Cotton, Colleagues Seek Reform of H-2B Visa Program
January 16, 2020
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January 16, 2020
Cotton, Colleagues Seek Reform of H-2B Visa Program
Washington, D.C. — A bipartisan group of Senators have renewed calls for reforms to the H-2B visa program before increasing the annual visa cap. In a letter to the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor, Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut), and Dianne Feinstein (D-California) raised concerns that the flawed non-agriculture guest worker visa program displaces American workers and can incentivize the exploitation of both foreign and American workers.
“These realities of the H-2B program, as it operates today, incentivize unscrupulous employers to hire H-2B workers instead of American workers and create poor working conditions for immigrant workers and American workers alike.
Read more at: https://www.cotton.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1296
Sounds like it could be a good bill, some Senators seem enamored with some of those Visa programs.
