These were NOT government jobs, they were run through the state unemployment offices as we were considered the US employment system.
Posted on 06/09/2015 4:24:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
National Journal provides a look inside as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) attempts to convince key conservatives that he can unite the GOP:
[E]ight months out from the Iowa caucuses, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is closer to proving it can be done. Because after walking into a Tysons Corner hotel in May, the door closing behind him, Cruz delivered something none of his competitors could—a campaign plan that has persuaded some of the most influential conservatives in America that they might defeat the GOP establishment’s candidate for the first time in a generation.
This has been the stuff of dreams and schemes among conservative leaders since George W. Bush left the White House. Convinced that Republicans nominated a “moderate” in the past two presidential elections because the conservative vote was splintered—and certain that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Mitt Romney lost in November because the GOP base didn’t turn out—this clutch of right-wing activists wants desperately to prevent a third act. In conference calls, email chains, and private meetings across the country, they have plotted to accomplish in 2016 what they could not in 2008 or 2012: uniting behind a single candidate....
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Corporstions will take Cruz because he will help them get and keep cheap foreign labor with retention of illegals and increases in H1b visas. He is a corporist which is not compatible with true conservatism.
It is top priority to rid the country and our greedy corporations of the cheap labor Cruz is so willing to hand them. NO MORE CORPORISTS DISGUISED AS CONSERVATIVES. Don’t be fooled
Cruz had me fooled for a long time. Not now.
Bug off.
I worked at the state unemployment office for 15 years and we’d regularly get job orders doing just that, since it’s the law. Now maybe that has changed since I left, but I doubt it. Employers DO have to go through a procedure to make sure there are no qualified Americans. Some of them, of course, would write the position in such a way as to make sure there were no Americans that could qualify (proficient on the XYZ machine and speaks fluent Mandarin) but they did have to allow a search for a qualified US worker.
Whatever the rules may be for companies paying people to work on something they do for the government, there are plenty of jobs that are never advertised in the US and are then filled with people from overseas.
These were NOT government jobs, they were run through the state unemployment offices as we were considered the US employment system.
Ted Cruz Ping! Daily Digest Ted Cruz Ping! Thank you, SCP............
Argue the issue if you can. This is not an elementary school playground where one could expect a fourth grader to say “ bug off”. This is our beloved country and our fellow citizen”s and our descendant’s welfare.
“Any republican politician who rails against amnesty yet is pushing this H-1B crap while filling his campaign coffers with corporate cash is selling out American workers just the same.”
Name me one consistent anti-amnesty candidate? Cruz is the only one.
If he’s planning on bringing back manufacturing, we’ll need high tech workers - our education system has ensured we won’t get them from this country.
“The guy in Wisconsin who was actually FOR a path to citizenship (amnesty) and is now talking something about the American worker (no specifics of course)?”
That’s my problem with Walker. I wish he hadn’t been pro-amnesty. Having just escaped Mexifornia, I’ve seen firsthand how a state can be ruined by illegals.
Illegal immigration is destroying the country - much faster than legal immigration ever would.
“It is a noble position as opposed to the duplicitous act of railing against amnesty on one hand while grabbing corporate cash with your other hand in exchange for supporting the gross expansion of H-1B visas.”
I’d call being against amnesty, then for it, then against it right before deciding to run for president duplicitous. Certainly disingenuous.
Cruz is the only conservative running.
Actually, Jeb does not have the money. I saw a report today that when Jeb began his *game*, he had specific goals that should have been reached by now .. not happening.
Jeb’s crowd’s are very low (50-100); Jeb claims he will have $100 million soon .. but it’s not materializing.
Ted Cruz is having crowds of 500 and over; and Ted has a $41 million purse already.
But, all the stats say that Jeb is ahead of Cruz .. and I find that VERY VERY VERY HARD TO BELIEVE.
Praying Ted in.
Cruz is uniting movement conservatives, of all shades of emphasis.
The question is, is this the Reagan campaign of 1976?
Or 1980?
Cruz is running sixth in the polls. Fifth on a good day. For someone who is unifying movement conservatives, he sure isn’t drawing support. Selling out the middle class to the corporatists via TPA and voting for patriot act II will do that.
FR will be fun once the Donald announces. The anti free trade conservatives are a niche, but a sizeable one and none of the other gope candidates can be bothered to speak for them.
Employers DO have to go through a procedure to make sure there are no qualified Americans.
It’s plainly not effective enough, and the recent abuses of the H-1B visa program by companies in California which fired Americans to replace them with people hired on H-1B visas show that standing to sue is needed. Adding an extraneous Mandarin fluency requirement for a position which does not involve work in China ought to be the basis for the company losing such a suit.
“It is a noble position as opposed to the duplicitous act of railing against amnesty on one hand while grabbing corporate cash with your other hand in exchange for supporting the gross expansion of H-1B visas.”
This sounds nice and good, and I am definitely open to supporting Walker. What I don’t like though is claiming it is “duplicitous” to have maintained a consistent position against amnesty for illegals and a consistent position of advocating for an increase in LEGAL immigrant visas.
If you don’t agree with his position, just say so, and if that is your “hill to die on”, fine. But I fail to see how being consistently against amnesty and for reforming our legal immigration system is duplicitous.
I also fail to see the nobility in having advocated for a path to citizenship and now taking a general position of “protecting the American worker.” That, to me, seems inconsistent, especially since Gov Walker lays out no specifics about what he would do within the current immigration system to protect the American worker. As with many of his statements, they are so general they could mean just about anything.
I do appreciate your honesty in disclosing you are supporting Walker. Overall, he’s a good man and would make a fine POTUS. I just happen to prefer Cruz even though I may have a difference with him on H1B visas and one or two other issues.
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