Posted on 03/22/2018 6:25:21 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The GOP’s business-first leadership has expanded the H-2B visa-worker program, so reducing marketplace pressure on companies to offer higher wages to Americans just months before the November election. The pre-election giveaway is buried on page 1760 of the 2232-page 2018 omnibus bill, where language allows the Department of Homeland Security to greatly expand the size of the H-2B visa-worker program up to roughly 100,000 imported workers:
SEC. 205. Notwithstanding the [66,000] numerical limitation set forth in section 214(g)(1)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184(g)(1)(B)), the Secretary of Homeland Security, after consultation with the Secretary of Labor, and upon the determination that the needs of American businesses cannot be satisfied in fiscal year 2018 with United States workers who are willing, qualified, and able to perform temporary nonagricultural labor, may increase the total number of aliens who may receive a visa under section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b)) in such fiscal year above such limitation by not more than the highest number of H–2B nonimmigrants who participated in the H–2B returning worker program in any fiscal year in which returning workers were exempt from such numerical limitation.
The jargon gives the green light to Senators and Representatives to pressure DHS leaders until unless they agree to hand out more H-2B visas to the politicians’ local employers.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Trump’s businesses thank them.
Over this? Trump's businesses utilize dozens of H-2Bs. He's not going to veto over this.
Let the free market work for all USA labor as it seems to be used as the excuse for an overpaid Hollywood and the CEO managers.
When wages get high enough mechanization will take over. We needed mechanization and cotton gins many years ago and then we would have avoided slavery and the civil war and all the ensuing economic, criminal, and political problems.
You get what you pay for. Pay minimum wage, get minimum employee.
Sounds to me like a back door attempt to expand H1B....
Offer tech jobs as short term contracts, claim they are H2B, rather than permanent H1B.... so you can play slight of hand with doing something..
Maybe I am wrong.. but that’s my read on this.
Totally agreed, central_va!
Let employers design their seasonal jobs to attract college students, or mothers, or whatever. Let them pay better and let them consider more the working conditions they are providing.
Half the time our government seems to be fretting about automation putting people out of work and half the time they are worrying about how to import more low-skill workers.
It is the investment in automation that increase worker productivity and allows workers to earn more. And we already have more than enough low-skill folks of our own to find good jobs for!
I agree. Tighten up the border, cut back on foreign work visas, and the market will do its magic.
One of the big problems is that when it gets harder to find work, people get out of the habit of even looking for work. Kids who don’t expect to be hired don’t try to get hired. It causes all kinds of social ills beyond just unemployment itself.
A kind of cultural pessimism sets in.
Rising wages and tight labor markets force companies to treat their employees well, and train workers instead of just importing them. And it teaches people that with a job their lives can be better.
You got that right! If he signs that I’m through as there is no escaping the UNI-PARTY’s treachery! It’s just a SLOWER boil voting for the Rep party!
We have not been represented by these self-serving asses for many years.
The party does not matter. They lie, cheat, and steal to get into office and then go the way of their big donors.
This has become no different than the situation in the 1700s of the colonists who were not represented by the distant parliament.
Hopefully, Trump will veto this sham budget and let the fake shutdown occur. The shutdown only cuts off military and specified non-essential (politically) functions. The criminals in the house and senate have exempted themselves. They punish the military, military retirees and others in the government who have no power to object and then scare the mass of rubes out there about shutting down the government.
Once again, we approach a 1776 moment of no taxation without representation. We had many of these moments during the reign of the Kenyan. How far is far enough?
The Bush League Republicans will do anything to keep the Cheap Labor Express running.
An H2B visa is a temporary work visa for foreign workers with a job offer for seasonal, non-agricultural work in the US. The H2B visa program is open to nationals of countries designated by the United States Secretary of Homeland Security and is capped at 66, 000 visas per year (from October 1 - September 30).
Unfortunately, page 1760 of the bill allows for the increase of almost double the amount visas allowed and will take multiple thousands of jobs away from American citizens. How is that American first?
rwood
Right, they love to cry about how they have to hire illegals and the media likes to use agriculture as the scapegoat for all illegals being here, blah, blah, blah.
The bottom line is about 3% of illegals work in the agriculture industry, I imagine it is much cheaper to hire illegals because no one is monitoring their pay, housing, or other conditions, and, H2A provides a LEGAL WAY to bring in VETTED people from 85 participating countries (yes, Mexico and even s-hole countries like Haiti are included).
H2A is not cheap, heavily regulated by DOL (which moved from DC to Chicago early in 0’s administration and became much more complicated and expensive), approved housing mus be provided, travel expenses and cost of temporary visa paid for by employer, etc. Participants do not get to travel on their own and if they commit even the slighted infraction, or miss their bus/plane home, they are kicked out of the program permanently.
It’s a very necessary program, and cutting through a bunch of the bullshiff paperwork bureaucracy might make it more appealing to all the employers who insist they have to hire illegals.
I kind of get that the hospitality industry has a hard time finding employees who can work the entire season, as it does not coincide exactly with summer break for college students and hiring locals can be costly because the season is long enough to trigger unemployment when they are laid off.
Now, H1B is a completely different program and ticks me off because those are not seasonal jobs and there seems to be plenty of college kids looking for tech jobs....
They still don’t get it that 100M from the Koch Brothers, still only equates to 2 votes.
The Bush Plan of pi**ing off the Base is still their plan.
Nothing is as expensive as “cheap labor”.
Also do these jobs normally have any benefits or is the local taxpayer supposed to pay for their medical care?
NO.IT IS NOT.
From what I gather the H2 program is a way for the hospitality industry to get attractive white kids to work instead of hiring surly ugly Democratic voters. Many Afrikaners have used this to earn some money, so it is not the worst thing in the world.
Oh Sweet Jesus! central_va, must we have this argument again?
Can you let me know what your authority is on the topic of agriculture or ag labor?
They are not insane. They are in the process of deliberately tanking the midterms.
The drums of CW 2.0 beat in the distance.
#NotWinning
#DemsWin
#RINOsWin
Does Trump even want to win in 2020?
Soros controls more than just a few.
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