Florida Congressmen Neal Dunn (FL-2) and John Rutherford (FL-4) signed their name to a May 26 letter addressed to President Trump urging the White House to refrain from imposing any further restriction on the H-2B non-immigrant seasonal guest worker program.
Citing a risk of harm to economic recovery efforts, the lawmakers assert that even with tens of millions of Americans out of work the businesses in their Districts are suffering from labor shortages.
"On behalf of the thousands of small and seasonal businesses in our Districts that are struggling in this unprecedented and uncertain economic climate, we respectfully urge you to refrain from imposing any further restriction on the H-2B nonimmigrant seasonal guest worker program as part of any forthcoming executive action relating to immigration and/or economic recovery.
As you can understand, this pandemic has impacted the various economic sectors differently. While many are faced with reduced customers and degraded markets, others are struggling to meet customer demand due to seasonal labor challenges."The H-2B nonimmigrant program permits employers to temporarily hire non-immigrants to perform non-agricultural labor or services in the United States.The employment must be of a temporary nature for a limited period of time such as a one-time occurrence, seasonal need, peakload need or intermittent need.
Pushing the lazy American narrative undermines President Trumps American First agenda and the financial, quality of life security a part-time, seasonal job can mean to the unemployed and underemployed Americans who voted for President Trump and continue to support him.
County Examiner previously reported remarks made during a Leadership Institute Digital Town Hall by Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw implying Alabama teens are lazy and a bunch of bums:
The representative claimed that places that had fewer immigrants, citing Alabama, couldn’t find workers to do those jobs. This, Crenshaw asserted, is a problem with the work ethic of Americans, not with business owners who prefer to pay ultra low-wages to foreign nationals.
“That’s an American cultural problem that I wish we could fix,” Crenshaw said. “I wish our teenagers would actually go to work. They don’t.” Crenshaw added that he has to be “sympathetic” to “some of these business owners who are creating jobs and creating wealth in America, creating growth, building things — they can’t do it without anybody working there.”
“For some reason, people who speak English just won’t go work there,” Crenshaw said.
County Examiner will continue to report on the Texas and Florida members of both chambers in the U.S. Congress who are undermining President Trumps' America First agenda and the future of all Americans by advocating jobs for foreign nationals at the expense of unemployed Americans who they clearly prefer be dependent of government welfare.
