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To: HamiltonJay
H-2B visas are mostly for restaurant and hotel workers during high-volume seasonal periods.

In some places it could be during summer months when school is out (theme parks, water parks, camp grounds, etc.

In Florida, it is during the winter months when snowbirds from the north flee the cold, and southern hemisphere wealthy flee the stifling hot summers.

During the 2016 election, never-Trumpers made a big deal of Trump's use of H-2B workers from eastern Europe at his Mar-a-lago hotel, by intentionally confusing the furor over the Disney H-1B fiasco where they laid off career IT workers and forced them to train their replacements.

I don't expect a cross-over between the two, since H-2B is for seasonal unskilled labor and H-1B is for highly skilled labor where there is longer-term shortage of workers. We're not going to turn bartenders and maids into programmers and web designers.

-PJ

47 posted on 03/22/2018 9:17:47 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Yes, I know that’s its ‘stated’ intent.. but H1B’s stated intent was originally only to find foreign workers for jobs they could not find native workers for, and look how that wound up.

Tech is full of short term contract work... can easily see them gaming the system on this.


48 posted on 03/22/2018 9:22:35 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Political Junkie Too

Excellent points...don’t expect much support for your clear logic here though.


49 posted on 03/22/2018 9:24:00 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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