Ah, Swamp logic.

While the tech industry has been laying off people, most other industries are in a staffing crisis, especially healthcare. In Kansas, for example, 25% of open nursing positions remain unfilled.

And those healthcare numbers are going to get much worse over the next few years.

While the staffing shortages started before the pandemic, the aftermath of the pandemic and having the baby boomers leave the workforce has left the United States feeling the void of killing off 60 million workers before they were born.

For decades now, professionals from other countries like the Philippines have been able to come to the United States and work on EB-3 visas to fill the gaps that scourge of abortion has left in American industries.

Obviously, during the pandemic, importing workers ended for a time, but now that's back up and running, there's a huge backlog, and the Department of State, like everyone else, is too short-staffed to handle it.

So, they've decided just to stop the legal immigration of professionals for the year.

(It reminds me a lot of the IRS deciding to destroy the backlog of tax returns rather than deal with it anymore.)

Staffing agencies that help place international professionals have gotten mixed responses from the government about when the program will restart. Some say 2024, some say not until 2025.

Meanwhile, thousands of businesses are having to cancel contracts around the world. Hospitals looking for nurses are particularly hard hit because you can't just outsource nursing care overseas. It helps if they're in the room with the patient.

So, if you find yourself in the hospital, and no one is answering the "call a nurse" button when you need someone to help you to the restroom, you'll know who to blame.

Oh, and in case you're wondering, the assault on the southern border and illegal immigration is still going strong. Biden hasn't bothered to end that.

It's almost like the pain and suffering this administration is inflicting is intentional.