Posted on 02/15/2022 8:46:58 AM PST by MarvinStinson
A group of Senate Republicans has joined Senate Democrats to demand President Joe Biden import more H-2B foreign visa workers to take working-class, blue-collar American jobs.
On Monday, 17 Senate Republicans signed a letter with 17 Senate Democrats that urges Biden to “release the maximum allowable number of additional” H-2B foreign visa workers to inflate the labor market despite more than 12 million Americans remaining jobless, though all want full-time employment.
The senators also asked Biden to speed up the process so U.S. employers could get foreign visa workers quicker into blue-collar American jobs, often in construction, landscaping, the tourism industry, and other occupations.
“Without meaningful H-2B cap relief, many seasonal businesses will be forced to scale back operations, cancel or default on contracts, lay off full-time U.S. workers, and, in some cases, close operations completely,” the senators wrote.
The 17 Republicans who signed the letter are:
Kevin Cramer (R-ND) Mike Rounds (R-SD) Lindsey Graham (R-SC) James Risch (R-ID) Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Roy Blunt (R-MO) Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) John Cornyn (R-TX) Mike Crapo (R-ID) John Thune (R-SD) Susan Collins (R-ME) Pat Toomey (R-PA) Roger Wicker (R-MS) Jerry Moran (R-KS) Rand Paul (R-KY) John Barrasso (R-WY) Tim Scott (R-SC)
The 17 Democrats who signed the letter are:
Angus King (I-ME) Chris Coons (D-DE) Michael Bennet (D-CO) Robert Menendez (D-NJ) Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) Raphael Warnock (D-GA) Thomas Carper (D-DE) Joe Manchin (D-WV) Mark Warner (D-VA) John Hickenlooper (D-CO) Tim Kaine (D-VA) Tina Smith (D-MN) Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) Ron Wyden (D-OR) Mark Kelly (D-AZ) Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
“The White House and Congressional Democrats are hell-bent on eliminating any meaningful limits or restrictions on immigration, but Republicans still can’t unify behind doing the opposite,” RJ Hauman with the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) told Breitbart News..
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Babylon Bee?.......................
Hardly. Many of those want to do nothing but sit around and collect government checks.
If you ever get the feeling politicians care about Americans, here’s some evidence to disabuse you of that foolish notion.
Lindsey Graham
Lisa Murkowski
Roy Blunt
John Cornyn
John Thune
Susan Collins
Pat Toomey
Rand Paul
Tim Scott
What’s wrong with the ones hopin’ the fence?
Zactly. Sad condition when we have to import workers. Guess a masters in Himalayan queer midgets just doesn’t go far.
But no Romney. Strange.
What are these jobs that American citizens are not educated enough for?
R = Retard
And this is why a red wave won’t mean sh!t! Trump supported alot of these @ssholes to get re-elected, and the rat infultrationwill still be there until thier terms end.
The usual village idiots who just got their monthly check from the Puppet Masters.
The “hold your nose and vote for the RINO because we need a majority in the house and senate” caucus on this site believes that RINOs like Lisa Murkowski and Lindsey Graham are better than Democrats. The fact is that RINOs like Murkowski and Graham do far more damage from the inside than the Democrats do from the outside.
If a RINO is defeated by a Democrat, it means that a conservative can be elected in 6 years, as opposed to a backstabbing RINO inflicting damage for 30 years.
The house and senate will never adopt a conservative agenda if people keep reelecting RINOs.
Rand Paul was unexpected.
Rand Paul opposed Trump’s wall under the National Emergency Act. Now he supports importing foreign workers.
It's time for a new party, is what it is.
There have been so many years of infiltration. Everything is well infiltrated.
This is supposed to be temporary, seasonal workers. But as we all know, there is nothing temporary that ever comes out of DC.
The first thing these H-2B “workers” do is look to start a family so they have an anchor baby and cannot be removed back to their original country. It’s a huge scam to bring in slave labor and then have the local citizens to pick up the tab.
He’s a weird dude.
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