Whatever we do to legalize those who came here illegally, we will be making a GRAVE MISTAKE if includes a path to being a voter. AFAIK, not being able to vote must be part of the price for violating the law in the first place.
They want to come over for seasonal farm work, that’s what the old Bracero program did. However, if you are an American citizen, you are not going to get construction work in Texas. Dominated by Mexican illegals. Just a fact of life. Thousands of high-tech workers in Texas have been put out of work by H1-B visas, because they can hire them at $25-30K vs the market pay.
Let’s employ US citizens first. Then worry about H1-B, etc.
I LOVE IT!!!
These “tech companies” that walk around with their chin in the clouds, with PURE CERTAINTY that they know EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING, and the rest of the country is a bunch of useless yahoos, just got THE SHAFT from the Senate Amnesty bunch.
They got USED, got taken for their money, to help out the Amnesty Bunch in getting their primary bill through, which was to legalize millions of new Democrat voters. Now they’re not needed, the money is spent, and the Amnesty Bunch would rather CLAMP DOWN on the H1-B visas, so as to say they’re “being tough on immigrants that steal American jobs”.
And the high tech companies, still with their chins stuck in the clouds, can’t understand what just hit them - they ALWAYS thought that Obama was “their friend”...no different than the useful idiot companies and organizations that supported Obamacare (like insurance companies), just to be LAUGHED AT after it passed.
On second thought, what’s likely to happen, is that Obama will privately wink to the leaders of the High Tech firms, who will immediately drop to their knees, knowing that the wink means expanded H1-B’s, and without the new rules. Basically the Bart Stupak effect with Obamacare.
Of course Obama will then not recall the meeting.
We don’t need foreign hi-tech workers. We have plenty here that can do the job. I have been around foreign hi-tech workers for years and their work product is sub-par and borderline crap. We are constantly re-working their stuff but since they work cheap and allow software shops to maintain a 24 hour load balancing scheduled presence management keeps them, also because half of management are now foreigners as well.
“The business community has long supported the idea of immigration reform — particularly the high-tech sector and the construction industry, which badly need the workers.”
We have the high-tech sector workers but the industry does not want to compensate for the years of learning and creativity required. No they would rather hire some less qualified people from turd would countries who’s command of our language is rudimentary at best and force the rest of us to deal with them.
I got to see some of the job offer letters sent out by a tech consulting firm to a certain turd world country and it absolutely pissed me off to see how our visa program was being manipulated at the expense of Americans, willing to do the job but not for turd world wages.
I have also seen companies advertising for welders which may in most people’s minds be blue collar grunt work, but in reality requires a great degree of skill, only offer $13/Hr then turn around and complain to the government they cannot find US workers.
You would be hard pressed to find a more anti-union, pro-business person than myself HOWEVER, if we are honest with ourselves we need to admit some businesses are gaming the system and need to be kicked in the....damned censors..., “crotchal” area.
No Bias here. Lies are bad, but this is a STUPID lie.
I'm in High-Tech, I know plenty of people (including myself) who've been pushed out by low budget workers.
Agree and the lobbying forces cause amnesty,no one in the congress or senate can pass up a buck but they sure know how to pass the buck.
Indexed and Bumped.
“The business community has long supported the idea of immigration reform — particularly the high-tech sector”
It helps when the guys, who are supposed to be ‘conservative’, are lobbyists for Microsoft, like Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan who run CPAC, the ACU. Then throw in the other open border/lobbyist Cesar Conda...make him Rubio’s chief of staff...Bodda boom!!! INSTANT AMNESTY!
They’ve sold out the sovereignty of this nation to lobby for the ENEMY!