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Trump Deputies Approve 65,000 More H-2B
Visa Workers

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 2/2/2026 1:16:49 PM

The Trump administration has quietly decided to allow employers to import 65,000 extra H-2B visa migrants for jobs that would otherwise pay decent wages to ordinary American who vote in the midterm elections. The visa giveaway is part of President Trump’s zig-zagging between the two sides of his coalition — the voters he needs on election day, and the business donors who provide the funds for political campaigns. Meanwhile, the national media is ignoring the visa giveaway to business because it is focused on the left-wing street groups who are trying to block the deportation of criminal and wage-cutting illegal migrants from Minneapolis.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: MissMann 2/2/2026 1:50:54 PM (No. 2064002)
They want to lose the midterms and the 2028 presidential. I was hoping we'd survive more than 250 years, but it looks like that's about it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: volksford 2/2/2026 2:16:42 PM (No. 2064024)
This is the kind of cr#p that could kick Trumps butt and he would deserve the kicking
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Reply 3 - Posted by: anniebc 2/2/2026 2:21:36 PM (No. 2064027)
This article is why I sometimes feel like we're being played. The national media wants US to import "migrants," so why would they focus on the rope-a-dope?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: privateer 2/2/2026 3:22:49 PM (No. 2064043)
Don't worry. These are just jobs that---like cleaning toilets--- Americans won't deign to do. Plus, we're running out of foreigners.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 2/2/2026 4:08:20 PM (No. 2064057)
JUST STOP it! What the heck is wrong with them?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: JimBob 2/2/2026 6:28:11 PM (No. 2064089)
Never forget that the Media focus "on the left-wing street groups who are trying to block the deportation of criminal and wage-cutting illegal migrants", is to chase the story of the BILLION$ STOLEN BY THE SOMALI FRAUDSTERS off the Front Pages and out of the news altogether!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: danu 2/2/2026 8:07:57 PM (No. 2064115)
susie is another one who wants us all dead dead ds dead
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Maggie2u 2/2/2026 8:09:58 PM (No. 2064117)
Why does Trump need any money from wealthy donors for this election? A story yesterday said the Republicans had over $100 million to spend.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: petrichor 2/3/2026 7:32:30 AM (No. 2064189)
I'm on the fence with this. I had to wait on landscaping work because the H-2B visas were being held up. These are not crop workers (H-1B). I'm not sure many Americans like doing this yard work. Or working this hard! This also includes some janitorial work. Then again, in Spokane Valley, I noticed that all of the landscapers were gringos. So, go figure.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Strike3 2/3/2026 7:43:56 AM (No. 2064195)
Swapping thoroughly vetted and documented workers for the rapists and murderers who are being deported? Nothing wrong with that.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Rumblehog 2/3/2026 7:47:53 AM (No. 2064196)
President Trump needs to put the US Chamber of Commerce OUT of business, permanently. They’re one of the chief promoters of work-visa madness. Having seen the impacts of this evil from the inside of an American Fortune 500/100 company, I can tell you NOTHING good comes from it for the American worker. Nothing.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: felixcat 2/3/2026 8:44:33 AM (No. 2064221)
Just this morning on the Maria Bartiromo show, one of her regular guests (forgot his name) mentioned that a majority of US college grads say they are underemployed. He didn't specify how underemployed was defined except that the implication is that you have US citizens with IT and other related degrees (not human sexuality studies garbage) who are not being employed because they cannot compete with the H-2B immigrants. As for cleaning toilets, etc that Americans won't do - cut off all their welfare and when they have no money for their tattoos and acrylic nails, then they'll do those jobs - if only out of sheer necessity. How is more H-2B workers MAGA?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: billa57 2/3/2026 9:29:59 AM (No. 2064246)
I looked back to the 2022 H-2B Program totals. There were 210,000 H-2B's approved in 2022. I believe President Trump is trying to solve this one too, but just slowly.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Socio 2/3/2026 9:43:43 AM (No. 2064248)
One theory floating around is this is to help the democrats, and stave off the government shut down without it looking like the republicans caved on the democrats ICE demands. Millions of Americans have fled Blue States to Red States, congressional seats and electoral votes are contingent upon the number of people residing in said States. If you count the number of Americans that have left Blue States, then removed all illegals from those States the democrat party would lose so many congressional seats and electoral votes it would no longer be a relevant political party, it would be over for them. Visa holders are also counted in the census, bringing in more of them replaces the illegals being removed keeping the power status quo for the democrats. That the American people are the ones being 4D chess played.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: PrayerWarrior 2/3/2026 11:04:45 AM (No. 2064278)
I don't like this. This isn't going to play well with the blue collar workers. Many have told DJT so and that includes Laura Ingraham.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: joew9 2/3/2026 1:57:30 PM (No. 2064360)
Beginning in 1996 I have experienced 3 engineering job losses to H-1Bs who replaced me and my coworkers at 1/3 our salaries. The first two times it took nearly a year to get another job. The third time I gave up. The dems are talking about an affordability crisis. Salaries in the US are at 1/2 what they were in 1980.(inflation math accounted for) I don't think there would be an affordability crisis if salaries were double what they are today. In other words inflation-corrected-1980 salaries. Salaries have gone down due to the importation of much lower paid immigrants in all job categories. Most of these immigrants are from countries where they are effectively treated as slaves. So they come here to earn slightly better than slave wages. This whole thing is being designed by government and businesses to change the American workforce to an effectively slave workforce. Look at the 10x10 cubicle housing they are designing and bragging about. No ownership of a car. No ownership of anything. You will get to 40 years old and you've never ridden in a car or bus. It has been stated by some rich Wall Street people, "You won't own anything and you'll be happy." And environmentalists, "You will rarely stray more than a mile or two from where you live and work." You will shop at the company store and you will always be in debt to them. And if you don't like it you must be crazy and thus you will be sent for reeducation to get your head straight. It was about a year ago that Hillary was suggesting all MAGA people be sent to reeducation camps. And we all know what happens in those camps. You die. And she knows it too. That's what she meant.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: danu 2/3/2026 5:01:27 PM (No. 2064446)
we didn't vote for this, nor can we pay pay for for handing out endless thousands of visas -to train chicoms as pilots, and trot back home w/ high level chips, birthright tourism, theft from america - to let india move in, to wipe out entire families w/ 18wheelers w/ fake licences from gruesome. -to to let india , radical sharia baddies, 1/2 the middle east, mexican druglords, chinese trained killers luxuriate in restricted homes built for them by taxpayers, as they carry out their 'reconquista'. just say Nooooooooooo
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