Commentary: Slavery alive and well in U.S.
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Commentary: Slavery alive and well in U.S.
By Glenn Beck
Editor’s note: “Glenn Beck” is on CNN Headline News nightly at 7 and 9 ET and hosts a conservative national radio talk show.
NEW YORK (CNN) — “Jobs Americans just won’t do.”
I can’t stand that line, but more importantly, I don’t even understand it.
Americans spend months at a time at sea fishing for crab or drilling for oil; two of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Americans clean bathrooms, subway stations and crime scenes. Americans man toll booths, pave roads, embalm bodies and inspect sewers. Yet people really expect us to believe that they won’t pick strawberries or oranges?
It just doesn’t add up.
Earlier this week The Wall Street Journal published a story about a shortage of H-2B visas, which are issued twice a year to nonagricultural seasonal employees. Because our government can’t get out of its own way, they recently let an important “returning workers” provision expire resulting in thousands of foreign workers being shut out of the country this summer.
That’s inexcusable. I know this will come as a huge shock to those who only like to hurl insults, but I think we should be issuing more work visas, more student visas, and more green cards. And I think we should cut the red tape and bureaucracy that’s constantly blocking the front door.
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