Posted on 05/30/2018 10:13:17 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Most Pacific Northwesterners spend long, rainy months pining for summer. But Microsoft President Brad Smith is having a hard time celebrating because he sees three clouds on the political horizon.
During an appearance at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., on Tuesday, Smith told Recode’s Kara Swisher that he has three immigration-related concerns that could make this “a tough summer.” If President Donald Trump takes any of the actions Smith warned about, Microsoft employees would be directly impacted.
Smith told Swisher he is worried that Republicans and Democrats will fail to reach a compromise on DACA, a program that allows undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to study and work in the country. He is also concerned that the administration will revoke a program that authorizes spouses of H-1B visa holders to work in the U.S. Smith’s third fear is that the optional practical training program for immigrant graduates with STEM degrees will be reduced, “at which point we could have thousands of people suddenly unable to work,” Smith said.
“I just think that this is terrible for the country, it’s terrible for the tech sector, and it is a tragedy for the individuals involved,” he said. “We may need to use our voice as an industry, not just with the public, not just in Congress, but we may need to continue to go to court.”
Immigration is a flagship issue for Microsoft and other big tech companies. Microsoft and Princeton University sued the Trump administration in November claiming that attempts to end DACA violate both the U.S Constitution and federal law. A federal judge sided with Microsoft and Princeton but the legal future of the program is still uncertain.
In his conversation with Swisher, Smith called on the tech industry to rally together behind key issues, use the resources at their disposal, and help develop compromises.
“It’s important that, as much as possible, we all stand together,” Smith said. “This industry has been united and I think that’s important.”
That is a stupid plan.
I’m glad you are a dog with no real influence on policy.
“That allows them to import cheaper workers”
At eight cents per minute of work tax, unless they are well paid[$1,500/week & $30/hour, by pay period].
Eight cents a minute is $4.80/hour.
Because it is not constrained at all. IMO we should only allow certain positions to be filled by H-1B visas, just as OPT defines what majors can be granded OPT waivers. And not line or even second-tier positions, but specific skill levels requiring at least a Master's degree.
5. Congressmen get a pass on hiring illegal nannies and lawn care workers, as long as they caucus with the Republicans
“Microsoft is now an Indian company. I’m not sure they even have any Americans working there anymore.”
The Chinese nationals they are training provide even a greater threat to our future technological competitiveness.
“That is a stupid plan.”
Better my plan than the usual 100% Republican capitulation.
Trump has already promised legalization:
via Bing:
“President Trump is right to extend a path to legalization to those who were eligible to be legal under DACA.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/.../trump-right-about-dreamer-amnesty
“Jan 25, 2018 · President Trump will propose a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million illegal immigrant Dreamers, nearly tripling the Obama-era DACA program, the White House said Thursday. Mr. Trump’s vision, which he will submit to Congress next week, would grant legal status to fewer than the 3 million people under the plan Senate Democrats have backed.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/25/trump-amnesty...
Note that my low-cost amnesty isn’t “legal status”.
Only my pay & stay amnesty would grant US legal status: Provisional Resident Status on a Conditional Basis.
The low-cost amnesty people would have to apply at embassies and consulates, which are of course outside the US. That gets the tight-wad illegals out of the USA by their own means.
Then the tight-wads need to have an employer or relative buy their way back in (or get in the normal wait your turn immigration queue).
Item 2. It is not the H1B directly that would end, it is allowing spouses of H1B visas to work without a Visa. I have numerous friends that are here on an official H1B, and their spouses also can get jobs. Microsoft hires the spouses then really locks the employees into staying.
Hey Brad, we build the wall and then talk H1b. Cappice.
5.56mm
IF Microsoft was more interested in American workers and what American Windows users want, they’d be in better standing. As it is, I curse them every day.
They all, friends or not, should be fired and deported immediately. Thank you
From my immigration reform/amnesty plan:
SEC. ???? Proposed Constitutional Amendment.
Upon enactment by two-thirds of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the following Proposed Constitutional Amendment below shall be sent to the states for ratification:
SECTION 1. The federal government shall have the power to implement the Immigration Amnesty and Reform Act of 2018.
SECTION 2. Previous Congressional immigration amnesties are hereby made lawful.
SECTION 3. The first sentence of SECTION 1 of Amendment XIV is hereby repealed.
SECTION 4. Henceforth, every child born in the USA after ratification shall be born with the citizenship of their mother as of 320 days prior to birth.
SECTION 5. No person may be granted US citizenship unless the person is over age 22 and proves US residence in at least 54 of the prior 60 months and lawful US earnings of at least $4,000 each quarter in at least 17 of the prior 20 quarters.
SECTION 6. No treaty may be entered into that would or could, require US residency, naturalization, citizenship or welfare benefits to be granted, restrict/bar deportation, impair US entry security, impose any form of international taxation within the United States, require any contingent payment from any domestic person or entity, or other than a treaty solely dealing with a domestic Indian tribe or intellectual property, remain in force in excess of ten years.
