Speech #1140071425

In December. on less than 72 hours notice. Congress and President Obama shoved down the throats of Americans a 2.000page. financially irresponsible. $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that not only risks Americas solvency. it also threatens American jobs for American workers. Under old law. 66.000 H2B foreign worker visas could be issued each year. Buried deep inside the 2.000page omnibus spending bill. on page 701. is an obscure provision without even a heading that. according to labor expert John Miano. increases available H2B visas up to 264.000 per year. effectively quadrupling visas for lowskilled. temporary nonagricultural foreign workers. Making matters worse. on New Years Eve. while America focused on football games and celebrations. President Obama issued a 200page proposed rule to illegally bust statutory green card immigration caps by approving unlimited numbers of work permits for foreigners who dont have green cards. This White House action is yet another brazen display of contempt for immigration statutes. the rule of law. and American workers. The White House argues importing foreign labor is necessary because of a claimed shortage of American labor. Similarly. House Speaker PAUL RYAN claims increasing foreign worker visas "helps small businesses who cannot find labor when theres a surge in demand for their labor. like seafood processing or tourism." This claimed labor shortage is unsupported by jobs or wage data and is political bunk. Per Federal labor statistics. 57 percent57 percentof Americans without a high school diploma had no job in 2015s second quarter. That bears repeating.