Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) is joining Democrats, as well as the big business lobby, in asking President Joe Biden for more legal immigration to the United States to fill American jobs. Thune says the Biden administration is not importing enough H-2B foreign visa workers to fill blue-collar seasonal jobs in the U.S.
There are more than 54 million Americans of working age who are no longer in the workforce.
- In the first quarter of 2022, only 84 percent of non-college-educated American men from 25 to 54 years old were working compared to nearly 90 percent in 2000
- Already, Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced they would subsidize businesses by importing an additional 35,000 H-2B foreign visa workers
The H-2B visa program has been widely used by businesses to drag down wages of American workers in landscaping, conservation work, meatpacking, construction, and fishing jobs
- In 2019, about 21 out of 25 industries offered lower wages to foreign workers than Americans compared to the national average.
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