The Trump administration is moving to prohibit people from Haiti — which the president allegedly insulted in a meeting last week — from applying for visas for seasonal and farm workers.
The Department of Homeland Security has given
notice it plans to prohibit people from Haiti, as well as Belize and
Samoa, from applying for H-2A and H-2B visas, which are temporary.
Those visas allow businesses to bring in
workers from other countries. The H-2A visa is for agriculture and the
H-2B is for non-agricultural seasonal work in places such as resorts.
The notice of which countries are eligible was to be published in the Federal Register on Thursday, but a copy was publicly posted online Wednesday per the usual process.
In the notice, DHS said that Haitians applying
for the visas "present extremely high rates of refusal" and Haitians
who have been granted H-2A and H-2B visas "have demonstrated high levels
of fraud and abuse and a high rate of overstaying the terms of their
H-2 admission."
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Source: NBC News
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