Win-win for Durbin.
Campaign donations from the employers/businesses and more (eventual) Rat voters, should they get citizenship.
We are selling out our own country, fouling our only nest, for 30 pieces of silver.
For every H-1B hired, a US college grad gets discouraged. We are eating our own seed corn.
Stop Crony Capitalism.
The problem here is that the politicians don’t represent the people. They could not care less about the people they are supposed to represent.
The pols and elites are looting the country, and have no loyalty to the nation and no civic virtue.
Since the article does not clarify any of this let me tell you what these visa categories are:
H1B - visa sponsored by an employer for a foreign national in a skilled profession. Good for 3 years, extendable for 3 more (and longer under certain conditions).
H4 EAD - Work authorization given to the spouse of an H1B holder. H4 used to allow you to live here but not work. Obama changed that with the stroke of a pen (illegally in all likelihood)
OPT - Visa given to a foreign student after graduation which allows them to work here for a year to gain “practical training”. Can be extended to 3 years for STEM fields. The most widely abused of all of these IMHO.
L1 - Intercompany transfer. Allows a foreign company doing business here to station needed employees at their US operations. For example, Toyota bringing a manager from Japan to oversee one of their US plants would get him an L1. Widely abused as you are only supposed to work for your own company on this visa.
Green Card - Permanent residence, which comes with the right to work. Thanks to damage done by Ted Kennedy in the 60’s these are handed out willy-nilly and with no rhyme nor reason. And stupidly by country of origin. A brilliant engineer from India might have to wait ten years to get one, while a bricklayer in Yemen can walk into our embassy, toss his name in the hat, and perhaps win one immediately.
I knew there’d be a Romney in the woodpile.
H1B is a scam, there is no saving this program it needs abolished.
A visa is a privilege granted by the people of the United States; it is not a right. No foreigner has a right to demand one.
This bill would die if Trump promised to veto it and campaign against any Republican who supported it. Why isn’t he speaking up?
“demand” — the nerve.
Not “ask” or “hope ‘, but “DEMAND”.
Get rid of them right away. Go back, where they came from.
end H1B and H2B visas
its all a scam.
Is the real problem a lot of American students don’t want to major in STEM studies because they are really tough so their a really a shortage of Americans to take those jobs?
Anyone know the status of S386, Lee’s H1B bill? Links?
We should suspend H1-B visas indefinitely.
Companies in Illinois, like State Farm, hire H1Bs and green cards because they are willing to relocate with State Farm to GA,TX, AZ as State Farm relocates all those jobs.
Many citizens won’t make that committment, even though some eventualy make the move anyway. (like me)
What citizen in their right mind wants to now relocated TO IL?
Disgusting! Most of those are probably not even legit H-1B, violating rules, cheating. Start fining these companies so it’s more expensive to hire cheap idiots than smart Americans.
H1B ROBOT REPAIRER WORKERS NEEDED
... imported from India.
Learn to repair robots in our future automated society. Cashier and service jobs like cook, are disappearing to robots. So instead learn how to fix the robots.
WRONG! India replacement workers will also be taking the robot repair jobs.
SCREW YOU WORKING AMERICANS
Democrats & Rinos & Elitists HATE YOU
Its not just IT. The bank I work for also uses.....you guessed it....Genpact.
Of the 12 people I work with, I am one of only 2 Americans. There are 2 Chinese people, one Nigerian, one Turk and 6 Indians. No, I am not in IT. I’m in finance. The vast majority of these roles should be filled by Americans.
We need to drastically curtail H1B and other work visas. Shut down the cheap labor express.