Nope. I think you’re minimizing the impact. It applies to everyone with specialized skills, and that means everyone.
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.
Noting that there are some “highly specialised” areas meant to be covered under it, Obama said:”Let’s say, you know, you need a nuclear physicist in a particular area, and you just can’t find one. And it turns out there’s a guy who is Indian, who fits the bill. And you’ve gone out and you’ve tried to recruit people. ... And your business needs this. That’s what the H2B visa is supposed to be for.”
Obama said:”Let’s say, you know, you need a nuclear physicist in a particular area, and you just can’t find one. And it turns out there’s a guy who is Indian, who fits the bill........as long as the guy that “just can’t be found” is white, you hire the Indian.
Now if the guy who you just can’t find in black or brown...tough luck for that Indian dude.
No, that's what the H-1B has been for. This has been exploited in the USA for at least a decade now. There have been several attempts to raise the H-1B limit, but there has also been pushback on this.
The H-2B "seasonal worker" aspect may be what's being loopholed here. Is that nuclear physicist of yours a seasonal worker who only does nuclear work during the harvest season, for instance?
-PJ