US to add 65,000 seasonal guest worker visas for 2026

[1srelluc]

This is nothing new, but it sucks, as it will only further depress blue collar wages.

Seasonal pickers not so much.....Letting them into the poultry processing and meatpacking industries cost Americans many thousands of jobs.

A bit over 300 +/- (depending on the number of shifts being run) Americans lost their jobs to Hispanics in just one poultry processing plant in my AO.

My gop congress-critter at the time was directly responsible for that and his gop successor is not any better.....I've not voted for either since.....I just leave that space blank.

 

[Lesh]

Seasonal pickers not so much.....Letting them into the poultry processing and meatpacking industries cost Americans many thousands of jobs.

A bit over 300 +/- (depending on the number of shifts being run) Americans lost their jobs to Hispanics in just one poultry processing plant in my AO.

My gop congress-critter at the time was directly responsible for that and his gop successor is not any better.....I've not voted for either since.....I just leave that space blank.

So you want the government to pick winners and losers here?

You fuckers are hard to follow

 

[August West]

Pay 2 to 3x the wage these workers get and americans will do the job.

You`ll pay more for the food that they harvest.

 

[LeftofLeft]

A farm that`s not far from me hires 16-20 Guatemalans every summer and when the harvest is done and the fields are prepared for winter, they return to Guatemala. The money they earn here is far more than they could earn at home and home is where they`ll return before the snow falls.

I’m all for enabling foreign workers to come to the US and provide their skills, meet labor market demand, and earn money for themselves and families - PROVIDED that both they and the employer abide by US IMMIGRATION LAWS.

No one is above the law.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

But I thought we didn’t need foreign workers

You folks can spin a 180 on a DIME

It depends on the wind.............

 

[August West]

It depends on the wind.............

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We don`t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. It`s coming from Epstein`s Pedo Island.

 

[j-mac]

Sure, you and I know that, but the flock is a different story.

Who is “the flock”?

 

[Correll]

So you want the government to pick winners and losers here?

You fuckers are hard to follow

NOt really.

The reasons for the policy have been explained to you. You are choosing to dismiss them and then continuing to question it.

And by "question" I mean flinging poo like a monkey.

 

[j-mac]

NOt really.

The reasons for the policy have been explained to you. You are choosing to dismiss them and then continuing to question it.

And by "question" I mean flinging poo like a monkey.

Alinsky tactic…

 

[Lesh]

Alinsky tactic…

Who?

 

[Lisa558]

Pay 2 to 3x the wage these workers get and americans will do the job.

Take welfare away, and the welfare recipients will do the job.

 

[citygator]

65,000 more people jacking up housing prices... did I do that right?

 

[initforme]

Take welfare away, and the welfare recipients will do the job.

Agreed. And pay the 2x without question

 

[Lisa558]

Agreed. And pay the 2x without question

2x? And drive the costs up on everything?

Double the McDonalds pay, and we’d have to pay $20 for a Big Mac meal. Business would dry up, and McDonalds would have to lay off half the workers - and back onto welfare they go.

 

[Care4all]

A farm that`s not far from me hires 16-20 Guatemalans every summer and when the harvest is done and the fields are prepared for winter, they return to Guatemala. The money they earn here is far more than they could earn at home and home is where they`ll return before the snow falls.

Our hospitality industry in "Vacation Land" can never get enough chamber maids, dish washers, waitresses in the Summer when our population triples or more, so via temporary work visas they hire Jamaicans, experienced in hospitality and they speak English.... for the summer work, then they go home, rince and repeat.

 

[Lisa558]

Our hospitality industry in "Vacation Land" can never get enough chamber maids, dish washers, waitresses in the Summer when our population triples or more, so via temporary work visas they hire Jamaicans, experienced in hospitality and they speak English.... for the summer work, then they go home, rince and repeat.

Plenty of welfare people to do those jobs….if their welfare was cut off.

Who wants to earn $15 an hour when welfare benefits equal $15 an hour? Cut it off….and they’ll take the jobs.

 

[Care4all]

Plenty of welfare people to do those jobs….if their welfare was cut off.

Who wants to earn $15 an hour when welfare benefits equal $15 an hour? Cut it off….and they’ll take the jobs.

We really don't have "plenty of people" in Maine....especially where Vacation lands are...like Acadia National Park, or Moose head Lake, Bar Harbor and further up the coastline....

And people on Tanf welfare have to work in Maine with few exceptions...the disabled, the elderly, and mothers with a child under 1 years old.

Note! Maine has the most seniors as a percentage of their population, than any other state...I think they even beat Florida's percentage to overall population of seniors...or came real close.

 

[Lisa558]

We really don't have "plenty of people" in Maine....especially where Vacation lands are...like Acadia National Park, or Moose head Lake, Bar Harbor and further up the coastline....

And people on Tanf welfare have to work in Maine with few exceptions...the disabled, the elderly, and mothers with a child under 1 years old.

Note! Maine has the most seniors as a percentage of their population, than any other state...I think they even beat Florida's percentage to overall population of seniors...or came real close.

When I was a teen, groups of us would head to resort towns and take jobs as maids, waitresses, etc., etc., and bunk down 4 to a room in cheap motels. We earned money, had time off to enjoy the resort town, and learned the value of work for pay.

Nowadays, the neighborhood teens won’t even shovel the driveways.

 

[martybegan]

When I was a teen, groups of us would head to resort towns and take jobs as maids, waitresses, etc., etc., and bunk down 4 to a room in cheap motels. We earned money, had time off to enjoy the resort town, and learned the value of work for pay.

Nowadays, the neighborhood teens won’t even shovel the driveways.

And there are less and less of them every year.

 

[Lisa558]

And there are less and less of them every year.

But the ones we DO have won’t lift a finger. When I was a young teen, I used to listen to the TV on a snowy morning hoping for a snow day: no school AND a chance to earn shoveling money!

Parents really spoil their kids.