Posted on 01/20/2015 4:24:14 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Offers amendment to increase H-1B visas to help improve, retain high-skilled labor force
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) today presented an amendment to the Gang of Eight immigration bill that would improve our nation’s legal immigration system by increasing high-skilled temporary worker visas, called H-1B visas, by 500 percent. The measure would effectively address the needs of our nation’s high-skilled workforce by helping meet the growing demand for workers in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. It will also make block grants available to states to promote STEM education efforts and increase domestic STEM professionals. The committee voted against the amendment 4 to 14 with every Democrat voting against it on a party-line vote.
Legal immigration is a fundamental pillar of our nation's heritage, and I was pleased today to offer legislation that would have improved and expanded legal immigration by dramatically increasing the cap for high-tech temporary worker visas. This amendment would not only improve the current system, but would also encourage economic growth and create new jobs in America. There is currently a serious shortage of workers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math, yet every year we send thousands of high-tech graduate students back to their home countries to start businesses and create jobs. This makes no sense. I’m disappointed in the committee’s vote to reject expanding high-tech immigration. Although the Gang of Eight's bill makes a modest step towards improving high-tech immigration, it does not go nearly far enough. There is no reason to arbitrarily cap high-tech visas at 110,000 when these jobs are going unfilled. We need economic growth here and now.”
Sen. Cruz’s amendment would:
Immediately increase the H-1B cap by 500 percent from 65,000 to 325,000.
• To truly fix our broken immigration system and take into account our nation’s economic needs, we must put more emphasis on increasing employment-based immigration. (EEE's comments in red - No mention of reducing the size, scope, and power of Fedzilla, which would unleash jobs on its own). There is a current shortage of qualified high-skilled workers in the U.S., with an estimated 230,000 advanced-degree STEM jobs going unfilled by 2018. Shortage caused by the feds sticking their grimy paws in the economy and picking winners and losers.
• Additionally, more H-1B workers mean more jobs for American workers – according to a study by the American Enterprise Institute, for every additional 100 H-1B workers, 183 jobs are created for U.S. citizens. How? What was this study based on and who funded it?
Help retain the high-skilled workers that are trained in the U.S. by allowing “dual intent.” What exactly is this?
• This would allow foreign students at U.S. colleges and universities to enter the U.S. on a temporary H-1B visa if they intend to get a Green Card once they complete their studies. This is Roman-style suicide for any nation
• Currently, about 300,000 students come to America annually to be educated, but are required to return home upon completing their education. Why can't they get edumacated in their own crapholes and improve their country's way of life?
Create block grants for states to promote STEM education in their public schools by raising H-1B fees. More borrowing and spending that we can't afford. I thought Cruz was a fiscal conservative?
• These block grants will encourage educating our children in these high demand fields, opening more doors of opportunity to future generations. According to the Joint Economic Committee, between 2010 and 2020, demand for STEM graduates is expected to grow by 17 percent, while employment for those graduates will increase only 14 percent, partly because American graduates are not available or qualified to fill these jobs.
• The block grant program would be funded by raising H-1B fees from $750 to $1,250 for businesses with fewer than 25 employees, and from $1,500 to $2,500 for those with 25 or more employees.
That’s a fifty year time span.
Cruz puts his foot in it. Not good.
Deflection you fraud.
Anyone who champions massive LEGAL third world immigrants coming to the States & voting 80% democrat (which they do) is no conservative.
First generation immigrants don’t affect the culture. Their kids and grandkids do.
And their kids and grandkids take on the values of the culture already in place.
Changes in American values come directly from Hollywood and the system of public education.
If you want to complain about the loss of American culture and values, reflect a while on where this problem originates.
Hint: I’ve already mentioned it.
40% off illegals in the country over stayed their visas.
I want LEGAL immigration reduced. Americans have a right to control their future. We have already exposed you saying “legal immigration was a drop in the bucket” which is untrue.
Anyone, like you, who champions the current immigration wave knowing that they vote 80% for the political left has no credibility.
LOL, 100% true, legal immigration is killing us and destroyed us, we import about a million a year.
We wouldn’t have a problem with illegals if the 1965 Immigration Act had not been passed, the democrat party needed that to win the elections and make the laws, and then to import millions of more voters and their offspring.
The vote changes our culture, and the left doesn’t win elections without JFK’s immigration that the democrats passed on his death.
Maybe you don’t understand the metaphor “drop in the bucket.”
It shows relative size when one thing is very small compared to something else that’s very large.
Illegal immigration = very large problem.
Legal immigration = very small problem.
clusters of third world (hundreds of thousands) “refugees” - definite problem
The left wins with dead people voting and other kinds of cheating.
You’re trying to create a problem that’s nonexistent.
It’s not working.
Focus.
You’re letting communists fool you. They’re trying to create a non issue to hurt Ted Cruz.
Notice this was never an issue until one of these trolls dug up this old article?
I say we’re not dead yet.
You keep pushing the idea you want us dead.
Say no more.
You are spewing nonsense for some weird immigration agenda that you have.
The left wins because they passed a law in 1965 to replace the American voters.
“However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy. Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s.
In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960.
In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin.
After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.” Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.”
I say we’re not dead yet.
You keep pushing the idea you want us dead.
Say no more, your agenda is clear.
You’re a joke.
Go do some research on the effects of the media on culture. Then spend a few weeks reading about the public school system.
All this crying about legal immigration started with this thread started by some anti Cruz troll.
It’s a non issue.
Why don’t you sober up and look at some voting data, in the meanwhile, why don’t you tell us what your obsession with more immigration is about.
Suddenly all you trolls came out of nowhere and started attacking me. It’s not working, you’re making it obvious all you want to do is create an issue out of a non issue so Cruz doesn’t win.
Illegal immigration was never an issue. Get it now?
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