Raising Foreign Worker Cap, Biden Turns Against Americans

The Biden administration’s transfer to boost the ceiling on H-2B seasonal work visas has angered a number of the president’s most loyal supporters. With tens of millions of People unemployed, 10 labor unions warn that the choice so as to add 22,000 slots to the present 66,000 annual H-2B allotment will “expose extra staff to the egregious abuses that pervade this system.”

Increasing H-2B is a perverse response to the White Home’s self-inflicted border disaster. As oncoming waves of asylum seekers are issued work authorization papers, they are going to be attempting to find jobs. The H-2B classes of semi-skilled, non-agricultural labor – together with landscaping, horse coaching, fisheries, eating places, the hospitality trade and even carnivals — are prime targets.

However accommodating one unhealthy coverage (open borders) with one other simply compounds the issue. Because the AFL-CIO has famous: “The H-2B program displaces U.S. staff, lowers wages and exposes international staff to exploitation.”

FAIR known as the administration’s motion “nothing in need of a kick within the tooth to the blue-collar staff President Biden claims to champion.”

North America’s Constructing
Trades Unions, United Meals and Business Staff, UNITE HERE and greater than a
half-dozen different unions wish to “revamp the H-2B system to supply enhanced
employee protections.” These might embody denying H-2B certifications in
industries with an unemployment price exceeding 6 %, and barring employers
who violate wage and security legal guidelines.

Whereas the unions seem content material to tinker across the margins, unemployment within the backside quartile of the labor pool stays painfully excessive. Infusing this struggling sector of the financial system with extra unskilled international staff is each nonsensical and abusive.

The administration put out
the standard blather about requiring employers to certify that U.S. staff are
not out there, however there’s zero probability this requirement might be enforced. The
actuality is that People must compete with an extra 22,000
international staff who can legally take their jobs.

“American voters turned to
Joe Biden final November to unify our nation and lead us out of a historic
disaster. It’s arduous to think about that chaotic borders and a wholesale giveaway of
American jobs is what that they had in thoughts,” stated FAIR President Dan Stein.