Posted on 08/03/2015 5:28:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The H-1B program has become an arrangement through which well-connected companies can save cash by betraying qualified American workers. An immigration system and a government that facilitates such a scheme is broken, indeed.
Well summarized.
Bernie Sanders and DU libs agree
They wear shoes, too - does that mean conservatives shouldn't?
Its none of business if you want to vote for Sanders.
What a feeble dodge.
Something about Marxists running for office turns me off, even if they talk loud.
oh- thank you!
If it is IT department then sell their stock now..
I have made a career out of fixing software that was previously outsource to overseas
I agree with you 100%
It USED TO BE productive, when we obtained their best and brightest. But the brain drain is long since complete.
Now they give out degrees with cereal boz tops over there. I would not even go to a younger doctor that came from there.
When you plant them they grow.
Bernie Sanders and DU libs agree
Bernie Sanders opposes TPP - does that mean conservatives must support it?
On this issue Ted is like every other politician. He has to thread the needle to satisfy his big money donors who support H-1B visas and pacify the conservative base who is against it. In other words he’ll occupy the “middle” ground here.
When Cruz and Sanders take opposite sides on an issue, its time do a sanity check when you side with Sanders,
Why The Donald is on top of the polls - people are genuinely sick of 'like every other politician.'
Although the political sympathies of the author should be praised, he has failed to do even the most basic research on the subject of immigration.
First, he does not seem to understand that “legal immigration” is not the same thing as a H-1B temporary work visa.
Second, he has been tricked, like tens of millions of other Americans, into believing that the H-1B visa quota is 65,000.
Actually, the quota is 85,000 - per year. Automatically renewable for six years! So that's 510,000 H-1Bs right there.
Plus, universities, government agencies, and non-profit labs can hire an unlimited number of H-1Bs that do not count against the quota. And those visas can be renewable up to 10 years. How many H-1Bs do they employ? No one knows, because there are no centralized records!
Plus, there are at least 100,000 more work visas disguised as “Student” or “Travel” or “Training” visas.
Anyway - I'm still glad this guy wrote the article.
He works for National Review, which has been quietly pro-Amnesty, pro-massive legal immigration, and pro-massive work visas for the last ten years, so this is a little good news, for a change.
Prior to the H-1B, there was the H-1 visa (1952) which was mandated to be temporary.
When the H-1B visa was created in 1990, the 1952 requirement that the visa was temporary was removed. H-1B became a dual-intent visa which allowed the foreign worker to remain in the U.S. while applying for permanent residency (green card). Politicians and pundits said that H-1B was temporary their intent to make it a permanent visa was very clear
A Legislative History of H-1B and Other Immigrant Work Visas
http://web.archive.org/web/20140116160804/http://www.zazona.com/shameh1b/H1BHistory.htm
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