American Thinker: America-Firsters were both perplexed and furious for most of last week as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appeared to be going ahead with its early March announcement to expand the H-2B unskilled guest-worker program to over 100,000 slots a year. With unemployment-benefit applications for March coming in at over 10 million, the last time the job market looked this bad—the Great Depression of the 1930s—immigration authorities sought to help, not hinder, the American worker by creating the nation’s first-ever illegal-alien-removal program.
Late last week, however, due in part to activist pressures, DHS’s interim secretary, Chad Wolf, announced the increase would be paused “due to present economic circumstances.” It was a minor bit of respite for working Americans who were already struggling going into this crippling downturn.
The H-2B guest-worker visa was created in 1986 as part of a congressional law that provided amnesty to over 3 million illegal aliens. Because that law also included a promise to finally put an end to illegal-alien hiring, businesses complaining of impending “worker shortages” were able to secure the right to import temporary foreign workers for a slew of low-skilled industries, including cattle farming, landscaping and hospitality. Agribusiness got its separate, far larger “H-2A” program for farmworkers. Nearly 35 years on, however, the problem of illegal labor is bigger than ever, and H-2B-using businesses still complain about worker shortages. read more
H 1B workers also. And don’t forget to send ALL Chinese students home! They are not here to make America better. They are here to steal our intellectual property and undermine our freedom!
We are not a representative republic, we are an oligarchy. Citizens United was NOT a good ruling for our country.
you are so right Stirrin … we’ve moved from benevolent dictatorship to tyrannical oligarchy in the blink of 1 month
… & we rolled over quicker than a crack ho’ tryin’ to make her quota doing it
btw, we are all ‘guest workers’ now … serving at the pleasure of our ‘governors’, ‘mayors’, ‘county councils’ … whomever controls the local constabulary to enforce their petty megalomania on us ‘workers’
… our ‘rights’ are what are allowed by them, not given by God
RAAAYYY…Whats going on ray.
the bureaucracy runs the government and they are run by the federal reserve and it’s minions in think tanks like the trilateral commission and ngos’ run by george soros and his ilk.
there is only one solution to regaining our country.
I only hope we are still man enough to remedy this situation.
Right now is the time to shut down guest worker programs and install a full immigration moratorium. Need not be forever lets start w 50 years and see how it works out. No more students from china and send home the ones who are here. This is our country dammit
Fortunately my job can’t be outsourced, or telecommuted. Mechanics don’t get rich, but the pay is steady, and the work is plentiful. This Kungflu has made gas chead, and the ddive to and from work easy.
Atlanta traffic is infamous for its density and the lack of other drivers has made my drive home to a 30 minute/30 mile drive instead of 1.5 hours for the same distance. Mornings have always been lighter because I leave at 0530 so I can sneak a run in before work, but the evenings it used to get stupid slow due to traffic.
If Nancy’s house is shut down, so should their pay be!