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Trump ally Tom Cotton bashes administration for issuing 30,000 additional temporary worker visas

By Sean Higgins
Published May 6, 2019 5:00pm ET
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Trump ally Tom Cotton bashes administration for issuing 30,000 additional temporary worker visas
In this May 25, 2018, photo, Angel Gonzalez shovels leaves into a trailer at Sebasco Harbor Resort in Phippsburg, Maine. Gonzalez is one of several Puerto Rican workers hired by the resort to do landscaping, housekeeping, and kitchen work. | (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Trump ally Tom Cotton criticized the administration Monday for increasing the number of guest worker visas.

The Trump administration announced Monday it will make 30,000 additional visas available for temporary non-agricultural workers available in 2019 through the H-2B visa program.

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