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President Trump Pushes for More Foreign Guest Workers, H2-Bs, Migrant Farm Workers at Michigan Rally




April 29, 2018

John Binder


As Breitbart News reports, Trump said:

And for the farmers, okay, it’s going to get good. And we’re going to let your guest workers come in because we’re going to have strong borders, but we have to have your workers come in. You know, the unemployment picture is so good, it’s so strong that we have to let people come in. They’re going to be guest workers, they’re going to come in, they’re going to work on your farms, we’re going to have the H-2Bs come in, we’re going to have a lot of things happening but then they have to go out. Then they have to go out. But, we’re going to let them in, ‘cause you need them. You need them. [Emphasis added]
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We need people to be able to come into our country, do your jobs, help you on the farms, and then they go out, they’re going to leave. Guest workers, we’re going to take care of that. Guest workers. Don’t we agree? We have to have them. We have to have them. [Emphasis added]

The H-2B visa brings foreign nationals to the U.S. for low-skilled nonagricultural jobs, as Breitbart News has previously reported. The visa impacts working-class and poor Americans most, as labor jobs in the hotel industry, water parks, retail stores, and restaurants can all be outsourced to foreign workers under the program. Foreign workers using H-2B visas took roughly half a million jobs in the U.S. during the last five years.

Trump’s promotion of more imported foreign workers to the U.S. using the H-2B visa comes as the Republican-controlled Congress has allowed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to import potentially 130,000 foreign workers for the big business lobby. Trump, in signing the spending measure, gives DHS the authority to import more foreign workers, should DHS Secretary Nielsen choose to do so.


Nielsen, who worked for former President George W. Bush, has already suggested that she will allow big business to import more foreign workers, as Breitbart News reported.
“The concept of limitations on H-2B [visas] originally were to protect American workers,” Nielsen said weeks ago. “If, however, we are in a situation where the way in which we administer the program, legally, actually puts American businesses out of business, that clearly is not the intent.”


If the H-2B visa is expanded this year by Trump’s DHS, it will be the second year in a row that the Trump administration imported more seasonal foreign workers despite his “Buy American, Hire American” agenda.


As Breitbart News has reported, the H-2B visa — like other mass migration programs that import foreign workers to take U.S. jobs — has contributed to stagnant and even reduced wages for America’s working class.

Wage Data: Businesses Using H-2B Visa as Cheap, Foreign Labor Program https://t.co/ENWKO7iPDq
— John Binder �� (@JxhnBinder) November 1, 2017

Analysis of the H-2B visa and its impact on U.S. wages reveals the gap between what foreign workers are offered for U.S. jobs versus what Americans are paid to do the same work.


Overall, in eight of the ten occupations analyzed, where H-2B foreign workers are brought to the U.S., employers offered the foreign workers lower wages, further solidifying pro-American workers’ groups claims that foreign worker visa programs are used by businesses to import and outsource U.S. jobs to a cheaper, foreign workforce.

• H-2B foreign workers in landscaping were offered nearly 7.5 percent less pay
• H-2B foreign workers in forest and conservation jobs were offered nearly 24 percent less pay
• H-2B foreign workers in housekeeping jobs were offered nearly 6 percent less pay
• H-2B foreign workers in recreation jobs were offered nearly 14 percent less pay
• H-2B foreign workers in meat and fish cutting jobs were offered nearly 19 percent less pay
• H-2B foreign workers in construction were offered more than 20 percent less pay
• H-2B foreign workers in counter attending jobs were offered more than 6 percent less pay
• H-2B foreign workers in labor and moving jobs were offered nearly 4 percent less pay

Further research by the Economic Policy Institute has shown how wages in the top 15 H-2B jobs in the U.S. have been stagnant or slightly decreased over the last decade, as Breitbart News reported.



http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...ichigan-rally/

Trump plans to make changes to the H2B visa program, making it less likely to be used. He may have already made some of these changes.

Well, looks like the corporations, agricultural industry, and big business interest finally got their Huckleberry. It was only a matter of time before the "cheap labor" interest finally won out. After all Trump has always been one of them even though he pretended not to be. Trump flips and flops more than a fish out of water.

I guess we can hope he is being insincere and is only saying this to appease those he's speaking to. Of course if that's true, it doesn't say much for his true character. He needs to remain consistent in his messaging.

NO FOREIGN WORKERS!

THEY CAN BUY FARM EQUIPMENT AND AUTOMATE! THEY CAN WRITE IT OFF IN THE FIRST YEAR!

15% PRIVILGE TAX WITH EMPLOYER MATCHING FROM EACH FOREIGN WORKER! ALL FUNDS GO INTO OUR SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE. THEY GET NONE OF IT!!!

