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Book Review: ‘Sold Out’, by Michelle Malkin and John Miano
Breitbart ^
| 2 Dec 2015
| John Hayward
Posted on 12/03/2015 8:11:34 AM PST by ConservingFreedom
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To: 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).
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posted on
12/03/2015 8:12:02 AM PST
by
ConservingFreedom
(a "guest worker" is a stateless person with no ties to any community, only to his paymaster)
To: ConservingFreedom
To: Laxfan3; tommix2
Apologies for leaving you off this ping. :(
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posted on
12/03/2015 8:19:01 AM PST
by
ConservingFreedom
(a "guest worker" is a stateless person with no ties to any community, only to his paymaster)
To: baltimorepoet
Added. Welcome aboard!
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posted on
12/03/2015 8:19:23 AM PST
by
ConservingFreedom
(a "guest worker" is a stateless person with no ties to any community, only to his paymaster)
To: ConservingFreedom
I can state first hand that I experienced not being able to find work in my field (computer science) despite a degree and good grades from 1991 to 2001. The post-Cold War defense reductions didn’t help, the timing of the Gulf War didn’t help either, and then I found out about how H1-B visas also weren’t helping.
I considered “turning to the darkside” but instead in 2000 I went back for a Master’s in Comp Sci, did an unpaid internship at a place run by another ex-military guy & got a good recommendation which I used to get an internship at a major defense contractor.
First day at internship was Sept 10, 2001, (I wasn’t scheduled to go in Sept 11) 2nd day was Sept 12, 2001 and the airport next door was quiet.
To: baltimorepoet
H-1B visa rules were full of holes from day one. It didn’t take lawyers any time at all to figure out how to scam it. CLOSE THE PROGRAM!!
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posted on
12/03/2015 8:24:07 AM PST
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: ConservingFreedom
Several months prior to Malkin’s birth, her parents had immigrated to the United States on an employer-sponsored visa.
I love MM, but something does not add up here. She would not even be here if it had not been for a working visa for her dad.
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posted on
12/03/2015 8:24:50 AM PST
by
Mi-kha-el
((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
To: Mi-kha-el
If anything, she can speak to how it is supposed to work, and address how it is not working.
To: ConservingFreedom
Michelle Malkin - tellin’ it like it is...
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posted on
12/03/2015 8:26:53 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKkckaZO4fw - bravest truth telling Muslim women in the world...)
To: Mi-kha-el
something does not add up here. She would not even be here if it had not been for a working visa for her dad.Does that somehow obligate her to support working visas - or to leave the country? Is a person conceived by rape obligated to oppose anti-rape laws because if not for rape he wouldn't exist?
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posted on
12/03/2015 8:28:29 AM PST
by
ConservingFreedom
(a "guest worker" is a stateless person with no ties to any community, only to his paymaster)
To: baltimorepoet
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posted on
12/03/2015 8:30:53 AM PST
by
Mi-kha-el
((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
To: ConservingFreedom
This goes far beyond just tech, IT, and STEM jobs. This has been going on for at least the last 20 years, or one full generation. People born after 1990 have no idea what the job market was like, and the opportunities that were sold to the highest foreign bidders.
Try to be the next bill gates, or the next Henry ford for that matter, and see just how much crony financed blowback you receive.
The US is where the british were at near the end of their colonial empire.
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posted on
12/03/2015 8:37:58 AM PST
by
factoryrat
(We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
To: ConservingFreedom
Extreme. I am not “a stateless person with no ties to any community, only to his paymaster”. I am a proud American, who has received US citizenship due to H1B visa. You receive millions through refugee and “Diversity Visa” programs, plus many millions of illigals. The H1B is the only program that allows the influx of highly skilled professionals, some of whom later become proud contributing US citizens grateful to the nation that adopted them. Yes, the programs has loopholes and is often abused, so let us fix it, but not through the baby with the water. Thanks.
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posted on
12/03/2015 8:40:55 AM PST
by
Mi-kha-el
((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
To: Mi-kha-el
Sorry for the typo. “illegals”
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posted on
12/03/2015 8:41:59 AM PST
by
Mi-kha-el
((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
To: Mi-kha-el
Malkin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Philippine citizens Rafaela (née Perez) â a homemaker and teacher â and Apolo DeCastro Maglalang, who was then a physician-in-training. Several months prior to Malkin's birth, her parents had immigrated to the United States on an employer-sponsored visa. After her father finished his medical training, the family moved to Absecon, New Jersey. We had and have a shortage of medical doctors. Foreign doctors make up about 25% of the doctors in this country. There are reasons why we can't produce enough doctors domestically, but that is another matter.
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posted on
12/03/2015 8:48:09 AM PST
by
kabar
To: Mi-kha-el
I am not "a stateless person with no ties to any community, only to his paymaster". I am a proud American, who has received US citizenshipThen you're not a guest worker and my tagline doesn't apply to you.
The H1B is the only program that allows the influx of highly skilled professionals
http://www.cis.org/LowSalariesforLowSkills-H1B
- Very few H-1B workers are "highly-skilled." Employers who used the Department of Labor's skill-based prevailing wage system classified most workers (56 percent) as being at the lowest skill level (Level I) as did most State Employment Security Agency (SESA) wage determinations (57 percent). This suggests that most H-1B computer workers are low-skilled workers who make no special contribution to the American economy, or that employers are deliberately understating workers' skills in order to justify paying them lower salaries.
- According to the applications filed in 2005, it appears that employers may be significantly understating what U.S. computer workers are earning in order to justify paying low wages to H-1B guestworkers in those occupations. In FY 2005, H-1B employer prevailing wage claims averaged $16,000 below the median wage for U.S. computer workers in the same location and occupation.
- 90 percent of H-1B employer prevailing wage claims for programming occupations were below the median U.S. wage for the same occupation and location, with 62 percent of the wage claims in the bottom 25th percentile of U.S. wages.
- While higher than the prevailing wage claims, the actual wages reported for H-1B workers were significantly less than those of their American counterparts. Wages for H-1B workers averaged $12,000 below the median wage for U.S. workers in the same occupation and location.
- The reported wages for 84 percent of H-1B workers were below the median U.S. wage; 51 percent were in the bottom 25th percentile of U.S. wages.
- Many employers make prevailing wage claims using wage sources that are not valid under the law. The Department of Labor routinely approves prevailing wage claims based on these invalid sources.
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posted on
12/03/2015 8:59:32 AM PST
by
ConservingFreedom
(a "guest worker" is a stateless person with no ties to any community, only to his paymaster)
To: ConservingFreedom
Ted Cruz is not going to like this article...
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posted on
12/03/2015 9:04:00 AM PST
by
Iscool
(Izlam and radical Izlam are different the same way a wolf and a wolf in sheeps clothing are differen)
To: ConservingFreedom
Thanks. These are the loopholes. It is up to the government to close them. My employer invited me because he could not find someone matching my skills and experience. It was the time of low unemployment, so the hiring pool was small. The H1B workers have to be paid industry average wages. The H1B workers pay fees that are supposed to go for training local workforce. During my way through immigration process, I paid enormous ammounts in legal and government fees, in the meantime I provided required services to my employer, paid my taxes, medical insurance, my son’s education fees. At no time was I a burden on the society. That is what I have experienced.
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posted on
12/03/2015 9:09:08 AM PST
by
Mi-kha-el
((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
To: ConservingFreedom
Traitorous sellout alert.
BTTT
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posted on
12/03/2015 9:31:18 AM PST
by
SharpRightTurn
(White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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