Because Lord knows that Microsoft would hate to see a dent made in their ready supply of low rent wage slaves.
Importing the workers for the jobs that can’t be exported.
Hey Brado?
Black Lives Matter.
Why don’t you take some of that awesome funding you’ve got and start trwinging blacks in Oakland and Chicago for IT jobs?
Every one of your complaints is whining about the poor immigrants and nothing st all about the actual poor citizens in this country who’ve been hung out to dry by you racist and bigoted liberals like you, Bob Iger and Barak Hussein Obama because THOSE people aren’t “smart and classy” like you.
Terrible for their H1b farms, but good for citizens.
Being an American company, Microsoft should be finding ways to educate and employ Americans. First, last, and always. Shame on Brad Smith for forgetting that he is an American and that Microsoft is an American company.
I would like to see those three things happen. I’ve been in IT since 1983, BTW.
Microsoft is now an Indian company. I’m not sure they even have any Americans working there anymore.
A rule change by the Obama Administration:
http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/h1b-visa-2018-h1b-spouses-may-not-get-work-permit-in-us-donald-trump-indians-suffer-top-10-developments-118042400651_1.html
According to a recent study by the Migration Policy Institute, the US has issued employment authorisation documents to more than 71,000 spouses of H-1B visa holders, over 90 per cent of whom are Indians. The Trump administration's move to end the Obama-era rule could have an impact on more than 70,000 H-4 visas holders, who have work permits. H-4 is issued to the spouse of H-1B visa holders, a significantly large number of whom are high-skilled professionals from India. They had obtained work permits under a special order issued by the previous Obama administration.
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Smith’s third fear is that the optional practical training program for immigrant graduates with STEM degrees will be reduced, “at which point we could have thousands of people suddenly unable to work,” Smith said.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa
In 2014, a federal court denied the government's motion to dismiss the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (Washtech) and three other plaintiffs' case against the OPT STEM extension. Judge Huvelle noted that the plaintiffs had standing due to increased competition in their field, that the OPT participation had ballooned from 28,500 in 2008, to 123,000 and that while the students are working under OPT on student visas, employers are not required to pay Social Security and Medicare contributions, nor prevailing wage.[62]
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So that's close to 200,000 jobs that could have gone to Americans. Bully for Trump for moving to get rid of these two albatrosses and especially for curtailing the unfair OPT program.
Illegal immigration and immigration of our enemies is INVASION prohibited by the Constitution, Art. IV, Sec. 4.
This idiot is worries that Trump and the feds might actually start following the Constitution by preventing invasion on our way to restoring our Free Constitutional Republic.
The Delusional Lying Left. They are the Enemy Within.
My immigration reform plan, not currently online, includes
1. a pay & stay amnesty for Dreamers/anchored parents/select taxpayers
conditioned on submission to the states of a proposed Constitutional amendment providing for taxpayer protections and maternal jus sanguinis citizenship at birth
2. a low-cost amnesty personally available at embassies & consulates for common visa/work-related violations
3. a visa auction system which will allow companies/people to import relatives/agricultural, abattoir & tech workers quickly
4. a multiple incentive employment verification ‘wall’
If Lincoln frees the slaves, who is going to pick all that cotton?
Read about the 10-year rule here:
https://www.fitzgeraldlawcompany.com/boston-immigration-lawyers/cancellation-removal.php
The Obama DACA delay scam is meant to bring most of the illegals under it.
4. you get a years free internet if you switch to Linux ,LOL
Why can’t M$ get their work done in India or China?
Hey Brad, we build the wall and then talk H1b. Cappice.
5.56mm
IF Microsoft was more interested in American workers and what American Windows users want, they’d be in better standing. As it is, I curse them every day.
From my immigration reform/amnesty plan:
SEC. ???? Proposed Constitutional Amendment.
Upon enactment by two-thirds of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the following Proposed Constitutional Amendment below shall be sent to the states for ratification:
SECTION 1. The federal government shall have the power to implement the Immigration Amnesty and Reform Act of 2018.
SECTION 2. Previous Congressional immigration amnesties are hereby made lawful.
SECTION 3. The first sentence of SECTION 1 of Amendment XIV is hereby repealed.
SECTION 4. Henceforth, every child born in the USA after ratification shall be born with the citizenship of their mother as of 320 days prior to birth.
SECTION 5. No person may be granted US citizenship unless the person is over age 22 and proves US residence in at least 54 of the prior 60 months and lawful US earnings of at least $4,000 each quarter in at least 17 of the prior 20 quarters.
SECTION 6. No treaty may be entered into that would or could, require US residency, naturalization, citizenship or welfare benefits to be granted, restrict/bar deportation, impair US entry security, impose any form of international taxation within the United States, require any contingent payment from any domestic person or entity, or other than a treaty solely dealing with a domestic Indian tribe or intellectual property, remain in force in excess of ten years.
