Posted on 04/08/2016 3:13:04 AM PDT by markomalley
All the country’s visas for high-skilled workers were snatched up in the first week yet again this year, the government reported Thursday, signaling that companies’ voracious appetites for cheap foreign workers remains unabated despite intense criticism on the presidential campaign trail.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it received more than enough applications to claim the 85,000 visas available under the H-1B program this year and will once again hold a lottery to award the coveted permits.
Technology companies, desperate for the workers, said reaching the cap just days after the April 1 application period began should spur Congress to more than double the limit. They lamented the “absurdity” of leaving tens of thousands of willing workers without a path into the U.S.
But tech employees and those seeking stricter immigration limits say the H-1B program has become a chief way to undercut Americans’ wages. They point to several high-profile cases in which U.S. workers were fired and, in some cases, even forced to train their foreign replacements.
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Here in the NYC area many are used for foreigners in the financial sector; they take the jobs held by those Americans pushed out into Occupy Wall Street...
Yeah. Right. What they are desperate for is to not hire Americans.
Come on you Freepers working in HR, tell us, is there is defacto policy of not hiring Americans in your companies?
C.W.
Even worse, it is spreading into other fields; whereas Latino braceros destroyed the job market for American blue-collar workers, Asian coolies are increasingly doing the same for white-collar workers.
I’ve been posting for years now that anyone making over $50K has forces scrambling furiously behind the scenes to either send that work abroad or import foreigners here to do it for less. When the describe how we would arrive at a point where having a job would be the new status symbol. He was absolutely right (in terms of private-sector Americans).
Immigration moratorium should include H1b visas.
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