERBERG ARE ENEMIES OF THE AMERICAN WORKER.

YOU WILL NOT FIND A BILLIONAIRE OUT THERE THAT DOES NOT THINK IT'S "SOCIALISM" TO PAY AN AMERICAN A LIVING WAGE WHEN THERE ARE ENDLESS HORDES OF HEAVY BREEDING MEXICANS JUMPING OUR BORDERS AND  JOBS DAILY!


SOARING RICHES FOR THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS

THE 1% DEMAND THE FINAL SOLUTION TO
THE AMERICAN MIDDLE –CLASS and
IMPOSITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY.

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-death-of-american-middle-class.html


BILL GATES, LIKE MARK ZUCKERMAN AND MEX CARLOS SLIM HELU, WANT OPEN BORDERS AND ENDLESS HORDES OF MEXICANS IN OUR JOBS TO  KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
 
GATES MADE A SPECIAL TRIP TO NARCOMEX TO URGE THE RULING BILLIONAIRE CLASS TO KEEP EXPORTING THEIR POOR. THEN HE WENT TO CONGRESS AND URGED OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY AND THE OBAMA AMNESTY TO LEGALIZE MEXICO’S LOOTING.
BILL GATES BUILT HIS FORTUNE ON HIRING THIRD WORLDERS SO HE WOULDN’T HAVE TO PAY AN AMERICA.
 
This Man's Job: Make Bill Gates Richer
 
Secretive Money Manager Michael Larson Helped Microsoft Co-Founder's Fortune Balloon to $82 Billion
 
Microsoft cuts 2,100 jobs, closes Silicon Valley research lab

Billionaires Repeat Labor Shortage Lie

by Little John 

We believe it borders on insanity to train intelligent and motivated [foreign] people in our universities—often subsidizing their education—and then deport them when the graduate. Many of these people, of course, want to return to their home country—and that’s fine. But for those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let’s roll out the welcome mat. -- The New York Times 7/10/14, by Sheldon Adelson, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates.

Fact Check: Here this trio of billionaires repeats the tired old line that there aren’t enough Americans to fill jobs in science and technology, so we need to invite foreigners to do it. More and more evidence, however, shows otherwise. Someone with a good grasp of this evidence is Michael Teitelbaum, a senior research associate with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard University. Writing in Forbes magazine, Teitelbaum notes that respected research organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the RAND Corporation, and the Urban Institute have not been able to find “any evidence of indicating current widespread labor shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations. . . .”

He also notes that “U.S. higher education produces far more science and engineering graduates annually than there are S&E job openings—the only disagreement is whether it is 100 percent or 200 percent more. Teitelbaum adds that if there were really a shortage of workers in these fields, the wages level in in them would have risen significantly, but mainly they are stagnant or show growing.

Far from too few Americans qualified in STEM professions (science, technology, engineering, and math), statistics from the Census Bureau indicate an oversupply. Only a third of Americans with an undergraduate STEM degree have a STEM job. More than five million of them work in other fields, and 1.2 million more are either unemployed or out of the workforce.

Companies perpetuate the myth of a labor shortage because they prefer to hire foreigners, either ones trained here or ones trained abroad and admitted through the H-1B visa program. The foreigners, for a number of reasons, are more willing to accept lower wages than Americans and put up with more with difficult working conditions.

What the companies are doing, so that billionaires like Bill Gates can get richer, is deny jobs to Americans that can provide a middle class living. As Ron Hira, a public policy professor at Howard University, observed, “STEM degrees . . . have been pathways to the middle class. It’s been a traditional path for working class kids to study. . . . By cutting this off, we cutting off that path to upward mobility for so many of the working class kids.”

As long as the labor shortage myth persists, Americans who seek jobs in science and technology will suffer a shortage of employment.
 

BILL GATES LAYS OFF THOUSANDS AND

THEN PUSHES FOR HORDES OF

FOREIGNERS TO KEEP WAGES

DEPRESSED!


Microsoft cuts 2,100 jobs, closes Silicon Valley research lab

June 25, 2007

High-Tech Titans Strike Out on Immigration Bill


WASHINGTON, June 24 — Bill Gates and Steven A. Ballmer of Microsoft have led a parade of high-tech executives to Capitol Hill, urging lawmakers to provide more visas for temporary foreign workers and permanent immigrants who can fill critical jobs.

Google has reminded senators that one of its founders, Sergey Brin, came from the Soviet Union as a young boy. To stay competitive in a “knowledge-based economy,” company officials have said, Google needs to hire many more immigrants as software engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists.

The top executives of these and other high-tech companies have been making a huge effort to reshape the Senate immigration bill to meet their demand for more foreign workers. But they have had only limited success, as is often the case when strong-willed corporate leaders confront powerful members of Congress.

The Senate plans to resume work on the bill this week. Much of the debate will focus on proposals for granting legal status to illegal immigrants. But the sections of the bill affecting high-tech industries could prove to be very important as well.

