Breitbart:
DHS Secretary John Kelly fended off politicians’ demands for more imported H-2B workers on Tuesday, telling a Democratic Senator that the administration favors jobs for Americans, not for foreign contract-workers.
“I know we already have large numbers [of contract workers] that come in and have been coming in over the years, but … in the current administration, this is all about American jobs versus people that come in and do the work,” Kelly told Sen. Heidi Heitkamp from Dakota.
Heitkamp had asked Kelly to accelerate the approval of H-2B contact-workers sought by employers in North Dakota, even though millions of Americans are either unemployed or have fallen out of the low-wage workforce.
I’m sure some FederalJudge will find a way to shoehorn it into a Travel Ban.
I’m torn on this. I live in a part of the country that’s so remote, few want to come here regardless of the pay. I was a recruiter many years ago for a major mining company and when I was unsuccessful at recruiting an American doctor to run our company-owned outpatient clinic, I was forced to hire through the H1B visa program. High pay and free housing didn’t attract one single American. Their social needs were too high.
Terrible reporting Breitbart . Sen. Heitkamp from “Dakota”?
There happen to be 2 Dakotas.
East and West Dakota.
Incidentally, Heitkamp is a (D) up for reelection next year. In North Dakota. That’s an election that might be worth spending some money on.
So far it seems like Secretary Kelly is a good choice for DHS. He has made a favorable impression every time I’ve seen him.
Trump made his pick to replace Comey this morning. Another “Outsider”. Trump knows how to build a team.
Although there’s enough on their plates the feds really need to start reviewing the H1B program for violations and started cancelling the permits. I’ve now heard stories where H1B’s that have been here for years have gotten green cards and are now taking jobs because they knew someone who knew someone and said job never got advertised and foreigner getting the job didn’t have the supposed qualifications. Nobody seems to check whether the program(s) are following the rules and when some are caught where is the legal action? The same thing happens up here but to a far lesser extent.
I don’t know.
Something tells me, if you can’t find an American to take the job, raise the salary offer, or up the perks.
At some point there will be a taker.
i’m with kelly on this
@Brown Eyed Girl June 7, 2017 at 11:29 am
> High pay and free housing didn’t attract one single American. Their social needs were too high.
That’s such a pretty, pretty lie.
High enough pay will always attract someone willing to do the job — at that place, under those conditions. High enough pay, with no external advertising whatsoever will always attract “brokers” willing to contact you to get a job to find who you’re looking for. Sometimes higher pay can even be whittled down for non-fungible “benefits”.
Someone willing to do the job you want done, at the place, under the conditions, and at the price you’re willing to pay? Maybe not. So what’s to be done? I guess the Good™ answer is the same as with pædosexual emergencies — do what gets you the biggest bang for your buck, and your neighbors can just get fncked. (Sometimes just figuratively, before literally — it’s all Good™! As long as I’z gets mine! And, by mine, I mean more of what you stupidly called yours.)
Cue the lest: let the Russian fake news re: Kelly begin.
Cue the LEFT.
The President should hire a force of private detectives to comb every federal agency and program to help clean up the inefficiency, nepotism. and law breaking that takes place within agencies and both political potties.
This is gonna really piss off our Gubner, he’s all for
letting imported slaves do cheap labor for his donators.