H-2B program to nearly double, grant most temporary guest visas since 2007

This is generally something that's a good idea in the broad sense, as in with our level of unemployment, lowering birth rates, and generally overly restrictive immigration policies with no practical way of giving employment-based routes to permanent residency for those performing jobs that doesn't require a degree. However, this is ultimately still a half-assed measure that fails to address anything close to the root of the problem and I can't imagine this making enough of a difference in incentive structures to really matter.

"Guest workers" was effectively the de facto system of how ostensibly undocumented immigrant workers operated in America prior to the militarization of the border from the 70s to the 80s that effectively removed the option of having laborers who would work in America but reside in Mexico with their families during the winter, which is a major cause of why this whole "illegal immigrants moving to America crisis" even exists. So under this current regime, part of that idea is restored, because, frankly, the old model was fairly effective.

However, this kills one of the most necessary elements of, well, capitalism, which is that the workers would need some measure of bargaining power in terms of wages. The current scheme takes away that by tying one's ability to reside and work in a country to a particular employer, which turns into a somewhat more charitable version of indentured servitude. Why are these workers paid less than American workers? Because they can't negotiate for higher wages without getting booted. So it's fixing a problem that's self-inflicted except effectively turning it into quasi-indentured-servitude, as the H2 program comes with a long history of reported abuses, which surely only represents a minority of actual abuses.

And you can't adjust status to anything permanent in the end, so it may even be worse than indentured servitude.

Coming from Trump, as well, I wouldn't believe a single thing he says regardless so this could all just be a mirage anyway, but ultimately the reforms needed needs to actually work on a level that liberalizes a lot of the restrictions that have no benefits and are in fact holdovers from far more explicitly racist policies of old (there's still a chapter in the US Code specifically titled "Exclusion of the Chinese" for crissakes). Without that, all these stopgaps are just putting bandaids on gunshot wounds.