Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) took to the Senate floor on Thursday ahead of the vote on the spending bill to fund the federal government through September, citing as the main reason he voted against it the flood of unskilled workers that could be admitted to the United States under the legislation.
The Washington Post is drumming up hysteria over an American labor shortage if the H-2B foreign guest worker visa is limited by the Trump Administration, despite no evidence indicating a crunch.
The big business and open borders lobbies are praising an expansion of the H-2B foreign guest worker visa included in the 2017 budget.
In the age of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on the H-1B and strict enforcement of immigration law, tech conglomerates are lobbying the Congress and White House for amnesty and more foreign labor.
The chairman and ranking Democrat of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), respectively, issued a joint statement criticizing the lack of “transparency” in the authorization of additional H-2B visas in Monday’s House funding resolution.
House Speaker Paul Ryan’s new 2017 budget allow the Department of Homeland Security to import at least 20,000 extra foreign blue-collar workers for seasonal jobs in the United States, instead of requiring them to recruit, train, and pay marginalized Americans.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has a critical choice to make in the next few days: Whether he will please company executives by allowing them to import more H-2B visa workers, or else please the GOP’s base of blue-collar Americans by helping them get jobs at higher wages.
As Congress is pushed by the big business lobby and open borders organizations to expand the number of low-skilled, non-farm workers entering the U.S. every year, the national unemployment rate coupled with stagnant wages indicate the harm done by the H-2B visa to American workers, according to experts.
A lobbyist for a farming organization that favors outsourcing American jobs to foreign workers will become a Senior Adviser in President Donald Trump’s Agriculture Department.
Four federal agencies will put many U.S. visa worker programs, including the white-collar H-1B program, through a “full legal analysis,” a White House official told reporters Monday night.
The big business lobby, which profits from hiring foreign labor over American workers, is pushing for an expansion of the H-2B foreign guest worker visa. Americans would be laid off from those seasonal jobs in the process.
Thirty-one Democratic and Republican Senators are asking the Department of Homeland Security to maximize the use of blue-collar outsourcing visas so U.S. companies can import more foreign workers instead of recruiting, training and paying unskilled U.S. workers.
President Donald Trump’s deputies have yet to stop the Department of Homeland Security from printing more of President Obama’s work permits for younger illegals.
Last year was a success for Americans who are fed up with mass immigration, outsourcing, and trade deals that they think are hollowing out their society.
Andy Puzder’s promised support for Trump’s pro-American reforms gives Americans a good way to measure Puzder’s performance in the job if he is confirmed by the Senate, said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies. “We’ll see if his actions as Labor Secretary show that he really has change his [CEO] thinking.”
Immigration reformers and advocates for higher-wages are hammering Donald Trump’s selection of a cheap-labor, immigration-boosting employer to run the Department of Labor.
GOP leaders, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, have quietly ended an unpopular 2015 program to outsource another 198,000 blue-collar jobs to lower-paid foreign workers.
There’s been a decades-long drop in wages paid to American workers facing competition from foreign guest-workers on H-2B visas, belying claims of a shortage of U.S. workers, according to Steven Camarota, at the Center for Immigration Studies.
Rules requiring U.S. employers to hire Americans workers before looking abroad for low-skilled temporary labor are insufficient and unenforced, an Economic Policy Institute researcher testified Wednesday before a Senate panel.
With disastrously low labor participation rates, the United States does not have a shortage of American workers who are unable to fill low-skilled jobs, but rather too few Americans are working in those low-skilled jobs currently open to temporary foreign workers on H-2B visas, according to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is pushing back against an effort that would permanently and dramatically expand the annual cap on low-skilled, temporary foreign workers allowed in the U.S. each year.
The Clinton family charities have outsourced many U.S. white-collar jobs to foreign college graduates instead of hiring American college graduates.
Although New Year’s confetti is still being cleaned off the floors, Paul Ryan already issued a statement that could easily be a contender for the most remarkable statement of 2016. In a Monday interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Paul Ryan declared without a trace of humor that “People who know my record know that I’m for border enforcement, border control, not for amnesty.”
In a Tuesday morning interview with radio host Bill Bennett, Paul Ryan defended his omnibus bill’s controversial expansion in the H-2B visa program, which would allow foreign workers to fill blue-collar American jobs, by arguing that if the provision were not included, American companies would be forced to shut their doors.
In a Tuesday morning interview with radio host Bill Bennett, House Speaker Paul Ryan implied that prominent conservative lawmakers have helped spread “misinformation” about his $1.1 trillion omnibus spending package–a bill which presumptive Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer described as “a great victory for the principles Democrats stand for.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan is still ducking and dodging about his new H-2B legislation, which will pink-slip up to 200,000 blue-collar Americans during the 2016 election year.
While members of House Freedom Caucus are giving Paul Ryan a public pass on the omnibus, populist thought leader Jeff Sessions is weighing in strongly. Sessions, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, chided Ryan for making publicly false statements about the contents of the legislation.
A top deputy to House Speaker Paul Ryan is trying to to excuse their legislation to pink-slip 200,000 blue-collar Americans by claiming that employers are suffering from a shortage of workers.
House Speaker Paul Ryan dismissed any objections to the surprise House amendment that will allow employers to import foreign workers instead of hiring roughly 200,000 blue-collar Americans during 2016.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and Democratic leaders have hidden a bipartisan plan in the 2016 appropriations bill that could outsource blue-collar jobs held by as many as 200,000 Americans to lower-wage temporary foreign workers.
The year-end spending deal unveiled early Wednesday morning includes a provision that would increase the number of guest worker visas available to unskilled foreign nationals seeking employment in the U.S.
The complex bill is a gift to donors and businesses because it allow them to reduce wages, thus justifying their demand for cheaper H-2B visa workers. It also provides a huge loophole that technically keeps the current annual cap of 66,000 H-2B workers — but excludes from the cap any H-2B workers who got a H-2B visa in the prior three years. That clever loophole would allow employers to simultaneously hire up to four years of H-2B workers, or 264,000 foreign workers in place of 264,000 Americans.