SECTION 7. No bill proposing an immigration/naturalization legal change and a federal expenditure for any extraneous purpose may become law.
SECTION 8. Any state may require state/federal photo ID tender for state-related voting purposes, subject to appropriate federal statutory law.
SECTION 9. Every domestic government shall require proof of US citizenship & state/federal photo ID tender for governmental voting purposes after 2023, subject to appropriate federal statutory law.
SECTION 10. Federal employer/income taxation may be levied at no more than 120% of existing rates. Federal employer/income taxation limits/rates/rate thresholds may be changed by no more than 1/20th in any year.
SECTION 11. A federal statutory financial imposition may only be levied/increased under then existing law or with the same day approval of at least two-thirds of the members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
SECTION 12. All amounts collected from Federal estate taxation shall be used to pay down the existing national debt and that distinctly refinanced, or refunded.
SECTION 13. There shall be no multi-state/federal wealth or property taxation except that estate taxation and real property taxation in what is now the District of Columbia.
SECTION 14. The federal government shall not issue loans or except, via limited liability corporations set up under federal law without recourse to the Treasury, guarantee debt other than of the general national debt.
SECTION 15. No person (or their spouse or child) may be elected or otherwise placed into a Constitutional office for a subsequent term while the national debt of the United States exceeds $25 trillion.
SECTION 16. The President shall have line item veto power.
SECTION 17. No sibling, child, grandchild or spouse of a President may hold the office of President or Vice President.
SECTION 18. Effective with the elections of November 2022, the House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every fourth year by qualified voters of the several states.
SECTION 19. Each Federal judge appointed after ratification shall, subject to impeachment, have a term of office, only renewable by the Congress in which the term ends, of nine years, or a shorter period as Congress may set by law.
SECTION 20. The Supreme Court shall not have more than nine justices.
Under my plan, they would get a lot of what they want and we probably would get a lot of what we want. There is no time limit for ratification.
Note that immigration amnesties are currently unconstitutional. So ratification is a must for the leftists too.
pay & stay amounts:
(A) an USCIS Immigrant Fee [$210], and
(B) a Biometric Services Fee [$85], and
(C) an I-130 level [$535] initial processing fee, and
(D) an initial Quarterly Eligibility Maintenance/Border Security Fee of $500
SEC. ???? Quarterly Eligibility Maintenance/Border Security Fee.
(a) For each of the following 39 quarters after the grant of an Amnesty Application Number Card to an alien, the alien must pay a Quarterly Eligibility Maintenance/Border Security Fee, each in a manner the Secretary of HS shall specify.
(b) The amount of the Fee of paragraph (a) shall initially be $500 a quarter.
(c) The amount of the Fee of paragraph (a) shall be effectively reduced to $400 a quarter after legally effective ratification of the Proposed Constitutional Amendment.
(d) The amount of the Fee of paragraph (a) shall be effectively reduced to $300 a quarter after President Donald J. Trump officially declares in a signed writing that Mexican border wall construction has been finished to his satisfaction.
(e) After the receipt of an alien’s Quarterly Eligibility Maintenance/Border Security Fee, the required information for the alien to be considered eligible for employment by the USCIS Employment Verification System shall be updated in the manner the Secretary of HS shall specify.
(f) Upon payment of his/her 40th Quarterly Eligibility Maintenance/Border Security Fee, an alien in clearly good standing with the law lawfully holding Provisional Resident Status on a Conditional Basis may obtain Permanent Resident Status on a Conditional Basis and a card so indicating in a manner the Secretary of HS shall specify.
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SEC. ???? Quarterly Eligibility Maintenance/Border Security Fee Educational Deferment.
(a) An alien officially considered by the USCIS to be under age 22 may defer a Quarterly Eligibility Maintenance/Border Security Fee other than the initial one by
(1) paying a $20 quarterly deferment fee
(2) submitting proof of education enrollment
in a manner the Secretary of HS shall specify.
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SEC. ???? Alien Health Care Cost Coverage.
(a) The alien must lawfully
(1) obtain by January 1, 2019, high-quality health care cost coverage, without government subsidy, except via a small employer/small employers under general law, and
(2) maintain thereafter, except for gaps of less than three months total in any twenty-four month period, high-quality health care cost coverage, meeting applicable US legal requirements, without government subsidy, while the PPACA is on the books.
(b) High-quality health care cost coverage is
(1) ‘Platinum’, ‘Gold’ or ‘Silver’ coverage with an annual deductible not exceeding $2,000, or
(2) that of the alien’s employer plan meeting applicable US legal requirements.
United to drive down wages with foreign workers.