Posted on 05/16/2020 4:24:03 PM PDT by caww
Advocates for white-collar American workers and graduates are lobbying President Trump to expand his immigration executive order to stop issuing H-1B visas to foreign workers while unemployment ticks up to 36.5 million.
Last month, President Trump signed an executive order halting the issuance of some employment-based green card categories. The categories account for less than ten percent of all legal immigration to the U.S. The White House is considering expanding the order over the next few weeks.
In panels with conservative columnist and author Michelle Malkin, Protect U.S. Workers’ Sara Blackwell said any expansion of Trump’s executive order should halt the H-1B visa program whereby more than 100,000 foreign workers are admitted annually and allowed to stay for up to six years.
Jay Palmer, the whistleblower whose claims against Indian outsourcing firm Infosys led to a federal investigation and civil settlement, said he and the American Workers Coalition are working with Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) to get Trump’s order expanded to halt the OPT program, B-1 business visas, B-2 tourist visas, as well as the H-1B visa program.
Already, GOP lawmakers Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX), Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Rep. Steve King (R-IA), Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX), Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) have asked Trump to halt foreign visa worker programs.
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Yet another silver lining during these uncertain times...
H-1B has never been necessary for any company to find workers.
They use it to shave $30-$40k per year off per-employee expenses, often more.
And they don’t care about the impact to the nation. Not a whit.
Then they lobby congress and POTUS ($$$) for more.
Hang all involved. All of them.
BUMP
Abolish them permanently. This whole concept of floating a freeze is them trying to get ahead of the issue. Don’t let them misdirect you. We don’t need more immigrants.
High tech is going to funnel bundles of $ to congress to protect its H-1B program.
If farmers feel they need foreign workers, let's address that. But seriously, I don't think we need any other worker visas at all.
And while we are at it, cancel all foreign student worker visas AND send Chinese students home. All of them.
It would be richly deserved.
Is there a petition? Where do I sign?
no need to funnel money with Wolf in charge of DHS
the fix is already in
Suspend the H-1B program and reinstitute as the need arises.
Suspend the H-1B program and reinstitute as the need arises.
I think the idea is to at least extend the hault Trump put in place then revisit it again after this so called crisis has past...meanwile Trump continues cleaning house so he can get what he wants passed..
>>And they don’t care about the impact to the nation. Not a whit.<<
Do you think that there is one CEO who cares more about the country than about his company?
“Do you think that there is one CEO who cares more about the country than about his company?”
No. Not even one.
He halted some? Like 2 or 947? He has been big on corporate cronyism H1Bs. The taxes these corporations save by not hiring our sons and daughters are okay with trump also.
I hate to agree with that - but I'm hard pressed to see any evidence to the contrary.
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