Posted on 04/17/2020 11:36:14 AM PDT by NobleFree
A new rule issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Agriculture Department (USDA) allows H-2A foreign visa workers to remain in the United States for longer than three years.
Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf announced on Wednesday that the agency, in coordination with USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue, will allow American farms to hire H-2A foreign visa workers who are already in the U.S. — bypassing existing rules that require them to hire incoming H-2A foreign visa workers.
The H-2A program allows American farms to import a limitless number of foreign workers and pay them below-average U.S. wages. American farms do not wholly rely on H-2A foreign visa workers to fill agricultural jobs, as the foreign workers make up only about ten percent of the total U.S. crop farm workforce. Last year, U.S. farmers hired roughly 250,000 H-2A foreign visa workers.
The DHS-USDA rule means that H-2A foreign visa workers can stay in the U.S. beyond their three-year residency period without ever having to return to their home countries. [...]
“Providing flexibility for H-2A employers to utilize H-2A workers that are currently in the United States is critically important as we continue to see travel and border restrictions as a result of COVID-19,” Perdue said in a statement.
The rule comes in addition to the State Department’s decision to waive certain visa requirements for all H-2A and H-2B foreign visa workers. The State Department waiver means U.S. employers can fast-track foreign workers with no increased medical screenings while at least 10 million Americans file for unemployment. [...]
“This is nonsense and underscores the need for them to leave outdated practices of the 17th century and enter the 21st through modernization. Before they do that, tens of millions of unemployed Americans are here to help.” [...]
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Sending them home occasionally reminds them that they are actually FOREIGNERS and not Americans.
So of course, that had to end.
They think it would be racist to force American companies to hire Americans
And i thought DHS was created to protect us from another 9/11 islamic attack here in America. Now they are eyeballs deep in the farm labor issue, immigration, how to safely deep fry a turkey for thanksgiving, the sex trade, counterfeit watches, etc.
In short, everything except sunni islam running rampant in America.
Millions of Americans out of work and the first thing DHS does is worry about the welfare of foreign workers. How does this MAGA?
Trump can have a Cheap labor lobbyist with
a American First Election message .
This incompetent traitor needs to go.
The Cheap Labor Express just keeps rolling along........
Right now, the priority is to get food planted and later harvested.
That won't take three years; clearly Chad Swamp Wolf has other priorities.
The Rats love foreigners - so a liability only to the extent that working Americans get pissed off enough to stay home or vote thrid party.
Chad “Douchebag” Wolf should be fired, then tarred and feathered.
Trump ought to take him to the wood shed!!!
Article says “will allow American farms to hire H-2A foreign visa workers who are already in the U.S”.
In other words, allows workers already here to be hired for another season, rather than promising them they can stay another 3 years.
H1Bs next.
Just had a screaming match with a supervisor of one of the Indian recruitment firms, LanceSoft, calling from “Virginia” and then from
“San Diego” who demanded I submit scans of my SS card, a recent photo and my drivers license, in violation of maybe 5 or 6 US laws on this.
Work Location: Dallas (Plano), TX, so I’m guessing InfoSys, who paid out record fines for doing the exact same thing before.
Instead of stepping on that slippery slope, let's hire Americans at the American market wage, i.e. as much as it takes to get Americans to show up and do the job. Foreign labor is welfare for inefficient producers.
May those nice H-2A folks drive like Mr. Breitbart!
LanceSoft has a D- rating from the Better Business Bureau: https://www.bbb.org/us/va/herndon/profile/employment-services/lancesoft-inc-0241-163618623/overview-of-bbb-ratings
Yep. Just had a call from a American VP from LanceSoft. All phone-based recruiters are based in India. In fact, that’s how a vast majority of recruitment companies work. Small admin office in USA, all recruiters calling from a call center in India using VOIP. That’s why the lines are so bloody awful.
Sorry, any picture ID at any time prior to giving express written information permission for an employment screen is a violation of civil rights and EEOC policy - especially those over 40. That’s why American companies don’t require it and don’t even DOB or full social on the initial application.
With your month and day of birth, your last 4 and a photo, the other information can be obtained or generated. When SSNs were only previously required prior to working, many including myself, got in in our hometown. That’s the other 5 digits right there. Same with license number in some states, can be reverse engineered. Did it when I needed a copy of my DL records and forgot my old DL number. Used an online generator, used that number and it was the same as the official, real one when my driver abstract was mailed to me.
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