The administration, which Joe Biden does not run, again gave working-class Americans the shaft.
Last week, LandLine Magazine stated that the Department of Homeland Security has made an additional 70,000 H-2B visas available for next year, doubling the previous year’s number. Transportation occupations received about 1,500 of these visas.
Given market conditions and the collapse of the trucking industry for US workers, these numbers are a very big deal.
FreightWaves listed the trucking company bankruptcies and truck driver layoffs. It was only recently a thriving industry. It takes up a huge amount of space on their website.
Newsweek did a quick scan through the most recent dozen of 82 articles. In October and November alone, over 4,000 truckers in the United States lost their jobs. Thousands more are at risk of being laid off. At the same time, the companies they work for seek bankruptcy protection.
This number doesn’t include many self-employed truckers whose business closures are much more difficult to track.
Given this fact, why would DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas push for more visas for foreign truckers?
Perhaps what he said in a November press release gives us a hint. “There are employers across the country that would suffer greatly without H-2B workers,” Mayorkas said. “Authorizing these supplemental visas helps U.S. employers fill those positions … It helps fuel our economy and reduce irregular migration while also providing a safe and lawful pathway to the United States for noncitizens who are prepared to work.”
So, he wants to enrich large employers, but it’s not helping anyone in small trucking companies. Small businesses are the backbone of capitalism.
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Any bets that Trump will revoke those visas except the ones that add greatness to the USA? The regime created a world of mud like a toddler playing in the dirt. Trump will shape and sculpt that mud like a master artist during the renaissance.
There’s no such as thing as a sure thing.
“And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” Job 1:12
I can’t imagine how much democrats are making off of this scam. Every time I hear a democrat, leftist, or progreSSive feign love for this nation and that they’re patriots, I throw up a little in my mouth. These people despise this nation, as well as those that support them (or they’re just abjectly stupid), and have since the 1860’s been focused on two things, money and power.