Let’s see the starting salaries and benefits packages for the H-1Bs vs new US-national hires.
They’re not hiring the H-1Bs because they are paid more.
And Senator Cruz wants to increase H1B by 500%. No. This is one of the reasons I stopped supporting him.
This un-American practice needs to stop.
Sadly, not just by the tech industry:
'Cruz said, “we should improve and streamline legal immigration.” He also discussed H-1B visas arguing that in the status quo, “every year US colleges and universities educate tens of thousands of foreign students who are getting masters and PhDs in engineering and math and computer science, and we’re sending them back to their countries. And as a result, they’re going back to their countries, they’re starting businesses there. They’re creating jobs there, and their companies are competing with us and taking jobs away from us. I don’t think that makes any sense. So, I’ve introduced legislation to increase the number of H-1B visas' - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3309118/posts
Calling Donald Trump and Scott Walker ... Calling Bernie Sanders...
The politicians pushing to bring in all these foreigners should be put on trial for treason.
The same for Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates.
Not enough cheep labor.
The Qualcomm layoffs, which it says are in response to dramatic profit losses, will eliminate the net employment gains of the past two years. A spokeswoman for Qualcomm declined to provide further detail on the layoffs or the fate of Qualcomm’s H-1b employees, beyond the 15 percent figure.
But Qualcomm said it plans to “significantly reduce its temporary workforce,” in a presentation detailing the restructuring.
“Obviously some of the ones being laid off are not engineers, but in general I’m sure that a lot of the people laid off could be doing the jobs taken by the H-1bs,” Norm Matloff, a computer science professor at the University of California Davis who is an expert on H-1bs, told TheDCNF.
The Department of Homeland Security is working with the Department of Labor to investigate the H-1b program after Southern California and then Disney, among others, allegedly laid off hundreds of American workers and essentially forced them to train their foreign replacements holding H-1b visas. (RELATED: Jeh Johnson: DHS Lacks Legal Tools To Enforce H-1b Laws)
It’s a violation of federal labor laws to fire an American worker and directly replace them with a foreign worker holding an H-1b, but companies such as SCE and Disney have apparently gotten around this by contracting the work out to H-1b reliant firms, such as Infosys and Tata.
Critics of the program, including a bipartisan group of senators, see the layoffs as evidence the companies are using the visas to cut costs, not legitimately fill in gaps in the American labor force. (RELATED: This Is What Happened To Wages As The Immigrant Population Tripled)
Seventy-four percent of Americans with STEM degrees are not working in STEM fields, according to U.S. Census Bureau data, and only 3.8 million Americans with STEM degrees hold STEM jobs. (RELATED: WSJ Editorial Board Takes A Sloppy Shot At Walker On Immigration)
“The entire industry abuses this visa, and I’m sure that includes Qualcomm,” Matloff told TheDCNF. “I’ve done research that shows statistics on how much the industry pays it’s H-1b [workers], and Qualcomm is definitely one of the ones that does not have a good record in that regard.”
Oh yeah, IBN. In B4 Nick Carraway.
I’m a Cruz supporter, but he needs to pay attention. His support is not unlimited. Laying off Americans to hire H1B’s is not defensible.
The last thing we need is half a million tech workers coming in *every year* to replace Americans. Immigration policy should always, always, serve the interest of citizens. First, foremost, always.
That last sentence is a lie. They want people to work for slave wages and not have to pay health care or any other costs.
Why do you hate Capitalism? /sarc
What they said:
“Qualcomm and other tech firms have argued that they turn to H-1Bs because there is a significant shortage of American talent available.”
What they mean:
“Qualcomm and other tech firms have argued that they turn to H-1Bs because there is a significant shortage of American talent available foolish enough to work 60 hours a week at all hours of the day and night and be on call the other 108 hours, for cheap and in servitude.”
Qualcomm has been notorious since it started for preferring to hire foreign workers over Americans.
According to Ted Cruz, who proposes we let in another 325,000 foreign tech workers, this type of American worker replacement never happens. After decades in the engineering industry I know for a fact it does.