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Three bills and a Trump executive order train their gun sights on the H1B visa
ZD Net ^ | February 2, 2017 | Rajiv Rao

Posted on 02/02/2017 5:39:03 PM PST by AU72

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Will keep an eye on this one. I'm in IT and one of 3 Americans in a department of 74.
1 posted on 02/02/2017 5:39:03 PM PST by AU72
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This is all fine & good, but how’s about some tax cut action? Get the corporate rate down to 15% and do the 3 individual brackets at a 33% max... that is what we need to see.


2 posted on 02/02/2017 5:42:31 PM PST by Navin Johnson
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Disgusting

AMERICA FIRST


3 posted on 02/02/2017 5:43:18 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT Mexico NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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Specifically, the bill would prevent companies with more than 50 employees, of which at least half are H1B or L1 holders, from hiring additional H1B employees.

That would severely hamper the H1B shops that work these guys 70 or more hours a week, and also any Americans that happen to stumble in there. People don't understand that this is severely cutting into the entry incentives for American STEM graduates.

4 posted on 02/02/2017 5:46:32 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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I’m one of 4, soon to be 5 in MIS out in the factory in the woods.

I guess the new addition will be an American like the rest of us. Sometime in the next few days I’ll have a name and user account to create.


5 posted on 02/02/2017 5:47:28 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Navin Johnson
This is all fine & good, but how’s about some tax cut action?

Hear, hear!

6 posted on 02/02/2017 5:48:42 PM PST by Poison Pill
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Kill H1B and send them all home. Best move ever!!!


7 posted on 02/02/2017 5:49:22 PM PST by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
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All the gooberment needs to do is eliminate these visas & send the visa holders home on the first tramp steamer heading out of ‘Dodge.


8 posted on 02/02/2017 5:49:44 PM PST by bobcat62
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But the Tech Billionaires need these to be Billionaires!


9 posted on 02/02/2017 5:51:53 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Jerusalem is the city of The Great King!)
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The H-1B count should be cut to ZERO.

No one needs them. NO one.


10 posted on 02/02/2017 5:55:26 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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"All the gooberment needs to do is eliminate these visas & send the visa holders home on the first tramp steamer heading out of ‘Dodge."

And then cut whatever transoceanic phone cable that connects us to India so that these people will stop offering to remove the "viruses" they just magically detected on my computer, or to lower my credit card rates (even though they couldn't tell me which of my cards they were calling about), or to present me with some awesome government grant from a vaguely-described agency.

American companies outsourced so many IT jobs to India, only to have those folks use their newfound skills to scam us endlessly, even learning how to spoof phone numbers so that they appear to be local. I'm so tired of that crap.

11 posted on 02/02/2017 5:58:42 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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Try getting a job in a hospital. My daughter can only get part-time lab work due to Kenyans, ME and people from India. These are good jobs that being taken by H1Bs too.


12 posted on 02/02/2017 6:01:03 PM PST by lone star annie
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You haven’t lived until you get calls from India regarding today’s “Urgent Requirement” for an IT position that pays minimum wage for a 3 month gig in Minot, North Dakota.

I’ve grown tired of being asked for my “visa status” for jobs within my own country. I’m also tired of having to interpret voicemail messages where the caller sounds like his mouth is stuffed full of martbles, offering the same job for the 150th time this month.

I’d be willing to visit the nearest Vedic Cultural Center to make an offering to Ganesh, just to get every last one of these jokers shipped home.


13 posted on 02/02/2017 6:09:17 PM PST by bobcat62
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H1B guys at my Fortune 100 company, beside allowing the company to avoid paying a fair wage, find work that can be moved off-shore where workers are paid even less. This is going to be interesting to watch.


14 posted on 02/02/2017 6:11:18 PM PST by Patty
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The visa has to be eliminated.

Any modification to the existing H1-B will have immigration attorneys looking for any possible way to exploit any unintended loopholes.


15 posted on 02/02/2017 6:12:04 PM PST by bobcat62
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Yet another excellent reasons to cancel these foreign worker visas. They already abuse the program as it is.


16 posted on 02/02/2017 6:15:42 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: AU72

Why “gun sights”? Going to shoot someone?


17 posted on 02/02/2017 6:19:20 PM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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This is all fine & good, but how’s about some tax cut action?

Write congress.

That is what they do, not something the President can do.

18 posted on 02/02/2017 6:20:06 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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I worked with H-1B visa holders, they weren’t any better than anyone else that could’ve been hired off the street in most large cities.


19 posted on 02/02/2017 6:26:13 PM PST by 1066AD
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People don't understand that this is severely cutting into the entry incentives for American STEM graduates.

And it degrades ST&E jobs suggesting that these are menial chores done by foreign workers while the valuable work is done by lawyers and MBAs.

20 posted on 02/02/2017 6:38:11 PM PST by AndyJackson
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