Disgusting. Make these companies PROVE that there are no American applicants before allowing a single one to come here.
Business isn’t pushing it.
TRADE GROUPS are.
What does an India based business care if workers are exported to the US??
People that make money sending them over care.
Trade groups that represent Indian tech folks care.
And they don’t give a DAM about the US.
Nor should they, I guess.
But WE should. And so should our President of course.
And he does
“arguing that Indian workers help to fill a vital skills gap in the country”
Hilarious. The reason people don’t do programming anymore is because they were laid off and replaced in their last job by Indian programmers.
And then they bring the entire family here, which is why driving through much of the Santa Clara valley you can see elderly Indians wandering around with their hands clasped behind their backs in their brightly colored native dress.
And why white American kids are now a tiny minority in schools that were built by their grandparents taxes. And which were majority white as recently as the 1980’s.
Or as a friend in Sunnyvale put it to me, “we left when they put the fifth language on the garbage cans”.
Letting our country be taken over by a foreign nation’s citizens in exchange for them buying some crap is insane, and utterly against the wishes of the citizenry.
I just contacted the White House to express my support for "Hire American" and oppose increased foreign labor.
H1B bump for later.....
Actually, we should do exactly the opposite of this. We should impose a fee on companies sponsoring anybody for an H1b visa that ensures that worker costs them MORE than it would cost to employ an American for the same job.
Example:
Let’s say there is a job paying on average $100,000 per year. The company can pay an Indian $50,000 to do that same job and thus screw an American out of it. Well then the fee for that particular visa needs to be set at a minimum of $60,000 per year.
If companies don’t like that then I’d suggest they re-institute job training programs so they can bring American college grads along from entry level positions through to that mid manager level role.
Companies should not be able to crush the bargaining power of Americans in their own country by importing hordes of cheap labor. That’s awful for America and its not the free market. That’s rigging the game. The country should act in the best interests of its citizens - not of a few special interest groups against the interests of the majority.
NO!
Hire Americans first, dammmmmmit! There are many Americans who would like to work but so many Americans jobs are filled up with foreigners. Mostly from communist China and India too. Give the jobs to Americans and then come back and we can talk if you ever run out of American workers.
H1B and H2B visa programs are a scam...
we need to end the days of the corrupt, cheap labor express.
Mr. Munro doesn't seem to know the difference between "import" and "export". Then again, many Americans don't know the difference between "take" and "bring" either. And then there's "upload" and "download".
Our young people are having a hard time getting jobs in line with their education:
https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market/college-labor-market_compare-majors.html
The Internet is very slow here in Florida and I can’t give you examples now.
I love indian people. I speak conversational gujurati. but we have ENOUGH single male dorky indians in the US.
The tech executives must be asked to testify to Congress.
They can then spend time chatting with Roger Stone.
The Treason Lobby is alive and well.
We have affirmative action hiring practices where I work. HR only lets me interview college kids they prescreen.
Last interview session I had 3 Africans and 2 Pakistanis. None of these were US citizens. Only person I interviewed was an actual “African American”.
My kid is in College. His friends in getting engineering degrees were way sharper than any of the foreign kids I interviewed, but they are white and male, sooo....
White Males are a tiny minority in the world. Diversity is based on a lie.
Stop depressing the wages of US tech workers by importing foreigners.
” Ms Ghosh said, arguing that Indian workers help to fill a vital skills gap in the country.”
There isn’t a skills gat. There are plenty of skilled Americans. The H1B program allows businesses to pay slave wages to foreigners instead of an honest wage to Americans.
I know a guy who was laid off at my last employer. 50’s, CS degree, been there for over a dozen years. He could not find another job. Period. Ran out of money and committed suicide. I know another guy in his 50’s who got laid off last summer. He is still looking. Don’t tell me there is an IT shortage.
The idea is if you need employees you offer higher wages and benefits than your competition...When his employees quit to work for you, he does the same thing to attract employees...
his H1-B and H4EAD trash is taking over our country and eating away at our birthright blessings like a bunch of caterpillars.