Tag: H-2B

AG Jeff Sessions’ Department of Justice is expanding its initiative to crack down on businesses hiring foreign workers over Americans. 

Rep. Kevin Yoder is tap dancing away from his decisive support for a Democratic amendment which restores President Barack Obama’s catch-and-release border policies. 

The GOP-run House appropriations committee has voted to expand the H-2A visa-worker program so more farmers can import more year-round workers instead of seasonal workers.

The GOP-run House appropriations committee is helping business owners and hurting blue-collar Americans by tripling the resident population of H-2B workers to almost 200,000.

The Department of Homeland Security is drafting recommendations for Congress to reform the H-2B cheap-labor program, according to a July 6 letter to Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate’s judiciary committee. 

President Donald Trump’s federal agencies will allow companies to bring in an additional 15,000 foreign “guest workers” for use in landscaping, forestry, resorts, and seafood processing, say Maryland seafood executives.

Homeland secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told House legislators that the H-2B visa-worker program puts corporate priorities ahead of employees, and also suggested she will soon provide extra visas for companies to hire foreign workers.

The GOP’s business-first leadership has expanded the H-2B visa-worker program, so reducing marketplace pressure on companies to offer higher wages to Americans just months before the November election.

Democratic and GOP legislators in the House and Senate are trying to import additional cheap H-2B seasonal workers, just as voters’ wages are poised to grow before November, according to industry advocates.

Elite support for legal mass immigration is allowing and concealing large-scale illegal discrimination by U.S. employers against American blue-collar workers, says a new report.

The federal H-2B guest-worker program has hollowed out small towns in Montana, Idaho, Oregon and other states by sidelining the many young Americans who want to work in the forests and timber industry, says a detailed report in High Country News.

Far-left Democratic legislators were able to champion American workers Tuesday morning because GOP leaders pushed an outsourcing bill which would allow food-industry companies to hire a million minimum-wage foreign workers.

Farm industry lobbyists and the GOP chairman of the House Judiciary Committee will try again on October 24 to pass a bill that would let companies import an army of 1 million low-wage foreign workers for a wide variety of Americans food-sector jobs.

President Barack Obama spiked the annual inflow of temporary foreign workers by 43 percent from 2012 to 2016, and his policies are still raising the numbers in President Donald Trump’s first year.

Billionaire Mike Bloomberg’s lobbying group is lobbying top Republicans to prevent President Donald Trump from including pro-American, wage-boosting immigration reforms in a much-touted amnesty for younger illegal immigrants.

Legislators canceled a scheduled Tuesday committee vote on the huge Agricultural Guestworker Act, and have not set a new date.

House Republicans are expected to approve a gigantic “H-2C” guest-worker bill on Wednesday that allows the nation’s food industry to employ one million low-wage, foreign guest-workers — regardless of how many Americans would lose their skilled or unskilled jobs in

The greatest thing on Earth is American citizenship, says Sen. James Lankford, who is offering it to at least one million “DACA” illegal immigrants if they just take education courses after high school and avoid getting jailed for more than a year.

Illegal immigrants are good for the U.S. economy, GOP Sen. James Lankford said today while he introduced a multi-stage amnesty for many young illegal immigrants, including the 690,000 illegals covered under the 2012 “DACA” amnesty.

GOP Senator and outsourcing-advocate Sen. Thom Tillis will introduce legislation on Monday offering citizenship to more than 2. 5 million illegal immigrants who gain jobs, university places or military slots sought by young Americans, according to the McClatchy news service.

President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” policy forced companies to raise wages and recruit sidelined Americans for lower-skilled jobs during the summer season, says an article in Politico.

The latest 1,305-page draft House appropriations bill for 2018 uses a bureaucratic trick on page 732 to help employers cut wages for foreign H-2B seasonal workers — and indirectly, to cut wages for American workers.

President Donald Trump’s populist “Hire American’ policy is forcing employers to hire more Americans at higher wages, says a new report by the Wall Street Journal.

Nationally syndicated radio host Laura Ingraham was in a back-and-forth with Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) Sunday, whom she called a “pro-amnesty” Republican.

The Department of Homeland Security has released data showing how former President Barack Obama gave work permits to roughly 2.3 million foreigners for U.S. jobs in 2016.

The New York Times grieved the slowdown of United States companies outsourcing jobs to foreigners, who are often exploited in the process.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is urging South Carolinians to vote against him when they disagree with his support for a national amnesty plus a greater inflow of foreign workers to take Americans’ jobs.

Agriculture companies in California are being forced to develop and deploy labor-saving machinery and techniques because reduced illegal immigration is allowing American farmworkers raise their poverty-level wages, according to Los Angeles Times.

GOP leaders and the agriculture industry are stepping up the pressure for more wage-cutting visa-workers following this week’s agreement by homeland security chief John Kelly to approve an additional 15,000 H-2B foreign workers.

There is no justification for importing more low-skilled foreign laborers, a new study shows, despite efforts by the Republican establishment to do just that.

Homeland defense secretary James Kelly will approve today a plan to print thousands of additional H-2B visas for foreign blue-collar workers, according to D.C. sources.

North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis is demanding the Department of Homeland Security approve a larger supply of wage-cutting foreign H-2B contract workers before he allows Senate approval of a top homeland security official.

The Microsoft Corporation is expected to lay-off up to 3,000 employees as the tech conglomerate continues to request and hire more foreign help.

The GOP-run House is expected to vote for two modest immigration-reform bills as soon as this week, but pro-American reformers are using the two votes to build loud and energetic public pressure for major reform legislation.

Donald Trump told his deputies on March 6 to show Americans more of the government data about immigration that was largely hidden by former President Barack Obama.