Immigration
Immigrants helped build America’s manufacturing industry, and immigration reform is essential to our competitiveness worldwide. We need a system that provides certainty for our businesses and dedicated employees, ensures national security, offers compassion and is consistent with our values and our history as a nation of immigrants.
Manufacturers File Suit Against H-1B Rules Jeopardizing Hundreds of Thousands of American Jobs
October 19, 2020Washington, D.C. – The National Association of Manufacturers joined several business organizations and academic institutions in filing a
Manufacturers Victorious in Immediate Injunction Against Administration’s Unlawful Visa Ban
October 1, 2020Washington, D.C. – The National Association of Manufacturers, as lead plaintiff in
Manufacturers Seek to Immediately Halt Administration’s Unlawful Visa Restrictions with Injunction
July 31, 2020Washington, D.C. – The National Association of Manufacturers released this statement after filing a motion for preliminary injunction in federal court today. The motion would call for an immediate hold on a series of damaging visa restrictions that prevent manufacturers from filling crucial, hard-to-fill jobs to support economic recovery, growth and innovation when we most…
NAM Files Suit Against Administration’s “Unlawful Restrictions” to Visas
July 21, 2020Washington, D.C. – The National Association of Manufacturers was joined today by several prominent business organizations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Retail Federation, TechNet and Intrax, in filing a
NAM Strongly Opposes Administration’s Immigration Executive Order
June 22, 2020Timmons: Leaders should be working to strengthen manufacturing in the United States, but these actions will make our industry unquestionably weaker
Washington, D.C. – National Association of Manufacturers President and CEO Jay Timmons released the following statement on President Trump’s immigration executive order suspending new nonimmigrant visas. “Leaders should be working to strengthen manufacturing in the United States, but these actions will make our industry unquestionably weaker. The reality is the visa programs targeted by this…
NAM Celebrates Supreme Court Decision on DACA
June 18, 2020Timmons: They did not deserve to endure the cruel uncertainty and fear created by the administration’s action to end the program.
National Association of Manufacturers President and CEO Jay Timmons issued the following statement on today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program: “Today, manufacturers celebrate with the nation’s 700,000 Dreamers. America is the only home they know. At least 27,000 DACA recipients are frontline healthcare workers, many others are filling…
NAM Statement on the 2020 State of the Union Address
February 4, 2020Manufacturers: In 2020, Partisan Division Does Not Have to Be a Barrier to Progress
Washington, D.C. – National Association of Manufacturers President and CEO Jay Timmons released the following statement reacting to the 2020 State of the Union address: “With the historic USMCA, unprecedented China deal, game-changing tax reform and ever-growing regulatory certainty, manufacturers have been given powerful tools to keep investing in our people and our communities. We…
Timmons Delivers 2020 NAM State of Manufacturing Address in Iowa
January 22, 2020Speech Marked 125th Anniversary of NAM’s Founding and Highlighted ‘Creators Wanted’ Campaign to Address Growing Workforce Shortage
Washington, D.C. – National Association of Manufacturers President and CEO Jay Timmons delivered the eighth-annual NAM State of Manufacturing Address today at equipment manufacturer Vermeer Corporation in Pella, Iowa. Speaking to Vermeer Corporation employees, business and community leaders and local manufacturers, Timmons highlighted the NAM’s ambitious plan to address the industry’s growing workforce crisis with…
