Posted on 10/29/2020 5:24:00 AM PDT by PK1991
President Donald Trump has launched a fundamental reform of the H-1B visa system to protect American graduates from outsourcing — despite furious opposition from donors and leaders from Silicon Valley, Fortune 500 companies, and coastal investors.
The reform will end the annual award of 85,000 H-1B visas by lottery, which has been gamed by companies to import foreign workers at wages far below the salaries needed by American professionals. Instead, the visas will be offered to the companies that compete to offer the highest salaries, preventing employers from undercutting American graduates.
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First paycheck is X. Then 2 weeks later it is X - Y.
Otherwise, cultivate it from within or find it where it exists, here.
Here? Hear hear!!!
Why is it 85,000? Why not 1,000,000? If it’s such a good idea? Why have the cap at all?
In effect there is no cap since they never leave. Furthermore, there are other categories for blue collar, ag, restaurant workers, it goes on and one. They keep the categories broken up so it is hard to figure out just how many people we are talking about.
In the end, the effect is to keep wages artificially low.
Tighten the border, cut back or end the work visa programs, and you will never have any need for minimum wage laws. I’ve seen articles in the last year or so where farmers and restaurant owners were complaining they were having to pay higher wages because the borders were tightening... Which is a good thing. Work visas hurt American and legal immigrant labor. And not just stoop labor, high tech labor as well.
You can’t just kill it, because the H1-B program has led to fewer Americans being trained in technical and engineering areas, and fewer Americans being trained on the job with necessary technical skills. It’s going to take time to rebuild that.
For years we have been providing foreigners with extremely valuable education and training and ignoring development of our own young technical talent. This may help start turning that around.
Dubya is that you???
I'm talking about Trump's new rules, not what it has devolved into. I don't mind companies bidding to bring the top PhD semiconductor researcher from Japan at a very high salary. I didn't like that all the slots were used for things we would have the college interns do where I work. Use the H1B program to skim off the best of other countries and get them to work for us rather than another quarter million of their tech school grads.
I've said before that rather than a lottery H1Bs should be by bidding to drive up the costs or given to the employees so they can move around for higher pay rather than be stuck at a low paid ibdentured servitude.
You know what? At one time raising wages and a growing economy were considered good things. The end goal of public policy really. Our ancestors called it “prosperity”. What an odd concept.
“Big firms bring in lower paid Indian workers, force them to work like slave labor, selling the hours and pocketing the money.”
BINGO! While I was raising my young daughter, I worked in the aquatics department of a luxury health club here in central florida. Many of my students were Indians in the tech field (several big companies partnered with the gym, so their eployees got reduced rate memberships.)
Many of them worked for EA, but also Symantec, etc. They were all on H1B visas and as it turned out — most of them were making less than 35K a year, and especially at EA, were forced to work horrifying hours — and were often bullied into sleeping in their offices during “crunch” time.
I asked about getting hired as a tech writer at EA, and a handful of my students simply said, “You don’t want to work there.” Women and minorities were highly prized, but treated like slave labor.
However, my old white guy programmer brother — high six figures.
PDJT keeping another campaign promise. Should just go the whole way and restrict immigration to WASP’s only.
This great nation was at it’s best when immigration from all the euro /asian sh**holes was severely restricted.
Bull fukk1ng $h!t. Wages would zoom up like in the roaring 1990's and colleges, IT training schools would boom in response. Stop it with your anti free market BS.
That’s a really stupid comment
We can’t do enough to boost wages in this country. The constant downward pressure on wages for the last 20 years is what is the real cause in the major shift to the political left.
Yes, you can just kill it. I have personally seen the amount of training allocated to H1Bs. If any citizen had been brought in an trained in this manner, they would easily be capable of fulfilling the role. H1Bs is a conspiracy at best and an insult to all American citizen IT workers.
never Trumper Cuccinelli’
I just really want to know.
““There are many financial institutions in North Carolina that are abusing cheap labor and H-1Bs,” Jay Palmer, a civil rights activist who works with abused visa workers, told Breitbart News. He continued:
Charlotte, N.C., is the hotbed of visa fraud. They’re laying off American workers left and right because there is so much cheap [foreign] labor in North Carolina … They’re hiring anybody through third-party consulting companies, and they are paying them on 1099s [as gig workers] to work at the financial institutions. They’re replacing American workers such as risk managers and actuaries — any jobs they can fill with cheap labor. It’s horrible. You don’t even know how bad it is.”
I have been SCREAMING this on here for years. I work in risk management. For large banks. In Charlotte.
I good 1/4 to 1/3rd of the big office buildings for the banks are stuffed full of H1b Indians. Yes, it really is that high. I’m not exaggerating. No, its not just “tech” jobs. Its accounting, its audit its any job they can get away with claiming is somehow technical in nature....which is just about every job. You can’t get away from using information systems in practically every role nowadays. So they put some tech sounding title on the job and then bring in an H1b Indian who gets paid a good 40% less than an American. They do this as much as they can possibly get away with.
Not only does this mean young Americans do not get those jobs like they should, it also means there is a much smaller pool of American talent to promote to mid level and senior jobs at those banks since Americans couldn’t get started there to begin with. I have zero doubt it depresses wages for even mid level employees like me.
As an example, I finished a project about a year ago. There was 1 Turk, 1 African, 2 Chinese and 6 Indians on the project. I was one of only 2 Americans on it. Yes, TWO out of TWELVE of us were actual Americans.
As bad as all of this is, I can’t even begin to tell you how nuclear PO’d I was to see this practice during the Great Recession. There were millions of Americans including lots of highly qualified Americans out of work - some of them for years. And STILL the big banks were stuffed full of H1b Indian indentured servants. It was criminal.
Trump is the first president who has actually done something about it since this started about 25 years ago.
President Trump, still working for the American people, even while campaigning and not hiding in the basement.
“... wages far below the salaries needed by American professionals.”
As an American professional I need $200k per year. Elimination of H1B1 won’t be enough to get me there. Maybe we can have some government licensing requirements to weed out the unqualified and uneducated professionals as well. So nice to know my needs will be met.
Irregardless of H1B1 Visa workers, Americans, professional or not, do not get paid based on “need”. Nor are workers expected to work “according to their ability”. Their is a system for that.
If they are important and valuable enough to come and work then they should be offered citizenship. If not then no importing them.
The result is that Japan has a lot fewer H-1B workers, but those they have are almost always grateful to their host country for a splendid opportunity rather than resentful for being exploited.
Add a zero and I’m in.
>>despite furious opposition from donors and leaders from Silicon Valley, Fortune 500 companies, and coastal investors.
Billionaire Marxists who don’t want to pay fair wage to Americans and have openly LIED to Congress for decades about there not being sufficient technically skilled and college degreed and workforce experience Americans to do these jobs.
They have stifled wages for over 20 years and put the money in their own pockets rising to become among the very richest men in the world.
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