65A - RPT - IMMIGRATION REFORM RESO

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SRC: 5/16/13 Section 1. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana, California, urges the United States Congress to adopt and enact comprehensive immigration reform that includes the following principles: 1. Providing for controlled admission, fair and just to those already in the legal immigration process that includes a defined path for permanent residency and/or citizenship for the nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States today. 2. Establishing an improved visa program, such as the proposed W-Visa, to provide our businesses with the ability to hire certain categories of foreign workers when legal residents are unavailable or unwilling to fill jobs. 3. Creating a methodology that accurately assesses labor market needs in order to determine the number of foreign workers to be admitted for employment purposes annually. 4. Increasing efforts to advance workforce talent outreach internationally and strengthening programs in domestic science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) training, to improve ongoing economic competitiveness, while also promoting legal immigration opportunities. 5. Creating a streamlined process to resolve the backlog of existing visa applications and developing methods to ensure the efficient processing of future immigration applications in a timely manner, which will expedite re-unification of families. Section 2. The City Clerk is directed to send this resolution to the President of the United States, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the President of the United States Senate, and the Honorable Members of the 113th Congress representing the City of Santa Ana. ADOPTED this day of 12013. Miguel A. Pulido Mayor APPROVED AS TO FORM: Sonia R. Carvalho, City Attorney Resolution No. 2013-XXX Page 2 of 3 65A-4