Paying people less to do the work being done by the people they abused and deported.
The layer of NYT-sleaze is thick
As someone who uses H2A labor and has for years. Let me just say that the damage this administration has done to the legal migrant worker channels is absolutely insane. Ignoring the illegal immigrant abuses happening, methods to bring in legal workers were clogged, inefficient, and burdensome before these fucksticks were in charge. Now it’s broken so badly that I have multiple persons in multiple countries that have every bit of paperwork approved, but the gov still will not put that final signature on their visa. For three god damn months! I had to send three of my employees back to their countries of origin because the gov broke the seasonal rollover program. I have two more that couldn’t get their passports stamped at the border to prove they left on time, and therefore cannot prove they abided by the rules of their visa. And another two who’s spouse visas are not being processed because that’s not something that’s essentially automatic anymore for some fucking reason.
I’ve busted my ass to take care of my people and this fucking administration finds new and creative ways to break down an already shitty system. Its fucking disgusting. I have valid visa holders scared to go to the god damn grocery store because ice does not give a flying fuck anymore. Ghhaaaa!
Weren’t they already doing the work? Fuck this let the crops rot. I want this to go to hell.
Under the H-2A program, employers must also demonstrate an inability to hire U.S.-based workers. In 2025, only 182 of more than 415,000 advertised positions received a domestic applicant.
When this happens in any other industry, you raise wages until the labor market appreciates your job offer.
When this happens in any other industry, you raise wages until the labor market appreciates your job offer.
Eh, maybe. H1-B has been used to artificially hold down IT wages for decades now.
Engineering too. A huge chunk of my company’s design engineering staff are H-1B because you can get away with paying a lot less.
H1B is just the same problem as H2A and is heavily abused. The poster is correct — this is a way to avoid paying what those jobs are actually worth.
Actual capitalism is for suckers.
I’m not sure I could fabricate a dumber timeline.
Alanis Morissette is writing a new banger by now
What will the pedo clowns do next?
