In his final weeks, President Biden's administration doubled the number of H-2B visas available for foreign truckers, ignoring the dire situation facing the American trucking industry.
President Biden may be on his way out of office, but his administration has used his final weeks in office to give one last kick in the pants to working-class Americans. As LandLine Magazine revealed last week, the Department of Homeland Security has made an additional 70,000 H-2B visas available for next year, doubling the number of the previous year, when 1,500 were given to transportation occupations like trucking.
130,000 visas might not sound like a lot in a country as populous as the United States, and 1,500 given to truckers even less so, but when you consider market conditions and just how bad the trucking industry has gotten, you start to see how much of a middle finger to truck drivers this really is.How bad have things gotten for trucking? The online trucking industry magazine FreightWaves has an entire section of their website dedicated to nothing but trucking company bankruptcies and truck driver layoffs. A quick scan through the most recent dozen of 82 articles for 2024 alone show that over 4,000 truckers in the United States were laid off in October and November, and thousands more are at risk of being laid off as the companies they work for seek bankruptcy protection. This number doesn't include many self employed truckers whose business closures are much more difficult to track.Given this fact, what on earth would cause DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to push for more visas for foreign truckers? He gave us a window into his thinking recently in a November press release. 'There are employers across the country that would suffer greatly without H-2B workers,' Mayorkas said. 'Authorizing these supplemental visas helps U.S. employers fill those positions ... It helps fuel our economy and reduce irregular migration while also providing a safe and lawful pathway to the United States for noncitizens who are prepared to work.'It's always about the employers for Mayorka
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