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Republicans and Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee are banding together to ensure businesses can import the maximum amount of H-2B foreign visa workers to the United States to take blue-collar jobs in construction, landscaping, and other industries.
Rep. Mark Pocan raised issues with the H-2B visa program, noting that “from 2000 to 2021, 225,000 cases were investigated by the Labor Department in the seven major H-2B industries and violations were found in 80 percent of those cases.” Pocan also said the H-2B visa program is used to cut wages in the construction industry and suggested opposition to allowing businesses to hire foreign construction workers when there are plenty of available American construction workers for hire.
Simultaneously, labor participation for working-class prime-age American men dropped from 95.8 percent in 1960 to 84.8 percent in 2024 with no end for such a decline in sight.annually on visas to take American jobs. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens are added to the labor market every year, many on work permits given to them by the federal government.
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