CREST HAVEN – The all-Republican Cape May County Board of Chosen Freeholders went on record “strongly opposing” President Donald Trump’s proposal to reduce or end the J-1 Summer Work Travel program.
The action was taken Sept. 12 with the unanimous passage of a resolution. Freeholder Will Morey, a principal in Morey’s Piers on the Wildwood Boardwalk, which hires many foreign students for summer work, moved the resolution for consideration; it was seconded by Freeholder Jeffrey Pierson.
The resolution noted that the Exchange Visitor Program, to which the Summer Work Travel Program is one of 14 categories, was created as part of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, also known as the Fulbright-Hays Act.
It allows foreign nationals to temporarily reside in the U.S. and participate in various educational or training programs and to promote cultural exchange between the United States and other nations.
The resolution further notes that county businesses “have had the pleasure of sponsoring many thousands of international students over the years thus allowing them the ability to meet seasonal staffing requirements.
“Abolishing this program, which acts as a supplement to hiring locally and regionally, will drastically decrease local businesses’ ability to operate at full capacity during the season and significantly impact the shoulder months when American students are unable to work due to college commitments,” the resolution states.
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