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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, @09:29PM (1 child)
Are you saying that culture is not a problem. Or that culture and race are linked? Why do Asians do so well despite being discriminated against, personally, at least as late the 1990's?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @10:29PM
Because they were never slaves and the prejudice against them is MUCH less than towards black people. My guess is that it is because asians are much closer to being white. You are obviously willfully ignorant in the extreme, ignoring the massive subjugation that only recently has begun to lift. It isn't even gone now, no matter how much you pretend. In fact, your exact comment is the proof you bigoted piece of shit racist dirtbag. I am 100% intolerant of you and your ilk, every single time you racist fucks are the worst of the worst not only to minorities.