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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 Wednesday May 30 2018, @08:15AM
I am below the poverty line already, and these are the jobs that I do for a living now. And yes, it's very comfortable in my McMansion. It should be. I built most of it with my own hands. I live in one of the poorest areas of the US and over the last ten years have gained quite a bit of insight into why people are poor.
Anyway, having a paid off mcmansion (see the building it myself part), almost 100% of everything I make...about 20k/year, goes to me and whatever I want to buy. Try spending 20k on amazon, i ran out of things to buy in less than 2 years. Guy down the road from me also built his own mcmansion, made all of his own furniyure too - from lumber he cut down and milled himself. I didn't go that far, but still the material bill was just over 25k$ and I has the concrete pad professionally done for $2500.
20k/year = 1200/month. That's a vacation on the trans siberial railway every other month after insurance
It's also $40/day on amazon or ebay (see again the part about running out of things to buy