Posted on 02/02/2026 4:51:13 PM PST by chickenlips
The Trump administration has quietly decided to allow employers to import 65,000 extra H-2B visa migrants for jobs that would otherwise pay decent wages to ordinary American who vote in the midterm elections.
The visa giveaway is part of President Trump’s zig-zagging between the two sides of his coalition — the voters he needs on election day, and the business donors who provide the funds for political campaigns.
Meanwhile, the national media is ignoring the visa giveaway to business because it is focused on the left-wing street groups who are trying to block the deportation of criminal and wage-cutting illegal migrants from Minneapolis.
“They announced that they were going to release 35,000 [in December], but apparently business owners have complained, so they’re going to release all [66,000],” said Rosemary Jenks, founder of the Immigration Accountability Project.
The industry group that leads the effort is the landscapers’ lobby, AmericanHort, which asked for the extra visas in December:
The H-2B program places many requirements on employers to recruit U.S. workers, and our members try to find as many U.S. workers as they can. In these unprecedented times, there are simply not enough workers to meet the seasonal workforce needs of U.S. employers. The most current employment data illustrate the workforce struggles of seasonal businesses nationwide.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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NOOO!
” In these unprecedented times, there are simply not enough workers to meet the seasonal workforce needs of U.S. employers.”
H1B foreigners are not “seasonal”. They are displacements of Americans in high paying jobs!
I need to start voting democrat since the republicans won’t protect me as an American I might as well get welfare and shi*t!
Why is Trump so friendly to India? Serious question.
Stabbed in the back by Donnie big Lie again.
Screw the Serfs .
More Indian JOB stealers for his Billionaire pals .
Donnie is ramming thru all the goodies for his Pals before the midterm wipe out shuts his billionaire gravy train .
How many Indian stealers jobs did Trump Enterprises get.
Enjoy your impeachment .
I don’t like it either but you sound like that bitch mtg.
Fed up
And do are alot of us .
The midterms will show how fed
Sorry for the messy reply .
Trump lies to us and fed his pals at our expense .
His is selling us out while peddling his phony America First
Lie.
Watch his actions not his BS to us Serfs .
Hate to break to the folks here but Trump really has little regard for Joe or Jane Six pack...But it is much more than the Democrats do..they literally hate the Average Working Man...
Then you are responding Natalie from an aiding the left,.
And voting for Ratlanders or not voting will make it better?
How?
I don’t understand his unwillingness to put real pressure on the PRC! However I know Ratlanders would be worse.
The hen you aid the left.
More big, ol’, fat big-business Republicanism.
Taking a bullet for America gives him wide berth from me. And also closing the border and stoping migration. You will probably sit on ut 2028 , also, since you’re hero is going nowhere, and Vance will be the Nominee.
Ugh. This is a huge disappointment. Trump has been great in so many ways on immigration issues. But the business lobby (who do not care if they turn the US into the third world) only care about profits. And, as someone has already posted, the business lobby donates a lot of campaign cash, so they have the politicians’ ears.
I’m not going to aid people who want me dead.
Article states H2-B workers which are seasonal/temporary.
ICE is rounding up illegals, many of whom are just simple day laborers.
While at the same time, Trump is allowing in tens of thousands of Indians.
There is a difference. But the apparent hypocrisy is bound to confuse independent, middle-of-the-road Americans. And that could mean trouble on Election Day.
Mid terms will end this party.
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