Article snippet: The growing pushback comes as Sen. Lindsey Graham is quietly readying an immigration bill for a Thursday vote in the Senate’s judiciary committee. Graham’s focus is asylum reforms, but he also supports the investors’ bill, titled S.368, or the “Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act.” Many would-be immigrants will lose their places in line if the investors get their Indian contract workers to the head of the green card lines. The lines now hand out roughly 120,000 green cards each year to various researchers, athletes, entertainers, workers, and their families nominated by employers. The pushback from the population of non-Indian people who lose their places — athletes, immigration lawyers, H-1B workers, hospital workers and nurses, and many chain-migration relatives from smaller countries — is creating a problem for the investors and business groups who hope to sneak their outsourcing bill through the Senate with minimal media attention. Any delay is a problem because it allows surprised staffers and legislators to recognize the huge problems in the seemingly innocuous legislation, said Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies. “As soon as people think about it, and begin to understand it, they do not support it,” she said. Two of the most prominent groups of likely losers are foreign basketball and baseball players. Athletes can get work permits in a few hours, but they cannot stay in the United States after their careers end unl... Link to the full article to read more