Posted on 03/01/2017 9:35:55 AM PST by COUNTrecount
President Donald Trump called for a huge overhaul of the nation’s immigration rules to reduce the huge inflow of low-skill, welfare-dependent immigrants, but perhaps also to increase the inflow of productivity-boosting white-collar immigrants.
In his Feb. 28 speech to the joint session of Congress, he declared:
Nations around the world, like Canada, Australia and many others –- have a merit-based immigration system. It is a basic principle that those seeking to enter a country ought to be able to support themselves financially. Yet, in America, we do not enforce this rule, straining the very public resources that our poorest citizens rely upon. According to the National Academy of Sciences, our current immigration system costs America’s taxpayers many billions of dollars a year.
Switching away from this current system of lower-skilled immigration, and instead adopting a merit-based system, will have many benefits: it will save countless dollars, raise workers’ wages, and help struggling families –- including immigrant families –- enter the middle class.
I believe that real and positive immigration reform is possible, as long as we focus on the following goals: to improve jobs and wages for Americans, to strengthen our nation’s security, and to restore respect for our laws.
Trump’s proposed shift to “a merit-based immigration system” would reduce the inflow of unskilled migrants, but perhaps also raise the inflow of skilled migrants.
Two GOP Senators are also proposing a reduction in low-skill immigration and a rise in high-skilled immigration.
Any policy shift to reduce l0w-skilled migration would likely be opposed by Democrats, by Wall Street investors and by the many member companies in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, all of whom gain from the huge annual inflow of roughly 800,000 salary-cutting, welfare-spending unskilled migrants.
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But the company-supplied definition of “Americans to fill the jobs” for each of their particular jobs is the heart of the now decades-long H1-B visa scam. Recall Disney and more recently UCSF having their existing I.T. people train their Indian H1-B replacements.
We've heard these same promises time and time and time again, only to keep on getting the shaft.
The only way to stop H1-B visa abuse, and to make STEM careers attractive again in this country is to KILL THE H1-B PROGRAM.
This is basically a call to repeal the insane Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and implement an immigration policy that focuses on what is best for America.
Not much chance at all of getting enough RINO and Neo-Con support to overcome democrat opposition.
Democrats want immigrants from the bottom of the barrel so they can mold them with handouts and preferential treatment.
I like Trump, I fully support him. But it’s way to politically expedient to throw the geek STEM/IT workers under the bus. There is no indication that the 65,000 H-1b visa quotas will not be met this year, heck its March and they probably have issued all 65,000 by now. Nobody in the US govt posts this kind of info publicly. Nobody knows the shafting of the US citizen that going on. It’s all done in secret. This is an old problem nobody talks about.
Give engineers and the like from outside America an extra incentive to be here in the first place.
That keeps jobs domestic while encouraging that ONLY the very best and competent foreign workers are brought here.
I said “If” he goes down the amnesty path. H-1B visa is a reality now. It has been gong on for 30 years.
As far as those who DO work, it is utterly incomprehensible that we have so many qualified IT workers who are American citizens and have been laid off from high paying white collar jobs just to be replaced by incompetent third-worlders who will accept half the salary. I know of Indians who were working in our IT department on an H1B visa who then left to go work for the state government. It's bad enough that it is happening in private companies, but the frigging state government is hiring them as well???? That is absolutely unacceptable.
And the thing I have been seeing in my neighborhood is Muslims who move in and receive welfare for their household as well as the second or third wife and children living separately down the street. They get additional welfare and child support for being "single mothers." They don't work, unless you count attending mosque 5 times a day and strolling around the neighborhood as "working."
Fly into Toronto’s Pearson airport and you had better have money, a reason for visiting Canada and no intention to work or study there unless you have the visas—or they turn you around, put you back on a plane and send you home.
Yeah, I read all the “concern troll” stuff last night...
This is going to go the same way...Through Obama, there has been no limit on H1-B or whoever crossed our borders...Trump IS going to put a stop to the biggest part of this BS...
People need to remember Trump is NOT a “professional politician”....
H-1B is like eating the countries ecnomic and technical seed corn every year.
THIS is an immigration standard I think any conservative would be okay with. Show income of 100k+, personal net worth of $20k, no public assistance for five years of living in US, and passing standard EOSL and citizenship tests and you get your citizenship.
The limit has been 65,000 for a ling time. Obama didn’t have an unlimited quota. 65,000 is bad enough.
I use Adobe’s “Photoshop Elements” product, an older version.
Every time I open it up, it presents me with a list of all the people who worked on the project.
Virtually every name is Indian.
>There are many, many ways to get around that. I learned all about that in 2002, when I and many other American IT workers were laid off during the 2002 IT slump and over a quarter-million H1-B visas were still issued.
The very obvious solution is to put the minimum salary of 150k on each H1B job. Hard to drive down wages that way.
See this is what cracking me up with the press.
So Trump call’s for reform for Legal immigration ...to make it merit based that your must be value added to the country. Your must be able to support your self...so it a call for a higher standard on who we allow into the country legally... he said we need to have the same standards and all the rest of the world has
And as for illegals it still deport them. Because by definition they’re not merit-based
And how does the press spin it?...well because the press does not differentiate between illegal and legal immigration and “reform” is the lefts buzz word for amnesty... the press tries to spin it as if Trump calling for immigration reform is Trump calling for amnesty it’s like the press can’t even hear the man own words... it’s absurd Bizarro world stuff
And it is such a winning issue at campaign time to run against it...
...and as soon as politicians get to DC, and hold meetings with "Top Industry CEOs", any effort to end the H-1B program just simply disappears.
IT IS INFURIATING.
PS: I like Donald Trump a lot. I think he is very brave and I have backed him since day one. I was very concerned that media wasn’t lying about amnesty because they get a copy of the SOTU speech way before we get to hear it live. It looked like Trump was going to go down that road. Thankfully he didn’t. Having said that he has yet to show any interest in the H-1b visa abuse problem. I have hope but that issue always gets tossed aside.
Easier solution: Less regulation, not more. Eliminate the H1-B visa scam instead of adding workarounds to it. It is not a function of the U.S. Government to directly assist companies in hiring workers.
There is no controlling authority. You could put 15 different provisos and nobody would get in trouble. Like this: You hire somebody at $150,000. One month later they get an evaluation and there salary is adjusted down to $75,000. Easy peasy.
Fixed it.
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