A significant foreign worker increase that House Republicans sneaked into their Department of Homeland Security (DHS) budget plan should be scrapped, according to experts at the Heritage Foundation.
Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee want to dramatically increase the number of foreign workers within the American labor market at the same time as statistics from each year reveal millions of Americans are having difficulty getting back into and staying in their places of employment.
The Republicans’ $91.5 billion DHS budget measure would remove restrictions on blue-collar immigration, resulting in a surge of foreign workers competing for employment with working-class Americans under the H-2A and H-2B visa programs.
The law essentially relaxes the requirements for H-2A agricultural visas, allowing more firms involved in the agriculture sector to hire foreign workers, and also reformats the program so that occupations are no longer required to be seasonal or temporary.
By guaranteeing that foreign employees who entered the country on H-2B visas in the previous three years wouldn’t be counted against the yearly maximum of around 66,000, the measure further broadens the H-2B non-agricultural visa program. The proposal may result in at least 200,000 more foreign employees on H-2B visas entering the American job market.
Republicans are being urged by Heritage Foundation’s Lora Ries and R.J. Hauman to remove the bill’s foreign worker increase because “such significant modifications to legal immigration policies should be discussed and voted on through the authorizing committees, not slipped into an appropriations measure.”
According to the Washington Post, Representative Andrew Clyde (R-GA) tried to get the foreign worker expansion removed from the measure, but Representatives Dan Newhouse (R-WA) and David Valadao (R-CA), who receive a lot of funding from agriculture special interest organizations, reprimanded him.
Both the H-2A and H-2B visa systems are rife with abuse and fraud, as Breitbart News has shown for years. American businesses have been caught cutting workers’ pay, firing Americans and hiring foreigners, and engaging in labor trafficking.
Black Americans received a settlement earlier in the year after they were sacked and replaced with foreign H-2A visa laborers from South Africa at two American farms near the Mississippi Delta.
Just a suggestion. When you say reps……how about some info on them. We just might like to know who they are and hopefully remember at election time. Also how about also telling us where the speaker of the house stands. Was he for or against the bill? Seems he just might not have been the best one for the job, sorry to say 🙁
There selling there souks to the devil for the all mighty buck look at the trucking industry. 40 years ago there were red bloded Americans driving these trucks black white now they bring in all these foreigners to drive trucks and cheap out the wages and bring down rates while American people subsidize these people with trucks with our tax dollars and drive out the American owned owners go broke and the small owner operates can’t compete due to cheap rate , high insurance and over priced diesel. You all will find out that your way of life will crumble if these trucks stop rolling when there is no food to put on your table in these big cities but don’t worry a country boy will survive ask Hank Williams jr and you all think it’s just a song
Just more crimes. I don’t know how many trucking businesses had to dump their business because Obana allowed Mexican trucks into the USA and delivered In every state. The USA trucker who lost their trucks to the banks, then our government bought the trucks and sent them to Mexico. Most of the time they were not safe, no insurance, no CA driver’s license or a driver’s license for our country. We don’t know how many illegal immigrants or drug were brought across the borders. I remember many times the BP, HWP, Deputy would find a trailer with illegals in it, some dead, but the drugs and human trafficking is the worst we have experienced. School shooting and teaching is the worst I have experienced. Prayers for our country and the world. Stop the abuse of our government not stopping the caravan people and closing the borders. I am fed up with Biden and his gang
Bullshit
These are the same worthless neocons who claim to be conservative and then attack true conservatives like Donald Trump while kissing ass to left wing radicals like Obama and Biden. These are the same kind of “conservatives” as the Bush family. I don’t trust them anymore than I do Biden. And they’ve been pushing for wide open borders just as long as the sanctuary city commiecrats have. They’re just doing it for a different reason. With them it’s all about keeping American wages low. With the commiecrats it’s all about importing left wing votes.
Living in Florida with high heat and humidity, I can tell you for a fact that ONLY Mexican or Central Americans are ready and willing to harvest crops grown in
Florida. I recall the days when there were thousands of orange groves and it was impossible to find a white person picking oranges in cooler weather. Now there are fewer orange groves. Also, when Verizon years ago was burying undergrown cable, they had to use Mexicans because NO ONE was willing to dig ditches 5 feet deep. I recall seeing them up to their necks working. Always polite and hard worker people.
This is the result of LAZY F***ING AMERICANS with no significant job skills who refuse to accept the fact that they have to settle for crap jobs they deserve. It doesn’t help when these losers know they can make more $ sitting at home.
Our school system is worthless. Kids can’t ready or write. They can’t fill out a hard copy of resume. Don’t know how to sign a signature. The kids in college are getting same education I got in 6 graduate. But I had history, not lesbians and gays lifestyle classes.