{"id":74915,"date":"2026-02-01T01:29:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T01:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/2026\/02\/01\/h%e2%80%912b-employers-paying-9%e2%80%9111-per-hour-immigration-expert-says-americans-are-denied-work-even-in-construction\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T01:29:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T01:29:20","slug":"h%e2%80%912b-employers-paying-9%e2%80%9111-per-hour-immigration-expert-says-americans-are-denied-work-even-in-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/2026\/02\/01\/h%e2%80%912b-employers-paying-9%e2%80%9111-per-hour-immigration-expert-says-americans-are-denied-work-even-in-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018H\u20112B employers paying $9\u2011$11 per hour\u2019: Immigration expert says Americans are denied work even in construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\">\n<div class=\"_s30J clearfix\">\n<div class=\"MwN2O\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"T22zO\">\n<section class=\"D3Wk1  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  VtlfQ\" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"D3Wk1\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"zPaFh\">\n<div class=\"wJnIp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-127830768,imgsize-1292673,width-400,resizemode-4\/127830768.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018H\u20112B employers paying $9\u2011$11 per hour\u2019: Immigration expert says Americans are denied work even in construction\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>An immigration policy expert has raised concerns that American workers are losing out on jobs in sectors such as construction because of the way H-2B visas are used and paid. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/>Rosemary Jenks, policy director at the Immigration Accountability Project, made the comments in a short video posted on X with the account associated with Steve Bannon (Trump&#8217;s former advisor) Warroom.<!-- --> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>Jenks said she had spoken with families who feel left behind by the system. \u201cI spent the morning talking to moms who put their kids through trade school so they could get construction jobs and they\u2019re being denied work,\u201d she said. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>She added that the wages offered to H\u20112B visa workers are extremely low and can easily be considered as cheap labour: \u201cH\u20112B employers are paying $9 or $11 an hour, even $15 for construction jobs. <!-- -->You can\u2019t live in America on those wages.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"cdatainfo   id-r-component\" data-pos=\"13\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>JENKS: I spent the morning talking to moms who put their kids through trade school so they could get construction jobs and they\u2019re being denied work. H-2B employers are paying $9 or $11 an hour, even $15 for construction jobs. You can\u2019t live in America on those wages. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CPYK9Zgj3A\">pic.twitter.com\/CPYK9Zgj3A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Grace Chong, MBI (@gc22gc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gc22gc\/status\/2017639358103490582?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\">January 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <noscript> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tr?id=593671331875494&amp;ev=PageView&amp;noscript=1\"\/><\/noscript><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/ns.html?id=GTM-P3PMSJN\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" style=\"display:none;visibility:hidden\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/h2b-employers-paying-911-per-hour-immigration-expert-says-americans-are-denied-work-even-in-construction\/articleshow\/127830768.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An immigration policy expert has raised concerns that American workers are losing out on jobs in sectors such as construction because of the way H-2B visas are used and paid.&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-braking-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/127830768.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}