Posted on 03/25/2015 10:01:45 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
It's going to be hard for the Republicans to field a presidential candidate as enthusiastic about the H-1B visa as U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
Cruz, who announced his presidential bid this morning, once proposed an immediate increase in the base H-1B cap from 65,000 to 325,000. Cruz offered the H-1B increase as an amendment in 2013 to the Senate's comprehensive immigration bill.
[...] Cruz is part of large group of politicians who will not acknowledge the H-1B's visas use in offshore outsourcing or the reality of U.S. workers who are forced to train their visa-holding replacements. In defending this H-1B increase, Cruz cited a study by the American Enterprise Institute, which argued that visa workers create jobs. This organization primarily represents the views of large companies and asset management firms.
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
What Cruz said during his announcement Monday and since does not add up to one who thinks current immigration law should be enforced.
He says he opposes Obama’s illegal amnesty. What else, if anything, does he oppose concerning amnesty, illegal or legal?
Then he adds that he wants to streamline legal immigration and make it simple and something to celebrate. He almost sounds like he wants legal immigration to be so high that no one will have to come illegally because legal entry will be so easily available.
Ted is simply talking around the issue and providing few specifics. I’m afraid many will be very disappointed once his positions are fleshed out. Hope I’m wrong.
So let me see. If you were in the Senate you would attach your name to any old bill at all. If it was severely anti-Second Amendment, you’d just sign away. Is that about it?
Even if I thought there wasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell, I’d never put my name on a document that if by some miracle passed, I would look like the horses ass of the century.
I would have a very hard time voting for any idiot that would.
I don't know where you live, but in my world, I sadly see that a vast proportion of what is supposed to be "educated" today in America, is like cheap plastic. Requiring American companies to employ inferior quality workers, which is what all this visa stuff regarding high-tech workers has the potential of doing and I think Cruz sees it, is a bad thing.
I live in Southern California, a veritable hotbed of legal and illegal immigrants of every level, places to live on the super-cheap, and a thriving place for businesses and entrepreneurship, constantly active and churning. There are real villains, and there are real heros; it really boils down to personal morality.
I really do think a free marketplace can iron out many thorns, even moral thorns, such as "cheap corrupt big business." I do know that if I wanted to start a little business enterprise out of my home and employ a couple of willing teens, I would be so swiftly overwhelmed with onerous legislation and oversight that the venture would become a losing proposition. The teens go straight to college with zero work ethic installed. There's a disconnect between American workers and American businesses, maybe.
It’s the way companies can cheat to claim they “need” to hire H1b’s that’s the problem. Not the number of visas.
There’s a farmer near me that advertises farm jobs at good wages and only if he doesn’t have enough Americans taking the jobs can he hire immigrants.
Apparently the STEM process is not like that. The companies just lie.
So, I think STEM workers should see if Cruz, or any candidate, addresses the real issue.
This is from a dead amendment that is two years old.
Hold on now. You know as well as the rest of us that the MSM and every swingin liberal puke will attack Ted Cruz relentlessly.
Don’t believe what’cher hearin. Give it some time.
I’m gonna go out and research the owner of Computerworld. He will likely be a democrat Obozo supporter.
I take it you do not work in IT and therefore have not watched your friends, neighbors, members of your church, and your community put out of work, offered lower paying jobs, sometimes even asked to train their cheap foreign labor replacement. This is a BIG PROBLEM in IT and sorry you have no appreciation for it. Making fund of it, dismissing it as racism is a great liberal tactic. Don’t we have enough of that already without so-call conservatives doing the same. Maybe you fit right in with Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.
It’s the way companies can cheat to claim they “need” to hire H1b’s that’s the problem. Not the number of visas.
There’s a farmer near me that advertises farm jobs at good wages and only if he doesn’t have enough Americans taking the jobs can he hire immigrants.
Apparently the STEM process is not like that. The companies just lie.
So, I think STEM workers should see if Cruz, or any candidate, addresses the real issue.
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked : who can know it?
The need for this stems from a lack of qualified American workers. I teach at a Big Ten University and can tell you that very few of our college grads are getting “computer science” or “engineering” degrees. Most of them are taking the easy way out through college (e.g. Sociology, Marketing, Psychology) and frying their minds in Panama City for spring break! ;-(
Not so - only 1 in 2 U.S. STEM graduates gets a job in the STEM area. And many H-1Bs displace American workers - who have to train their replacements.
>>I’m gonna go out and research the owner of Computerworld. He will likely be a democrat Obozo supporter.<<
He’z dead.
Still looking to find political affiliations of CW editors and such.
This is old but it shows that companies do game the system to circumvent the laws on the books concerning H1b visas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR1Jke2NWTA
My husband is in IT and we know many unemployed who would be happy to find a ob.
“In fact, the nation graduates more than two times as many STEM students each year as find jobs in STEM fields. For the 180,000 or so openings annually, U.S. colleges and universities supply 500,000 graduates.” - http://issues.org/29-4/what-shortages-the-real-evidence-about-the-stem-workforce/
Why exactly do you care to know?
Because when you say something provocative, expect someone to be provoked into asking....
I’d like to give you the benefit of the doubt, but it came off as rather snarky (and I am being nice).
From your comments, it would seem to me that you assume that because anyone wants to delve into a candidate’s positions further, especially the preferred candidate for the time being, that person is being selfish or perhaps there is some sort of orchestrated agenda involved. If that is the case, I find that very small minded
As I stated in another post, it is because I am interested in Cruz that I am paying attention and seeking out information—and BTW, I don’t have to like everything I find. Eh,I have no interest in Jebster, so I don’t even bother about him. But I have been very disappointed in candidates before, and I am not going to blindly follow any politician, no matter how great they seem, without asking questions.
As posted on another thread, “So is there ANYONE who is running who is for the AMERICAN WORKERS?”
Yes, Senator Jeff Sessions, Alabama. He has been a stalwart on this issue. Sadly, a lone voice and not a candidate :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIxKa-k89Hk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je7GvO4eHnw
Run, Jeff, run!
Perhaps he would be tapped for a cabinet job—Dept. of Labor?
Anyway, for years he has been passionate on the issue of immigration—both legal and illegal, and I appreciate his perseverance and outspokenness!
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