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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @10:10PM (1 child)
Gee this may be a tough one for you, but social safety nets would be a great start. Universal healthcare, education, basic income. The US already provides most of that already, however the programs are locked behind so much bullshit due to conservatives freaking out about freeloaders that the programs are actually counter productive sometimes. People who want to work are unable to because they can't afford to lose $150 a month in food stamps or whatever.
This is undoubtedly wasted on you, and I have a feeling you are just the violent imposed series of contracts jackass so I can expect more stupidity in reply, but ^ is the point.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @08:03PM
You want to steal from productive people in order to give it to unproductive people who also clone themselves. Great.