Posted on 01/20/2015 4:24:14 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Offers amendment to increase H-1B visas to help improve, retain high-skilled labor force
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) today presented an amendment to the Gang of Eight immigration bill that would improve our nation’s legal immigration system by increasing high-skilled temporary worker visas, called H-1B visas, by 500 percent. The measure would effectively address the needs of our nation’s high-skilled workforce by helping meet the growing demand for workers in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. It will also make block grants available to states to promote STEM education efforts and increase domestic STEM professionals. The committee voted against the amendment 4 to 14 with every Democrat voting against it on a party-line vote.
Legal immigration is a fundamental pillar of our nation's heritage, and I was pleased today to offer legislation that would have improved and expanded legal immigration by dramatically increasing the cap for high-tech temporary worker visas. This amendment would not only improve the current system, but would also encourage economic growth and create new jobs in America. There is currently a serious shortage of workers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math, yet every year we send thousands of high-tech graduate students back to their home countries to start businesses and create jobs. This makes no sense. I’m disappointed in the committee’s vote to reject expanding high-tech immigration. Although the Gang of Eight's bill makes a modest step towards improving high-tech immigration, it does not go nearly far enough. There is no reason to arbitrarily cap high-tech visas at 110,000 when these jobs are going unfilled. We need economic growth here and now.”
Sen. Cruz’s amendment would:
Immediately increase the H-1B cap by 500 percent from 65,000 to 325,000.
• To truly fix our broken immigration system and take into account our nation’s economic needs, we must put more emphasis on increasing employment-based immigration. (EEE's comments in red - No mention of reducing the size, scope, and power of Fedzilla, which would unleash jobs on its own). There is a current shortage of qualified high-skilled workers in the U.S., with an estimated 230,000 advanced-degree STEM jobs going unfilled by 2018. Shortage caused by the feds sticking their grimy paws in the economy and picking winners and losers.
• Additionally, more H-1B workers mean more jobs for American workers – according to a study by the American Enterprise Institute, for every additional 100 H-1B workers, 183 jobs are created for U.S. citizens. How? What was this study based on and who funded it?
Help retain the high-skilled workers that are trained in the U.S. by allowing “dual intent.” What exactly is this?
• This would allow foreign students at U.S. colleges and universities to enter the U.S. on a temporary H-1B visa if they intend to get a Green Card once they complete their studies. This is Roman-style suicide for any nation
• Currently, about 300,000 students come to America annually to be educated, but are required to return home upon completing their education. Why can't they get edumacated in their own crapholes and improve their country's way of life?
Create block grants for states to promote STEM education in their public schools by raising H-1B fees. More borrowing and spending that we can't afford. I thought Cruz was a fiscal conservative?
• These block grants will encourage educating our children in these high demand fields, opening more doors of opportunity to future generations. According to the Joint Economic Committee, between 2010 and 2020, demand for STEM graduates is expected to grow by 17 percent, while employment for those graduates will increase only 14 percent, partly because American graduates are not available or qualified to fill these jobs.
• The block grant program would be funded by raising H-1B fees from $750 to $1,250 for businesses with fewer than 25 employees, and from $1,500 to $2,500 for those with 25 or more employees.
“It’s a complete lie composed by those who want to destroy the American economy for all but the power elites.”
That I don’t doubt. I’ve seen Cloward_Pivan implemented faster and faster lately. It won’t be ling now before there is no turning back, if we aren’t there already.
But in doing research for papers when I was getting a teaching credential (the education weenies hated the topics of my papers, LOL) - there are fewer people graduating with those mire useful degrees now, while liberal arts degrees are growing in number. And over 50% of those getting masters in engineering are foreign. No matter how bright, without being taught the background, our own kids can’t do as well. Few have the tenacity to teach themselves calculus at home. Yet another paper I did was on how our schools are failing the higher end students. Those with high IQs are vastly under performing. All the attention - meaning money- is to the lower end kids. Teachers cannot even identify the kids with higher IQs, studies find. Personally, I found that too - a mentoring teacher told me to keep John at the back of the class to keep him out of the way. I put hum right up front - and he was doing quadratic in his head! He was failing all his classes but told me his IQ was tested at 135. I don’t doubt that, he was amazing but nobody knew. or cared.
We need to throw the illegals out of our schools and that will help our kids get the resources. Throwing the liberals out would be good too.
Wow, no doubt. I’m so sorry for your loss.
Grief is something you have to go through, to get to the other side.
It’s not easy. And you’ll always be missing a part of you, with a relationship that close.
I’m not meaning to sound negative! Just to let you know I get it, and to be patient with yourself.
