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.
* Don’t see that he has any executive experience
* Doesn’t have much in the way of legislative experience
* Didn’t think much of the filibuster tactic
* More H1-B’s is not good
* Not a huge fan of lawyers as leaders
* Wife’s employment at Goldman-Sachs is problematical
He has lots of plus’s, though.
And I don’t have a better candidate in mind. For sure these guys are way worse:
* Jeb, Mitt, Christie, Lindsey
Worse:
* Carson, Newt, Trump
And these guys are a little worse:
* Ryan, Rubio, Jindal, Boulton,
Trending worse:
* Rand
which leaves some “need to know more about”
I never thought I was stating something untrue. Remember the definition of lying.
I can tell you now defending Cruz was the reason for every one of my posts. This tells us you’re doing exactly the same as what you’re accusing me of.
If you’re really in favor of Cruz—which has been independently attested to—then we really have no beef. Unless there’s more to your story that you’re not telling
I knew it. He came out of the immigration closet. Phony BS’er.
That will make me feel better when I am unemployed or have to work for half my current salary. So f-ing shrewd. Not every Freeper is retired and in the peanut gallery, some if us are still on the playing field.
Let’s target your profession with an H1B visa program. Then you can tell me how great it is.
We need to import millions of “legal” religious leaders everyone knows there is a shortage and all clergy is overpaid anyway.
Jarhead is right, leave him alone you fool.
Not enough to oppose Cruz for President.
Cruz is a phony loser in the pocket of K-Street money men. Pass it on.
Your post is the kind I’m suspicious of.
You claim you don’t like what Cruz said two years ago on a single issue, but your comments try to take him out completely.
Hey what do you do for a living? Maybe we can target your livelihood with an H1B visa program. Sounds good doesn’t it?
If something should not even be discussed, there’s no way to learn about it.
How about we target something in your life?
Go go go!
At least it will not be illegals. But, in our system there will never be a shortage of religious workers.
ANYONE can hang out a shingle.
When somebody says “there’s no debate” it means they’re not interested in genuine exchange of ideas.
This is the way communists operate, because they can’t win on ideas.
Here is how I shut them up. Ask them what is their career field and then ask them if they want a legal system to import foreigners to compete with them and lower their standard of living.
You might be able to come up with an argument against this idea on immigration Cruz had two years ago.
But when you try to say he’s “phony” that tells me you have a hidden agenda.
There you go with your continued troll like sleaziness rather than an apology, you pulled that anti-Cruz nonsense out of thin air to cover for your liberal pro-immigration arguments.
You are a very dishonest little troll.
No wonder you are so supportive of the democrats immigration.
But unemployed IT people do.
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