Numbers USA says, Tell Congress not to expand low-skilled guest worker program
Each year, the federal government issues 66,000 H-2B visas to low-skilled foreign workers to fill jobs that are seasonal or temporary in nature. But American workers with a high school degree or less depend on these jobs and are instead forced to compete with foreign workers. Nearly half of working-aged American workers with less than a high school degree are out of work.
Last year, Congress exempted returning foreign workers from the H-2B cap, in effect, quadrupling the number of H-2B visas issued each year. This exemption expires on Sept. 30 unless Congress extends it into FY2017.
Please send a message to your three Members of Congress and urge them to oppose an extension of the H-2B provision for FY2017.
4 comments:
So what - We have too many regulations as it is. Many people from the U.S. live in foreign countries or stay for extended periods of time. And, many of those people work in those countries. If more Americans would travel the world more, they might realize that we are all basically the same.
If a high schooler wants a summer job but can't find one, they probably aren't looking very hard or aren't being very creative.
I guess now Trump is going to have to hire Armericans for his low end seasonal jobs at his golf resorts and hotels... And maybe then he'll provide benefits for all his workers and not use the H2B visa programs to skirt the domestic workforce by shipping in and back out the thousands of cheaper, low skill foreign workers. He has always gamed the system, and his wall is just a testosterone fueled scheme to make stupid people think it will solve the southern immigration issue, and divert attention to the fact of how he actually operates - fly the cheap labor in on the H2B visa and back out at the end of the usefulness (and visa).
Hey, doesn't that basically equate to shipping jobs overseas? Mr Trump, why don't you lead by example for a change and quit using the H2B visa program to fill the low skill, low wage jobs that so many Ameicans young and uneducated need?
He has answered that question. And he will definitely lead by example but as said, American low-wage workers would rather get welfare than work.
Trump has stated publicly that he cannot find Americans to take the jobs his properties give to foreign guest workers. "You cannot get help during the season. The season goes from like October to March. It's almost impossible to get help," Trump said earlier in the campaign, responding to why he hired foreign guest workers at his Mar-a-Lago club. "And part of the reason you can't get American people is they want full time jobs."
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