Posted on 01/27/2015 3:56:57 AM PST by a fool in paradise
NEW DELHI: President Barack Obama has assured Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he will look into India's concerns on the H-1B visa issue as part of his comprehensive immigration reform, US officials said on Monday.
Obama told Prime Minister Modi that his administration would be in touch with the Indian government on issues related to H-1B visas, popular among Indian techies.
"I think what the President indicated is this is the type of issue (H-1B) that we have approached through the context of comprehensive immigration reform and so, given his ongoing efforts to work with Congress in pursuit of comprehensive immigration reform, we would be incorporating these types of issues in that process and would be in touch with the Indian government as that moved forward," Deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes told US reporters travelling with Obama.
Responding to a question on the bilateral talks held between the two leaders on Monday, Rhodes acknowledged that India's concerns over certain aspects of the immigration reform were raised at the highest level.
"They (Modi and Obama) discussed the ongoing discussions around immigration reform in the United States where there are so many Indian-American and Indian immigrants," he said.
"The Indian government raised the issue, as they regularly do. It usually does include the H-1B visa issue. Indians are working in the high-tech sector in the United States, as well as broader India presence in the United States, people who are there on a temporary basis working," Rhodes said.
In November last year, President Obama had bypassed the Congress to announce the most sweeping reform to fix America's "broken" immigration system to protect millions of illegal workers from deportation.
The plan would let parents of US citizens and legal permanent residents remain in the country temporarily, without the threat of deportation. The measure would apply to those who have been in the US for last five years.
The executive action, said to be one of the largest measure by a US President on immigration, is expected to help a significant number of Indian techies who currently have to undergo a painful and agonising process of H-1B visas to get legal permanent status (LPR), popularly known as Green Card.
Ping
Hell bent on muddying our waters
America needs to stand up for America.
We need to stop selling our future, to every person who wants to work here.
Support AMERICANS. That means you GOP.
O-hole’s reassurance to Modi: Don’t worry, I’m not trying to weaken your country, just the U.S.
I don't begrudge them their billions but I do get angry when they lie to congress about the "lack" of available workers (at the wages they want to pay, $20k per year, for what used to be $50-70k jobs). It affects the entire industry of degreed professionals and it based upon a deliberate lie. It does not benefit the shareholders or the employees and depresses the wages of those with skills and experience to benefit crony communists.
Why are you so anti-business? /s
Don’t worry, I will take care of your country’s needs, to hell with my country’s needs.
Yesterday there was a thread about how most law school grads make no money. The IT sector is under attack from the third world. STEM wages have stagnated for 20 years. Doctors are bailing due to Obamacare. So unless you go to an Ivy League school what exactly does someone major in now?
GloBULLism sucks. It doesn't raise other countries it just lowers the US to turd word status. < /rant >
Nobody gives sh!t
Obama now wants to price fix doctor’s services based on how the patient does, not the cost or quality of care.
Can we first try this with academia (to combat ever rising tuition costs)?
If graduates cannot find work as degreed professionals (in the tech industry, for example), maybe there should be caps or refunds on tuition.
And not just out of school but 20 years after graduation as well...
The Obama administration wants to dramatically change how doctors are paid
WaPo ^ | 1/26/15 | Jason Millman
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3251027/posts
Barf me out.
Meanwhile, It looks IBM is about to shrink dramatically:
Perhaps the work force costs can be reduced by replacing layed off U.S. workers with H1Bs.
C.W.
The Democrats have blocked H-1B expansion in the past and they’ll do it again. Obama is just telling Modi what he wants to hear. They only want low-skilled (or no-skilled), low-educated people they can convince to vote for them, not people who are actually productive and express any interest in assimilating.
That is a real concern of mine for my children (and myself, if I was to lose my job); these “re-training programs” don’t do anything if they can’t provide decent jobs (that won’t be sent to Asia or have Latinos trafficked here to fill them).
Yesterday afternoon I got home early in anticipation of the blizzard that wasn’t here in NJ, and for the first time in a while I watched daytime TV; the commercials are just sad. They’re advertising job training for people that require much less investment of time for better jobs than the no-skill ones; while the commercials themselves are nothing new, the number of young white people in them are.
I couldn’t imagine investing time & money in a college degree today; when I did 25 years ago there seemed to be more stability which is now gone altogether. Many of the AMericans I dealt with in financial institutions have been replaced by younger Asians, and people I know in trades have lost jobs to Hispanics. It is no mystery why our birthrate is so low; outside of government employment (which is rife with affirmative action), how is a young person to provide for a family today?
There is no justification for the numbers of H1-Bs already given out; it is just a program to further reduce American workers to serfdom. India should be more concerned about the brain drain occurring within their country, as their best & brightest flee; it ensures that what is left behind remains very Third World.
Funny, it’s billionaire Democrats like Schmuckerberg who want 20,000 more H1B visas.
To make it clear that it is INDEED about reducing American tech workers to third world serfdom, IBM told their laid off US workers that they should move to India where their (low) salaries would go farther.
IBM to laid-off: Want a job in India?
CNN ^ | 2-5-2009 | Karina Frayter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2179376/posts
IBM Offers To Move Laid Off Workers To India
Information Week | Feb. 2, 2009 | Paul McDougall
Posted on Tuesday, February 03, 2009
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177476/posts
A spokesman for Alliance@IBM, a workers’ group that’s affiliated with the Communications Workers of America but which does not have official union status at IBM, slammed the program. “IBM is not only offshoring IBM U.S. jobs but they want employees to offshore themselves through Project Match,” said the spokesman.
An IBM spokesman said the program shouldn’t be seen in that light. “It’s more of a vehicle for people who want to expand their life experience by working somewhere else,” said the spokesman. “A lot of people want to work in India.”
IBM now employs more workers in India than US
NY Post ^ | 10/5/13 | John Aidan Byrne
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3075695/posts
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