Posted on 03/06/2019 1:32:58 AM PST by blueplum
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's U.S. senators are working with a bipartisan group of colleagues to call for an increased number of work visas to help small businesses find seasonal workers.
Republican Susan Collins and independent Angus King are asking the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to bump the number of H-2B visas...They want the department to increase the 66,000 cap on the visas to more than 135,000.
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MORE Somali's ?
Yer out of yer ever luvin' MIND !
AYUP !
Should H-2B visas be issued to a particular State?
Sure, right after they vote to provide enough money to build the wall.
So we’re saying that Maine now has 100% employment? No full time welfare recipients laying about? How about able bodied homeless? High school grads? Moms needing part time work? Elderly?
they’re supposed to be per company, company to jump hoops to get them.
Maine has a population of 1.4 million - only about 2/3rds more people than the asylum seekers that have applied in the last year at the border, many of whom are now eligible for EADs, which have a 150 day waiting period. So if Maine cannot find a single American soul that wants to work in their state, let Maine and the rest hire/babysit them. What better way for ‘refugees’ to learn America than in the tourist service industry while waiting for their asylum denied hearings. “Seasonal worker” problem solved and the rejected asylum seeker goes home with a job skill and some money in their pockets.
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/asylum-applicants-work-permit-timing-32297.html
So Maine thinks it needs 70,000 foreign workers, and that by increasing the number nationwide, it fixes their problem?
Yeah, I don’t think so.
Bingo, stop standing in the way and we get control of the southern border, then we’ll talk.
It’s called wage inflation. Want more workers? Pay them more. Importing foreign filth is called wage deflation and America is sick of it.
Are they kidding? That woman stands in Trumps way when he’s trying to keep the country safe and then wants something from us? She wants seasonal workers? Who pays their welfare benefits when it’s off season. NO!
“Seasonal workers”? And who is going to support them during the off season? The taxpayers?
It never ceases to amaze me that businesses managed to thrive on college kid labor before the foreigner deluge. Get with it, Maine. Americans first.
They need to STRIP MINE the plentiful resources of the parasite community.
(and deport all Somali criminals)
Maine is too white; the senators feel that must change.
“So we’re saying that Maine now has 100% employment? No full time welfare recipients laying about? How about able bodied homeless? High school grads? Moms needing part time work? Elderly?”
If a company facing a full employment situation wants to hire, then it has to bump up wages or benefits to do so. The companies in question are trying to hold the line on costs. I can tell you there is a point in the cost equation where even I, now retired, would go back to work. I can’t blame the companies for wanting to make more profit and hold down costs. However, bringing in foreign cheap labor that lives up to six to a room is not the answer as far as me as a citizen is concerned. Hold the line, Trump!
They used to import people from eastern Europe for the summer when wages were low there. Now they want filth from the turd world at a discount. Eff’em
Management in one of Maine’s most successful healthcare businesses last year admitted that instead of increasing wages that it was going to go for foreign workers. Admitted that low wage workers would be competing on a world market.
this is a step in their plan.
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