Immigrant driver's bill advances to aid Colorado farm labor

President Trump Pushes for More Foreign Guest Workers, H2-Bs, Migrant Farm Workers at Michigan Rally


Chanting cheering illegals swarm border today!

I went back and listened to his speech again because when I listened to it last night I didn't hear the "more". I still don't hear the "more". I don't think he ever said "more". There's no "more" in the Breitbart quotes of Trump either. So don't know why Breitbart chose to put the word "more" in their headline. I guess to get clicks. Shame.

Originally Posted by Judy

I went back and listened to his speech again because when I listened to it last night I didn't hear the "more". I still don't hear the "more". I don't think he ever said "more". There's no "more" in the Breitbart quotes of Trump either. So don't know why Breitbart chose to put the word "more" in their headline. I guess to get clicks. Shame.

Trump is already allowing more in then was allowed when he was elected.

Trump’s promotion of more imported foreign workers to the U.S. using the H-2B visa comes as the Republican-controlled Congress has allowed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to import potentially 130,000 foreign workers for the big business lobby. Trump, in signing the spending measure, gives DHS the authority to import more foreign workers, should DHS Secretary Nielsen choose to do so.

Nielsen, who worked for former President George W. Bush, has already suggested that she will allow big business to import more foreign workers, as Breitbart News reported.

DHS Approves 15,000 More H-2B Visas For Temporary And Seasonal Immigrant Workers In 2017

ALLAHPUNDITPosted at 8:01 pm on July 17, 2017

When the White House proclaimed this “Made in America” week, apparently what they meant was “made in America by foreigners.”

If you missed it on Saturday, enjoy Jazz’s post on the shortage of H-2B visas that forced one Maine resort town to — gasp — hire American workers to get through the summer. Good news, I guess: There’s no longer a shortage.

The Department of Homeland Security on Monday announced a one-time increase of 15,000 additional visas for low-wage, seasonal workers for the remainder of this fiscal year, a seeming about-face from President Trump’s “Hire American” rhetoric, following heavy lobbying from the fisheries, hospitality and other industries that rely on temporary foreign workers.

The increase represents a 45 percent bump from the number of H-2B visas normally issued for the second half of the fiscal year, said senior Homeland Security officials in a call with reporters Monday…
Asked how allowing more foreign workers aligns with Trump’s America First policies — especially as the White House kicks off what it has promoted as “Made in America” week — one of the Homeland Security officials said the increase “absolutely does” fit in with Trump’s campaign promises.

“We’re talking about American businesses that are at risk of suffering irreparable harm if they don’t get additional H-2B workers,” he said. “This does help with American businesses continuing to prosper.”

Mark Krikorian defines “irreparable harm”:

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How did we end up with this fiasco, in which the “America First” president ends up boosting the importation of immigrants to do seasonal work? It all started with that garbage spending bill that Trump signed back in May. You remember it — it was a Democratic wish list, essentially, with no wall money, no cuts to sanctuary cities, and plenty of funding for Planned Parenthood. Also buried in there amid the avalanche of other federal spending was a provision granting DHS discretionary authority to double the number of H-2B visas granted this year, from 66,000 to 135,000. “It is a sellout [of] the American worker,” said the executive director of FAIR at the time. Still, the grant was merely discretionary. John Kelly didn’t need to increase the number of visas.
So why’d he end up doing it? That’s where Thom Tillis, a Republican, enters the picture:

Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina has put a “hold” on Lee Francis Cissna, the nominee for director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, to try to pressure Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly to bend to the senator’s will and quickly approve thousands of H-2B visas.

Mr. Tillis is one of a number of senators who say their states’ summertime resort, seafood and landscaping industries are struggling to find American workers and need the foreign labor to survive.

That’s from a Wash Times story dated a week ago. Kelly duly caved, approved 15,000 new visas, and no doubt Cissna is now headed for an easy confirmation. Which raises a question: Why didn’t Trump pick a public fight with Tillis over the H-2B issue? Is he afraid of alienating the local Chamber of Commerce in North Carolina, a state he won by a whisker last year? Is he afraid of alienating Tillis before the big health-care vote, never mind that Tillis would have to explain to Republicans back home why he refused to vote for a bill that would have replaced ObamaCare out of pique over the H-2B issue? Or does Trump simply … not have a big problem with H-2B visas? He was asked about this during the primaries, you may recall. Remember how he answered?

https://hotair.com/archives/2017/07/...-workers-2017/

If all illegals were deported as promised, then I could see importing temporary guest workers. BUT THE DEPORTATION OF ILLEGAL ALIENS DID NOT HAPPEN AND TRUMP IS ADDING QUEST WORKERS ON TOP OF THE 12 MILLION ALIENS. He is officially a swamp creature!

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