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The new US spending bill funds a tiny bit of border wall—but creates up to 60,000 new

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Donald Trump would get $1.6 billion in funding for a border wall through the US spending bill that is currently awaiting a final vote in US Congress.

The money would cover a tiny fraction—33 miles—of the new barrier he has promised to build to block illegal immigration. Another provision of the bill, however, could double the annual number of low-skilled immigrant workers the US admits into the country.

The proposal, which was passed by the House Thursday afternoon, has to be approved by the Senate before a deadline today (March 23) to avert a government shutdown. The White House said Trump would sign it if it reaches his desk.

The compromises in this omnibus spending bill, as it has been dubbed, underscore how difficult it’s been for the president to get Republicans to support his more unconventional stances on immigration. Though Trump got funding for the wall, most of it will go towards erecting new barriers in places where old ones already exist, while the rest of the money has to be spent on the kind of fencing that the Department of Homeland Security has used in the past, not the concrete prototypes Trump commissioned.

Another provision of the proposed bill would increase the number of H-2B visas issued every year. These are visas typically used by industries that rely heavily on manual labor such as landscaping and hospitality, and support for them is more in line with Republicans’ less hawkish stance on immigration in the past. Under the spending proposal, Congress authorizes the Trump administration to issue up to nearly 130,000 H-2B visas in in fiscal 2018, up from the current cap of 66,000, according analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, DC-based think tank that focuses on low and middle-income workers.

Employers that use H-2Bs argue there are not enough visas to cover their needs. Some say the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants is worsening worker shortages.

Though the president has kept a hard line on most types of immigration, including highly-skilled workers and the family members of US citizens, he’s been more open to admitting low-skilled immigrants. (His own hotels have hired H-2B holders in the past.) Last year, his Department of Homeland Security upped the number of available H-2Bs by 15,000 under a similar authorization by Congress.

Expanding the use of H-2B is likely to earn Trump some points among business-focused Republicans, who say the US economy needs low-skilled immigrants. But it’s a big disappointment for anti-immigration advocates. The Federation for American Immigration Reform, a group that advocates for reduced immigration, for example, found little to like in the omnibus bill.


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“There are no immigration-related provisions in the omnibus that are consistent with what President Trump and congressional Republicans told the American people they would do when they were sent to Washington,” said FAIR President Dan Stein. http://bit.ly/2DJNbSp

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The omnibus spending bill does not build the wall, not even close. It contains a paltry $1.6 billion for repairs, drones, and pedestrian fencing – no wall construction. It also explicitly restricts funding for any of @realDonaldTrump's prototypes.

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The omnibus also allows DHS to DOUBLE H-2B visas. Opening the door for a significant increase in cheap foreign labor is not only unwarranted, but harmful to the interests of American workers.

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Love it.

People over at breitbart are pissed and are urging Trump not sign it. Trump just threatened a VETO because it doesn't contain the Wall and DACA!
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Love it.

People over at breitbart are pissed and are urging Trump not sign it. Trump just threatened a VETO because it doesn't contain the Wall!
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Anyways, I'd settle for a 245(i) extension. It would solve a whole lot of problems if you just let people pay a fucking fine and get legal ffs.

Also these are H-2B visas, modern day indentured servitude.
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Doubled low skilled seasonal workers

Lol

So much for American workers being first
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This Congress and the president are such B.S. I thought they strung dreamers along from last September because they (especially the GOP) didn't want any immigration bills mixed in a spending bill. That's why nothing was passed to replace DACA, And I the end Trump still got 1.6 billion to boast about his wall. And we get nothing. I hope next Congress, next president something happens for all Dreamers, but I have no faith in the current government. Smh
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Why you posting from fair hate group
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