Two organizations that deal with a wide variety of social issues have issued long, scholarly reports this month on how immigration policies have been distorted to adversely impact American workers, as well as the foreign workers concerned.
Today’s topic is a report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a Washington-based think tank, using data collected from the U.S. Department of Labor over a 21-year period, stating that $1.8 billion was stolen from workers in the industries that use the H-2B non-agricultural, temporary workers program.
In a subsequent posting, we will examine a report from Howard University that shows, once again, that the H-1B program, for skilled workers, is based on an industry-promoted myth that there is a shortage of such workers, notably in computer-related fields; the myth has supported the program’s displacement of hundreds of thousands of citizen and green card workers and the lowering of wages in a highly profitable sector of the American economy.
The EPI report, by Daniel Costa, stresses that the Biden administration has repeatedly allowed more and more foreign workers to come to the U.S. in the H-2B program while doing little or nothing to tackle the abuses in it; the Trump record was similar.
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