The Low-Skill Immigration Increase Hidden in the Spending Deal

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The American Conservative

The American Conservative

Check out page 735 of the 1.665-page bill.

By ROBERT VERBRUGGEN • May 3, 2017

A few days ago our legislators reached a tentative deal to fund the government through September; though the legislation has not been finalized and signed yet, the current agreement expires at the end of the week. Byron York reports that, like any 1,665-page bill, it’s stuffed with a lot of lawmakers’ pet priorities:

One of those priorities sure to cause controversy, if it becomes widely known, is a provision to greatly increase the number of temporary, low-wage foreign workers allowed into the United States. (In government-speak, “temporary” can mean a worker who spends up to nine months a year in the U.S. for multiple years.) The number of such workers is currently limited to 66,000 per year. Under the new spending bill, that could double.

It’s right there on page 735, in a section dealing with H-2B visas, which allow foreign workers to fill low-wage, seasonal, non-agricultural jobs in the United States. …      

Read the whole thing. See also the Center for Immigration Studies.      

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That's because with all the money put in for the wall to be built quickly, there will not be enough illegal immigrants to cover their former jobs....