Posted on 08/18/2015 9:55:28 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Donald Trump has doubled down on his pledge to crack down on H-1B visa abuses and aligned himself with perhaps the most popular politician in all of Iowa, Senator Chuck Grassley. Grassley, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has led the effort to reform the H-1B visa program to better protect American workers who are routinely forced out of their jobs in place of less skilled foreign laborers. Grassley’s Judiciary Committee recently held a hearing on the topic after hundreds of workers at Southern California Edison were forced to train their less expensive foreign replacements. As one of the victims said in anonymous testimony provided to the Committee: “As longtime employees we loved the work we were doing and the people we were working with. We did a great job. Through no fault of my own my job was just given to someone else with a lot less experience, knowledge and skills, lowering my standard of living and raising theirs so Edison could save a few dollars and reward stockholders with a few more pennies on their dividends. At the hearing, Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)— who has repeatedly delivered speeches calling out Zuckerberg, Gates, and others trying to expand the H-1B program — declared: “People aren’t commodities. We have no obligation to yield to the lust of big businesses.” At Grassley’s hearing, Rutgers’ professor Hal Salzman said that Rubio’s I-squared bill would mean 100% of new tech jobs would go to foreign workers — even as U.S. schools churn out about half a million STEM grads each year. And in a new tweet today, Trump explained that his immigration proposal would, “transform [the H-1B] program so it delivers for country, not lobbyists & will have bipartisan support.”
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One additional immigration problem IMHO is that our state-funded universities, such as U of I, are recruiting foreign students for math, science, and engineering majors when enrollments are extremely competitive—U of I actually went to CHINA to do recruiting for freshman. Huh?Went to China?!
Then tech firms hire these foreign students on student internship (true slave wages), and later whine because they cannot hire said students when they graduate unless they get more H-1B visas (these workers are in addition to the ones coming directly from India, China, etc). Of course when these foreign students graduate, they are indebted (or perhaps indentured would be better word) to the company thru H-1B visas so they are paid less and have less flexibility to leave the sponsoring company.
I maintain that there are plenty of very bright US-born students being shut out of university STEM programs. Why would a State school recruit from China? Because those students are paying the full freight tuition, whereas state residents pay a reduced in-state rate**....As they say: Follow the money!
I resent this situation almost as much as the prospect of govt-funded tuition forgiveness to students who chose to go to private schools and rack up massive debt in non-employable majors.
**My parents and my spouse and I have all paid taxes to Illinois, and in turn, our children receive instate tuition rates to IL state schools. However, my 2 “gifted” (and they were in gifted programs, AP classes, etc) students would not have made the cut. Oh, they were good students (tho not 5% top as they were well-rounded kids with other activities) and attended one of the best high schools in IL, with both scoring over 30 on their ACTs. Thankfully, they both have graduated with advanced degrees in Engineering disciplines and have JOBS are doing well, with no thanks to U of I recruiting policies.
My point is that there is a lot of local talent being shut out in favor of foreign students who will pay full freight.
If private schools want to invite the best and brightest from far away lands, so be it, but why are land-grant, state universities not admitting state residents’ kids first?
Boy I want some clarification on these tweets, because Breibart has him lining up with Grassley on H-1B visa stance
If you mean are they valid, the tweets are real. What he meant by them is pretty clear.
What I mean is this from:
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At the hearing, Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
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— who has repeatedly delivered speeches calling out Zuckerberg, Gates, and others trying to expand the H-1B program — declared: “People aren’t commodities… We have no obligation to yield to the lust of big businesses.”
One of Trump’s opponents, Florida Senator Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
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, is perhaps the Senate’s most enthusiastic booster of the low-wage visa, despite two recent high profile incidents in his own state where American workers were terminated and compelled to train the more inexperienced foreigner laborers brought in to take over their jobs at less pay. At Grassley’s hearing, Rutgers’ professor Hal Salzman said that Rubio’s I-squared bill would mean 100 percent of new tech jobs would go to foreign workers — even as U.S. schools churn out about half a million STEM grads each year.
In Trump’s policy document he pointed out that: “We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program.”
And in a new tweet today, Trump explained that his immigration proposal would, “transform [the H-1B] program so it delivers for country, not lobbyists & will have bipartisan support.” Trump then linked to a Breitbart News article citing UC Davis Professor Norm Matloff, a leading critic of the H-1B visa, and self-professed Democrat, who has painstakingly documented how the visa is used to replace American workers.
As Trump writes in his policy proposal, his H-1B plan would, “force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas.” Trump observes that, by contrast, Rubio’s plan would devastate groups of American workers: “Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.”
In a joint op-ed from five professors, all experts in the H-1B, they noted that “Companies are exploiting the large existing flow of guest workers to deny American workers access to STEM careers and the middle-class security that should come with them. Imagine, then, how many more Americans would be frozen out of the middle class if politicians and tech moguls succeeded in doubling or tripling the flow of guest workers into STEM occupations.”
Trump’s plan is directly responsive to that: “More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program’s lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two.” What this means is that more than 80 percent of H-1b workers are paid less than the average wage, debunking the myth of H-1B workers as skilled workers. In effect, it is just a way for employers to fill entry-level positions at the lowest possible price.
Trump therefore proposes that “Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic, and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program.”
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That sure flies in the face of what he wrote in his tweets wherein he said he wanted "talented people to come into this country--to work hard and to become citizens.
So I can see why you would want clarification.
Free Traitors™ take note.
H-1B Is Designed to Allow Employers to Replace Americans with Cheap Foreign Workers
H-1B Is Designed to Allow Employers to Pay Foreign Workers Extremely Low Wages
Kill it.
I believe I hear the faints sound of crickets coming from the Cruz campaign.
End corporate welfare now.
No one overseas anything. Kill it.
America has plenty. What Silicon Valley WANTS is CHEAP engineers.
Yes he is. Chalk that up as a concession to his big money donors.
re: Isn’t Cruz a big H1b supporter?
yup ... gotta keep those big corporate campaign donors happy
Actually the H-1B visa was designed to be ‘abused’. It was designed to replace americans with CHEAP, compliant, neo serfs
http://cis.org/miano/primer-reporters-looking-h-1b-program
The bottom line is that the H-1B was designed to be ‘abused’
http://cis.org/miano/primer-reporters-looking-h-1b-program
It was designed to bring in CHEAP neo-indentured coders.
It brings in mainly the rather ordinary and sub ordinary:
http://www.cis.org/articles/2006/back506.html
The US NEVER had a problem attracting and bringing in the top talent in any field. e.g. Albert Einstein
Bush cares about 'third world gratefuls'... Jeb wants the brown people to look up to him... Jeb's living in a world where the white man goes to India or Africa or Mexico and is sooooooooo superior... Like out of a 1920's tacky movie.
Get with the real world Jeb... protect YOUR OWN COUNTRY...
Trump cares about Americans... It's about damn time someone did...
: “People aren’t commodities. Rutgers’ professor Hal Salzman said that Rubio’s I-squared bill would mean 100% of new tech jobs would go to foreign workers — even as U.S. schools churn out about half a million STEM grads each year.
Now that is the Trump I like!!!
Yes. He wants to increase H1B visas 500%.
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