Posted on 12/09/2015 10:23:36 AM PST by ConservingFreedom
Within a month, another bill has been introduced in the US Senate to cut the number of business (H-1B) visas.
Co-sponsored by Senators Bill Nelson (Democrat) and Jeff Sessions (Republican), it proposes cutting the number of such visas by 15,000, giving priority to the highest wage earners during the selection.
The H-1B visa programme was created by the US legislature in 1990, to allow specialised workers to enter for taking up jobs in segments where there is a shortage of people.
It is a non-immigrant category, meant to allow employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in speciality occupations. At present, the US issues 85,000 H-1B visas yearly, including 20,000 for those with advanced degrees from US universities.
"By cutting the number of visas available each year and requiring those be given to the highest-wage earners first, this bill directly targets outsourcing companies that rely on lower-wage foreign workers to replace equally-qualified US workers," stated Nelson on his official website.
Last month, Senators Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin had introduced a similar bipartisan-sponsored bill on the H-1B programme. It seeks to modify the wage requirements, apart from prohibiting companies from hiring H-1Bs if they already employ more than 50 people and more than half are already H-1B or L-1 visa holders.
It also had many provisions to empower a crackdown on outsourcing companies, which they believe are making qualified Americans jobless by replacing them with 'low-paid' employees from offshore locations. Nelson was also one of the proposers of this bill. [...]
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Why target any Americans for replacement at any wage level? Hmmm?
It's a small start I guess. Whoopeee.
Another lie - no shortage of talented educated American citizens.
The only shortage is for 'Rat voters and tax-ticks to support the 'Rats.
Just make it against the law to earn a decent living.
This is a good start. Watch for participation rates dropping by companies that have to pay above indentured servant salaries.
I want on. There are FReepers who say those who don’t like H1Bs are against free market.
that’s bull.
they’re not immigrants, they’re not replacing, by all studies, a needed market. there are plenty of americans to do the job.
they are just savings billion dollar corporations another bunch of money because since stock prices have become the ONLY important measure of a company’s success, the US job market has suffered.
Added. Welcome aboard!
There are FReepers who say those who don't like H1Bs are against free market.
that's bull.
they're not immigrants, they're not replacing, by all studies, a needed market. there are plenty of americans to do the job.
they are just savings billion dollar corporations another bunch of money because since stock prices have become the ONLY important measure of a company's success, the US job market has suffered.
Amen!
H1B legislation bump for later....
Why target any Americans for replacement at any wage level?
American workers are now targeted because their H-1B replacements will work for Third World salaries - the higher the salaries, the less the targeting of American jobs. (I agree that a decades-long flat moratorium would be better still.)
Add me please. :)
I am one step further, kill all immigration, period.
do we have a bill number for this?
Especially those in middle age who want higher pay than a kid out of college.
How about just repealing the entire mess all the way down and letting the market work?
This is a big lie. There are so many loopholes in the program it should be called the Swiss Cheese Visa.
We have 300 plus million people in this damn Country we don’t need anybody else. Invest in America’s youth for a change. Stop all work visas, and stop immigration while your at it before the other tribes overrun us without a fight.
Thanks much! :)
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