Posted on 02/26/2020 6:16:51 AM PST by NobleFree
President Donald Trump blatantly dodged the public pressure by Indians for more H-1B visas, so indicating that he is concerned that his administration’s support for white-collar visa workers will alienate the U.S. college graduate voters he will need in 2020.
“We’re talking about the H1-Bs,” Trump told an Indian journalist at a February 25 press conference in India. Trump continued by changing the topic:
We are, and look the relationship we have, this is not from me, this is from almost everybody. They say the history of India, which has a long history and a brilliant history in so many different ways, there has never been a reception given to somebody like was given and I would like to say for the United States of America, but nobody else that came here got the kind of reception we got.
Behind closed doors, the Indian government also pressed Trump to support the H-1B and Optional Practical Training programs that deliver nearly all of the roughly 1 million Indian contract-workers into U.S. jobs.
“From our side, the issue of H-1B visa was raised […]” foreign minister Harsh Shringla told reporters at an Indian press conference.
[…] the vast majority of the Indian workforce in the United States are lower-skilled contract workers who have been used by executives to replace well-paid American professionals in technology, accounting, science, and design jobs.
Also, India’s visa workers have been used to export many additional white-collar jobs back to India, helping to freeze wages for U.S. college graduates nationwide.
This economic damage is ignored by the establishment media and by Congress. […]
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H1B bump for later...….
Send them all home.
END H1B!!!
“President Donald Trump blatantly dodged the public pressure by Indians for more H-1B visas, so indicating that he is concerned that his administration’s support for white-collar visa workers will alienate the U.S. college graduate voters he will need in 2020.”
So glad we have Neil the mind reader.
No, Neil, it’s Democrats that only take action based on votes.
My psychic sense tells me that Trump has concern for American workers and jobs.
I’m frankly glad he is resisting pressure. I was pretty sure this trip to India was the “squeeze”. It’s a little early, in my state, to tell where “little Mombai” is going to form.
You have to get up pretty early to out maneuver DJT in a negotiation. EST or GMT!
This simple mandate has the following positive effects:
OPT is far worse than H1B IMHO.
The sheer numbers dwarf H1B, and those resumes are far more likely to be fakes.
Plus their tuition is propping-up Leftist academia.
At the end of the day I suspect Trump will go along on H1B in exchange for security alliance agreements against China. He just won’t do it before the election.
Art of the Deal.
I hear that. Hire American!
Every relationship/action/policy the USA has with the rest of the world results in damage to the US middle class and/or death of US service personnel on remote/exotic battle fields.. I always hate these trips abroad because it is so easy for POTUS to get into Santa Claus mode and give away everything.
F that. That would be really f'd up.
Buckeye if Trump ever does cave on H-1B it will mean the end of the Republican brand and on to socialism. Careful what you wish for.
Sounds like Trump has been listening to the wrong people and has no clue about what H-1Bs are really used for.
On this we agree.
Hire American...
Businesses worried about the quality of American college grads? Time to put pressure on snowflakes running University Systems.
Incentives work - cut Pell grants etc to Snowflake U’s...
Smart move. Not only do we not need more H1bs, we need fewer. WAY WAY WAY fewer.
A better solution would be to allow as many as people want but to put the annual fee for getting one up high enough that it was uneconomical....ie MORE EXPENSIVE.....to sponsor and hire an H1b than it would be to hire an American.
If companies don’t like that, I’d suggest they re-implement the job training programs they used to have before the Cheap Labor Express really got rolling.
This is exactly what I propose. You can bring in Foreigners but they must be MORE EXPENSIVE than it would cost to employ an American for the same job.
In short, companies can bring over a handful of superstars. They can even bring some over if we truly do have critical shortages though they will obviously have an incentive to get Americans trained up to fill that shortage as quickly as possible since its costing them more money to bring in the foreigners.
What we need to end is Cheap Labor.
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