Posted on 08/06/2023 8:34:30 PM PDT by LiberalismDestroys
SALT LAKE CITY — The news is out about Utah's decision to allow some immigrant professionals to become licensed in the state — and the demand for such licenses is high. The Department of Commerce, which oversees a lion's share of the state's licensing, has received over 2,600 responses since May from foreign-licensed professionals who are interested in becoming licensed in Utah. The Utah Legislature approved SB35 earlier this year, which allows for such licensing among several state agencies. It was preceded by SB43, which made the same allowances for licenses and certifications from the Utah Division of Professional Licensing. But most immigrants are still a ways out from receiving a license since the Department of Commerce is still defining licensing pathways for hundreds of professions — a process that also includes looking at licensing requirements of individual foreign countries for those professions.
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If they’re illegal aliens, no way! If they came here legally and properly, then I have no problem with the licenses!
It’s not for illegal aliens per se — have to be a legal immigrant or a refugee. But I think we know that way this plays out, right?
Licensed to do what?
“Busse said physicians and surgeons make up 37% of the inquiries the Department of Commerce has received, followed by dentists at 15%, professional engineers at 10%, and registered nurses at 9.5%. Education, lawyer, business administrator, psychologist, certified public accountant, physical therapist, veterinarian and architect were other common license types that internationally trained talent inquired about.”
That’s CRAZY - there is no way that a relatively small state like Utah can figure out which licenses are real and which ones were due to corruption, particularly Third World countries like Europe.
If they came here legally and properly, then I have no problem with the licenses!
Interesting. Pres Trump reduced the number of H1B-visa recipients, vying for tech jobs, and allowed American tech workers to get better pay and more opportunity. Emphasis on better pay. Of course, being a field that seems to be dominated by liberals they repaid him by voting for the guy that has allowed a flood of those very same visa recipients, thus leading to massive layoffs, of Americans, in the tech field.
And the same thing is happening in the trucking industry. Foreign born immigrants are coming here, getting their CDLs and undercutting owner operators so much that many are either retiring or getting out of the industry. Funny thing is, any reduction in cost paying a driver isn’t translating into savings to the consumer. All that is happening is the brokers, distributors and manufacturers are increasing profits.
So, can you tell me how flooding the labor market with the 3rd world is good?
Don’t worry BobL, Sen Mike Lee is all over it. Given how he tried and tried to increase the number of tech-visa recipients to appease his puppet masters in the tech industry. He’ll get right on it. /sarc
LOL, good point!
Buried the lede, didn't they.
Not moving to Utah.
I live in NYS. I already know how this ends.
Louis used an unlicensed immigrant dentist and it did not work out too well for him….
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