Trump officials open border to 15,000 more foreign workers
Source: Washington Post
The Department of Homeland Security on Monday announced a one-time increase of 15,000 additional visas for low-wage seasonal workers for the remainder of this fiscal year, a seeming about-face from President Trump's "Hire American" rhetoric, following heavy lobbying from fisheries, hospitality and other industries that rely on temporary foreign workers.
The increase represents a 45 percent bump from the number of H-2B visas normally issued for the second half of the fiscal year, said senior Homeland Security officials in a call with reporters Monday.
The visas are for workers taking temporary jobs in the seafood, tourism, landscaping, construction and other seasonal industries but not farm laborers.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/17/trump-officials-order-15000-new-visas-for-low-wage-workers/
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Jobs for America!
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Forbidden from hiring foreign visa workers, students on foreign exchange visas. HIRE LOCALS!!
Doodley
(9,093 posts)be "forbidden too?"
Blackjackdavey
(178 posts)I live in one of these places -- I have two teenage boys who would love to work at the local grocery selling worms to campers all summer long. These jobs are taken each year by Russian children (young adults really.) Ditto for the water park, the amusement park and the restaurants. The question doesn't seem to me to be, should they in turn ban my kids? The question that I have is, should my kids need a passport in order to obtain summer employment?
Doodley
(9,093 posts)Blackjackdavey
(178 posts)that requires employers to demonstrate that they exhausted the local labor supply prior to bringing in foreign workers.
Are you suggesting that employers should be able to bring in low wage foreign workers to undercut local opportunities and local salary norms, unabated, no questions asked?
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)have the highest LOCAL unemployment in America because some rich hotel want to hire 100 pretty Colombian girls to serve breakfast in bed to guests.
Doodley
(9,093 posts)there, would the employment rate better?
barbtries
(28,798 posts)they were broadcasting from a tourist town up north i believe. they cannot fill the positions without the foreign workers. the administration's refusal to let immigrants enter was creating a huge problem for these places.
it's just not that simple. some localities do not have a pool of workers for these jobs.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/06/georgias-harsh-immigration-law-costs-millions-in-unharvested-crops/240774/
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/28/520254684/with-fewer-available-h-2b-visas-employers-struggle-to-find-seasonal-workers
cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)the federal poverty level is?
barbtries
(28,798 posts)cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)barbtries
(28,798 posts)i urge you to follow the npr link i provided and listen.
cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)other staff over due to a lack of house keeping as couldnt she simply shift some of the other workers over to helping with it? It just doesnt pass the smell test imo.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,489 posts)Polina Marinova
Mar 21, 2017
IronLionZion
(45,451 posts)In some areas the need for cheap labor was bad enough that the bastard governor of Maine suggested using nonviolent prisoners in the hotels and restaurants there.
Anything to avoid paying a living wage right?
So who knows how many of these are mom and pop shops vs large corporations?
BumRushDaShow
(129,087 posts)Nothing "seeming" about it. It is Drumpf's bullshit and hypocrisy in full effect.
ananda
(28,866 posts).. these visas correspond exactly to 45's businesses
and his son's winery.
Coinkidink?
bucolic_frolic
(43,177 posts)This is not what he promised!
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)Donnie Dim-Wit can do ANYTHING and they're not going to make the slightest noise about it. It's a cult, and the cult master can do NO WRONG. They can justify anything, and always do.
Doodley
(9,093 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,199 posts)cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,199 posts)Then pick up work making wreaths and other holiday decorations in late fall. Here in Texas, the landscape crews often get jobs at the Cristmas tree lots when they're laid off for the winter.
House of Roberts
(5,177 posts)only is to be applicable when it favors employers.
rogue emissary
(3,148 posts)What a way to highlight U.S. goods and employees.
brooklynite
(94,594 posts)dreamland
(964 posts)The guy in the first pic of the article is wearing a work apron with the number "45". We must spread the word to despicable voters that their dear leader tRump is letting these migrant workers through to take their jobs and they should protest by working these jobs because god knows this is honest but hard work that only real Americans should be doing.
larwdem
(758 posts)many of them are for carnival co. setting up rides and games. Check out
[link:carnivalwarehouse.com|