Posted on 06/13/2015 2:55:10 PM PDT by z taxman
WASHINGTON, DC: When it comes to increasing skilled workers on H-1B visas, one could say presidential candidate Ted Cruz is a bit of a black sheep amongst the GOP.The Republican presidential candidate wants to increase the H-1B visas by 500 percent from its 65,000 to 325,000.
Cruz, who announced his run for the Oval office this morning, had made the proposition in 2013 as an amendment to the Senate’s comprehensive immigration bill.While the Senate’s Judiciary Committee torpedoed Cruz’s amendment, they did approve an increase of 180,000 in the H-1B cap, but the House never acted on the legislation.It’s not clear if Cruz had only the base 65,000 H-1B visas for skilled workers from around the globe to emigrate to the US in mind, and he didn’t want to include the 20,000 other H-1B visas which are allocated especially for students who graduate from universities in the US.
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Im sure the seven digits included the two after the decimal point.
Do all of you people really believe every single thing you read on the internets? Sheesh.
Because the top laboratories and universities can’t fill slots with the right quality engineers and scientists. And we’re not talking about IT workers from India. We are talking about top notch talent that is genetic.
It’s no different than the Portland Trailblazers recruiting some 7 foot tall Russian who throws consistent swishes from the half court line.
Until you have seen and worked alongside top notch scientific talent, you cannot know what the real intent is. Instead you are fixated on the ABUSES and you jump wrongly to a conclusion that Ted Cruz is going to expand on the ABUSES. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Same with TPA, President Cruz with TPA at his back is going to allow for surplus of the oil glut to be exported and the enormous ENORMOUS surplus in NG production (which is flared and wasted) to be exported as LNG thereby creating millions of jobs for industries that are predominately run and worked by persons of conservative principles. The democrats will never empower these sectors because they are run and worked by people that vote conservative. And this is why Ted’s Texan constituents put the heat on him to get TPA now because it’s now or never. And Ted also does NOT support TPP/TISA/TTIP and other trade deals (TPA is not a trade deal; it is an authorization). And the anti-Cruz idiots are not informed enough to see the bigger picture.
The things that are being voted on like TPA and H1B are NOT the problem, it is the person in the White House that is the problem.
Ted as President with TPA or H1B is GOOD for America.
Hillary as President with TPA or H1B is BAD for America.
Simple as that.
Who's running for the GOP nomination with this moratorium in his/her platform?
It was pay for performance (wage was low) so I made way more than most Americans doing the same job.
No rational posts allowed today.
Have you not heard?
The average H1B ‘er is not Tesla or Einstein, thanks. Or even remotely close.
No, if you count the cents I made 9 digits.
That's just the kind of place this is.
You could have a cross between Coolidge, Churchill, Reagan, and Patton in the GOP field, and he wouldn't be nearly good enough for some of our keyboard warriors.
We had a near moratorium for nearly 50 years until teddy kennedy let the cat out of the bag in the 70s.
Life was pretty good and getting better until then.
ted cruise has lost my vote.... I would have no problem with the work program if it was not for the fact that it is used drive down wages rather then getting needed talent. we need to change the program so that a company only uses the work program when trying to hirer a us citizen fails my suggestion would be to sell the visas to the business at a prohibitive cost and if the government does this have no limit to how many visas can be sold the expense in a company get6ting a visa can limit it.
Make it forever. We have enough trash to clean up here already.
Our betters want the middle class to be in constant turmoil. They think it is fun to watch us scurry.
“Shut down the H1b and then you will see many American industries go overseas.”
Why? I can tell you why. American industries move overseas because they don’t want to pay Americans when foreigners will do the job for less than half the money for the same job.
H1B is not about worker availability. It is about money. Why do you think so many companies use call centers in India? Because they speak fluent English and can quickly solve your problems? No, they do it because they can save a ton of money at the expense of good service. So they provide a marginal service for next to nothing.
As long as they occupy this country legally I’m in favor of it, until they try to change the laws to benefit only themselves.
I’m afraid my wishes are too late because the democrats found a way to bypass any possibility of legality long ago.
I can’t support Cruz if he sticks to this. The GOP needs to stop with this and start passing tax cuts for corporations based on how many US Citizens they hire and the percentage of manufacturing they do in the United States.
Yeah, right.
I have been a Ted Cruz supporter. Look up my posting history. But this approach to the H1b program seems wrong to me. I watched his own defense of it here, from the debate back in 2013:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHlGlNwsQb0
I think his premise is wrong. The relationship of the STEM workforce to the STEM marketplace is actually pretty complex. See this article:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth
So just assuming that pulling in the full range of persons remotely qualifying as STEM and just hoping it supercharges the economy because *some* STEM intake has had that effect, seems to be questionable logic.
I want to continue to support Cruz, and despite this issue, I still prefer him overall to the others. But I think his campaign is going to have to deal with this at some point. It isn’t enough to tell people they are just wrong, and don’t understand. The abuse of the H1b system is NOT a function of who is president, as you suggest, Hostage. It is structural to the program itself. The abuse is there because market forces are driving it.
The true solution has to be to innovate a system that is naturally resistant to such abuses as the defining down of what a STEM worker is, and what exactly does it mean that “no American worker is available” for the position. I don’t propose to have the answers myself. But I do expect a presidential candidate or one of his advisors to be able to come up with something that has a chance of working in the real world and doesn’t alienate an entire demographic unnecessarily.
Peace,
SR
Threats? That’s all you’ve got? Sounds Soviet to me.
We the People have every right to be concerned and debate what our politicians are pushing.
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