During a recent Senate Appropriations Committee Hearing, U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins (R) urged a top Biden administration official to issue an additional nearly 65,000 H-2B visas for temporary foreign workers.
Sen. Collins comments come after she joined her fellow Maine Sen. Angus King (I) in November to announce that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) is expected to grant more than 64,000 temporary nonagricultural worker visas to foreign nationals in fiscal year 2024 (FY24).
“Those are absolutely critical in my state, where 10-times the state’s population visits Maine,” Sen. Collins told President Biden’s DOL Secretary Julie Su at the Appropriations hearing.
“And I hope that you will be recommending to the Department of Homeland Security that it make available the full additional 64,716 H-2B visas for this fiscal year,” Collins added.
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The over 64,000 temporary nonagricultural worker visas will come in addition to the congressionally mandated 66,000 H-2B visas that are available each fiscal year.
[RELATED: Maine Senators Announce More Than 64,000 Supplemental Temporary Work Visas for Foreign Nationals…]
The announced supplemental allocation of H-2B visas for FY 2024 is expected to include 20,000 visas for workers from Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras.
The remaining 44,716 visas will be made available to returning foreign workers who previously received a H-2B visa, or were otherwise granted H-2B status, during the last three fiscal years.
Sens. Collins and King, when announcing the additional H-2B visas in November, called them the “lifeline for our state’s economy,” and help small businesses meet increasing demand.
“These additional H-2B visas are a welcome relief for small businesses throughout Maine that continue to face a shortage of employees,” the senators said.
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This is what abortion and contraception get you. Destruction of the family, promotion of woman in the workforce instead of motherhood, feminism, demasculization, materialism, nihilism all contribute.The birthrate in the US is below replacement level. No wonder the border is wide open. What the illegal aliens don’t realize is that the US is turning into what they are leaving behind.
Do not frett Sue. I see them working in my neck of the woods, but off the books. No taxes so Joe can hold us taxes payers under his thumb by keeping the debt up.
I’d say it’s well past time for the old hag to retire.
She is so out of touch with what is going on in her own State. We do not need ‘illegal’ or foreign workers in Maine. There are many Mainers looking for work…. What is needed is a removal of all illegals who are bleeding the State dry!
“visas for workers from Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras.”
A who’s who of shithole countries. All the citizens are fleeing (mostly males) desperate to avoid the consequences of their own culture of corruption and violence. Theyre not sending their best folks.
Thank you Bob the Boomer and his spiteful ungrateful dei obsessed partner Karen. Welcome back from Florida btw.
It makes no sense to import workers, who will work for low wages, then bemoan the plight of low income citizens.
Susan’s mother, Patricia, was on the Board of Directors for Catholic Charities which is directly responsible for resettling thousands of “refugees” and “asylees” from Somalia and other s**thole countries for MONEY. Don’t let the altruism BS sway you. CC was paid by the head with taxpayer dollars to turn ME into a welfare state for migrants who won’t work or assimilate.