{"id":24445,"date":"2021-04-23T11:11:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T15:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24445"},"modified":"2021-04-23T11:11:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T15:11:42","slug":"biden-h2b-season-worker-increase-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/04\/23\/biden-h2b-season-worker-increase-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising Foreign Worker Cap, Biden Turns Against Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Biden administration\u2019s move to raise the ceiling on H-2B seasonal work visas<\/a> has angered some of the president\u2019s most loyal supporters. With millions of Americans unemployed, 10 labor unions<\/a> warn that the decision to add 22,000 slots to the existing 66,000 annual H-2B allotment will \u201cexpose more workers to the egregious abuses that pervade the program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expanding H-2B is a perverse response to the White House\u2019s self-inflicted border crisis. As oncoming waves of asylum seekers are issued work authorization papers, they will be hunting for jobs. The H-2B categories of semi-skilled, non-agricultural labor \u2013 including landscaping, horse training, fisheries, restaurants, the hospitality industry and even carnivals<\/a> — are prime targets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But accommodating one bad policy (open borders) with another just compounds the problem. As the AFL-CIO<\/a> has noted: \u201cThe H-2B program displaces U.S. workers, lowers wages and exposes foreign workers to exploitation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FAIR<\/a> called the administration\u2019s action \u201cnothing short of a kick in the teeth to the blue-collar workers President Biden claims to champion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North America\u2019s Building\nTrades Unions, United Food and Commercial Workers, UNITE HERE and more than a\nhalf-dozen other unions want to \u201crevamp the H-2B system to provide enhanced\nworker protections.\u201d These could include denying H-2B certifications in\nindustries with an unemployment rate exceeding 6 percent, and barring employers\nwho violate wage and safety laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the unions appear content to tinker around the margins, unemployment in the bottom quartile<\/a> of the labor pool remains painfully high. Infusing this struggling sector of the economy with more unskilled foreign workers is both nonsensical and abusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The administration put out\nthe usual blather about requiring employers to certify that U.S. workers are\nnot available, but there is zero chance this requirement will be enforced. The\nreality is that Americans will have to compete with an additional 22,000\nforeign workers who can legally take their jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmerican voters turned to\nJoe Biden last November to unify our nation and lead us out of a historic\ncrisis. It\u2019s hard to imagine that chaotic borders and a wholesale giveaway of\nAmerican jobs is what they had in mind,\u201d said FAIR President Dan Stein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Biden administration\u2019s move to raise the ceiling on H-2B seasonal work visas has angered some of the president\u2019s most loyal supporters. With millions of Americans unemployed, 10 labor unions warn that the decision to add 22,000 slots to the existing 66,000 annual H-2B allotment will \u201cexpose more workers to the egregious abuses that pervade<\/p>\n

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