A broken immigration system keeps workers out of jobs the U.S. needs to fill

A broken immigration system keeps workers out of jobs the U.S. needs to fill
Washington Post, 12/21/23
Bismarck, ND - North Dakota’s hospitals are desperate for nurses, but backlogs and other problems in immigration agencies block the way. The leaders of Sanford Medical Center had waited all summer to learn the fate of the 59 nurses planning to move across the world to their isolated state capital. The reinforcements from the Philippines, Kenya and Nigeria would allow the hospital to expand its heart unit and staff a new wing. Costly temporary nurses would go. The scramble to fill shifts would finally be over. But by the time the hospital’s department heads gathered in a conference room this fall to hear the latest development, the news already had spread. The nurses were delayed—again.