Is Trump Administration’s Visa Push a Way to Win Health Care Votes? In directing staffers at the Departments of Labor and Homeland Security to draft a rule increasing the number of guest-worker visas, senior political officials specifically highlighted businesses in Maine and Alaska, home to senators who hold crucial health care votes. For months, Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, have been pushing the Trump administration to expand the number of for

The Foreign Visa Crackdown Is Putting Americans Out of Work Kate Bridges should be waiting tables right now. She’s been a server at the lauded farm-to-table restaurant at the Pentagoet Inn in Castine, Maine, for six years, making enough during the summer season to carry her through the year. But in early June she was answering the phone at the inn, telling callers that the restaurant was closed for the foreseeable future. The Pentagoet is the oldest continually running busine

US Congressman Bill Keating, who represents the 9th Congressional District that includes Cape Cod, attended a full hearing of the Committee on Homeland Security Wednesday morning, June 7. The hearing included testimony from Secretary John Kelly on the Department of Homeland Security’s re-authorization and Fiscal Year 2018 budget proposal, a statement from Rep. Keating’s office said. “During an exchange with Rep. Keating, who asked about the stalled H-2B [seasonal worker visa]