The Biden administration’s December expansion of the H-2B visa program, which nearly doubles the available permits for foreign truck drivers and other nonagricultural workers in 2025, was hailed as a solution to what some argue is an ongoing truck driver shortage. The initiative, which adds 64,716 supplemental visas on top of the 66,000 annual H-2B visas, was intended to give U.S. employers, including trucking companies, greater access to foreign labor to fill seasonal and temporary job...
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Misuse of B-1 visas undercuts US trucking industry, observers say
Jessie Maldonado’s family’s trucking company has been in business for around 30 years in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
The cross-border firm also has operations across several other Mexican cities, as well as a location in Laredo, Texas.
“It took my family’s business years to get to 500 trucks, open offices in Mexico and the United States,” Maldonado said. “About five, six years ago, you started seeing these companies around Laredo start with one truck, then a year later they have 100, 200 trucks. How...
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Medically Necessary: The fake vaccine supply chain threatens the real thing
This is an excerpt from the March 23, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter. Subscribe here.
Good afternoon. Medically Necessary is a newsletter by Matt Blois about the health care supply chain — how we get drugs, devices and medical supplies to health care providers and patients.
Fake vaccines, protective equipment threaten the supply chain
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent inspects international cargo with personal protective equipment in the Los...
Deadly crash involving truck, SUV prompts human smuggling investigation
Authorities are investigating whether human smuggling was involved in a crash Tuesday that killed more than a dozen people in Southern California.
The crash between a Ford Expedition carrying 25 people and a double tractor-trailer occurred a few miles northwest of Holtville, California, around 6:15 a.m., according to officials.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement that its Homeland Security Investigations unit has initiated a human smuggling investigation into the crash.
The...
Union Pacific says its California police force won’t check immigration status
Union Pacific’s (NYSE: UNP) police force will not ask for the immigration status of people it comes across on Union Pacific’s network in California, nor will the railroad work with any joint law enforcement task force whose sole purpose is to identify, detain or deport people who entered the U.S. illegally.
These actions are according to Union Pacific’s (UP) police force order, dated March 2020.
UP’s March order was in the news last week because the Southern California chapter of the American...