{"id":435229,"date":"2021-04-20T11:50:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=435229"},"modified":"2021-04-20T11:50:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:50:38","slug":"biden-admin-providing-an-additional-22000-h-2b-visas-to-help-businesses-address-pandemic-labor-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-providing-an-additional-22000-h-2b-visas-to-help-businesses-address-pandemic-labor-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Providing An Additional 22,000 H-2B Visas To Help Businesses Address Pandemic Labor Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fbiden-admin-providing-an-additional-22000-h-2b-visas-to-help-businesses-address-pandemic-labor-shortage%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=435229&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>The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that it will make available an additional 22,000 H-2B Temporary Non-Agricultural Worker visas, citing \u201cincreased labor demands\u201d brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>As the nation\u2019s economy continues to reopen safely, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is taking action to ensure that American businesses are equipped with the resources needed to recover successfully and contribute to the economic health of local communities,\u201d DHS wrote in a statement. \u201cThe additional visas will be made available in the coming months via a temporary final rule in the&nbsp;<em>Federal Register<\/em>.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/25\/joe-biden-ends-donald-trump-green-card-visa-freeze-coronavirus-unemployment\/\">(RELATED: Biden Ends Trump\u2019s Freeze On Green Card, Work Visa Program That Was Halted During Pandemic)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7174231\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7174231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 MARCH 01: U.S. President Joe Biden (L) and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas (C) attend a virtual meeting with Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador (on monitor) in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 1, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe H-2B program is designed to help U.S. employers fill temporary seasonal jobs, while safeguarding the livelihoods of American workers,\u201d said Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas. \u201cThis supplemental increase also demonstrates DHS\u2019s commitment to expanding lawful pathways for opportunity in the United States to individuals from the Northern Triangle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/19\/joe-biden-immigration-customs-enforcement-border-protection-illegal-alien-undocumented\/\">DHS<\/a> further claimed that \u201cduring recent engagement with American businesses that rely on the H-2B program during the summer months, employers expressed an immediate need for supplemental, temporary guest workers for this fiscal year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBusinesses across the country, despite attempts at recruitment and hiring of U.S. workers, report critical vacancies,\u201d the statement reads. \u201cThis leaves already vulnerable businesses in danger of significant potential revenue loss.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/15\/jobless-claims-lowest-level-march-2020-coronavirus-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Jobless Claims Drop To 576,000, Lowest Level Since March 2020)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump temporarily froze a number of work visa initiatives, including the H-2B, as a means of stopping skyrocketing unemployment caused by the pandemic in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/01\/donald-trump-visa-green-card-h-1b-visa-ban-extended-march-coronavirus\/\">President Joe Biden<\/a> called the move an \u201cattempt to distract from [the Trump] Administration\u2019s failure to lead an effective response to COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He would go on to restart the various visa programs paused by Trump shortly after his inauguration in January.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the Trump administration provided businesses additional H-2B visas in both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natlawreview.com\/article\/h-2b-cap-fiscal-year-2021-reached-february-12-2021#:~:text=There%20is%20a%20cap%20of,through%20September%2030%2C%202021).\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fiscal year 2017 and 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that it will make available an additional 22,000 H-2B Temporary Non-Agricultural Worker visas, citing \u201cincreased labor demands\u201d brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.As &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276289,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}