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Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin is criticizing President Donald Trump for failing to protect blue-collar Americans from companies that prefer to hire H-2B visa workers.

Voters overwhelmingly want companies to train and hire Americans before importing more legal immigrants or visa workers.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blocked a push by Maine Democrat Rep. Chellie Pingree to double the inflow of foreign blue-collar H-2B workers up to almost 140,000, according to complaints by employers of the visa workers. 

Joe Biden is promising investors that he will flood the white-collar labor market with a huge inflow of cheap foreign graduates, but he is offering only paperwork protections to the millions of U.S. graduates who will lose jobs, salaries, and careers.

Americans who oppose large-scale immigration are  “snakes and vermin,” says one of the most moderate columnists at the New York Times. 

Thirty-four Republicans voted December 11 to amnesty at least one million illegals and also to import a wave of cheap visa-workers who will lower wages throughout the farm workforce, which includes at least one million American workers.

Nearly all House Democrats, plus a group of 34 Republicans, voted Wednesday to approve an amnesty for illegal farmworkers and to outsource more of the nation’s farm workforce to cheap H-2A visa workers.

The United Food and Commercial Workers union and several other left-wing, anti-poverty groups are opposing the Democrats’ amnesty-for-cheap-labor deal, which faces a vote in the House today.

President Donald Trump’s deputies say he will veto the Democrats’ pending drug bill — but have not threatened to veto a Democrat bill to amnesty at least 1 million illegals and encourage foreign H-2A visa workers to take agriculture jobs from American agriculture workers. 

Reform groups are pressuring GOP and Democrat legislators to vote against a draft bill that would amnesty at least 500,000 illegal farmworkers and replace them with an expanding inflow of government-delivered, powerless, and low-wage H-2A visa workers.

The House will vote Wednesday to approve or reject a bill that offers fraud-prone amnesty for illegal migrants who claim to have worked on a farm.

The pending farmworker amnesty drafted by Democrats and business groups is likely to block the development and use of labor-saving machinery throughout the labor-intensive farm sector.

Much of the agriculture sector applauded Democrats on the House judiciary committee who passed their joint amnesty-for-cheap-workers bargain in a party-line vote, 18 to 12.

An alliance of business groups and Democrats has drafted a deal that cuts farmworkers’ wages for many years in a swap for amnesty.

The House judiciary committee will debate and vote Wednesday on a bill to award multiple amnesties to the agriculture industry’s large illegal-immigrant workforce.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants Congress to loosen the wages for the migrants who will provide the nation’s agricultural workforce under the Democrats’ pending farmworker amnesty bill.

House leaders will introduce a farmworker amnesty plan on Wednesday that will provide citizenship to at least one million illegal migrants and to a future flood of visa workers who agree to work on U.S. farms for eight years.

Republican legislators are working with Democrats to pass an amnesty for roughly one million illegal migrant farm laborers, according to a top Democrat staffer.

The scandal-plagued but little-known J-1 visa program gives 100,000 low-wage and low-tax seasonal workers to McDonald’s, Holiday Inn, Food Lion, Disney, and a myriad other employers who would otherwise have to recruit Americans workers with offers of higher pay.

The White House announced it is helping Guatemala get more H-2A farm worker visas amid growing efforts by pro-migration groups to break Guatamala’s new anti-migration deal with the United States.

Jared Kushner’s effort to craft an immigration and wage compromise is reportedly being roiled by the Department of Agriculture’s effort to provide farming companies with many more low-wage visa workers.

DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will allow the importation of 30,000 extra foreign laborers for landscapers, resorts, and other businesses despite President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” promise that has helped raise blue-collar wages by four percent in 2018.

There are no Americans in America and no history of America, just immigrants and their “story,” says a new video by former President George W. Bush’s Bush Center.

American farm companies are gradually replacing their illegal migrant workforce with machinery and with legal temporary workers, according to the Washington Post.

President Donald Trump appears ready to ditch his Inauguration Day promise of a “Hire American” economic policy — even though thousands of auto workers are being laid off, millions of Americans do not have jobs, and many millions of Americans cannot get better-paying jobs.

White House aides are asking business groups — including advocates for the Koch network — what they want to include in a wall-for-amnesty immigration deal.

The wages, productivity, and work satisfaction of blue-collar Americans are rising fast under President Donald Trump’s high pressure, low-immigration economy.

Indian-born Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal says the U.S. economy needs millions of wage-cutting visa workers for lower-skill jobs.

GOP leaders have withdrawn $1.2 million in promised campaign funding for Kansas Rep. Kevin Yoder, who is facing a tough reelection race after endorsing a series of job-outsourcing programs in an August vote, according to TheHill.com.

The owner of a catering and wedding business in New York is facing 20 years in jail for allegedly treating H-2B visa workers from the Philippines as underpaid servants.