Posted on 01/27/2015 3:56:57 AM PST by a fool in paradise
NEW DELHI: President Barack Obama has assured Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he will look into India's concerns on the H-1B visa issue as part of his comprehensive immigration reform, US officials said on Monday.
Obama told Prime Minister Modi that his administration would be in touch with the Indian government on issues related to H-1B visas, popular among Indian techies.
"I think what the President indicated is this is the type of issue (H-1B) that we have approached through the context of comprehensive immigration reform and so, given his ongoing efforts to work with Congress in pursuit of comprehensive immigration reform, we would be incorporating these types of issues in that process and would be in touch with the Indian government as that moved forward," Deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes told US reporters travelling with Obama.
Responding to a question on the bilateral talks held between the two leaders on Monday, Rhodes acknowledged that India's concerns over certain aspects of the immigration reform were raised at the highest level.
"They (Modi and Obama) discussed the ongoing discussions around immigration reform in the United States where there are so many Indian-American and Indian immigrants," he said.
"The Indian government raised the issue, as they regularly do. It usually does include the H-1B visa issue. Indians are working in the high-tech sector in the United States, as well as broader India presence in the United States, people who are there on a temporary basis working," Rhodes said.
In November last year, President Obama had bypassed the Congress to announce the most sweeping reform to fix America's "broken" immigration system to protect millions of illegal workers from deportation.
The plan would let parents of US citizens and legal permanent residents remain in the country temporarily, without the threat of deportation. The measure would apply to those who have been in the US for last five years.
The executive action, said to be one of the largest measure by a US President on immigration, is expected to help a significant number of Indian techies who currently have to undergo a painful and agonising process of H-1B visas to get legal permanent status (LPR), popularly known as Green Card.
I’m more concerned about the brain rotting going on here. American students are studying fields like engineering, medicine, and business less in favor of degrees in useless fields. There’s a huge shortage of engineering talent right now in the US; all that limiting the supply to meet that demand will do is encourage the next great tech company to be formed in India.
Sucks to be in a survival mindset again. It is getting old.
Proof?
I wouldn’t be surprised if other tech and even financial firms now have more Indian employees than Americans (in both India and the United States).
Unfortunately, it seems this “survival mode” is a permanent fixture for the private sector from here on.
One of the benefits of globalization...
I wouldn’t be surprised if many college students are looking for just four more years of high school, and are avoiding the STEM fields because they don’t believe they will get decent work afterwards (certainly a valid concern). Instead, they pick easy majors with no connection between the “skills” acquired and the incomes they hope to earn...
Fixed it.
I have cursed globalism for now on 30 years or so and was regularly told I was wrong and that it only made us stronger and there was no threat of us losing our technology to other countries through basically brain-drain, theft, selling it and outright espionage. Most of my detractors were “conservatives” who preached free market capitalism trumps everything.
You reap what you sow.
Yeah, then they can join the ranks of other illegals on the government dole. Make sure they are sent home.
Massive screw job = gloBULLism. The Free Traitors are not conservative and have not one patriotic bone in their body. The are citizens if the world....
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