Re: “Trump wants to legalize foreign student graduates. Roughly, 200,000 graduate every year. Many of them apply for H1B.
So it’s six of one and half dozen of the other between Trump and Cruz on this.”
Not really
From:
Immigration Reform That Will Make America Great Again
“mmigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women’s plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages. “
“Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.
“Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. 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. 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. 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.”
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform
Not really.
No, you're missing the point. The legalized students who enter the job market will have the same effect as H1B people who enter the job market.
As I said, it’s six of one and half dozen of the other.