here is some news for those of you who believe trump and his promises;
As President Donald Trump threatened to shut down the U.S.-Mexico
border in recent days, his Department of Homeland Security nearly
doubled the number of temporary guest worker visas available this
summer.
DHS and the Labor Department plan to grant an additional 30,000 H-2B
visas this summer on top of the 33,000 H-2B visas they had planned to
give out, the agencies confirmed.
The H-2B visa is for foreign workers to come to the United States and
work for several months at a company such as a landscaper, amusement
park or hotel. About 80 percent of these visas went to people from
Mexico and Central America last year, government data show.
Trump says there is a national emergency at the southern border
because too many people are trying to come to the United States. On
Friday, he implored migrants to turn around and go home.
“We can’t take you anymore,” Trump said Friday while standing at the border in California. “Our country is full.”
But his administration is giving a different message to some
short-term workers. With the additional visas, the Trump administration
is on track to grant 96,000 H-2B visas this fiscal year, the most since
2007, when George W. Bush was president.
“It’s ironic that Trump is demagoguing and railing against a
so-called dangerous and scary flood of migrants and caravans from Mexico
and Central America, and even threatening to shut down the border,
while at the same time using his legal authority to grow a guest worker
program by nearly 50 percent,” said Daniel Costa, director of
immigration law and policy research at the left-leaning Economic Policy
Institute.
A major theme of Trump’s presidential campaign was that foreign
workers were stealing U.S. jobs, but lately he has said it might be
necessary to bring in more guest workers because the economy is doing so
well that companies can’t find enough people to fill jobs. The
unemployment rate, at 3.8 percent, is near a 50-year low....https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/trump-administration-nearly-doubles-h-2b-guest-visa-program-which-brings-many-mexican-workers/244526
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