Posted on 04/11/2020 4:54:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
America-Firsters were both perplexed and furious for most of last week as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appeared to be going ahead with its early March announcement to expand the H-2B unskilled guest-worker program to over 100,000 slots a year. With unemployment-benefit applications for March coming in at over 10 million, the last time the job market looked this bad—the Great Depression of the 1930s—immigration authorities sought to help, not hinder, the American worker by creating the nation’s first-ever illegal-alien-removal program.
Late last week, however, due in part to activist pressures, DHS’s interim secretary, Chad Wolf, announced the increase would be paused “due to present economic circumstances.” It was a minor bit of respite for working Americans who were already struggling going into this crippling downturn.
The H-2B guest-worker visa was created in 1986 as part of a congressional law that provided amnesty to over 3 million illegal aliens. Because that law also included a promise to finally put an end to illegal-alien hiring, businesses complaining of impending “worker shortages” were able to secure the right to import temporary foreign workers for a slew of low-skilled industries, including cattle farming, landscaping and hospitality. Agribusiness got its separate, far larger “H-2A” program for farmworkers. Nearly 35 years on, however, the problem of illegal labor is bigger than ever, and H-2B-using businesses still complain about worker shortages.
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Don’t forget about the H-1B scam too. Shut that down PERMANENTLY!!!
Just look at Disney, etal, who hire (cheaper) foreign workers, have the Americans train them, and then fire the Americans. Hey! Why not fire the top brass and replace them with cheaper executives? Bet they wouldn't like that idea...
All through this virus poppycock...they've not missed a lick of work.
“I noticed the crew of Mexicans building the house next door are still working away, blasting their boom box and bellowing to the tune of Messy-can ranchera/norteno music.”
They’re full blast here in Colorado. The landscapers haven’t missed a beat either cause that essential don’t you know.
True. Pelosi and the Indian tech lobby wants to give 500000 Indian H1Bs full rights to change jobs during the Coronavirus (which will then be permanent by proxy) and automatically extend the visa. This will basically grant green cards to these workers. American workers once again take it up the Buttigieg
Mike Lee (R-Utah) is pushing for more Indian H1Bs.
Flimsey Grahamnesty (R-SC) is always pushing for more “guest workers” of every description.
It’s not just a Democrat thing.
True. There are a lot of FreeTraitors here that agree with Mike Lee that Americans are worthless in certain fields (STEM) and we should just start over and work in the trades. Easy for a 20 year-old, extremely difficult for those north of 55 or 60.
Not everyone can work in the mechanical trades or work in the oil patch. (That’s the common retort by the FreeTraitors). It takes years to a decade to be anything but a low-paid apprentice. With apprentice pay. And that’s if you have the mechanical or physical aptitude to work in such skilled fields.
And the work pays no where near the six-figure salaries white collar IT workers command at least for a very very long time.
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