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Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available

posted by janrinok on Tuesday May 29 2018, @04:53PM   
from the jobs-for-everyone-else dept.

edinlinux writes:

Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas available

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-to-allow-another-15000-unskilled-foreign-workers-on-temporary-h-2b-visas-2018-05-26

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

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• safer policy: eunuchs only safer policy: eunuchs only (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @06:22PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @06:22PM (#685775)

  Our country is one of only a handful in the world that is still crazy enough to give citizenship to any kid born there. This is a vulnerability.

  The solution is eunuchs. They can't reproduce.

  Saudi Arabia did it for centuries. Lots of black Africans were brought over to work there, but notice that there are essentially no black people in Saudi Arabia. There is a reason.

  We don't even have to make eunuchs. India already has a bunch of them. They are the answer to our troubles.

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• Re:safer policy: eunuchs only (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @10:38PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @10:38PM (#685965)

  Lots of black Africans were brought over to work there, but notice that there are essentially no black people in Saudi Arabia.

  Obviously, you haven't seen very many Saudis. From under what rock did you send this little comment? Just asking.

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