From what I'm reading, it looks like one of the major reasons they're exgending the permits is because booting all of these people at the same time will cause such a huge labor shortage in the drudge work of the healthcare industry, especially elder care, that it could actually endanger the health/lives/well being of the people that depend on them.

Hatians especially seem to have entrenched themselves in things like senior living/nursing homes/home health care, etc type work. I'm pretty sure they're the bulk of who is getting the extenstions.

It's difficult to find info about it, since it's only recently happened. And I like to read stuff straight from the sources, like the actual communications from the government departments, instead of the news media, but there's some lack of transparency going on about why exactly all this has happened and plans for the future.

So, if you're in assisted living or senior living facilities, or get home health care assistance, or you care for someone who does, you might want to keep a close eye on this. Because there's either going to be some major labor shortages on those types of jobs, making it more difficult to get any care at all, much less good quality care, or costs are about to skyrocket so they can pay enough to attract new, legal US workers to those jobs.

My opinion (which is worth little, admittedly), they're either going to continue extending the permits for those here TDS who work in these fields, or they're going to start cranking out even more H2 visas to bring in fresh batches of foreigners that will do it for the current pay.