Posted on 02/26/2019 4:18:21 AM PST by blueplum
NEW YORK (AP) — Immigrants with specialized skills are being denied work visas or seeing applications get caught up in lengthy bureaucratic tangles under federal changes that some consider a contradiction to President Donald Trump’s promise of a continued pathway to the U.S. for the most talented foreigners. (snip)
...Jessica Collins, a spokeswoman for USCIS, linked the changes to the president’s executive order, saying the goal was to reduce “frivolous” petitions and that “it is incumbent upon the petitioner, not the government” to prove eligibility.
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But it seems to me, the employer would be better off spending that 'legal fees' and project delays money on updating an new-hired's skills with otj training. 'Senior housing' experience seems a bit shallow of an excuse to import talent.
“that “it is incumbent upon the petitioner, not the government” to prove eligibility.”
Wow. What a concept.
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“’Senior housing’ experience seems a bit shallow of an excuse to import talent.“
Oh come on, everybody knows the best architects of senior housing come from Pakistan and India. Get with the program already.
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The Japanese discovered a long time ago that the best way to police these shenanigans was to require the companies hiring the foreigner a wage premium of AT LEAST 10% over the prevailing market rate. I was one of those foreign workers for 14 years.
Wow that’s a great idea. Make it cost a premium and then you’ll only bring them in if truly needed.
Architects? That’s one profession we’ve too many of already getting low wages! And how many senior facilities have we built already? Certainly not with primarily imported architects. Now, we might not have taught as much basic engineering to our architect students as we should have, and perhaps we should have moved more of them through apprentice steps to practice that. But the answer to that of course is not imports!
That’s the problem with blueprints - they dissolve into nothing at about the time the project is complete. Hence, the next time you design something for seniors you have to start completely from scratch.
CAD software has built in audit functions that delete design docs as well. No one has been able to determine why and Russian hackers are suspected.
That’s a great idea; I see these Asian white-collar “replacement Americans” filling the financial sector as they had done with tech, and it is destroying an even wider swath of America’s middle class. Even the original “Occupy Wall Street” protestors held signs in front of NYC buildings where they’d been laid off - while clearly visible behind them their Asian replacements were filing into the buildings.
Apartment complexes near office parks here in NJ are filling with Indians as Americans are chased off payrolls, and a friend in the Philly area describes the same phenomenon there. These “shortages” are becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy as young Americans refuse to spend the time and money earning a wider range of degrees just to have the jobs given to their replacements before they even get started; those young Americans, unless they are great entrepreneurs, are becoming a lower caste here in the US.
They report it like it’s a BAD thing.
Cheap labor is what it's all about.Why pay a guy $90K a year to do something that an Indian would feel lucky to do for $30K?
VIRTUALLY ALL of the H1B’s coming in are here are here to SCAM the system—and get malleable workers at HUGE ‘DISCOUNTS’ from the wage paid to citizens.
EVERYONE knows people who have been “laid off” after having been made to train their foreign replacements.
Liberals cheating the USA.
Again.
The GOP is all on board this traitorous fiasco. The Bush’s came out in favor of H-1B and against these changes.
Yep. This is exactly what I’ve proposed. Impose a fee that makes a foreign worker MORE EXPENSIVE than an American worker (10-15% more seems reasonable). Then companies truly will only hire foreign workers for skills they can not get in the US market rather than just flooding the market with cheap labor to crush Americans’ bargaining power in their own country.
We can consider some temporary work visas for fruit pickers and the like in agriculture.
By “Asian” you mean Indians. I’m a consultant for big banks. They are just stuffed full of cheap H1b Indians for every sort of job. These jobs should be filled by Americans and this whole thing is an abuse....a travesty....unfair to American workers and terrible for the country long term.
I am delighted to see President Trump cracking down on this.
I know of a particular race of tightly closed religious communities that use illegals on a cash basis at whatever money they decide or agree upon while the hired illegals are collecting social services and other free programs from the state all learned from their hiries and in the end sending much of this money home to mexico. There is a black market underfoot for many many years.
Better idea: charge for the visas. Have a "visa tariff".
If a worker visa cost $30K per worker per year, we would suddenly see employers taking another look at hiring American citizens.
To the extent an Associated Propaganda article can be trusted, I find this news to be very encouraging.
Primarily Asians here in NJ and PA; many Oriental Asians in NYC. There was never a shortage of Americans for this work; now there will be as young people see no point in entering those fields.
It appears to be just part of the “zero population growth” program; the Asians have few children while the Americans increasingly have none - they can’t support them. An absolute disgrace, returned to the spotlight by Trump, but without action, it will fade from view when he does.
I personally know three actual building architects that have been unable to get jobs as architects.
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