[Political Junkie Too]

H-2B visas are given to seasonal employees in non-agricultural related fields that experience high-peak times such as amusement parks and ski resorts.

Right. These are clearly the types of businesses that will be seeing an increase in business during this economic downturn, requiring more foreigners to run them.

What's the real reason for increasing the caps on these workers?

-PJ

[o2bfree]

Sorry, you guys are wrong. Anyone with “specialized skills” can use the H2B visa. See the India Times below.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/articleshow/3451866.cms

WASHINGTON: Driving home the point that he is for creating jobs in the US, Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama has favoured streamlining the process for the high-skilled H2B visas for Indians and other foreigners to make sure that employers were not “gaming” the system.

“For those who don’t know, the H2B visa programme is the programme whereby people with specialised skills, foreign nationals with specialised skills, are supposed to be able to come in and be sponsored by their employer. That’s the idea,” he said at a campaign event in Duryea, Pennsylvania yesterday.