Three bills and a Trump executive order train their gun sights on the H1B visa

ZD Net ^ | February 2, 2017 | Rajiv Rao

[bobcat62]

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.

Having managed them, I usually explain it this way:

Less than 5 percent are truly competent & have the personality skills to work with others. These are the ones worth sponsoring. You have to be aware that there are significant differences in educational credentials that could cause sponsoring to be a nightmare.

The next 20 percent are loved by management, since they're compliant and don't rock the boat. How much work (or damage) they create is another story.

The remainder... I'd have gotten more done if the company had hired "Howard, Fine, & Howard" for the job.

[bobcat62]

People don't understand that this is severely cutting into the entry incentives for American STEM graduates.

Consider this: A lot of these Engineering graduates have significant student loan debt. How are these kids going payback their loans if all the work is outsourced or given to cheap foreign labor?

[codder too]

Tax reform only after Obama care replaced as the cost will be G-D ONLY KNOWS.

[codder too]

Start with Turkeys uncertified male “teachers” in the 130+ Gulen Charter schools in our country, beginning with those on our military bases.

[TheTimeOfMan]

Agree - kill this visa now.

[impimp]

Whatever...that would destroy the economy. I had an H1B and no American could do what I do. The proposed change to market based admission is great - salary instead of lottery.

[HamiltonJay]

WINNING!

Honestly the H1B program is so wholesale abused I think it just needs repealed in its entirety, but these are certainly good moves.

[WMarshal]

Amen to that!

I have Already told a lot of my clients the past few years that if India and China enter into a full-scale war then that very day I will triple my consulting rate. The fist thing to get cut will be satellite communications and undersea data cables. There will be no offshoring work and all data enters in either China or India will be unavailable to US based companies and offices. It will be an IT professional sellers market.

[Navin Johnson]

Thanks for chiming in Mr. Obvious. But Congress will prioritize what Trump wants.

[zeugma]

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.

Any call or email from a recruiter whos name I cannot pronounce goes straight into File 13.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You really have NO idea how our government works.

Congress will do what they darn well please. Right now getting them to put reasonable people into Cabinet positions is a struggle.

So if you want changes in the tax code, light a fire under your Representative.

That is your job.

Quit expecting the president to ride to your rescue.

[central_va]

Indian IT companies generate some $65 billion worth of business in the US and cutting off that spigot will mean the likes of GE, Boeing, and Cisco suddenly being unable to sell their turbines, planes, and routers in one of the world's fastest-growing economies.

This is pure globalist scare tactics. DO NOT BELIEVE THIS FOR A SECOND.

Will the H-1B threat be lifted from over the head of all US born IT workers? God I hope so.

President Trump is a blessing from God IMO.

This will be a huge win.

[central_va]

FOAD. Your scare tactics don’t work anymore.

[central_va]

The bill if passed would also empower the Department of Labor to actively patrol the visa landscape by being able to investigate and audit firms from a compliance standpoint and probe for abuse or fraud.

The take away here is that right now nobody in the Federal Govt. is enforcing the rules. Rule which are already skewed against Americans.

[impimp]

Sure they do. There is zero chance that there will be a general immigration ban. It is your scare tactics that don’t work.

The USA needs immigration. It also needs to ban Muslim immigration and deport all illegals.

[bobcat62]

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/03/facebook-vulnerable-to-expected-changes-in-key-visa-program.html

More than 15 percent of Facebook's U.S. employees in 2016 used a temporary work visa, giving the social media leader a legal classification as a H-1B "dependent" company.

[central_va]

The USA has been flooded with immigrants. The system abused. We need to stop all immigration. Only a native born American could have the insight to see that this is true. I think you told me you were foreign born and have a hard time being objective. Your opinion means nothing. Actually you prove that to much immigration is a bad thing.

[bobcat62]

I use a Google Voice number on my resume these days. Google translates each voicemail and sends me a text message with the contents of each message.

If the text message reads as total nonsense, I know Apu is calling & I ignore the call.

These days, Apu has been reduced into being a pimp for positions at TCS, Wipro, Infosys, HCL, etc...

[impimp]

Can you tell me 5 times/countries that have banned immigration in the past? I can’t name any of them but I bet if any exist they would be absolute junk.

[impimp]

There should be no rejoicing in raising costs for Americans.