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Laid Off Disney Worker Breaks Down in Tears Before Senate Panel
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| 2/25/16
| Caroline May
Posted on 02/25/2016 2:08:43 PM PST by Wilderness Conservative
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To: GrandmaPatriot
Whatâs the difference between what Disney does does(bad) and what Trump does (good)?Because (fanfare) "their guy" is doing it! He who can do no wrong has a pass.
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posted on
02/25/2016 2:54:27 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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posted on
02/25/2016 2:55:51 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
To: CivilWarBrewing
Not always “The Happiest Place on Earth”.
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posted on
02/25/2016 2:56:31 PM PST
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Wilderness Conservative
I read the article and I am not sure this is H1B. This almost sounds like outsource overseas. Still sucks. BTW I was interviewing for a job and part of the team to supervise was outsourced overseas! No Thank YOU!!
To: Wilderness Conservative
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posted on
02/25/2016 3:00:51 PM PST
by
Dallas59
(Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
To: 11th Commandment; Wilderness Conservative
I stand corrected, the video states H1-B !!!!!!
To: Smokin' Joe
That’s what I kinda figured. Just trying to make a point but I guess it just goes over the heads of the ones who don’t see the irony.
To: orangeTank
Trump has done the same thing with one of his businesses.
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posted on
02/25/2016 3:14:08 PM PST
by
DHerion
To: Wilderness Conservative
The article has a comment pointing to
Cruz's own Senate website, where he calls for increased H1B:
WASHINGTON, DC â U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) today presented an amendment to the Gang of Eight immigration bill that would improve our nationâs 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 nationâs 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. âI strongly support legal immigration. 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. Iâm disappointed in the committeeâs 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.â
I have a better idea: reduce H1B visas, AND reduce the number of student visas. Why are we giving tech training to students from China and other competitors (and potential enemies)?
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posted on
02/25/2016 3:14:30 PM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: PapaBear3625
South Asian men can now bring their spouses and have them work.
Then there are the Chinese.
And the Latinos.
It’s multiple 2 letter and 1 number visas for all these situations.
H1B, L1 (something), H (something, something).
IOW, there are a number of protected situations for work in this country now going on.
IF a ChiCom company comes in, they bring their own people from top to bottom, for the large installations: construction, management, sanitation, enforcement, etc. ChiCom all the way.
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posted on
02/25/2016 3:20:29 PM PST
by
combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
To: Wilderness Conservative
And yet NOBODY ever asks the candidates about h1b visas.
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posted on
02/25/2016 3:24:02 PM PST
by
sevlex
To: Wilderness Conservative
Obviously, these Americans were not homosexual.
Walt is rolling over in his grave!
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posted on
02/25/2016 3:29:35 PM PST
by
Redleg Duke
(Remember...after the primaries, we better still be on the same team!)
To: Patriot Babe
It depends on the size of the class. In most consumer class actions, what you say is true and the consumer gets little more than a coupon for a future product.
In this case, it's a small defined class. I think it would work out a little differently.
-PJ
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posted on
02/25/2016 3:34:30 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: GrandmaPatriot
Isnât this what Donald Trump said he does? Hires foreigners legally at his world famous country club. Proof, you problem child. Don't write things that are not true.
To: combat_boots
South Asian men can now bring their spouses and have them work. We have some Indian women at work. When they start, it seems like after a few months on the job they get pregnant, so they can have one or more US-born anchor babies.
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posted on
02/25/2016 3:41:10 PM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: Wilderness Conservative
Let’s see weren’t Marco and Teddy big on H1-B visas?
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posted on
02/25/2016 4:05:00 PM PST
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: Wilderness Conservative
MAKE LISTS AND BOYCOTT!
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posted on
02/25/2016 4:18:22 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
To: PapaBear3625
Think this is his position in response to changed circumstances. Is he allowed to do that?
Reporter: Senator, I think the path to legalization issue has been beaten to death and I won't go over it again. One of the things you have supported in the past is raising the ceiling on the number of H-1B visas. Is that something you still support?
Ted Cruz: It is not. And in this circumstance, there are changed circumstances, and anyone responds to changed circumstances. I have supported and I still support the original idea of the H-1B program which is to bring in very high skilled workers to produce jobs and economic growth. That's a good thing, when you have more jobs and economic growth.
However, we have seen in recent months this program being abused over and over and over again. We've seen companies, blue chip names that we all know bringing in not high skill workers, but medium to low skill workers, and IT workers, and firing American workers and replacing them with foreign workers. And then, to add insult to injury, forcing the Americans who have just been fired to train their replacements. That is wrong, it is grotesque, it is offensive, it is a perversion of the program.
And so, like any rational person faced with changed circumstances, you change your position in response to how the facts have changed.
That's why I've said that as President, I will impose a 180 day moratorium on the H-1B program, in order to carry out a comprehensive audit of the companies that have received H-1B visas to determine if they are abusing the program - if they are bringing in low skilled workers, if they're firing American workers, if they're perverting the program. Any company that has abused the program will be suspended from participating in it, and any company that has violated the criminal laws will be prosecuted.
You know, this is yet another manifestation of the lawlessness of the Obama administration. They don't enforce the laws, the President decrees illegal and unconstitutional amnesty, but he's also lawless with big companies that are abusing the H-1B program.
It's one of the reasons I joined with Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) in introducing legislation to dramatically reform the H-1B program so that it can function as it's intended to. To require, for example, an advanced degree, not just a bachelor's degree, but a master's or a PhD. To put a preference to U.S. universities. To require as a minimum salary $110,000, so that you're not using it to bring in low cost foreign workers and replace American workers. To put in a 2 year hiatus from any company bringing in H-1Bs from laying off workers, so you gotta choose one or the other, but you can't be laying people off at the same time you're outsourcing.
All of these are reforms that are common sense I think to make the program work. And we need to make sure that our immigration laws prioritize American workers first, and as President, that's what I'll do."
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posted on
02/25/2016 4:36:27 PM PST
by
pilgrim
To: driftdiver
I bet foreign workers don’t have to be given Obamacare
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posted on
02/25/2016 5:09:28 PM PST
by
tinamina
To: DHerion
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posted on
02/25/2016 5:26:42 PM PST
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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