Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee joined Democrats in approving a plan that will allow United States businesses to import vastly more foreign workers for blue-collar American jobs in construction, landscaping, dairy farms, and carnivals, among other industries.
Just as President Donald Trump is reversing Biden’s migrant economy, which saw nearly all job growth go to migrants, Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) proposed the amendment to a spending package that will nearly quadruple the number of H-2B foreign visa workers that employers can import for non-agricultural blue-collar jobs.
Likewise, the amendment allows dairy farms to import foreign workers year-round via the H-2A visa program and expands the P visa program, primarily meant for athletes and entertainers, to allow carnivals to import foreign workers to operate rides
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