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Anti-H-1B senator to head immigration panel - claims shortage of highly skill labor a 'hoax'
Computer World ^ | January 22, 2015 | Patrick Thibodeau

Posted on 01/23/2015 2:15:44 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

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1 posted on 01/23/2015 2:15:45 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Very interesting. Thanks for posting this and now waiting for some replies.


2 posted on 01/23/2015 2:31:21 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

I worked in engineering and engineering management for 30 years. There is no shortage of qualified STEM candidates per se. However, the best ones are hard to get unless you want to pay the price.

There are a plethora of H1-B candidates whose main goal in life is to find a position that will let them stay here and progress towards citizenship, and they will take less money on the path there. I’ve had two or three as employees in the past. When they get what they wanted (citizenship), they’re gone.


3 posted on 01/23/2015 2:35:30 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Yes.yes.yes. Thank you Jeff Sessions!

Those of us in the IT industry have always known it. Stop H1B!

We have been overrun and outsourced to the point there are few jobs available to us now, not because our inabilities but because of big IT looking for throw away cheap labor.

They care only about the immediate return of dollars and not their on future, they will bury themselves as they have nearly buried the American worker.


4 posted on 01/23/2015 2:43:05 AM PST by snippy_about_it
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Good.
I like Sessions a little more every time he makes the news lately.


5 posted on 01/23/2015 3:44:30 AM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt

Lower corporate taxes and hire Americans. Pretty simple solution.


6 posted on 01/23/2015 3:48:09 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (When the political winds turn ugly I will stand with Israel.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

One of the very few areas where Ted Cruz is very wrong, Jeff Sessions is very right.


7 posted on 01/23/2015 3:53:24 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

It’s a start.


8 posted on 01/23/2015 4:04:33 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Dr. Sivana

“Other members of the Sessions subcommittee will be: Sens. David Perdue (R-GA)—who signed the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) pledge against amnesty on the campaign trail—full Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT) and Thom Tillis (R-NC). Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, will also serve on the subcommittee under Sessions. “

(from another link to the story)
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/22/jeff-sessions-named-chairman-of-senate-immigration-panel-renames-panel/

Not sure I see where your beef with Ted Cruz is over this?


9 posted on 01/23/2015 4:07:53 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: snippy_about_it

As a long time IT worker and manager, I don’t blame the Indians, Chinese, Koreans, etc. for doing all they can to work in the US. Having worked with literally hundreds of them, I find that their real goal is to escape the 3rd world ratholes back home and bring as many of their family to the US as they can. They work cheaper, longer hours, never ever complain and for the most part are ideal workers from the company perspective. But hundreds of thousands of Americans cannot find a job because of this system. Common fact that Hillary Clinton has taken big donations from the offshoring firms. Hopefully Sessions can stop this from expanding.


10 posted on 01/23/2015 4:12:47 AM PST by doosee (Captain, we are approaching a new level of Hell.)
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Skill/Cost

Foreign labor is adequate all things considered. Domestic labor is far superior foregoing cost.

That said, I think it makes sense to balance imports and exports by whatever means.


11 posted on 01/23/2015 4:17:43 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Way to go Senator Sessions!!!


12 posted on 01/23/2015 4:30:54 AM PST by Patriot777 (Imagine....that we could see Obama being hauled out of the White House kicking and screaming?)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

“Not sure I see where your beef with Ted Cruz is over this?”

Try this article:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3248919/posts


13 posted on 01/23/2015 4:31:20 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Gene Eric

This is all being driven by The likes of Zuckerman, Gates and other Industry Owners wanting to suppress the wages in the STEM fields so they can use more of their Corp. income to buy crooked politicians to push
their Socialist agendas.

I read a report the other day that incomes in those fields have stagnated wages for 7+ years. Is there any wonder why kids don’t enter those areas of study?


14 posted on 01/23/2015 4:31:35 AM PST by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: Dr. Sivana

I hadn’t seen that. Thank you.

Perhaps I need to pay closer attention to Mr. Cruz.


15 posted on 01/23/2015 4:34:00 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Minorities and women, uh, wait, what?


16 posted on 01/23/2015 4:36:33 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Perhaps I need to pay closer attention to Mr. Cruz.

Agreed. But we are not going to get a Messiah. Cruz overall has the right underlying principles on most everything else. In this case he might have bought into the lies that we don't have the tech base here. We do. Employers don't want to pay U.S. market rate. They want to bring Pakistan and India here and pay that rate.
17 posted on 01/23/2015 5:09:53 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Dr. Sivana

I have been reviewing that post.

It appears it is an old article, which was recently posted. It may be a reflection of something or not. The article appears to be from 2013.

Not sure. I think it is interesting data, but am still pro-Cruz.

However it is apparently real. I agree with you, Cruz is overall good, perhaps. Everyone is sold out, sad to say.


18 posted on 01/23/2015 5:13:02 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
It appears it is an old article, which was recently posted.

I hadn't noticed the original date. Good catch. Sessions is the kind of guy who can straighten Cruz out on this. I'm pretty much committed to Cruz, Walker or Pence, depending on who catches fire. Each has strengths and weaknesses. Any of them can be HRC or Warren.
19 posted on 01/23/2015 5:18:30 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: null and void

ping


20 posted on 01/23/2015 5:28:41 AM PST by Shimmer1 (Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. MLK)
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