California Focus: Doubling H1-B visas visas an end run
Posted: 02/24/15, 8:11 AM PST |
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Green cards for spouses — that’s the latest quiet Obama Administration move to please and appease the high-tech companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere who constantly clamor for more H1-B visas to bring in cheap, skilled foreign labor.
The ploy sounds extremely humanitarian, but might really be little more than an end run around the current limit of 85,000 visas granted to immigrants whose skills are allegedly not matched by any talent available in America, including about 20,000 slots for people with advanced degrees earned at American universities.
Without consulting Congress and with little notice other than a routine press release, Obama and his aides may essentially now be doubling that 85,000 number. As of now, spouses of H1-B visa holders being sponsored for a green card by their employers will be allowed to work in this country.
Since the great bulk of H1-Bs who perform adequately and show up regularly for work receive such sponsorship in the interest of maintaining a stable work force, there will now be about 60,000 to 70,000 new foreign workers eligible to take jobs for which some U.S. engineering groups say there are plenty of trained, competent Americans.
Are these American workers “white” “priveleged” and “male”?
Maybe we’re France pre 1998?
Well, that was dumb.
France screwed themselves before 1998.
We followed suit 1992?
Bringing in the highly trained “brainiacs” is exactly the right kind of immigration to have—if we’re going to have any immigration at all. They are net additions to our economy and tax coffers—as opposed to the 10s of millions of low-skill Latin immigrants we’ve been informally welcoming instead. Countries like Canada and Australia already figured this out.