And Trump consistently hires people for his organization using foreign visas each year. I guess he isn’t all that committed to hiring American. I’ll stick with Ted, thanks.
If Trump is hiring the best people for the job, I do not have a problem with it. If he is hiring cheap replacements and forcing the well paid Americans they will be replacing to train them like the H1-B visa workers are being used by multiple businesses, than I have a problem with it and Ted Cruz is on the record wanting to expand that program. I like Trump’s take on the H1-B issue as outlined in his immigration policy paper:
“We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program,” Trump wrote. “More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program’s lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant, instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.”
BTW, Cruz wants to expand the cheap labor H1-B program even more than Rubio does to 5x. I just cannot get behind that.