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

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.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday May 29 2018, @10:38PM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 29 2018, @10:38PM (#685966) Journal

    poverty doesn't lead to people reproducing

    Hasn't been true throughout the world. High fertility associated with poverty is a known thing. They need those extra bodies because a) they need the additional labor to make ends meet, and b) due to high infant and child mortality associate with poverty, they need more bodies in order to improve the odds of some surviving long enough to reproduce.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @08:09PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @08:09PM (#686452)

    That's not poverty causing people to fuck. That's people in poverty trying to get out of poverty by making an intelligent choice (e.g., I need more farmhands). Alas, those intelligent thinkers are lost in the overwhelming noise that is the population of low-quality people who are not only fucking for no good reason, but also fucking in a way that yields new sentient beings.

    You're wrong. Your interpretation of the data is, as usual, wrong.

    Poverty doesn't cause reproduction; rather, reproduction causes poverty.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday June 02 2018, @03:12AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday June 02 2018, @03:12AM (#687557) Journal

      That's not poverty causing people to fuck.

      Fuck != reproduction.

      Your interpretation of the data is, as usual, wrong.

      If we're to discuss data, then perhaps you should bring some up rather than just talk out of your ass. I'll note that there is a massive global decline in human fertility. It didn't happen because the world became magically less dumb.