Does the Biden Administration Really Want to Use Available Tools to Discourage the Surge?
DHS bows to employer dislike of H-2B set-aside for Northern Triangle countries
By David North on June 5, 2021
Does the Biden administration really want to use available, non-enforcement tools to discourage the flood of illegal aliens at the southern border?
I’m not talking about something as normal as deporting those who violate our immigration laws; I am not discussing enforcement of any kind. My focus is on the mildest of enticements to, quite indirectly, lessen the pressure; I am talking about a scheme that would not cost the taxpayers a dime.
The subject is the Department of Homeland Security’s earlier posture that U.S. employers of H-2B workers (a non-skilled, non-ag, labor force), had to — if they wanted still more foreign workers — recruit them in El Salvador, Guatemala, or Honduras. These employers (who presumably have little interest in hiring from America’s vast pool of unemployed, unskilled workers) had 6,000 slots set aside for them. There are hundreds if not thousands of H-2B workers hired from these Northern Triangle nations routinely — it was not that the employers were asked to use an exotic group, such as, say, the Burmese.
But reading between the lines in a DHS press release, we find that there must be some resistance from the H-2B employers as this fine print indicates:
https://cis.org/North/Does-Biden-Administration-Really-Want-Use-Available-Tools-Discourage-Surge
