Posted on 06/26/2020 1:41:33 PM PDT by NobleFree
In June, the US government suspended H-1B and other work visas for the rest of 2020. Hundreds of thousands of foreigners will no longer be able to attain work in the US as a result.
This halt will deal a one-two punch to employers of computer-related occupations, which includes jobs such as software developers and computer systems analysts. First, people in this field receive the overwhelming majority of H-1B visas. Out of the nearly 400,000 H-1B petitions approved in fiscal year 2019, about two-thirds were in that line of work. Most went to software developers.
Second, computer-related workers are the one group for which the labor market will soon become tight again. When that happens, new foreign workers may be sorely missed. […]
Before Covid-19, the unemployment rate for these workers was the lowest in recorded history. In the 10 years prior to the pandemic, the number of computer-related workers soared by 62%, while the number in all other fields grew by just 13%.
And since February, when the pandemic started impacting the US economy, the rise in the unemployment rate for computer and mathematical occupations was smaller than for other occupation groups (see charts 1 and 2). While the unemployment rate for all workers and for the management and professional group reached the highest rates in recorded history, the increase for computer and mathematical workers was more modest, though still significant. […]
Beyond the short-term recruiting impact, reducing the number of foreign workers could have major implications on US innovation. A recent article concludes that immigrants are responsible for 30% of aggregate US innovation since 1976, partly due to their own innovation, but mostly due to the positive impact they are having on US natives’ innovation. Immigration grows the pie.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
BLM activists don’t know how to code?
Or drive a truck?
American culture was already hard to find. The H1B Visa suspension just helped the effort to protect it.
hire all the out of work American programmers and engineers first
then we can talk about importing more aliens
Just maybe, then...
...there will be students finding it worthwhile to go for their engineering degrees again
...and companies can invest their trillions in those engineering schools.
...and then pay proper wages again.
I get so furious when I hear people say the H1B visa system is good. It is un-American and treasonous for any Member of Congress to vote for it. Corrupt bas$@&#$!
Damn it... Those poor globalists will be forced against their will to hire White and Asian Males. Oh... the inhumanity...
These businesses who want to pay their employees pennies while they enjoy million dollar salaries and bonuses will not convince me that Americans can't do the job, or that there's not enough of them. They just don't want to pay them what they're worth.
Exactly!
Pehaps, they can hire people over 29
If you fire an American to hire an H1B, you are a traitor.
It has happened to WAY too many Americans. H1B needs to happen under the old rules where you had to prove you could not find a qualified American.
Now you can literally tell them you want to fire American workers and import foreigners, and they allow it.
Don't need no steenkin' coding or jobs, Soros and Uncle Sam pay their bills!
Only < 35 tech workers are hard to find. End blatant age discrimination and there are MORE than enough folks. ...and the older ones are more grateful and have gained wisdom (oh, and won’t be out defacing statues)
The H-1B has been around for 30 years. Are you telling be that’s not enough to time to train Americans for those jobs?
They’re not hard to find, you just can’t offer them Indian wages.
Yes, because there are NO tech-workers among the 42.5 million Americans recently made unemployed by Government reaction to Covid-19.
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Forbes can go to hell.
Maybe now I can get a job like I once had. Older tech worker. Learned how to code in the 80’s...
Try not stating you’re looking for an entry-level $30K/yr programmer with 30 years’ experience in a programming language that’s only been around for 12 years.
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