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Raising Foreign Worker Cap, Biden Turns Against Americans

Bob Dane — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 15:11:39 +0000

The Biden administration’s move to raise the ceiling on H-2B seasonal work visas has angered some of the president’s most loyal supporters. With millions of Americans unemployed, 10 labor unions warn that the decision to add 22,000 slots to the existing 66,000 annual H-2B allotment will “expose more workers to the egregious abuses that pervade [...]

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Mexico’s President Suggests Restarting Bracero-like Program

Preston Huennekens — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 19:11:34 +0000

President of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador – commonly referred to by his initials, AMLO – suggested creating a new guestworker program that would allow migrant workers from Mexico and other Central American countries to work in the United States temporarily. AMLO estimated that such a program could bring 600,000 to 800,000 foreign workers to [...]

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Labor Dept. IG: Foreign Worker Programs Still Susceptible To Fraud

Jennifer G. Hickey — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 14:10:46 +0000

The internal watchdog at the Department of Labor (DOL) released a report last week which shows how an “aggregation of known vulnerabilities” in 4 of 6 programs used to hire foreign workers leave them “highly susceptible to fraud.” In its review of more than 15 years of audits and investigative work, the DOL’s Office of [...]

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2020 Cases Demonstrate How Guestworker Programs Are Abused

Pawel Styrna — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 20:06:55 +0000

The big picture argument against the alphabet soup of guestworker programs (the H-1B, H-2B, H-2A, etc.) is that they are essentially a cheap labor subsidy to business resulting in stagnant wages or outright job losses for American workers. The foreign workers, in turn, may be better off in terms of wages than they would have [...]

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Joe Biden is the “B” in H-1B Visas

Jennifer G. Hickey — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 18:05:57 +0000

Over 47 years in political office, Joe Biden has stood on multiple sides of key immigration issues. He once believed that hiring an illegal alien nanny was “a big deal,” promised not to let sanctuary cities “ignore” immigration laws, and said a border wall was needed to keep drugs from Mexico out of the United [...]

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Mothers, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Doctors… Because the Industry Doesn’t Want Them

Ira Mehlman — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 19:54:46 +0000

Becoming a doctor used to be the ultimate ticket to success in America. It took brains and hard work, but once you put the initials M.D. after your name all the effort paid off. Doctors enjoyed respect and financial success, and rarely had to worry about whether they would find work. Becoming a doctor today [...]

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