Posted on 02/12/2021 6:49:59 AM PST by NobleFree
A plurality of Democrats and liberals say the government should allow Fortune 500 CEOs to import white-collar visa workers for the good career jobs needed by U.S. college graduates, according to a February 9 poll by Rasmussen Reports.
In contrast, Republicans and swing-voters overwhelmingly prefer that CEO hire American graduates before importing more visa workers, according to the January 31 to February 4 survey of 1,250 likely voters. U.S. companies now employ at least 1 million foreign graduates instead of American gradautes.
The poll asked, “Should Congress increase the number of foreign workers taking higher-skill U.S. jobs or does the country already have enough talented people to train and recruit for most of those jobs?”
The electorate split 2-to-1 against a greater inflow of non-immigrant contract workers.
Sixty-one percent agreed that “The country already has enough talented people to train and recruit for most of those jobs,” while just 28 percent agreed with the call to “Increase the number of foreign workers taking higher-skill U.S. jobs.”
GOP voters split 78 percent to 14 percent against, and swing-voting “other” split 66 percent to 22 percent.
Conservatives split 74 percent to 19 percent, and “moderates” split 61 percent to 27 percent.
But more Democrats and liberals approved the corporate inflow than supported U.S. graduates.
Democrats split 45 percent for foreign hiring, but just 41 percent against the inflow. Liberals split 46 percent for CEOs’ preferences, to just 39 percent for hiring U.S. graduates.
[...] Many non-political graduates who vote Democratic do not see the danger posed by the Democratic-backed outsourcing machine, he added. “They don’t see it because they are not being sidelined right now: Eventually, they will be sidelined … But they honestly believe that their college degrees are going to save them.” [...]
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“Your name is Steve?”
Not just Democrats:
The Republicans who voted with all Democrats against a point of order to halt the expansion of work visas until employment reaches pre-Covid-19 levels were:
Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine
Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska
Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska
Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina
Sen. John Thune of South Dakota
Nebraska. What’s up with that? Rand? More backstabbing?
Sounds correct. More poverty is the goal and plan of power for the Democrats.
Not just for graduates, but for manual labor - import more unskilled illegal immigrants to displace and drive down the wages or eliminate the jobs entirely of legal immigrants and minorities to keep them poor.
The rest are simply whores of the corporate globalists; Paul is an ideological Free Traitor.
Too bad all the snotty, ‘woke’ grad students at the University will never read this. They always complain that there isn’t enough ‘grant money’ or job opportunities for them… AS IF the American taxpayers (their OWN moms and dads) aren’t being screwed enough!! They don’t GET IT, at all!
I thought all the people Biden is putting out of work need to learn to code. What is the point if they also want H1Bs to fill all those jobs.
Democrat answer: Yes, as long as they are "people of color" they should be given preference over Americans.
Playing devil’s advocate for the Fortune 500, have you seen what American Universities are pumping out? I would even rather hire someone right out of H.S. and train them myself.
Democrats are just obeying their masters who are billionaire elitist business owners who favor cheap foreign labor over American workers and contribute heavily to their party.
Not just Dems...
I don't think recent STEM graduates are anywhere near as bad as their non-STEM peers. And even if we do have a pipeline problem, there are millions of under- or unemployed American STEM graduates, so today's diploma-mill fictional-resume H-1Bs are merely suppressing American wages.
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