Posted on 08/17/2020 11:14:48 AM PDT by NobleFree
Over the weekend, it was reported that the Department of Homeland Security has run a second H-1B visa lottery for the apparent reason that "the agency did not receive enough applications for individuals selected in the first round" according to an article, partially behind a paywall, at Law360.
The article quotes a USCIS spokesperson as saying "additional registrations needed to be selected to reach the numerical allocations." No details were offered on which companies had lost interest in the program, or the size of the "shortfall".
In other words, the government is taking every possible step to make sure that every one of the visas will be used, which, in turn, will maximize the number of jobs lost by U.S. workers.
What the government might have done — a subject the Law360 article avoids — is to decide that it had made a good faith effort to allocate the over-subscribed visa process among competing employers and to give the suddenly uninterested employers the rest of the year to use or not use the lottery winnings.
Or it could have decided to eliminate the visas not picked up by employers and let U.S. workers have those jobs should the need to hire someone arise.
Or it could have decided to do nothing.
But no, it decided it has to make sure that the 85,000 ceiling on new H-1B workers is not just a ceiling, it is a floor as well.
It's like a parent saying to an obese child who loves chocolate cookies, "you can only have six of them a day — and you must eat every one of them."
We have requested more information from the USCIS press office, but have not heard from them as of this writing.
Scott Adams had a relevant Dilbert.
Predicted 3 accidents for the year.
Only had one.
Needed two more before the end of the year to meet the goal.
Deep Staters in DHS doing every micro-damage to Americans that they can get away with! I wish Trump’s political appointees would do more to rein these highly paid professional Quislings in.
I was thinking that if this is true, it has to be rogues. I cant see how this comes to be given the administrations stance on hiring American right now.
In their defense the dumb-ass law likely dictates they must do this.
President Trump suspended H-1B’s.
The gubbamint of da US of India makin’ sure Whitey be losin his job!
Cuz White Man Bad, India Man Bettah
I doubt it - the folks at CIS know their immigration law yet made no mention of such a requirement.
“President Trump suspended H-1B’s.”
With vague exceptions: https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3874396/posts
Apparently some Swamp Rats have not gotten the message.
Time to fire them.
Trump should call the head of DHS into his office and fire his ass. Furthermore, he should send out a notice to senior members of his administration to stop doing stupid shit like this... or You’re FIRED.
Yes, he should.
“Cuz White Man Bad, India Man Bettah”
And Indian-American VP Great!
Trump should demote him to a Podunk, ND office staffed only by H1b workers.
I'm thinking the President should start replacing heads of useless departments with H1Bs, and I mean the most marblemouthed, fresh out of a diploma mill, noncompetents he can find. Can't be worse that what's there already.
With most IT workers working from home now, there is no need for in person H1Bs because people do not want to move to California or New York City to work. My company used to have the dumbest rules. Midwest locations had to charge the same rates as Cali and New York because it was not fair. But would also bring in H1Bs.
Yup.
She’s the H1B Overlord.
Good to know we’ll be ruled by a skank who thinks she’s Upper Caste and the rest of us are Dalits.
“President Trump suspended H-1B’s.”
With vague exceptions:
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If there are ANY exceptions the Deep Staters will drive never-ending trains through the opening.
I cant wait to wake up one morning and find out that the Indians, who have control of 80% of Walmart’s computer systems, have changed all of the database passwords and are demanding 51% of Walmart’s stock.
Replace the name Walmart in the above sentence, with the name of just about any large American organization (including your hospital or bank and so forth) and you get the idea.
“...the Indians, who have control of 80% of...”
As for Indian coders: Google? Microsoft? Facebook? Apple? Twitter? Smartphone apps?
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