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.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by Thexalon on Tuesday May 29 2018, @09:04PM (1 child)
It's not hard to explain why, either: Blatant public racism has only been socially frowned-upon for about 35-40 years, and lots of people are older than that. The people who spent part of the 1970's holding signs like We won't go to school with Negroes [ytimg.com] were somewhere around 14-18 years old then, and that would make them (barring injury or illness) around 55-60 years old now. And there are people 20 years older than them, in the 70-80-year-old range, who were in the mid-1950's spitting on and beating up black kids trying to go to school after Brown v Board of Education. Some of the folks in nursing homes now participated in lynchings back then, and the "racist grandma" is common enough to be a popular culture trope.
The past is not as far back as you might think, and any image of the history of the Civil Rights Movement that suggests that its goals were completely achieved, much less achieved shortly after the 1963 March on Washington and "I Have a Dream", is flat wrong.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ben_white on Tuesday May 29 2018, @09:31PM
The past isn't dead. It isn't even past.