Posted on 10/28/2015 9:55:26 AM PDT by ManHunter
This is a link to a newscast from ABC Channel 7, WWSB, in Sarasota, Florida. It contains an interview with two former Disney workers who were replaced by Indian nationals on H-1B visas - after they trained their replacements. What's especially telling is the commentary by the reporter, Rebeccca Vargas, at the end of the video in which she states that Marco Rubio "wants to expand the H-1B visa program."
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Someone else here put it succinctly - to the GOP big donors are the clients, voters are a mere resource.
Or something like that. Puts things in perspective.
Cruz wants to increase numbers of all work visas. The H1b visas by 500%.
Makes you wonder about second generation Cubans.
I read something here about 2 months ago about Rubio’s stance on immigration.
That was the end of him for me-—in spite of the charm and glibness.
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‘EXCLUSIVE: Former employees speak out about Disney’s outsourcing of high-tech jobs ‘
I’m with you on Cruz. He is my choice for president but he very much needs to re-think his position on H1b.
Immigration policy should serve the interests of citizens. Bringing in hundreds of thousands of tech workers while Americans are standing on street corners is a non-starter.
Maybe he’d like to import foreign lawyers, or foreign legislators. Our congressmen don’t feel our pain because they are largely insulated from it. They aren’t voting to replace themselves but they don’t mind voting to replace you and me.
Thank you. We have to start thinking of the common good again. Not in a leftist, socialist way, but in a conservative way.
Cruz wants to increase numbers of all work visas. The H1b visas by 500%.And green cards to make illegals legal with benefits.
Cruz is a FAUX conservative.
That’s a good idea...put into a bill that Congress can increase H1-B Visas IF and ONLY IF they set aside 10% of them to replace Congressional staffers.
Won’t get one vote!
Thats tragic. I'm sorry to hear that.
Rubio is a traitor to American citizens.
He is representing fraudulently documented foreigners and their employers, not the citizens and the rule of law.
Very well stated.
Get real. If Disney and other companies seek to lump high-tech workers with actual scientists, mathematicians, architects, engineers, and doctors, then the problem is with how H1B has been perverted into a catch-all for remotely skilled workers.
And as JRandom points out, H1B workers are LEGAL immigrants, representing a miniscule aspect of the immigration problem and ZERO aspect of the massive illegal immigration problem.
You want to use government to FORCE American businesses to hire the products of an American education system where "only a third of 8th graders are 'proficient' in math and reading" and where modern college grads are jokes in terms of skills and work ethic (I have a college-grad relative who got a degree in journalism and teaching who cannot spell correctly or use correct grammar, and her co-workers in media are as bad) --
-- you want to FORCE American businesses to hire these inferior workers and let foreign competitors have the advantage of superior workers. And NOT ONCE do you even approach the question of why it financially behooves the shareholders for American companies like Disney to fire its American workers and replace them with LEGAL immigrants.
I'll tell you the "why" -- government, big-business cronyism, and over-regulation by the government in terms of wages, labor laws, taxes, and God only knows what else, along with a piss-poor American education system, makes hiring and keeping American workers a bad financial decision.
It's very, very simple: Cruz advocates for less government. He recognizes that government doesn't have the solution to our problems, government is the problem. Too many folks here cry for more government to solve this problem; the only solution is in LESS government, and the only candidate who consistently upholds that philosophy, is Ted Cruz.
Rejecting him over the H1B visa issues is just plain "Common Core" in intelligence.
I have seen the devastation H-1B has caused. The more I think about it if Cruz supporters are mostly like you then I will just not vote. Go Trump go!
PS: yo are not doing Cruz ANY favors. You are an embarrassment to him.
Respond to his emails and find him on Facebook and add comments in an appropriate way. Cruz listens. That one thing I do like about him. He doesn’t brush off concerns as if we just don’t get it.
After learning here about Cruz and Rubio’s support for H1B, I wouldn’t want to vote for either of them.
You need to read more carefully. I’m a Cruz supporter. This is my one quibble with him. He needs to re-think his position.
H1b’s aren’t replacing 8th grade dropouts, obviously. And if you’ve done any reading you know that, in Disney’s case they are replacing existing workers who are required to train them before being laid off, if they want the separation benefits. Disney isn’t the only company doing this.
We don’t need immigrants to do farm work, there are plenty of farm workers already legal who are here. Bringing in new workers every year just suppresses the wages of people who are already low-wage.
And we don’t need to bring in high tech workers when they have to be trained by the people they are replacing. I’m familiar with the H1b process, and a lot of these people are fine people. Thats not the point. The point is, that immigration policy should serve the interests of citizens. First, foremost, always. Cruz wants to ramp up the number of H1b by about 5 or 6 hundred percent. Thats not just a little.
Cruz is still the best guy running, the best I’ve seen in decades. He needs to re-think this one policy position.
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