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).
He was all of those things, and now he’s the most conservative member of the Senate.
But keep on attacking him, and keep on attacking his supporters. It’s pretty revealing.
Yep old “Saint Cruz” has flipped flopped on almost everything; and he can’t get his Senate buddies to work with him; he is run by the CFR pac; and on and on and on...
You vote for “Saint Cruz” I’m voting for the winner: TRUMP!!!
Keep on attacking. That’ll win over Cruz supporters to your side.
(I do appreciate the chutzpah of a Trump supporter criticizing Cruz for flip-flopping. Thanks for the chuckle.)
Exactly. Cruz wants to INCREASE the already insane level of LEGAL immigration using Ted Kennedy's 1965 filters that is already transforming us into a Third World nation. NO. FREAKING. WAY.
Trust me...I will vote for Cruz and if Trump is the primary candidate then you will see a lot of conservatives like me stay home and not vote. Trump will then lose the primary just like Mittens...but hey, Hillary or Trump, not like there is much of a difference.
Oh here we go with Mittens....a sign of total desperation....what happened to ‘Saint Cruz’ not good enough now????
I’m voting for the winner: TRUMP!!!
Nobody said anything about voting for Mittens this election. Try reading the posts next time. I only stated that Trump will crash and burn like Mittens because true conservatives will not support him in the general election because he is a liberal on most issues.
What is sad is that we finally have a true conservative candidate in Cruz and some people on a conservative website won’t support him. That just tells me that you are NOT a conservative. Go ahead and vote for “Clown Hair”, but you might as well vote for Hillary because you’ll be getting the same thing in the end. Vote for Trump if you’re dumb as a rump!
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