Posted on 09/21/2015 9:00:26 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
Administration lawyers ‘reinterpret’ the law to greatly increase visas for technology firms.
Last week Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley hit back against Obama’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after the agency pushed through, during a previously aimed at bringing over highly sought-after “intracompany transferees” from American firms’non-immigrant worker visas) the Obama administration, at the behest of Big Tech lobbyists, has told its agency lawyers to think up a clever alternative. In a strongly worded letter to Obama’s immigration authorities, Grassley, a 35-year Senate veteran, closely outlines the legal and practical faults of the new policy and demands answers from the agency regarding its purported authority for the move. The L-1B visa, a cousin of the H-1B, applies to so-called “specialized knowledge” employees, usually in the IT industry, who may be transferred to the U.S. from their foreign affiliated employer to work here for up to five years. Often, as with H-1B holders, these “temporary” workers obtain sponsors and apply for permanent status. When President Obama announced his general plans to “reform” the program last spring, he stated that his goal was to allow more workers to move from foreign offices into the U.S. “in a faster, simpler way.” Americans should get behind the proposal, he stated, as it “could benefit hundreds of thousands of nonimmigrant workers and their employers,” which “in turn, will benefit [the] entire economy.” Setting aside concerns about whose “economy” will actually be benefited — the public’s or the special interests’ — the problem with this new “reform” is that the L-1B intracompany-transferee program was never meant to be a mass temporary-worker program. On the contrary, as Grassley’s letter states, Congress’s intent was to ensure that the class of persons eligible for such visas would be “narrowly drawn.” This would seem to comport a...
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Big Tech: Cheap Labor...More displaced/unemployed American citizens :( Administration: More future democrats in the making :(
Have not heard much about H-1B Visas from candidates lately :(
Apologies that the paragraph formatting in the article did not come through in my cut and paste.
Why the hell do we have a congress?
Trump's immigration position paper covers H-1B visas.
Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. 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. 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 workers in the U.S., 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.
Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.
One of the reasons I’m leaning to Trump over Cruz who I really prefer.
Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. 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. 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 workers in the U.S., 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.
Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.
Good question?!?!
Nothing like a stealth dictatorship.
In reading the article, I had similar thoughts. Just amazing...so they redefine those who qualify, thereby opening the floodgates for more foreign workers to displace our US Citizens. As Grassley points out, how can there be som many “specialized workers” doing IDENTICAL jobs? answer? They are not specialized....This is a big payoff to Big Tech :(
Then these workers overstay their visas (like the H-1B Visa holders) and then they will get some sort of amnesty in the future and vote Democrat.
And the GOP just stands by....
I had a technical issue today and had to call a very large tech company. I talked to two engineers who didn’t have expertise with my specific hardware. The I got handed to the 3rd.... he was an Indian I could barely understand. And he couldn’t solve my problem. Tomorrow morning I am unloading on the company.
One of the reasons I’m leaning to Trump over Cruz who I really prefer.
This is a wet dream, come true for Rubio
I had a technical issue today and had to call a very large tech company. I talked to two engineers who didn’t have expertise with my specific hardware. The I got handed to the 3rd.... he was an Indian I could barely understand. And he couldn’t solve my problem. Tomorrow morning I am unloading on the company.
It’s just for show, to make the low info voters believe that they actually have a say.
Rubio is such a turncoat—campaigns with tea party creds and then goes GOPe :(
There is not GOP in congress, there is no conservative party in congress ... there are only money grubbers willing to sacrifice their soul for money, power and influence ... in other words ... liberals.
“Why the hell do we have a congress?”
Sure looks that most of them are just there to scold conservatives :)
And make money
“And make money”
So true
It’s amazing how many of them become millionaires while sitting there
Influence peddling is a long tradition in the political scene.
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