Posted on 03/07/2020 12:47:53 PM PST by NobleFree
Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf announced he will allow American businesses to import an additional 35,000 foreign workers to take non-agricultural jobs through the H-2B visa program.
Every year, U.S. companies are allowed to import 66,000 low-skilled H-2B foreign workers to take blue-collar, non-agricultural jobs. For some time, the H-2B visa program has been used by businesses to bring in cheaper, foreign workers and has contributed to blue-collar Americans having their wages undercut.
On Thursday, Wolf confirmed that DHS will ensure American businesses can hire an additional 35,000 H-2B foreign visa workers for non-agricultural jobs in the fishing, construction, hospitality, and restaurant industries.
Wolf said of the extra 35,000 foreign workers that 10,000 will be from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras “to stem the flow of illegal migration in the region and encourage lawful migration to the U.S.”
The decision to add more foreign workers to the already inflated U.S. labor market, Wolf said, is “intended” to benefit American businesses and American workers, though the latter was not explained. [...]
This is the fourth consecutive year that President Trump’s DHS has approved more foreign workers to be imported by American businesses through the H-2B visa program. Wolf’s decision follows the same direction that former DHS Secretaries Kevin McAleenan, Kirstjen Nielsen, and John Kelly implemented.
Wolf’s announcement comes with new measures to “reduce fraud and abuse” in the H-2B visa program, which a handful of Republican and Democrat senators have warned against expanding.
The H-2B visa program has been widely used by businesses to drag down the wages of American workers in landscaping, conservation work, the meatpacking industry, the construction industry, and fishing jobs, a 2019 study from the Center for Immigration Studies finds. [...]
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Paging Trump. Where the hell are you on saving jobs for Americans?
Good question. I thought the administration was pro-USA.
Look I’m a contractor out here in California and I’ll say it flat out - white kids don’t want to work!
They’re mostly spoiled Liberal brats That think everything should be handed to them
Nearly 100% of my employees over the past 20 years have been Spanish-speaking and not just Mexicans - currently I have two Cubans working for me
I’m sorry but it’s true
Same goes for black folks - they don’t want to work either
My projects ain’t no affirmative action nonsense - the work actually has to get done. And it won’t happen by itself
So we’re importing people to “encourage lawful migration to the U.S.”? WTF!
The Trump Organization depends on H-2Bs. Did you honestly think that the program would be cut back?
“and encourage lawful migration to the U.S.”
It will do exactly the opposite
There are plenty of Spanish-speaking American citizens - by all means hire them.
By that logic, we should open the borders - then no more immigration will be illegal. Feel the Bern!
Your post makes sense.
I’ve seen braceros putting on roofs like they were robots.
Trump properties are hiring these people too .Someone posted and listed the number if hires they just got.
Wall Street snaps and they jump.
The American first line had been worthless .
Its all about driving wagers lower.
Just wait until. Mike Lee rams thru his Indian First Bill that's really screw
All American workers with flooding us unlimited Indian white collar job stealers in all industries this week .
The WH probably gave him the okay to do it since the Virus chaos will limit the huge impact .
Cut the welfare programs and let them be hungry.
Nobody in the US seems to want to do construction or fruit picking or other seasonal work - I have family in construction, and while they’d love to hire American, the unskilled people who should be applying for these unskilled jobs simply aren’t...they’re living on crime, girlfriends, or state bennies of some kind.
So these businesses can’t hire anybody and they’re way behind on jobs.
At least the Mexicans and Central Americans who got these jobs showed up, did their jobs, accepted orders from the boss, and in some cases ended up as foremen because they were willing to start at the bottom. They’re no cheaper than Americans... they’re paid a decent wage, and any American could live on it. (And btw,, these seasonal workers are living 4 to a room, sharing a beat up old car, and saving most of the money to send home.)
We used to have a better policy on short term seasonal labor, but it was killed by the unions.
So that should be the new American standard of living?
Letting Americans starve or be forced onto welfare — is not winning. And will this bureaucrap guarantee no more d... islamonazi invaders or Chinese virus carriers?
EBT/SNAP has made too many sitting on the porch. Too many porch monkeys.
GOPe corporate globalist fiction; the fact is that there are 3.5 million under- or unemployed Americans with STEM degrees.
The Trump Organization depends on H-2Bs. Did you honestly think that the program would be cut back?
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Yep, this benefits the construction, hospitality, and restaurant industries. Similar approvals for the past four years.
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