Why Shut Down the Least Harmful of the Foreign Worker Programs While Expanding the Worst?
By David North on May 8, 2019
While all foreign worker programs hurt American workers, some are more harmful than others. Now it is becoming clear that the Trump administration is threatening to close down the least harmful of these programs, while expanding the most harmful.
Before we get into the specifics of what the administration is doing with these programs, let me suggest a way to evaluate them.
There are five major foreign worker programs and at least as many minor ones. Let's confine our analysis to these five:
H-1B, for alien college graduates (and a handful of fashion models);
H-2A, for foreign farmworkers;
H-2B, for unskilled non-farm workers;
OPT, for foreign graduates of U.S universities in the form of one- to three-year, non-renewable visas; and
H-4, for the spouses of (employer-favored) H-1Bs; usually college graduates.
https://cis.org/North/Why-Shut-Down-Least-Harmful-Foreign-Worker-Programs-While-Expanding-Worst
