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JEFF SESSIONS TARGETS MARCO RUBIO’S H-1B VISA BILL, SAYS HE’S ‘QUASHING’ AMERICANS’ DREAMS
Breitbart ^ | July 8, 2015 | Adelle Nazarian

Posted on 07/09/2015 7:20:09 AM PDT by C19fan

The war on the American worker is kicking into a new gear.

Microsoft is laying off an additional 7,800 U.S. workers, on top of the 18,000 it has already terminated. Meanwhile, the software giant is lobbying in Washington for an increase in H1B visas — allowing the company to replace these workers with foreigners who are willing to work for far less.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)80% , Chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, responded to the grim news and singled out 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)80% ’s (R-FL) I-Squared bill, which Microsoft is pushing for supporting. The bill would triple the number of H1B visas issued in the United States, potentially leaving even more Americans working in the STEM and IT fields jobless.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; corporatewelfare; h1b; potus; rubio
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Rubio, along with Cruz and Dauphin Bush, thinks STEM jobs are among the jobs American won't do.
1 posted on 07/09/2015 7:20:09 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

I agree with Senator Sessions. This is America. Americans should get job preference and Americans should be hired FIRST!


2 posted on 07/09/2015 7:21:38 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Punish sanctuary cities now! No money.)
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Rubio is just a voter place h0lder for The Jebster prior to the nomination.

He has essentially resigned from the Senate and will be getting some kind of CoC payoff after the election.

3 posted on 07/09/2015 7:23:55 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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The H1Bs are the new indentured servants.

They’re tied to their jobs (if they want to stay in the country legally.)


4 posted on 07/09/2015 7:25:18 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: C19fan

This is how easy it would be - just show compassion for Americans who are being victimized every day by the politicians’ chamber-of-commerce-bought-and-paid-for policies regarding illegal immigration.


5 posted on 07/09/2015 7:28:22 AM PDT by skeeter
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"Immigration is the key, Marco. Make your name with immigration."


6 posted on 07/09/2015 7:29:29 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: C19fan

Thank you agaiin Senator Sessions for standing up for the American worker.


7 posted on 07/09/2015 7:29:48 AM PDT by boycott
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... (if they want to stay in the country legally.)

When did that start mattering? /S

8 posted on 07/09/2015 7:30:15 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: C19fan

Using the most common definition of STEM jobs, total STEM employment in 2012 was 5.3 million workers (immigrant and native), but there are 12.1 million STEM degree holders (immigrant and native).

Only one-third of native-born Americans with an undergraduate STEM degree holding a job actually work in a STEM occupation.

There are more than five million native-born Americans with STEM undergraduate degrees working in non-STEM occupations: 1.5 million with engineering degrees, half a million with technology degrees, 400,000 with math degrees, and 2.6 million with science degrees.

An additional 1.2 million natives with STEM degrees are not working — unemployed or out of the labor force in 2012.

Despite the economic downturn, Census Bureau data show that, between 2007 and 2012, about 700,000 new immigrants who have STEM degrees were allowed to settle in the country, yet at the same time, total STEM employment grew by only about 500,000.

Of these new immigrants with STEM degrees, only a little more than a third took a STEM job and about the same share took a non-STEM job. The rest were not working in 2012.

Overall, less than half of immigrants with STEM degrees work in STEM jobs. In particular, just 23 percent of all immigrants with engineering degrees work as engineers.

In total, 1.6 million immigrants with STEM degrees worked outside of a STEM field and 563,000 were not working.

The supply of STEM workers is not just limited to those with STEM degrees. Nearly one-third of the nation's STEM workers do not have an undergraduate STEM degree.

Wage trends are one of the best measures of labor demand. If STEM workers are in short supply, wages should be increasing rapidly. But wage data from multiple sources show little growth over the last 12 years.

Real hourly wages (adjusted for inflation) grew on average just 0.7 percent a year from 2000 to 2012 for STEM workers, and annual wages grew even less — 0.4 percent a year. Wage growth is very modest for most subcategories of engineers and technology workers.

9 posted on 07/09/2015 7:31:02 AM PDT by kabar
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allowing the company to replace these workers with foreigners who are willing to work for far less.

I think that's questionable. I don't believe they are planning to replace any of them and yeah I heard about the Disney thing. What I understand is that MS took over another company and things haven't worked out as they planned.

10 posted on 07/09/2015 7:31:12 AM PDT by bkepley
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Read the article. Microsoft already has plans to hire more H1B workers while they’re laying off US workers.


11 posted on 07/09/2015 7:36:05 AM PDT by grania
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Yes but the new workers are not hardware engineers as are those laid off. Many of those hardware engineers are most likely capable of software engineering also and my guess is will be given special consideration if they apply for a software position.


12 posted on 07/09/2015 7:40:24 AM PDT by bkepley
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To: grania

Yep. Laying off 7500 American workers to make room for cheaper
illegals.


13 posted on 07/09/2015 7:40:48 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: Bushbacker1

There is more incentive for an H1B to be legal than for say a dishwasher or a yard man. From the company’s as well as the tech’s viewpoint.


14 posted on 07/09/2015 7:42:39 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: C19fan

I agree with Sessions and no longer trust
Cruz or the other more obvious faux conservatives.


15 posted on 07/09/2015 8:00:55 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: kabar; Parmenio; ColdOne; Yossarian; knittnmom; sf4dubya; Mr. Peabody; wally_bert; dowcaet; ...
H-1B ping. Let me know if you're not on the list and want to be added (or are and want to be removed).
16 posted on 07/09/2015 8:04:14 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: Paladin2

That’s right. Besides Rubio is too weak to “quash” a ripe plum on the sidewalk.


17 posted on 07/09/2015 8:05:44 AM PDT by uncitizen (PC is lying, any way you look at it)
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To: Diogenesis

I must admit I’m wary of him now.


18 posted on 07/09/2015 8:33:53 AM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do........Psalms 11:3..An Appeal to Heaven)
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To: Diogenesis

I don’t understand Ted Cruz’s embrace of this program. There are 92 million Americans out of the workforce and he believes in increasing the number of foreign tech workers. It’s bad political optics for Ted and it’s an issue someone like Trump can bash him over the head with. Ted really needs to rethink his position on H-1B visas because I think the economy will be the issue in 2016 and someone who advocates and can articulate an America-first agenda will be the strongest candidate in November next year. Supporting a guest worker program like this is not a positive asset.


19 posted on 07/09/2015 8:52:38 AM PDT by dowcaet
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I don’t understand Ted Cruz’s embrace of this program

I do. He needs money to run for President. His corporate paymasters call the tune. They want more cheap labor. Cruz obliges as do almost all the others in both major parties. They have abandoned the American worker and ultimately, this country, which will go down the toliet.

20 posted on 07/09/2015 8:56:09 AM PDT by kabar
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