Employers are also asking Congress to expand and streamline visa programs to bring in highly skilled legal immigrant workers.
Congress is already considering legislation to expand and streamline a temporary farm-worker program that would let undocumented laborers of any nationality earn permanent residency under certain conditions.
IN an unusual accord, farmers and labor unions struck a compromise late last year to gradually grant undocumented workers legal residency in exchange for expanding and streamlining the current temporary visa program that brings workers from Mexico for limited stays.
A broad bill the Senate passed in June includes ambitious measures to eliminate green card backlogs and create a new merit program, based mainly on education and job skills, to expand and streamline future legal immigration.
The new funding will go toward setting up new distribution centers, expanding geographically and streamlining operations.
The agency has also expanded its medical staff and streamlined the approval process for detainee medical care, officials said.
The rights have just expanded and expanded.
But despite fanfare within the corrections field about the humanitarian and financial benefits of compassionate release — New York is one of a dozen states that have expanded, enacted or streamlined programs over the past two years — the policy shift has had minimal effect.
THE BATHROOM Small and streamlined.
