Oh goody, another TedState hit piece.
So much flame bait so little time, yawn....
As usual the TDS CruZaders™ are overplaying their hand.
Red State in the morning”: Sailor take warning! ;-)
Maybe Trump’s the wrong person for president (I think he’s right).
But he’s got people talking about H1B, H2B, walls, amnesty, etc. He’s already accomplished more than most “republicans”. I’d bet they’d all be running as far from this discussion as possible since “we don’t want to offend Hispanics and lose votes”. And the next congress could try to sneak amnesty through - but now more voters are going to pay very close attention to the legislation.
The south Florida "snowbird Season" is from October to March. It's not just Trump's hotel, but ALL the hotels along the Treasure Coast region of South Florida, that are drawing on the local population for low-skilled seasonal temporary labor. Also, that area is heavily populated with retirees, so hospitality labor is not abundant for the ramp-up.
-PJ
This is an important discussion.
Most politicians who have tried to campaign on *illegal* immigration have tried to take the sting out of it by promoting themselves as highly in favor of expanded *legal* immigration. I see a lot of the political talk about H1b in that light. They don’t want to be accused of being anti-immigrant, so they talk about making it easier to immigrate and they talk about bringing in the best and the brightest via H1b.
The problem with that is that half the country is out of work. And the problem is that companies are using H1b quite openly to replace American workers. Immigration policy should serve the interests of citizens... and it almost never has.
At the beginning Cruz was too easy on H1b, and that was one of the things I had against him. He has since tightened up his policy and his current policy is pretty good.
Trump’s strong selling point has been his position on the border, but his stance on H1b is weak. He needs to clarify it and tighten it up. I understand what he is saying, he wants to keep people with advanced degrees who are studying in US universities, but that isn’t how the program has been used in the past. I have worked with a lot of H1b’s in the past, most of them good people, but I know how you get around the requirement to hire Americans first.
We need to have this discussion and Trump has do what Cruz has had to do, which is to tighten up his policy in the light of how it is used in real life. I would like to hear both of them talking about this very issue more. No, Silicon Valley doesn’t need to expand the use of H1b’s when there are Americans who would love to take those jobs.
Con Artist. Liar. Phony. A sham.
I’m curious to know what he told the New York Times editorial board about this. Is anybody else?
Another post from comedy central.
I recall more than a few freepers who claimed that they supported Trump over Cruz because Trump was against these visas and Cruz was for them.
But as many Trumpeters say: ‘It worked, that's all that counts. He is winning.’
This is NOTHING compared to the reversals that are coming.
First our current immigration system is based on family unification, with absolutely no standards other than DNA.
The H-1B program is for non-immigrants and should be eliminated for the reasons sited in the article.
If our objective is the bring in highly educated immigrants then we need to scrap the family unification preferences and shift to a education and skills based preference.
Right now our immigration system is designed to import poverty and cheep labor.
Totally false.
Almost all the elite foreign students who graduate from elite USA universities come from western Europe, Japan, Can-Aus-NZ, and the oil rich Persian Gulf.
They return home to their native countries because the pay scale and standard of living are the same or better than the USA.
If elite foreign graduates do stay in the USA, they are forced to compete for jobs against thousands of badly paid, completely average foreign students from China, India, Russia, and eastern Europe, who LEGALLY do stay in the USA.
Bottom Line - 80% of elite foreign PH.Ds return to their home country voluntarily. 80% of “average” foreign PH.Ds, who attend “average” USA universities, work in the USA for at least five years.
Here is the statement from Trump's web site.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-position-on-visas
Position-on-visas
"Megyn Kelly asked about highly-skilled immigration. The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay. I remain totally committed to eliminating rampant, widespread H-1B abuse and ending outrageous practices such as those that occurred at Disney in Florida when Americans were forced to train their foreign replacements. I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program. No exceptions."