Posted on 02/22/2019 10:27:29 AM PST by rintintin
Americans don't usually think of technical professionals as "guest workers," yet at any one time, there are more than a half-million foreigners holding tech jobs in the U.S. They are here thanks to the H-1B visa program. H-1B, so the official spiel goes, addresses an alleged shortage of "highly skilled" Americans to fill jobs "requiring specialized knowledge."
Growing evidence, however, points to companies' using the program to replace perfectly qualified American workers with cheaper ones from elsewhere. A new report published by the Atlantic Council documents the abuses. The authors are Ron Hira, a political scientist at Howard University, and Bharath Gopalaswamy, director of the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center.
Among their criticisms:
Virtually any white-collar job can be taken by an H-1B visa holder. About 70 percent of them are held not by what we consider tech workers but by teachers, accountants and salespeople, among others.
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After we get the wall built, this should be the next thing we try to reduce.
I’m getting sick and tired of recruiters who can barely speak intelligible English and who have names I can’t pronounce. I tell them I can’t understand a word they’re saying and hang up.
No. Next question.
Sure, if you want to depress salary increases and redirect an entire generation of Americans away from STEM disciplines because they can hire foreign workers cheaper, then create an environment where older IT workers are displaced by less expensive younger foreign tech workers, who despite having studied the given subject, have no where near the experience nor capability to complete the task in a competent manner.
After we get the wall built, this should be the next thing we try to reduce.
I agree, but Im not sure Trump does
*** Cheap Labor Express ***
Do we need so many foreign tech workers....?
Only if you don’t want to create jobs for Americans.
I would say H-1B is a socialist program for corporate America. It is also pushing otherwise normal Americans to give up and throw in with the socialists.
We need to start giving 10 year no interest loans to qualified applicants of Coder Camps.
Where I work 90+ percent of emps are H-1Bs!
“Growing evidence”
The evidence has been growing for like 35 years!!
Don Trump was ELECTED to end the little train of job thieves into the U.S.!!
Why does anyeone have to act like this is something new!?
We’ve all been against it for DECADES
The short answer is no. What firms are attempting to do is to use the visa program as a source of cheap skills. If the visa program required that the job pay average salary plus 10% and had an additional 10% tax on that salary - the demand for these visas would dry up very quickly.
“Hello”?
This is Robert from Microsoft, your windows computer is showing a virus...
“Do We Really Need So Many Foreign Tech Workers?”
No, we do not.
simple question. simple answer.
Now, if the Politicriminals would just do this.
I supported Trump all the way through, back when other Freepers were mooning over Cruz or Carson. Im disappointed with Trumps follow-through on a number of immigrationnissues, including h1b visas. Looks like theres a plan to increase them
Bingo - that is exactly the change I would make to the program.
Don Trump was ELECTED to end the little train of job thieves into the U.S.!!
Yes, but it seems like hes changing his position, no?
There is no sector of the US economy with a genuine labor shortage - not white collar, not skilled blue collar, not unskilled. If there were real labor shortages, the unemployment rate (which only counts people actively seeking work) would be effectively zero. “Labor shortage” is upper management-speak and politician-speak for “we’d rather pay wages that Third World immigrants will accept than American wages.”
I was never in a union but now understand their value.
our colleges are graduating less STEM peoples than the demand is for ,,
thats what im told..
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