{"id":1299067,"date":"2022-02-15T11:07:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T16:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1299067"},"modified":"2022-02-15T11:07:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T16:07:59","slug":"the-list-17-senate-republicans-join-democrats-to-demand-joe-biden-import-more-foreign-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-list-17-senate-republicans-join-democrats-to-demand-joe-biden-import-more-foreign-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"The List: 17 Senate Republicans Join Democrats to Demand Joe Biden Import More Foreign Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-list-17-senate-republicans-join-democrats-to-demand-joe-biden-import-more-foreign-workers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1299067&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A group of Senate Republicans has joined Senate Democrats to demand President Joe Biden import more H-2B foreign visa workers to take working-class, blue-collar American jobs.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, 17 Senate Republicans signed a letter with 17 Senate Democrats that urges Biden to \u201crelease the maximum allowable number of additional\u201d H-2B foreign visa workers to inflate the labor market despite more than 12 million Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/pdf\/empsit.pdf\">remaining<\/a> jobless, though all want full-time employment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The senators also asked Biden to speed up the process so U.S. employers could get foreign visa workers quicker into blue-collar American jobs, often in construction, landscaping, the tourism industry, and other occupations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout meaningful H-2B cap relief, many seasonal businesses will be forced to scale back operations, cancel or default on contracts, lay off full-time U.S. workers, and, in some cases, close operations completely,\u201d the senators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cramer.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/sen-cramer-bipartisan-colleagues-call-for-more-h-2b-visas-to-support-seasonal-small-businesses\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 17 Republicans who signed the letter are:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Kevin Cramer (R-ND)<\/li>\n<li>Mike Rounds (R-SD)<\/li>\n<li>Lindsey Graham (R-SC)<\/li>\n<li>James Risch (R-ID)<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)<\/li>\n<li>Roy Blunt (R-MO)<\/li>\n<li>Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)<\/li>\n<li>John Cornyn (R-TX)<\/li>\n<li>Mike Crapo (R-ID)<\/li>\n<li>John Thune (R-SD)<\/li>\n<li>Susan Collins (R-ME)<\/li>\n<li>Pat Toomey (R-PA)<\/li>\n<li>Roger Wicker (R-MS)<\/li>\n<li>Jerry Moran (R-KS)<\/li>\n<li>Rand Paul (R-KY)<\/li>\n<li>John Barrasso (R-WY)<\/li>\n<li>Tim Scott (R-SC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 17 Democrats who signed the letter are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Angus King (I-ME)<\/li>\n<li>Chris Coons (D-DE)<\/li>\n<li>Michael Bennet (D-CO)<\/li>\n<li>Robert Menendez (D-NJ)<\/li>\n<li>Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)<\/li>\n<li>Raphael Warnock (D-GA)<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Carper (D-DE)<\/li>\n<li>Joe Manchin (D-WV)<\/li>\n<li>Mark Warner (D-VA)<\/li>\n<li>John Hickenlooper (D-CO)<\/li>\n<li>Tim Kaine (D-VA)<\/li>\n<li>Tina Smith (D-MN)<\/li>\n<li>Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)<\/li>\n<li>Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ)<\/li>\n<li>Ron Wyden (D-OR)<\/li>\n<li>Mark Kelly (D-AZ)<\/li>\n<li>Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe White House and Congressional Democrats are hell-bent on eliminating any meaningful limits or restrictions on immigration, but Republicans still can\u2019t unify behind doing the opposite,\u201d RJ Hauman with the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) told Breitbart News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re great on the illegal front due to the border crisis, but why not also oppose programs that are rife with abuse, displace American workers, and depress wages? Ignore businesses reliant on cheap foreign labor and listen to voters \u2014 it\u2019s that simple,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 6.5 million Americans were unemployed in January while an additional 5.7 million were out of the labor force entirely. Another 3.7 million Americans are underemployed \u2014 that is, holding part-time jobs while wanting full-time work.<\/p>\n<p>Some 408,000 jobless Americans said they do not believe there is any work available for them in the current labor market.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18241218\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mayorkas.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18241218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mayorkas.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks at a press briefing at the White House on September 24, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Every year, businesses are allowed to import 66,000 H-2B foreign visa workers to take blue-collar, non-agricultural American jobs. Former President Donald Trump routinely&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/03\/05\/dhs-secretary-chad-wolf-approves-35k-h-2b-foreign-workers-to-take-u-s-jobs\/\">brought<\/a>&nbsp;in additional H-2B foreign visa workers for business to hire, and Biden is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/04\/20\/bidens-dhs-giving-business-22k-more-foreign-workers-as-16-6m-americans-are-jobless\/\">doing<\/a>&nbsp;the same.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2021 and January 2022, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro&nbsp;Mayorkas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/20\/biden-gives-business-20k-more-foreign-workers-to-hire-13m-americans-jobless\/\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;that he would allow businesses to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/27\/joe-biden-to-import-20k-more-foreign-workers-for-blue-collar-american-jobs\/\"> import<\/a> 40,000 more H-2B foreign visa workers.<\/p>\n<p>The H-2B visa program has been widely used by businesses to drag down the wages of American workers in&nbsp;landscaping, conservation work, the&nbsp;meatpacking industry, the construction industry, and fishing jobs, a 2019&nbsp;study&nbsp;by the Center for Immigration Studies&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Report\/Impact-H2B-Guestworkers-2018?&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social-media&amp;utm_campaign=addtoany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">finds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When comparing the wages of H-2B foreign workers to the national wage average for each blue-collar industry, about 21 out of 25 of the industries offered lower wages to foreign workers than Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Annually, the U.S. gives green cards to about 1.2 million legal immigrants, while another 1.4 million foreign workers&nbsp;are&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/temporary-foreign-workers-by-the-numbers-new-estimates-by-visa-classification\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">admitted<\/a>&nbsp;every year to take American jobs.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at&nbsp;jbinder@breitbart.com.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Senate Republicans has joined Senate Democrats to demand President Joe Biden import more H-2B foreign visa workers to take working-class, blue-collar American jobs. 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