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Obama reforms should allow tech companies to hire key talent
San Jose Mercury ^ | 09/05/2014 | Peter Muller

Posted on 09/07/2014 9:17:48 AM PDT by artichokegrower

In the coming weeks, President Barack Obama will announce executive actions designed to improve America's immigration system. While he is expected to focus primarily on people living and working in the United States without documentation, the president also should seize the opportunity to improve the legal immigration system that governs how highly skilled, foreign-born workers are employed in this country.

By doing so, Obama can deliver on one of the top priorities of technology companies -- reform to an outdated visa program that restricts their ability to hire key talent.

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: china; h1b; india; nojobs4americans
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A look at job postings for Intel, Google and Facebook shows those companies have hundreds of openings for engineers in California.


You would think that the unemployment rate for US college graduates would be zero. Maybe a big problem is that US universities, paid for by US taxpayers are full of foreign students including Obama's Dreamers.

1 posted on 09/07/2014 9:17:48 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower
So they sprinkle a little sugar on the dog sh*t and it's supposed to be all good?

2 posted on 09/07/2014 9:20:11 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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Obama reforms stem from this view of the world:

1) Americans are stupid.
2) Americans can't get the job done.
3) Americans aren't willing to do the work.

And, since foreigners are so much better than Americans in every way, we need to flood this country with people who do not share our values.

It's for the children. And because Global Warming. Or something.

3 posted on 09/07/2014 9:20:56 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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It’s affirmative action race discrimination for us.. and “key talent” for illegals, just as long as they come from socialist hell holes so we can trust their voting decisions.


4 posted on 09/07/2014 9:24:43 AM PDT by Track9 (hey Kalid.. kalid.. bang you're dead)
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In the coming weeks, President Barack Obama will announce executive actions designed to improve America's immigration system.

Sounds like Silicon Valley is looking forward to cheap Mexican labor.

5 posted on 09/07/2014 9:25:33 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Islamopobia:The Irrational Fear Of Being Beheaded)
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To: artichokegrower

Intel did a 5 year experiment, hired and trained about 100 design and validation engineers in Guatemala and Costa Rica.
They were so bad that after years of having to fix their work, Intel finally got rid of both design centers.

The executive who came up with this stupid idea got promoted.
Managers who were forced to manage these sites decided to take early retirement.


6 posted on 09/07/2014 9:26:21 AM PDT by Zathras
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Oh, please bring in more substandard foreign workers to depress my rates even further. I don’t need the money anyway. Never mind that I work my butt off learning new skills constantly in order to keep up with the ever-changing software engineering field. I tell every young person that I meet not to be a software engineer. The profession won’t exist in this country in 10 years, except maybe in the defense industry, and they’re already looking to outsource that.


7 posted on 09/07/2014 9:27:38 AM PDT by thesharkboy (posting without reading the article since 1998)
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To: BitWielder1

This agitprop crap doesn’t work like it used to.

Peter Muller? Propagandist.


8 posted on 09/07/2014 9:28:02 AM PDT by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust. It corrodes twenty-four hous a day.)
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The tech companies want more H1B's -- indentured servants willing to work for a pittance, who are bound to the company that sponsored them, and who then go back to their home countries, taking US expertise back with them.

What we need is to eliminate H1Bs, but instead make it easier for skilled foreigners to immigrate here and get a green card. The tech companies would HATE that, because they would have to pay regular US wages, AND we would be depleting the other countries of their best talent, thus reducing the viability of off-shoring.

9 posted on 09/07/2014 9:30:50 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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It is all about the cheap labor & driving down wages in the IT industry. And then Obama will turn around and whine about income equity and how well the top 1% are doing vs. everyone else.


10 posted on 09/07/2014 9:31:44 AM PDT by rbg81
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Peter Muller is the director of immigration policy for Intel.
Wouldn't it be great if Intel found an H1-B visa holder to replace Peter Muller at half the salary.
11 posted on 09/07/2014 9:33:33 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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First, ObOzO will break the system, and, two, companies want cheap workers.


12 posted on 09/07/2014 9:35:15 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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Sounds like Silicon Valley is looking forward to cheap Mexican labor.

What they really want is a hefty increase in H-1B visas for tech workers. They're OK with the cheap Mexican labor bit as the political price for what they're getting. It's all about wage suppression.

13 posted on 09/07/2014 9:35:25 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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With the DemocRATS’ “Dumbing Down of America” program having been a huge, smashin success, the employers in this country are now forced to hire “highly skilled, foreign-born workers”. According to the San Jose Mercury, Americans are nothing but a bunch of lazy, freeloading dummies who can’t speak with a bad accent while teaching somebody on the phone how to turn on their new computer or return an incorrect or defective product to an online retailer.


14 posted on 09/07/2014 9:35:31 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a refugee camp or woman's shelter for illegals! It's my home! !)
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The dog turd needs to be impeached.


15 posted on 09/07/2014 9:36:04 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: artichokegrower

More importantly it will allow the rich Democrat tech company owners to hire cheap yard boys and nannies.

40 years of Democrat welfare programs have ruined the domestic minorities as good servants. Time to import some more.

Always remember it was Republicans that ended slavery and Democrats that started the Ku Klux Klan to try and keep their former slaves on the Democrat plantations. More of the same.


16 posted on 09/07/2014 9:44:26 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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America industry starving for foreign born techies?

So that’s why we need to let in millions and millions of uneducated, diseased, illegals, put them on welfare and give them free handouts for a lifetime?

They never learn to speak English or learn to support themselves but they quickly learn to vote democrat as soon as democrats can get them registered.

/s


17 posted on 09/07/2014 9:44:43 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: PapaBear3625

That’s exactly right. The last thing in the world the tech companies want is “talent.” They want cubicle slaves, which gives them a twofer because it also drives down wages and working conditions for American workers, who understand that any squawk in an H1B corporation is going to land them on the street.


18 posted on 09/07/2014 9:45:20 AM PDT by FredZarguna (His first name is 'Unarmed,' and his given middle name is 'Teenager.')
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That’s right. Millions of new 47%ers is simply the cost of doing business in the cubicle slave trade as far as they’re concerned.


19 posted on 09/07/2014 9:47:10 AM PDT by FredZarguna (His first name is 'Unarmed,' and his given middle name is 'Teenager.')
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If they need more talented people, I suggest they raise their pay and start underwriting American Universities, or better yet, starting their on training programs to train recent graduates or High schoolers to enter their field.

That is called responsible corporate citizenry.

What they really want is to keep wages down b introducing workers who will work at lower wages while they hold their H1B1 hostage.

20 posted on 09/07/2014 9:47:22 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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