Last year we told you it was a bad idea for Trump to pick Chad Wolf, a former lobbyist for H1b visas, to replace Kirstjen Nielsen as chief of Homeland Security. But Trump did it anyway and now he’s increasing the number of H2b foreign guest workers businesses are allowed to import:
Just days after announcing he will not increase the number of guest workers, Chad Wolf (Nielsen's former Chief-of-Staff) gives in to the big business lobby who are demanding we undercut American laborhttps://t.co/b0x4wV5WnK
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) March 5, 2020
BREITBART – Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf announced he will allow American businesses to import an additional 35,000 foreign workers to take non-agricultural jobs through the H-2B visa program.
Every year, U.S. companies are allowed to import 66,000 low-skilled H-2B foreign workers to take blue-collar, non-agricultural jobs. For some time, the H-2B visa program has been used by businesses to bring in cheaper, foreign workers and has contributed to blue-collar Americans having their wages undercut.
On Thursday, Wolf confirmed that DHS will ensure American businesses can hire an additional 35,000 H-2B foreign visa workers for non-agricultural jobs in the fishing, construction, hospitality, and restaurant industries.
Wolf said of the extra 35,000 foreign workers that 10,000 will be from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras “to stem the flow of illegal migration in the region and encourage lawful migration to the U.S.”
The decision to add more foreign workers to the already inflated U.S. labor market, Wolf said, is “intended” to benefit American businesses and American workers, though the latter was not explained.
Overall, two batches of foreign workers will be available to American businesses, with 20,000 foreign workers available at the beginning of April and 15,000 foreign workers available on May 15.
This is the fourth consecutive year that President Trump’s DHS has approved more foreign workers to be imported by American businesses through the H-2B visa program. Wolf’s decision follows the same direction that former DHS Secretaries Kevin McAleenan, Kirstjen Nielsen, and John Kelly implemented.
Girdusky, who was sounding the alarm about Wolf last year, reminds us that Stephen Miller is the one who wanted Wolf in the first place:
Reminder: Chad Wolf was hand picked by Stephen Miller because he was going to be tough on immigration.
He's like all the rest that came out of the Kelly/Nielsen DHS pool
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) March 5, 2020