We have had too many recently. We need a moratorium, followed by actions to assimilate those already here, before we can accept any more.
Posted on 04/23/2019 10:47:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
Of all America's immigrant visa programs, arguably the most successful for the U.S. economy has been the H-1B program. This program admits highly skilled foreign workers who fill vital employment niches to make our Made in America businesses more successful in international markets. Larry Kudlow, the director of President Donald Trump's National Economic Council, calls these immigrants the "brainiacs."
In many ways, he is right. America's high-tech companies use tens of thousands of these visas each year. The workers come for usually about six years, and those that are successful here apply for permanent residence when the visa expires.
The firms that use these visas must affirm that they cannot find workers with comparable skills and must pay a prevailing wage. There is little evidence that these foreign workers displace Americans from their jobs. Microsoft founder Bill Gates has testified that every H-1B immigrant his firm recruits translates into about four or five additional American workers being hired. If we want research labs, advanced manufacturing and scientific advances to happen here, we must have access to the world's best workers. The problem is there is a severe shortage of these visas. Today, there are some 65,000 science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program immigrants admitted under this visa category. "In the first week of this fiscal year, nearly 200,000 petitions were received," according to Forbes. This mismatch between demand and supply is restraining America's growth spree.
The H-1B process is cumbersome and expensive for employers, and they wouldn't spend the money on the program if they were not desperate for these talented newcomers. In the last decade or so, the processing time and costs have nearly doubled to get an H-1B immigrant admitted to these shores. This is a drain on the economy and reduces American competitiveness.
I travel the nation from coast to coast and talk to employers, from large manufacturers to high-tech firms to engineering and financial services; most tell me their biggest challenge is finding the skilled workers they need.
The visa limits should be raised and adjusted to meet the demands. The feds should charge employers a higher fee to bring these immigrants to the country, and these funds could be used to beef up border security pay for the cost of administering visa programs.
The solution is to tilt our immigration system away from extended family immigrants and more toward skills and merit. To put America first, it makes sense to give green cards to the immigrants who will do the most good for our country.
Trump wants to shift our visa system to emphasize skill and merit, and Congress should get behind him. Skill-based immigration is one of our best weapons to keep the American economy number one in the world and to ensure we never surrender technological dominance to China or other rising nations that want to knock America off our commanding economic heights.
H-1B visa is the worst wage/dream killing program in the USA. It is an abomination. It needs to end today!
Fixed it.
You can go and find 100,000 Chinese college graduates that would readily immigrate into the US every single year. I think you could find 10,000 Indian engineers and scientists each year to immigrate into the US. We just haven’t realized the value of this....intending to lean more toward lawn maintenance folks, and burger-flippers.
Nope. Not when Americans are made to train the H1Bs and then promptly fired.
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The only sleazier companies than our tech companies are - our tech companies.
Hire Americans. Go back to where you came from.
Called third strike.
We need single, never-married, Christian, Eastern European young women.
Repopulate the US.
On the one hand, America encourages young people to choose rewarding STEM careers.
On the other hand, we adopt policies which drive down salaries in STEM fields and which make jobs less secure because some cheap person right off the boat can do it just as well as you can.
I don’t advise Americans to go into IT. The H1-B program has a serious deleterious affect. I’ve been seeing it for decades.
I wish Trump would fire globalist brain fried traitor Kudlow.
“Highly trained”??? I’ve seen houseplants better trained than some of these H1-B clowns.
H1-B is America’s attempt to curry favor with India by importing thousands of their people to do our jobs.
We have had too many recently. We need a moratorium, followed by actions to assimilate those already here, before we can accept any more.
We don’t need any more immigrants.
Target corp has building with 2500 H1B clowns in Minneapolis, There is also a floor with 50 us professionals to fix their work. It’s all about Age discrimination.
Jack don’t you get it? According the the Globalist Free Traitor™ Republicans, those stupid American STEM workers who work for wages are just losers that deserve to be replaced by imported scabs. They should have started their own business and retired as millionaires at 50 using illegal labor.
So these H-1B immigrants seem to be undercutting US-born and educated specialists for less. Perhaps that is all the job is worth, based on the level of education.
We have to teach our specialists to be more keenly capable, and burden them less with long-term student loans, so they may enter the labor market without that built-in distraction and onus.
Face it, our STEM graduates are handicapped right at the beginning, with watered-down curriculum and oppressively high cost of acquiring that second-rate education. And by importing these smart and perhaps better educated applicants, we also are in effect causing a “brain-drain” from countries that otherwise would be serious competitors on the world markets.
Cynical? Yes, and also pointing out the relative lag our institutes of “higher learning” behind other institutes throughout the developed world.
Worth? when the market is artificially flooded with imported labor? So you are an open border loser. I get it.
Stop this abomination.
Mr. Moore’s capsule bio on Townhall doesn’t mention he is a Wall Street Journal open borders fanatic.
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