Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee have slipped a massive foreign worker expansion into their DHS spending bill.
House Republicans have slipped a massive foreign worker expansion into their Department of Homeland Security spending bill, a blow to the GOP’s promise to protect the nation’s working class from powerful special interests.
The H-2A visa program, as currently implemented, allows U.S. farms to annually outsource an unlimited number of American agricultural jobs to foreign workers, who can extend their stay for up to three years. Beck called the H-2A visa program a “medieval system” that relies on “cheap back-breaking labor while other countries are mechanizing and workers are being paid high wages to man machines.”
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