http://www.geekwire.com/2017/report-trump-administrations-next-executive-order-target-silicon-valley
Can you still count cards or tell me how many toothpicks there are?
I know Tuesday’s are very important to you so, I can wait until tomorrow for your reply...
Rather sparse on information. What exactly does it do? What about the backdoor L1 visas and others?
H1B should be suspended and current visa holders given 90 days to leave the US.
I’d like to see a $50K application fee per H1B visa in the first year and then $75K in the second year and$100K in the third year. Let those businesses who claim they can find qualified American workers pay through the nose to bring in foreigners.
Then disallow tax expensing of business expenditures to foreign service providers to reduce outsourcing.
Next - offer up a subtle refinement to the scope of investigation in the brouhaha on “Russian hacking” of the election. Broaden the task to look at all efforts, foreign and domestic, to influence the election, in particular efforts by Google and Yahoo to tweak their search algorithms to de-emphasize search results critical of their favored candidates (e.g., Hillary Clinton) and to emphasize search results critical of their disfavored candidates.
Yes!! More Winnjng!! Some of our top students at leading universities have been unable to even get a single sillyCon valley interview — not one — also American engineers with excellent records of successful invention and development have extreme difficulty getting into major companies if they’re over 30 - as they must be if they have such fine work records and accomplishments. Why? The sillyCon valley recruits and hires foreigners
High Tech is an important economic engine to this country. Their leaders should be jaw-boned and squeezed, but not their workers or industry.
Laissez-faire caused the Industrial Revolution. Government ended it.
What is amazing is this systematic influx of immigrants these companies have willfully participated in at the expense of American workers.
In Europe, unless you are Muslim, it is difficult to get a work visa.
In Sweden, a particular interest of mine, the process was so onerous, companies just did not consider foreigners for hire.
I should have said I was Muslim.
One of my boys clued me in to H1B abuse.
He took a job at a company in Houston which did deep sea oil geology surveys. These are done by boats dragging transducers, and generate huge amounts of data.
He said that the work situation was terrible. Of course it was compounded by the drop in oil over the 2 years he was there, but that wasn’t the real problem. The place was full of H1B workers, mostly Chinese and Indians. It made him a stranger in his own country.
The real problem is this: Supposedly the H1B rules set a minimum salary for an H1B worker that is comparable to that for a similarly skilled American worker. But the reality is different. Once an H1B worker takes such a job, his continued presence in the US depends on him keeping that job. The companies know this, and flog the workers mercilessly. 70 or more hours a week, with heavy weekend involvement is common. Now, if the H1B lasts through that for either 3 or 4 years, he becomes eligible for a green card, and his life becomes much better—he can compete directly with Americans in better working conditions.
If you’re working in the H1B shop, if you’re American, you’ve got to do those same hours. After all, you’re a professional, not an hourly worker, they say. You get a salary, and you do your job, no matter how long it takes. Or more likely, you do 1 1/2 to 2 jobs.
There’s a lot of places that operate this way, with Master’s or Ph.D. H1B’s treated like indentured servants. Bad for them, but also bad for us—because it deindustrializes the US, because the word gets out that STEM can be bad career deal, rather than the glamorized way it is currently portrayed.
They are supposed to be doing that now, but that hasn't slowed the H-1B flood at all.