We "desperately" need more immigrants, folks!

The government is going to let in 35,000 more H-2B workers than the usual ceiling of 33,000 for the second half of the fiscal year.https://t.co/799b84qYJW— Center for Immigration Studies (@CIS_org) March 5, 2020

Kind reminder that @DHS_Wolf was a former lobbyist for Nasscom, a trade association for Indian IT outsourcing companies, which is in favor on increasing H-1B visas. https://t.co/7yuPldauBM— U.S. Tech Workers (@USTechWorkers) March 5, 2020

The government is going to let in 35,000 more H-2B workers than the usual ceiling of 33,000 for the second half of the fiscal year, the Department of Homeland Security announced on March 5. This is one of the smaller foreign worker programs and is for unskilled, non-agricultural workers; it will be more than double in size for this time period.

Last year at this time DHS announced it would let employers hire an additional 30,000 for the last half of the fiscal year, so today's announcement marks an increase on prior increases in the program.

In contrast, there is no ceiling on the H-2A (farmworker) program and it has grown rapidly in recent years; there is a continuing 85,000 ceiling on new slots in the H-1B program, but there is no limit on the number of three-year visa extensions. Thus, both programs are increasing in size, but within differing control mechanisms.

While any increase in any of the foreign-worker programs is bad news, there is an interesting new development in this one — a set-aside of 10,000 slots that can only be used to hire H-2B workers from the three nations sending us so many illegal aliens, the Northern Triangle states of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. According to DHS, this is a use-or-lose proposition; if U.S. employers do not arrange for the hiring of the 10,000 from the three nations, the slots will not be transferred to workers from other places.

The hope is that the slots will be used, and that this will ease, if only slightly, the pressures on our southern border. We at CIS suggested that people from the Northern Triangle should be given priority over those from other nations in the H-2A and H-2B programs, but that this should happen without increasing the overall flow of nonimmigrant workers.

In addition to these 10,000, the other 25,000 additional H-2B workers slots are to be given only to returning former H-2B workers; the thought here is that this is a population that has proved, at least once, that it can be admitted for temporary work in the States, and then return to the homeland after the tour of duty is finished.

Why not impose this provision on all incoming migrants in the H-2A and H-2B program? This would decrease the size of the programs slowly over time without any one-on-one enforcement actions, while at the same time lifting wages.

President Trump: "Go get DACA. Go push those Democrats. I'm telling you. It's close. This is a moment for DACA." pic.twitter.com/yak8DAvoyJ— The Hill (@thehill) March 5, 2020

Rally from 2018.

Notice how the crowd reacts when President Trump mentions solving DACA versus the crowd's reaction to Building the Wall.

The American people are done being betrayed by politicians pushing Amnesty. We want our borders back! #NeverAmnesty pic.twitter.com/jeEin1TVWu— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) March 5, 2020

Sen. Lindsey Graham & cheap-labor allies push Trump to amnesty 1M+ younger illegals once SCOTUS kills Obama's DACA giveaway.
Who gains from amnesty? Lindsey's employer-allies & Democrats.
Who loses? Lindsey's constituents/employees plus Trump & 2020 GOPs. https://t.co/1kWyPnmDns— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) March 5, 2020

Tucker’s segment on H-1B visas couldn’t have come at a better timing. Mike Lee of Utah is working on a backroom deal to get his bill S.386 passed. His bill would remove country cap quotas for employment based green cards allowing H-1Bs from India to monopolize all green cards. https://t.co/M83tXeD5QU pic.twitter.com/GhTkoLBUZF— U.S. Tech Workers (@USTechWorkers) March 5, 2020

The bill to fast track permanent residency for Indian visa workers (at the expense of higher-skilled workers from the rest of the world) goes from bad to worse, now with an amendment to protect the ability of the Indian labor broker companies to replace US workers en masse. https://t.co/imRlgV0bOf— Jessica Vaughan (@JessicaV_CIS) March 3, 2020

Doesn't exactly scream a "worker shortage".... https://t.co/ndvHvXbYHJ— Fred Bauer (@fredbauerblog) March 3, 2020

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Number 6 • 3 days ago

Agent trumpensteins has jumped the shark with his controlled opposition fake nationalism, Trumptards decreasing ! Time to dump their left right paradigm pantomime ! its time for real nationalism !

Drake Number 6 • 2 days ago

So much for Make America Great Again and Keep America Great. Am I wrong for thinking you didn't buy into it?

Number 6 Drake • 2 days ago • edited

No I knew he was controlled opposition from the start, All his kids are married into the tribe and he was always too comical and theatrical, he's there to try and make nationalists look silly, and rubbish the idea of loyalty and self determination. The "Alt right" in general is a rebranding of the failing left right paradigm which collapsed with the Blair Bush show.

The reality is we're not left or right we're just nationalists and despite their best efforts we're the overwhelming majority, loud brainwashed school kids don't count, they support whatever their favourite celebrity is paid to tell them to support ! and they do that every generation until they start paying tax and then most of them grow out of believing in socialist spouting celebrities

But at least those that did buy into Trump didn't fall for the bigger con that of diversity, mass immigration, environmentalism and a world government staffed by unicorns. And less and less of them are buying into Trumps bulls*** so its all good we're getting there ! :-)