Posted on 12/15/2015 12:41:51 PM PST by conservativejoy
In sharp contrast to the Grassley-Durbin bill calling for some useful modifications of the H-1B program, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) have introduced legislation that would just about terminate the H-1B worker program, as they announced in a press release.
This is the most sweeping anti-H-1B legislation to be introduced into Congress in my memory.
The Cruz-Sessions bill is in harmony with the Texas senator's overall current immigration policy, hailed as "imperfect but a big step forward" by Mark Krikorian in a posting last month.
The Cruz-Sessions legislation, the American Jobs First Act of 2015 (S.2394), would set a minimum wage of $110,000 a year for new H-1Bs, which would seriously dampen employers' interest in the program, as they usually pay much less than that for their H-1B workers, usually young college grads from India and China. (See the bill's text here.)
It would also force employers to observe a 730-day "cooling off" period before they could use the H-1B program to replace laid-off, furloughed, or striking U.S. workers. And it would simply end the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, another foreign-worker program involving recent alien college grads, a program that often dovetailed with H-1B. (There is no training involved in OPT, it is just a program for inexpensive foreign workers, with their employers being excused from paying payroll taxes when they hire these alien workers.)
The bill would also repeal the Diversity Visa Lottery, which grants green cards to about 50,000 randomly selected people from any country not among the top sending countries. (The top beneficiaries in 2014 were Nepal, Egypt, and Uzbekistan, with more than 3,000 green cards each.)
In contrast to the black-and-white Cruz-Sessions legislation, the Grassley-Durbin legislation is sketched in varying shades of grey, as we outlined in three earlier postings, starting with this one. The Grassley-Durbin proposal would make a series of modest improvements in both the H-1B program and in the somewhat similar L-1 program (for employees of multi-national firms working in the United States).
Isn’t this a HUGE flip flop for Cruz....and the day of the so-called debate?
SO could I get raise if I applied for a H1-B
Ted Cruz, the Candidate Who Wants to Increase the H-1B Cap by 500%
"Say Anything" Ted.
OK, *NOW* I can support Cruz. His previous position was a deal breaker.
No damn foreigners should be employed at ALL as long as there is one American willing to work who needs a job.
Period.
As far as I am concerned, any company hiring a foreigner before an American who is willing to do or be trained for the job can be disbanded and the whole executive board hauled off to Gitmo as far as I’m concerned.
Nope, this is part of Cruz’s immigration plan that has been out awhile.
It would be about DAMNED time. Send these American job stealing foreigners packing
The big joke is that cheating on exams is huge in India. A lot of these “engineers” are anything but.
Well, we’re still waiting for Trump’s plan to cut government and his plan to balance the budget. Cruz has had his plans out awhile.
Especially when he knows it won’t pass. Flip flop!
It’s a GIGANTIC flip-flop of major proportions !
Question, why isn't Jeff Sessions disliked as well?
He is also very smart, knows the Constitution as well and doesn't go along with the 'leadership" on most things as well???
Are McConnell, McCain and Graham just bigots and hate most Cuban Hispanics like Cruz but not Rubio?
What engenders so much hatred for Cruz from guys like these?
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