You're worth billions of dollars. American tax payers funded the technology you've made fortunes off of. We've funded NASA, R&D grants to our colleges and universities, education, etc.
If you want talent, invest in our people. Drive through Detroit, Chicago, Camden, NJ, Gary, IN, etc. Do you not believe in these people? Do you not want to help them? If you do, invest your billions in helping train these people.
Like obama and Elizabeth Warren have said, "YOU DIDN'T BUILD THAT." American citizens funded it. We deserve a return on our investment.
They fear hiring actual americans?
It sounds like the “tech industry” think Americans are TOO STUPID to do the job.
From nyt article:
“...A draft of a proposed executive order on the matter was leaked this week. ...”
Ok, who’s the mole that blabbed???
Plug. That. Leak!!
Another big win issue for Trump.
They don’t mind American dollars but don’t want to hire Americans
Screw Babyface Zuck and the rest of the pimply faced brats
AMERICA FIRST
This is horse manure. The overseas engineers I have had to work with cannot hold a candle to the Americans they replaced. Their only superior quality is the willingness to work much cheaoer.
But you get what you pay for in the end.
The guiding historical comparison is slavery.
If Tech plantations can’t compete without cheaper, less-privileged labor they have to go.
MAGA!
They will just move the development work offshore and continue hiring them in India or China or wherever.
Oh no! They will have to hire Americans! The horror. /s
buck fezos
A steady stream of low cost immigrants.Very low cost.
There are millions of technical people the just don’t want to pay what the market would dictate so the artificially flood the market with foreigners under H-1b.
We need to flood the US labor supply with journalists from all over the world. We need to get the labor rate down for journalists to 3rd world levels. Lawyers also.
Having worked for Microsoft under contract, along with another (unnamed/current) tech hardware giant I can say I don ‘t understand why it is necessary for them to bring people here.
Large portions of development and almost ALL manufacturing is done overseas.
All I can figure is that they now intend to supplant all US workers with H-1b at 50 cents on the dollar.
For companies that already have 200-400% profit margins (on 60-100bil in sales), the only, only possible motive is greed.
To think the US does not have a legitimate interest in that is ludicrous.
And then there’s the completely forgotten concept of protecting technologies important to national security. Everything, and I mean everything these companies do is essential to national security. We have processor manufacturers outsourcing production to China, Malaysia, Korea etc. State of the art stuff.
These companies MUST be reigned in, and quick. It’s totally out of control.
Bad news for Tech Giants...to have to hire U.S.citizens instead of importing foreigners at lower compensation and more control over them.
Would cut into their obscene incomes to be denied their cheap labor overseas...small wonder they want illegals here...to get cheap labor here....to maximize their incomes.
Because now they will have to pay US workers the wage they should have paid them all along
I want to eliminate the H1B system, although I’m ok with letting in smart, hard working immigrant.
An H1B is tied to his sponsoring company, which will force him to work at below-market wages. A full immigrant, able to choose who to work for, will maintain wage levels.