Article snippet: Axios reported: For more than a decade, Congress has grappled with the vast wishlist presented by investors, high-tech employers, the chambers of commerce, universities, seasonal employers, farmers, real-estate developers, immigration lawyers, and many other groups. But that wishlist is almost entirely the opposite of preferences held by the blue-collar voters who elected President Donald Trump in 2016 and by the white-collar votes who may defeat him in 2020. For decades, employers and investors have argued that the immigration system is broken because it does not deliver them enough cheap workers and enough new consumers. Former President George W. Bush tried to reconcile investors’ open-ended demands for cheap workers and more consumers with the self-interest of the GOP by pushing for a law that would allow companies to hire an unlimited number of non-voting visa workers. Bush’s “any willing worker” plan was blocked, but Congress instead proposed the open-ended “Probationary Z Visa” in 2007. The Z visa plan offered work permits to all migrants who reached the United States within one year — and gave border officials just 24 hours to prove the migrants’ documents were fakes. The ambitious proposal quickly failed. Similarly, in 2013, the business sectors’ wish list was included in the huge “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill. For example, the bill sought to flood the middle class labor market by offering two ways to provide green cards to an unlimited number of foreign ... Link to the full article to read more