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To: Hojczyk
Furthermore, Trump’s intention to end the H-1B visa program, on which many tech companies rely as an inexpensive alternative to paying American workers higher wages, has rubbed some in Silicon Valley the wrong way. Trump has said that he still supports making legal immigration easier for skilled people.

It would seem that Trump is offering them an alternative that would be agreeable to them, but he isn't. The difference between making immigration easier and the H-1B program is that the H1-B program keeps immigrants tied to the companies that sponsor them. They have little freedom to compete in the marketplace. These companies want indentured servants. What Trump would do is give them citizenship quicker, which frees the indentured servants to compete for higher wages.

17 posted on 03/07/2016 4:31:11 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

Exactly. They don’t want to pay competitive wages, and H-1Bs allow them to import captive labor. Trump is talking about allowing people who come here for an education to stay and use those skills as permanent residents or citizens.


25 posted on 03/07/2016 5:32:27 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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