Posted on 04/03/2017 2:19:40 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced steps on Monday to prevent the fraudulent use of H1B visas, used by employers to bring in specialized foreign workers temporarily, which appeared to fall short of President Donald Trump's campaign promises to overhaul the program.
Trump had promised to end the lottery system for H1B visas, which gives each applicant an equal chance at 65,000 positions each year.
Lobbyists for businesses who rely on H1B visas, commonly used by the tech sector, had expected Trump to upend the lottery in favor of a system that prioritized workers who are highly skilled and would be highly paid in the United States.
The lottery for fiscal year 2018 opened on Monday without changes.
The White House could not immediately be reached for comment.
In keeping with the practice of former President Barack Obama's administration, employers and foreign workers will enter a lottery system where 65,000 workers are permitted to enter the United States to work. An extra 20,000 H1B visas are reserved for workers with advanced degrees.
Last year, the lottery remained open less than a week before the program reached its cap.
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Not winning.
Globalist propagandists can’t pick one story and stick to it I guess.
BFD, the H1B industry will have to lie slightly more than they have been doing for the last 20 years.
It needs to be killed.
1. There are no more computer programmers (and there are no jobs for them either). They are all software architects or software engineers. But the code is crappier than ever.
2. I can probably get a PhD in [$field] for $100 via PayPal from some far off land.
"More oversight is a good start, but employers can still use the program legally to depress wages and replace American workers. That falls short of the promises President Trump made to protect American workers," said Peter Robbio, a spokesman for Numbers USA, a Washington-based group that advocates for limiting immigration into the United States.
The White House could not immediately be reached for comment.
Just wait till next year.
A policy memo from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services changes the way the agency will process visa applications for computer programming positions, making companies jump through extra hoops to fill those jobs with foreign workers.
"Based on the current version of the Handbook, the fact that a person may be employed as a computer programmer and may use information technology skills and knowledge to help an enterprise achieve its goals in the course of his or her job is not sufficient to establish the position as a specialty occupation," the memo reads.
The ‘specialty’ is knowledge of some software package only found in India. That’s the scam.
DACA.
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