High-tech companies want to be able to hire larger numbers of well-educated, foreign-born professionals who, they say, can help them succeed in the global economy. For these scientists and engineers, they seek permanent-residence visas, known as green cards, and H-1B visas. The H-1B program provides temporary work visas for people who have university degrees or the equivalent to fill jobs in specialty occupations including health care and technology. The Senate bill would expand the number of work visas for skilled professionals, but high-tech companies say the proposed increase is not nearly enough. Several provisions of the Senate bill are meant to enhance protections for American workers and to prevent visa fraud and abuse.

High-tech companies were surprised and upset by the bill that emerged last month from secret Senate negotiations. E. John Krumholtz, director of federal affairs at Microsoft, said the bill was “worse than the status quo, and the status quo is a disaster.”

In the last two weeks, these businesses have quietly negotiated for changes to meet some of their needs. But the bill still falls far short of what they want, an outcome suggesting that their political clout does not match their economic strength.

Stephen W. Yale-Loehr, a co-author of a treatise on immigration law, said: “High-tech companies are very organized. They have numerous lobby groups. When Bill Gates advocates more H-1B visas and green cards for tech workers, everyone listens.

“But that supposed influence has not translated into legislative results,” Mr. Yale-Loehr, who teaches at Cornell Law School, continued. “High-tech companies have been lobbying unsuccessfully since 2003 for more H-1B visas. It’s hard to get anything through Congress these days. In addition, anti-immigrant groups are well organized. U.S. computer programmers are constantly arguing that H-1B workers undercut their wages.”

The Republican architects of the Senate bill, like Senators Jon Kyl of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, thought they were doing a favor for high-tech companies when they proposed a “point system” to evaluate immigrants seeking green cards. The point system would reward people who have advanced degrees and job skills needed in the United States.

But the high-tech companies were upset because the bill would have stripped them of the ability to sponsor specific immigrants for particular jobs.

The companies flooded Senate offices with letters, telephone calls and e-mail messages seeking changes to the bill. Mr. Ballmer, the blunt-spoken chief executive of Microsoft, Craig R. Barrett, the chairman of Intel, and other executives pressed their concerns in person.

These advocates have made some gains, which are embodied in an amendment to be proposed by Mr. Kyl and Senator Maria Cantwell, Democrat of Washington.

Edward J. Sweeney, senior vice president of National Semiconductor, based in Santa Clara, Calif., said, “I’ve spent many hours in Washington talking with senators to get their support on this amendment.”

Likewise, William D. Watkins, the chief executive of Seagate Technology, the world’s largest maker of computer disk drives, said he met with five or six senators two weeks ago.

Under the Kyl-Cantwell proposal, 20,000 green cards would be set aside each year for immigrants of extraordinary ability, outstanding professors and researchers and certain managers and executives of multinational corporations. The original bill would have eliminated the existing preference for such workers.

In addition, the amendment would give employers five years to adjust their hiring practices to the new “merit-based” point system for obtaining green cards.

“For the first five years, employers would still have a say,” Ms. Cantwell said in an interview. “They could recruit the best and the brightest.”

The number of green cards for employer-sponsored immigrants would gradually decline, to 44,000 in the fifth year from 115,000 in each of the first two years. No green cards would be set aside for employer-sponsored immigrants after that.

Many high-tech companies bring in foreign professionals on temporary H-1B visas. The government is swamped with petitions. On the first two days of the application period in April, it received more than 123,000 petitions for 65,000 slots.

The Senate bill would raise the cap to 115,000 in 2008, with a possible increase to 180,000 in later years, based on labor market needs.

Many high-tech businesses want to hire foreign students who obtain advanced degrees from American universities, and many of the students want to work here, but cannot get visas.

Under current law, up to 20,000 foreigners who earn a master’s degree or higher from an American university are generally exempt from the annual limit on new H-1B visas. The Kyl-Cantwell proposal would double the number.

The amendment would also establish a new exemption, providing 20,000 additional H-1B visas for people who have earned advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering or mathematics from a university outside the United States.

The technology companies face a serious challenge from a different direction, as lawmakers of both parties worry about possible abuses in the H-1B program.

Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the Democratic whip, and Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, have a proposal that would overhaul the H-1 B program and give priority to American workers. Their proposal would also define, in great detail, the wages that must be paid to workers who have H-1B visas.

Mr. Durbin contended that some companies have used foreign workers to undercut the wages of American workers. And in some cases, he said, foreign workers come to this country for a few years of training, then return home “to populate businesses competing with the United States.”

“The H-1B visa program is being abused by foreign companies to deprive qualified Americans of good jobs,” Mr. Durbin said. “Some companies are so brazen, they say ‘no Americans need apply’ in their job advertisements.”

High-tech companies said that the wage standards in the Durbin-Grassley proposal would, in effect, require them to pay some H-1B employees more than some equally qualified American workers who are performing the same duties.

The Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress, said that thousands of H-1B workers have been paid less than the prevailing wage.

One company, Patni Computer Systems, agreed this month to pay more than $2.4 million to 607 workers with visas after Labor Department investigators found that they had not been paid the wages required by federal law. The company’s global headquarters are in Mumbai, India, and its American operations are based in Cambridge, Mass.

Laurie J. Flynn contributed reporting.