Republicans and Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee are banding together to ensure businesses can import the maximum amount of H-2B foreign visa workers to the United States to take blue-collar jobs in construction, landscaping, and other industries.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and special interest groups have launched a lobbying campaign to demand more legal immigration to the U.S. so business has a constant flow of cheaper foreign workers to hire for American jobs.
Employers in industries that hired the most foreign H-2B visa workers for nonagricultural jobs over the last two decades have stolen about $1.8 billion in wages, a new analysis reveals.
Thirty-eight House Republicans have joined nine Republican Senators in lobbying the White House to continue importing foreign workers to the United States even as more than 36 million Americans are jobless.
