Laid Off Disney Worker Breaks Down in Tears Before Senate Panel

breitbart.com ^ | 2/25/16 | Caroline May

[Smokin' Joe]

What’s the difference between what Disney does does(bad) and what Trump does (good)?

Because (fanfare) "their guy" is doing it! He who can do no wrong has a pass.

[DoughtyOne]

[Don Corleone]

Not always “The Happiest Place on Earth”.

[11th Commandment]

I read the article and I am not sure this is H1B. This almost sounds like outsource overseas. Still sucks. BTW I was interviewing for a job and part of the team to supervise was outsourced overseas! No Thank YOU!!

[Dallas59]

[11th Commandment]

I stand corrected, the video states H1-B !!!!!!

[GrandmaPatriot]

That’s what I kinda figured. Just trying to make a point but I guess it just goes over the heads of the ones who don’t see the irony.

[DHerion]

Trump has done the same thing with one of his businesses.

[PapaBear3625]

The article has a comment pointing to Cruz's own Senate website, where he calls for increased H1B:

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) today presented an amendment to the Gang of Eight immigration bill that would improve our nation’s legal immigration system by increasing high-skilled temporary worker visas, called H-1B visas, by 500 percent. The measure would effectively address the needs of our nation’s high-skilled workforce by helping meet the growing demand for workers in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. It will also make block grants available to states to promote STEM education efforts and increase domestic STEM professionals. The committee voted against the amendment 4 to 14 with every Democrat voting against it on a party-line vote.

“I strongly support legal immigration. Legal immigration is a fundamental pillar of our nation's heritage, and I was pleased today to offer legislation that would have improved and expanded legal immigration by dramatically increasing the cap for high-tech temporary worker visas. This amendment would not only improve the current system, but would also encourage economic growth and create new jobs in America. There is currently a serious shortage of workers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math, yet every year we send thousands of high-tech graduate students back to their home countries to start businesses and create jobs. This makes no sense. I’m disappointed in the committee’s vote to reject expanding high-tech immigration. Although the Gang of Eight's bill makes a modest step towards improving high-tech immigration, it does not go nearly far enough. There is no reason to arbitrarily cap high-tech visas at 110,000 when these jobs are going unfilled. We need economic growth here and now.”

I have a better idea: reduce H1B visas, AND reduce the number of student visas. Why are we giving tech training to students from China and other competitors (and potential enemies)?

[combat_boots]

South Asian men can now bring their spouses and have them work.

Then there are the Chinese.

And the Latinos.

It’s multiple 2 letter and 1 number visas for all these situations.

H1B, L1 (something), H (something, something).

IOW, there are a number of protected situations for work in this country now going on.

IF a ChiCom company comes in, they bring their own people from top to bottom, for the large installations: construction, management, sanitation, enforcement, etc. ChiCom all the way.

[sevlex]

And yet NOBODY ever asks the candidates about h1b visas.

[Redleg Duke]

Obviously, these Americans were not homosexual.

Walt is rolling over in his grave!

[Political Junkie Too]

It depends on the size of the class. In most consumer class actions, what you say is true and the consumer gets little more than a coupon for a future product.

In this case, it's a small defined class. I think it would work out a little differently.

-PJ

[Logical me]

Isn’t this what Donald Trump said he does? Hires foreigners legally at his world famous country club.

Proof, you problem child. Don't write things that are not true.

[PapaBear3625]

South Asian men can now bring their spouses and have them work.

We have some Indian women at work. When they start, it seems like after a few months on the job they get pregnant, so they can have one or more US-born anchor babies.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Let’s see weren’t Marco and Teddy big on H1-B visas?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

MAKE LISTS AND BOYCOTT!

[pilgrim]

Think this is his position in response to changed circumstances. Is he allowed to do that?

Reporter: Senator, I think the path to legalization issue has been beaten to death and I won't go over it again. One of the things you have supported in the past is raising the ceiling on the number of H-1B visas. Is that something you still support?

Ted Cruz: It is not. And in this circumstance, there are changed circumstances, and anyone responds to changed circumstances. I have supported and I still support the original idea of the H-1B program which is to bring in very high skilled workers to produce jobs and economic growth. That's a good thing, when you have more jobs and economic growth.

However, we have seen in recent months this program being abused over and over and over again. We've seen companies, blue chip names that we all know bringing in not high skill workers, but medium to low skill workers, and IT workers, and firing American workers and replacing them with foreign workers. And then, to add insult to injury, forcing the Americans who have just been fired to train their replacements. That is wrong, it is grotesque, it is offensive, it is a perversion of the program.

And so, like any rational person faced with changed circumstances, you change your position in response to how the facts have changed.

That's why I've said that as President, I will impose a 180 day moratorium on the H-1B program, in order to carry out a comprehensive audit of the companies that have received H-1B visas to determine if they are abusing the program - if they are bringing in low skilled workers, if they're firing American workers, if they're perverting the program. Any company that has abused the program will be suspended from participating in it, and any company that has violated the criminal laws will be prosecuted.

You know, this is yet another manifestation of the lawlessness of the Obama administration. They don't enforce the laws, the President decrees illegal and unconstitutional amnesty, but he's also lawless with big companies that are abusing the H-1B program.

It's one of the reasons I joined with Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) in introducing legislation to dramatically reform the H-1B program so that it can function as it's intended to. To require, for example, an advanced degree, not just a bachelor's degree, but a master's or a PhD. To put a preference to U.S. universities. To require as a minimum salary $110,000, so that you're not using it to bring in low cost foreign workers and replace American workers. To put in a 2 year hiatus from any company bringing in H-1Bs from laying off workers, so you gotta choose one or the other, but you can't be laying people off at the same time you're outsourcing.

All of these are reforms that are common sense I think to make the program work. And we need to make sure that our immigration laws prioritize American workers first, and as President, that's what I'll do."

[tinamina]

I bet foreign workers don’t have to be given Obamacare

[SgtHooper]

Which one? I am curious.