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TPA would fast-track deals like the secretive Trade in Services Act.
One
of the several documents released by Wikileaks reveals that if Congress
approves the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), American immigration
policy will be dramatically altered.
TPA would fast-track deals like the Trade in Services Act (TiSA), one
of three close-to-completely-negotiated deals which is less
transparent than even the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) or the
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP), according to
Documents recovered by Wikileaks
show about ten pages pertaining to immigration. “The existence of these
ten pages on immigration in the Trade and Services Agreement make it
absolutely clear in my mind that the administration is negotiating
immigration – and for them to say they are not – they have a lot of
explaining to do based on the actual text in this agreement,” Rosemary
Jenks, director of government relations at NumbersUSA, told Breitbart
after reviewing the documents.
The ten pages, entitled “Annex on Movement of Natural Persons,”
name 37 industries where the U.S. visa processes must change for the
pending trade deal, requiring no more than 30 days for a temporary
foreign worker visa to be approved, something Jenks found
troublesome. “We will not be able to meet those requirements without
essentially our government becoming a rubber stamp because it very often
takes more than 30 days to process a temporary worker visa,” she said.
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