'Having used the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext to shut out asylum seekers, Trump is now using the disease as an excuse to exclude skilled workers, seasonal laborers and other would-be employees simply because they’re not Americans.' (via latimesopinion)
Yet Congress hasn’t killed these programs because they address a real need in the labor market. In science and tech fields, for example, research suggests that there’s a mismatch between the skills demanded in certain fields and those held by U.S. workers, resulting in aand a shortage in others.
It’s also worth noting that the worker visa programs require employers to use them only as a last resort to fill jobs that they could not fill with Americans. The Trump administration — which has denied H-1B applications , according to research by Mother Jones and Reveal — pledged to improve enforcement of those terms, which is the right way to get at the problems that exist.Beyond that, Trump’s proclamation “comes with broad exemptions, such as for many agricultural, healthcare, and food industry workers,” The Times’ Molly O’Toole reported — a concession that, for some employers, the visas are indispensable.
It’s easy to argue that Americans should be first in line when jobs come back . But businesses and employment opportunities after the recession won’t be the same as the ones before the collapse. Recessions invariably displace workers whose skills fall out of demand. And one thing this country doesn’t seem to be very good at is retraining people to keep pace with those changes. In the meantime, though, it won’t help the U.S.
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