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Coronavirus Package Allows Feds to Import More Foreign Workers as 17.8M Americans are Jobless
Breitbart ^ | 12/21/2020 | John Binder

Posted on 12/22/2020 5:27:37 AM PST by xomething

A spending bill, labeled as a relief package for Americans during the Chinese coronavirus crisis, will allow federal bureaucrats to import more foreign workers to take blue-collar jobs in the United States – even as 17.8 million Americans remain jobless.

A provision slipped into the more than 5,590-page spending bill allows the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Labor Department to import more foreign labor competition against Americans at their discretion.

Specifically, the bill gives DHS the ability to “increase the total number” of H-2B foreign visa workers who can be brought into the U.S. to take blue-collar, nonagricultural jobs that would otherwise go to working class Americans.

DHS Secretaries over the last four years have repeatedly allowed businesses to import more H-2B foreign visa workers above the annual cap of 66,000. Continuation of the policy would come as 24.5 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed. About 17.8 million of those are jobless.

The H-2B visa program has been widely used by businesses to drag down the wages of American workers in landscaping, conservation work, the meatpacking industry, the construction industry, and fishing jobs, a 2019 study from the Center for Immigration Studies finds.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bot; coronavirus; immigration; postandrun

1 posted on 12/22/2020 5:27:37 AM PST by xomething
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To: xomething

Somebody please tell me which cretin put this into that horrid bill.

I want names.


2 posted on 12/22/2020 5:29:43 AM PST by sauropod (Cui bono? I will not comply.)
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To: xomething

That is insane!


3 posted on 12/22/2020 5:32:12 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: xomething
We have been sold out. Treason, cry treason!
4 posted on 12/22/2020 5:34:33 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: xomething

The lunatics in Congress are revealing that they really don’t care about us.


5 posted on 12/22/2020 5:37:11 AM PST by KittyKares (Trump won the election)
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To: sauropod

So let’s say we get the “names” and we decide they should be voted out......

IT IS TIME TO TAKE WASHINGTON DC.


6 posted on 12/22/2020 5:38:00 AM PST by Toespi
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To: xomething

Good! This is awesome. The ruling class has figured out no one watches, no one cares. The only ones paying attention to what the ruling class does are “right wing extremists”.

The only way for the sheeple to pay attention is for the ruling class, (notice I say ruling, not governing), to run roughshod over the sheeple. If that doesn’t generate attention and concern, they we’re doomed anyway.


7 posted on 12/22/2020 5:38:17 AM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: xomething

Let’s get all of our goodies in the bill in the middle of darkness. The American people will not know. They will be happy with their $600.


8 posted on 12/22/2020 5:39:39 AM PST by LoveMyFreedom (That i would not doubt)
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To: LoveMyFreedom

The Fed Govt. plus both houses are pure trash. Look at Barr. Add the CIA, FBI, State Dept, DHS etc. Our Fed prosecutors do zip against other crooks like them.


9 posted on 12/22/2020 6:05:12 AM PST by Lumper20 (If one never served in war-He/she should never be a Gov. Department head.)
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To: xomething

Isn’t this what the free traitors supported?


10 posted on 12/22/2020 6:09:15 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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To: LoveMyFreedom
Let’s get all of our goodies in the bill in the middle of darkness. The American people will not know. They will be happy with their $600.

Yes. Most will go directly to the purchase of a PS5 or X-Box Series X.
11 posted on 12/22/2020 6:09:46 AM PST by TexasGunLover
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To: KittyKares
The lunatics in Congress are revealing that they really don’t care about us.

They never have. This should not surprise anyone.

12 posted on 12/22/2020 6:10:49 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

“Isn’t this what the free traitors supported?”

FR used to be infested with them. Where did they all go?


13 posted on 12/22/2020 6:40:29 AM PST by dljordan
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