SECTION 7. No bill proposing an immigration/naturalization legal change and a federal expenditure for any extraneous purpose may become law.
SECTION 8. Any state may require state/federal photo ID tender for state-related voting purposes, subject to appropriate federal statutory law.
SECTION 9. Every domestic government shall require proof of US citizenship & state/federal photo ID tender for governmental voting purposes after 2023, subject to appropriate federal statutory law.
SECTION 10. Federal employer/income taxation may be levied at no more than 120% of existing rates. Federal employer/income taxation limits/rates/rate thresholds may be changed by no more than 1/20th in any year.
SECTION 11. A federal statutory financial imposition may only be levied/increased under then existing law or with the same day approval of at least two-thirds of the members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
SECTION 12. All amounts collected from Federal estate taxation shall be used to pay down the existing national debt and that distinctly refinanced, or refunded.
SECTION 13. There shall be no multi-state/federal wealth or property taxation except that estate taxation and real property taxation in what is now the District of Columbia.
SECTION 14. The federal government shall not issue loans or except, via limited liability corporations set up under federal law without recourse to the Treasury, guarantee debt other than of the general national debt.
SECTION 15. No person (or their spouse or child) may be elected or otherwise placed into a Constitutional office for a subsequent term while the national debt of the United States exceeds $25 trillion.
SECTION 16. The President shall have line item veto power.
SECTION 17. No sibling, child, grandchild or spouse of a President may hold the office of President or Vice President.
SECTION 18. Effective with the elections of November 2022, the House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every fourth year by qualified voters of the several states.
SECTION 19. Each Federal judge appointed after ratification shall, subject to impeachment, have a term of office, only renewable by the Congress in which the term ends, of nine years, or a shorter period as Congress may set by law.
SECTION 20. The Supreme Court shall not have more than nine justices.
Under my plan, they would get a lot of what they want and we probably would get a lot of what we want. There is no time limit for ratification.
Note that immigration amnesties are currently unconstitutional. So ratification is a must for the leftists too.
pay & stay amounts:
(A) an USCIS Immigrant Fee [$210], and
(B) a Biometric Services Fee [$85], and
(C) an I-130 level [$535] initial processing fee, and
(D) an initial Quarterly Eligibility Maintenance/Border Security Fee of $500
SEC. ???? Quarterly Eligibility Maintenance/Border Security Fee.
(a) For each of the following 39 quarters after the grant of an Amnesty Application Number Card to an alien, the alien must pay a Quarterly Eligibility Maintenance/Border Security Fee, each in a manner the Secretary of HS shall specify.
(b) The amount of the Fee of paragraph (a) shall initially be $500 a quarter.
(c) The amount of the Fee of paragraph (a) shall be effectively reduced to $400 a quarter after legally effective ratification of the Proposed Constitutional Amendment.
(d) The amount of the Fee of paragraph (a) shall be effectively reduced to $300 a quarter after President Donald J. Trump officially declares in a signed writing that Mexican border wall construction has been finished to his satisfaction.
(e) After the receipt of an alien’s Quarterly Eligibility Maintenance/Border Security Fee, the required information for the alien to be considered eligible for employment by the USCIS Employment Verification System shall be updated in the manner the Secretary of HS shall specify.
(f) Upon payment of his/her 40th Quarterly Eligibility Maintenance/Border Security Fee, an alien in clearly good standing with the law lawfully holding Provisional Resident Status on a Conditional Basis may obtain Permanent Resident Status on a Conditional Basis and a card so indicating in a manner the Secretary of HS shall specify.
....
SEC. ???? Quarterly Eligibility Maintenance/Border Security Fee Educational Deferment.
(a) An alien officially considered by the USCIS to be under age 22 may defer a Quarterly Eligibility Maintenance/Border Security Fee other than the initial one by
(1) paying a $20 quarterly deferment fee
(2) submitting proof of education enrollment
in a manner the Secretary of HS shall specify.
....
SEC. ???? Alien Health Care Cost Coverage.
(a) The alien must lawfully
(1) obtain by January 1, 2019, high-quality health care cost coverage, without government subsidy, except via a small employer/small employers under general law, and
(2) maintain thereafter, except for gaps of less than three months total in any twenty-four month period, high-quality health care cost coverage, meeting applicable US legal requirements, without government subsidy, while the PPACA is on the books.
(b) High-quality health care cost coverage is
(1) ‘Platinum’, ‘Gold’ or ‘Silver’ coverage with an annual deductible not exceeding $2,000, or
(2) that of the alien’s employer plan meeting applicable US legal requirements.
“dog”
Our elected Republicans are the dogs.
They growl at our enemies days before an election and then grovel down afterward.
United to drive down wages with foreign workers.
Look at your cell phone. It will state where it was MADE.
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