Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen issued 15,000 guest worker visas for 2018, saying that not enough “qualified, U.S. workers [were] available . It was the second year in a row that DHS agreed to allocate an extra 15,000 guest worker visas, on top of the 66,000 annual cap established by Congress. The H-2B visas are for foreigners who take seasonal jobs in seafood, tourism, landscaping, construction and others industries — but not farmworkers. Critics of the guest worker program say such jobs should pay more to attract more teenagers and American workers who have dropped out of the labor force. [Trump isn’t pushing for one popular way to limit illegal immigration]“The President is for H-2B visas, so this is one area where his ‘Buy American, Hire American’ doesn’t apply — it’s hire foreign,” said Krikorian.

Source: Washington Post May 25, 2018 21:32 UTC