Posted on 04/18/2017 4:33:51 AM PDT by davikkm
The H1-B visa program, which is used by tech companies to bring in high-skilled workers, will see a bit of an overhaul on Tuesday when the President issues a new executive order.
The President will sign the executive order at a manufacturing plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin, which reportedly will make it far more difficult for U.S. employers to “look overseas for workers to fill middle-income jobs”.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
I like very much the progress our President is making without much help from CONgress. signing this at a manufacturing plant suggests to me, the new facilities that are coming to America’s shores will be filling those jobs with hiring American workers.
I love our President, the bluecollar billionaire, he gets it!
There are actual “Processing Specialization” company whose expertise is in getting these visas approved, how to ‘set up’ the requirements, pitfalls, tricks of the trade, etc.
They give free seminars to employers to drum up business and the whole point is to subvert the intent of the program and increase the particular company’s bottom line.
They are the equivalent of disgusting ‘immigration’ lawyers here.
It’s about damn time,Thank you President Trump!
They are not all that “highly skilled’ anymore
SOME are, of course- but they think it is winning an actual lottery and so EVERYONE applies- the skilled and not so skilled.
I’ve made a lucrative career out of ‘fixing’ stuff that was doled out to cheap labor.
I have a BIL who has a Gov. contract to hire degreed computer science types both BS and masters types.
Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
Good. I was laid off recently from a company that’s loaded with H1-B workers.
Hank you Pres Trump
We keep hearing how much w need STEM graduates, but the bottom line is “it is just not worth it”. As an EE with 25 years in R&D I have been laid off, off-shored, RIF’d, had my Dept moved to India, had companies sold and relocated. Now in my 50’s my retirement is nlll, (despite withholding 15% since I was 24). When you buy a home, and are forced to sell at a loss, live on unemployment, relocate and start over 5 or 6x; due to companies responding to Government incentives, the money must come from somewhere
Now, I make significantly less, but work for the space program and have stability. Would I encourage my children to become engineers? Absolutely not. I have seen too many other engineers in my situation.
U Pres Trump’s moves are a big step in the right direction
have him call me
(although I do have a great job, I am always looking for more work)
My son trained 30 of these Visa program “skilled workers to be” for his company. Then the company let my son go.
Article does not say that he is going to do anything other than “study and review the program”.
It is a start but a slow start if you read the article. Many, at least those of us in IT, have already lost their jobs and the rest of us are on the edge waiting for the axe to fall.
One widely used trick is to have a long list of obscure skills required for the job, which magically only the foreign worker's resume will fulfill. If you see a job listing with all sorts of odd requirements, just understand that they've already picked the H1B that they want to fill it, and don't waste your time.
H-1B brings real talent to the US—though it should be reformed in several ways.
H-2B, for low-skill workers, is the one that should just be killed totally.
When is he going to stop DACA?
Over 11,000 new illegal aliens have been given work permits since he came into office and 49,000 have been given renewals.
Good. Trump is working his way through his campaign promises.
Well said. People who want to push H1B out of the country probably forgot how far behind US have been during Bush/Obama administration. If you travel outside the US especially in Asian countries, you will know what I mean.
H1-B will never reform. Fake news.
Silicon Valley is 75% foreign.
Foreigners cannot vote.
Chamber of Commerce has cash but no votes.
STEM is a poor career choice, just get on the job training.
Job boards eg Indeed, are fake jobs, mostly fraud.
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