Posted on 11/24/2017 5:28:09 AM PST by Kaslin
The pro-immigration lawyers are apoplectic, which is always a sign for celebration. As in other Trump achievements during his first year, the President is accomplishing a cutback on foreign tech workers displacing Americans entirely on his own. The Republican Congress remains stubbornly opposed to the immigration restrictions Republican voters want.
The main tool at President Trump’s disposal is the appointment of a new agency head, in this case Francis Cissna as director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), who came on board in October, followed in swift order by the novel idea of actually following the law and scrutinizing visa applications.
Unsurprisingly, the law calls for high-skilled visas for foreign workers to fill critical jobs. Instead, Silicon Valley and the Obama Administration abused the privilege and used it to import cheap STEM workers to replace higher-paid Americans. H-1B visas are heavily used by outsourcing firms. First, they bring a worker here to be trained by skilled Americans. Then they shut down the American facility and outsource the jobs to India. Not a nice policy for the U.S. government to actively support.
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I wish he would do the same for financial-sector jobs; what happened in tech is now happening there as well. After 9/11 there were job losses in that sector, but many jobs were also being given to Asians as well. A friend near Philly described the same dynamic at work there; concerted efforts to replace Americans with Asians. It has changed whole middle-class neighborhoods here in NJ, and done the same by Philly.
For the opposing view:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/opinion/immigration-visa-h1b-trump-.html
“My two requests for evidence asked me to prove my job was a “specialty occupation” — that is, work that only someone with a bachelor’s degree or higher can do. My work involves artificial intelligence and big data, and my letters of support came from an authority in my industry and veteran start-up investor, and a Nobel Prize winner. But it wasn’t enough to convince the government that my job requires advanced skills.”
Great, but I could have used this in 2001 and after. A little late now, but go for it, Donald!
The dems wanted them in for votes. The repubs wanted them to reward corporate interests. Both parties “vowed” to do something about it, and never intended to change anything. Both parties are hypocritical liars.
We’re being flooded with H-1B here in Jacksonville, FL. I would guess the main culprit is Web.com HQ.
They are a primary reason our middle class is getting destroyed here; they are literally moving into the homes lost by the Americans who worked those jobs before. Years ago I watched the same dynamic at work at a large local flea market, where blue-collar Americans would be selling their tools to the braceros who had taken their jobs.
Our government despises us, and anyone we elect to address this.
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Being an expat living in Thailand what I am seeing is that those that apply legally are being approved!!!!!
As opposed to my wife applying for a tourist visa and being denied.
So wow, apply legally and get approved, as opposed to enter illegally and get approved while others trying to legally enter are disapproved.
Go Trump!!!!!
From the New York Slimes?, nuff said
Long been a dream of mine to see this implemented. I’ve been in I/T for almost 40 years and have seen this abuse. Companies, with a consultant’s help, will claim a job is difficult to fill. In truth, people with those skills have been laid off by the thousands and are out there; The companies are lying to lower their costs. About time someone called them on it.
Great news. I am tired of American tech workers being sold down the Ganges by congress.
Sorry, but If the man was that special and brilliant then he is smart enough to work remotely from home.
I would rather have the work outsourced than to have him sitting in the US, importing his family, grifting off welfare, getting free education for his citizen anchor babies, and driving up the costs of goods and services.
This is excellent news are real winning.
We are deep in H1-B here in Atlanta. Indians everywhere.
Yup ... I got laid off this past May and every interview I had here in Atlanta was with an Indian IT manager and staff.
They need to do the same in healthcare. My daughter had her hours cut in lab work because immigrants run the labs and don’t want white girls.
We are flooded with H1-Bs in Phoenix and they are vastly outnumbering employed Americans in every major IT shop. I know as one of the survivors and from contacts in other shops. It is disgusting to think that each new hire takes the job away from a qualified American. American jobs should be prioritized for American citizens and any position given to an H1-B should be subject to scrutiny at a national level, perhaps giving a chance for American citizens from other states to apply first. I would just as soon see the program shut down in entirety until business is compelled to find American labor.
Trump has done absolutely nothing to reduce the current quota for H-1B visas.
What Trump has allegedly done is increased the scrutiny that H-1B visa applications receive.
And, Trump has allegedly increased the scrutiny for H-1B renewals, which previously received an automatic renewal each year for five years.
If the final H-1B numbers for 2017 have actually decreased from 2016, then bravo! If not, then Trump’s extra scrutiny policy is a political stunt.
The author’s link to a WSJ article is behind a pay wall, so I could not read it.
If there was important information in that link, I apologize for not knowing about it.
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