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No Justification for Importing More Low-skilled Labor, Study Claims
2017-07-19
[Breitbart] There is no justification for importing more low-skilled foreign laborers, a new study shows, despite efforts by the Republican establishment to do just that.

Every year, 66,000 foreign guest workers are brought to the United States on the H-2B to take seasonal jobs in blue-collar industries. Due to pressure from the big business lobby and the Republican establishment, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly has increased the cap by another 15,000 foreign guest workers.

A study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), one of the few organizations that compiles data on the H-2B visa and its impact on American wages and unemployment, found that there were 136,000 H-2B foreign workers in the U.S. in Fiscal Year 2016, noting that an increase is not necessary:
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  It's not just farm workers. The program in Bar Harbor Maine:

Shortage Of Foreign Labor Forces Maine Businesses To Hire Local Workers

http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/13/shortage-of-foreign-labor-forces-maine-businesses-to-hire-local-workers/
Posted by: Marilyn Untervehr3403   2017-07-19 19:20  

#5  There never was a reason to import them in the first place. Raise the wage and the job will magically be filled. If people stop buying the product, it dies on the vine as it should.
Posted by: gorb   2017-07-19 11:29  

#4  Repeal minimum wage laws, stop subsidizing slums in our inner cities, stop feeding the homeless. When our own people get hungry enough they'll work.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-07-19 10:44  

#3  ...ah, with the Coasties in Cali killing agriculture in the backlands, better to move the planting to where the workers are. That way they can stay and not draw upon the diminishing resources in LALA land.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-07-19 09:45  

#2  bring back the Bracero program for agriculture
Posted by: Frank G   2017-07-19 09:26  

#1  the bleeding obvious, relentlessly obfuscated by those who profit from them.
Posted by: phil_b   2017-07-19 07:01  

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