You seem quite believable on this. Thank you for making an effort to clarify things. I don’t know much about the guy.
You’re right, just because he disagrees with me on immigration doesn’t mean he’s anti Cruz. But many of them are. And it’s stupid to think this is a mark against Cruz.
Everyone has a right to have tunnel vision. When I do it it’s usually against other posters though unintended. Better to see the whole picture. No harm intended.
So....I agree with Cruz too.
The industry I’m in has been swamped and overwhelmed by H1-Bs, who have smashed wages.
Zero interest in this proposal, and less and less with Cruz, who doesn’t seem to get what we are fighting for.
Not to mention the Hindu white collar crime wave that goes largely unreported, but talk to big city detectives about who is behind a.lot of identity theft and credit fraud.
No thanks Ted!
Great. Computer professions can sacrifice our careers for Ted’s ambition!
I did not say “all”.
I suggested looking at the list.
If I see something happening time and time again, I start thinking there might be a pattern.
If you’re bound and determined to support the GOP establishment, no matter what evidence arrives at your doorstep, you’ll never like a lot of what I say.
Ooops - that’s a mistake - I did say all.
I think I’ll stand by that, too.
Cuz I think there’s no way you can point me to a non-globalist new world order person who came out of Harvard.
If you can find one, I stand corrected, there is one. But I have yet to see one.
I’d love it if you can find one.
Ted Cruz really “sounds” great if you’re looking for a conservative new neocon.
But his support of bringing in EVEN more cheap labor proves he’s actually against the “everyday conservative”, because it’s us everday conservatives that don’t like being told “they’re basically looking for an Indian, so forget it” by recruiters.
And good old Ted is pretty reliable when it comes to using the US military on foreign adventures like new world order’s opium operation they’ve been running in Afghanistan for a decade now, or “ridding the third world of tyrants”, which really means placing globalist minions in third world countries to run them.
You are constantly posting hair-brained non-provable assumptions about Ted Cruz.
Back them up!
CRUZ or LOSE!
Harvard is the elites’ indoctrination facility for their best prospects.
A little research reveals this quite plainly.
Harvard IS globalism. You don’t get in unless they have little doubt that you will become a good globalist minion.
They literally make a big point of telling Harvard students that they are the elites of society - it’s no secret, they proudly admit it.
You have to research Harvard’s history, including the history of its major benefactors, otherwise you’ll think it’s just a “great college”.
Even prep schools aimed at being a path to Harvard start the indoctrination process early on - they are globalist and they are proud of it in all their marketing materials.
People who keep looking to the Republican party to “save the day” are the one’s who are completely deluded, just as much as liberals who similarly look to Democrats; they think politics is something more than a show. Politics is just a show to give you the illusion that you “have some say” in “elections”.
When you see a “conservative” rise up in the political ranks, you can bet your bottom dollar they have learned their role in the “show” that the power elite puts on.
So they are not going to make ANY changes that would really anger the elites.
I’m waiting for a conservative politician that is:
a) a Reformed Christian whose walk in life for the most part mirrors their Christian profession
b) against drug legalization; will put a stop to globalist money laundering at the highest levels
c) not a worldwide warmonger for the elites
d) consistently completely anti-abortion
e) for US government to stop borrowing dollars and start printing dollars when Congress spends more than it takes in, since dollars ARE US dollars and should be issued ONLY by the US Treasury, not any central bank.
Such a person is never allowed by the elites to get anywhere at all in politics.
Republicans on the national scene are permitted by the elites to satisfy several of the above requirements - but not all of them.
This is how the elites keep any kind of concerted political movement to extinguish their plans from ever getting off the ground. A few conservatives may oppose the elites on one or two issues - but they actually support the elites on all the other issues. And a few other conservatives may oppose the elites on one or two OTHER issues, and support them on the rest.
Opposition to the elites is thus FRAGMENTED from the get go.
Anyone with a clear coherent message about the elites is branded a nutcase.
And the elites make sure there are many nutcases out there who put out a portion of the truth about the elites - mixed in with a bunch of nutcase statements. They only need to get the ball rolling with a few nutcases - the rest of the nutcases chimed in themselves, being emotionally swept up by the revelations, but not having any real understanding of the real operations of the elites.
So any time you talk about the elites - you get lumped in with the “planted” nutcases.
I did learn something about you though, when you shifted from supporting immigration to a sudden out of the blue lie about me being anti-Cruz and shifting to a series of personal attacks, in an effort to change the subject of you defending immigration.
That was some dishonest trash talking you were doing.
Even now you refuse to apologize for spewing lies about me.
Thanks very much, sweet you.
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