text: In contrast, the one-page immigration plan released at the retreat by Boehner focused on businesses’ needs. It suggested that immigration is needed to help the nation’s economy and companies, not American citizens.
  “Visa and green card allocations [available for foreign workers] need to reflect the needs of employers and the desire for these exceptional individuals to help grow our economy,” the document says.
  The document suggested an immigration rewrite must allow companies to import more university-trained guest-workers, who would compete against the 800,000 Americans who graduate each year with skilled degrees. Roughly 800,000 foreign professionals are now working as guest-workers in many cities and universities.
  The proposed reform would also allow the 12 million illegals to compete for the jobs sought by the 4 million Americans who turn 18 each year, and also sought by the 20 million unemployed and underemployed Americans.
  Only about one-third of GOP legislators who spoke at the meeting supported passage of the law in 2013.
  West Virginia Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito is running for a Senate seat in Virginia, and her website declares that “she wants to ensure that millions of jobs are not taken from hardworking Americans by illegal immigrants and believes that employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants should be penalized.”
  In early January, 16 GOP legislators urged Boehner to focus on the needs of American workers. “For me, the issue has always been about the damage that the president’s immigration policy will do to the American economy and to American workers,” Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks told The Daily Caller. The signers include Rep. Tom Cotton, who is running for for the Senate this year.
  Since Boehner released his business-friendly plan, Sessions’ pitch has been echoed by Cruz and other legislators.