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Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas available
The Department of Homeland Security said Friday it would provide businesses another 15,000 H-2B visas to bring low-skilled foreign workers to the U.S. this summer, offering a modest infusion to the popular program.
The number of visas available each year for seasonal work is capped by statute at 66,000, evenly divided between the summer and winter seasons. Congress declined to lift that cap during negotiations this spring. It did, however, give the secretary of homeland security authority to issue up to 69,000 more this summer if she determines there is sufficient need.
A range of businesses—including fisheries, landscapers and those in summer tourist spots—have complained about worker shortages and have been waiting to see if Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will use that authority. But people who support restrictions on immigration, including some in the White House, argue that foreign workers drive down American wages and oppose additional visas.
Faced with a similar choice last summer, then-DHS Secretary John Kelly also provided an additional 15,000 visas but cast it as a one-time only move.
Also reported at:
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-makes-15-000-additional-h-2b-visas-available-1527279631
- https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/05/26/homeland-security-approves-15000-additional-h-2b-visas-to-bring-low-skilled-foreign-workers-to-us
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @05:44PM (4 children)
Bringing more people in on short term visas is nonsense.
Most of the illegal immigrants here today didn't get here by sneaking over the border at night. They got here legally with various kinds of visas then just didn't leave.
I don't agree with the administration on its policies about immigrants in general (stopping them at the border etc), but this makes it seem not even self consistent.
Anyway. No point in complaining if I can't suggest an alternative. Maybe this: Offer to resettle people that have been registered unemployed for awhile if they take these kinds of jobs. Move the people that can't get this work someplace that can't get workers.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @05:50PM (2 children)
Those people were able to stay, because the executive branches of these United States didn't execute the law.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @07:25PM
Oh, I thought you were going to suggest deporting the unemployed ...
(Score: 2) by Nobuddy on Wednesday May 30 2018, @08:12PM
That's not true. Yes,Trump is reporting less than Obama but that is just incompetence, not willful.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ben_white on Tuesday May 29 2018, @09:27PM
You do know this is the Trump administration we are talking about?