Posted on 09/18/2015 4:49:09 PM PDT by VinL
equal wages for H1b visa holders (which negates the advantage in hiring them) and serious penalties for for those who hire H1b visas holders when there are qualified Americans available and seeking those jobs.Regardless of how anyone feels about H1B visas, that sounds like wage controls and manipulating the hiring practices of private companies...
And you claiming to be all conservative all the time is on board with it.
The ruling class is importing a new people - one with no concept whatsover of a "rambunctious middle class."
“The ruling class is importing a new people - one with no concept what so ever of a “rambunctious middle class.”
Besides being instant voters, they displace American workers, a lot of blacks, and they obey their new slave masters.
We don’t listen the ruling class and support Trump and Cruz and tell the ruling class, “Go to Hell!”.
Cute. But that’s to be expected from metrosexuals like yourself.
We need a ‘wise’ President, just like we needed a ‘Wise Latina’ in the Supreme Court.
The current situation requires a Chief Executive who knows what needs to be done and the guts to get it done.
Some remedial reading in American history would help you out here. Get back to me then.
You said nothing to justify that. I thought something that obviously wasn’t.
I apologize. It will not happen again I can assure you.
Pin-a-ling! Thanks :)
I love Ted Cruz, but the Cruz pings are getting annoying, please take me off this list.
Sure thing FRIend.
I think that Cruz is looking at the big picture..... what Europe is implementing in regards to how this nation ‘needs’ to be positioned to be competitive regarding human capital....which would include H-1BS.
lOOK WHAT’S COMING ...ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK....
TTIP...ALERT!..........
New Investment ‘Court’ System for TTIP and other EU trade & investment negotiations....INCLUDES USA.
Establishment of a new court system composed of:
a Tribunal of First Instance (“Investment Tribunal”) .........with 15 publicly appointed judges
an Appeal Tribunal with :
6 publicly appointed members
five EU nationals
five US nationals
five nationals of third countries.
(These judges would be the only ones to hear disputes under TTIP.)
The judges would have very high technical and legal qualifications, comparable to those required for the members of permanent international courts such as the International Court of Justice and the WTO Appellate Body.....
.....Disputes under TTIP would be allocated randomly, so disputing parties would have no influence on which of the three judges will be hearing a particular case......
.....This is a fundamental change compared to the old ISDS system which operates on an ad hoc basis with arbitrators chosen by the disputing parties.
Taken together, the elements proposed for the operation of the Investment Tribunal, are an effective way to insulate judges from any real or perceived risk of bias.
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-15-5652_en.htm
I think that Cruz is looking at the big picture..... what Europe is implementing in regards to how this nation ‘needs’ to be positioned to be competitive regarding human capital....which would include H-1BS.
lOOK WHAT’S COMING ...ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK....
TTIP...ALERT!..........
New Investment ‘Court’ System for TTIP and other EU trade & investment negotiations....INCLUDES USA.
Establishment of a new court system composed of:
a Tribunal of First Instance (“Investment Tribunal”) .........with 15 publicly appointed judges
an Appeal Tribunal with :
6 publicly appointed members
five EU nationals
five US nationals
five nationals of third countries.
(These judges would be the only ones to hear disputes under TTIP.)
The judges would have very high technical and legal qualifications, comparable to those required for the members of permanent international courts such as the International Court of Justice and the WTO Appellate Body.....
.....Disputes under TTIP would be allocated randomly, so disputing parties would have no influence on which of the three judges will be hearing a particular case......
.....This is a fundamental change compared to the old ISDS system which operates on an ad hoc basis with arbitrators chosen by the disputing parties.
Taken together, the elements proposed for the operation of the Investment Tribunal, are an effective way to insulate judges from any real or perceived risk of bias.
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-15-5652_en.htm
They treat us like mushrooms, keep us in the dark and sprinkle us with horse poop.
Thank you so much, erod, for alerting me to all these articles about Cruz. I cannot get enough info about him.
The H-1B visa program if run as it was designed, means that employers cannot displace or replace american employees. Employers would have needed to get certified that qualified americans are not available for the job. Originally when this visa program started, it was pretty hard to get this labor certification. The foreign worker would have to be exceptional with unique skill sets to be able to get the approval. Then crony capitalist corrupt republican politicians and democrats subverted the law in favor of corrupt corporations.
Ted Cruz is for the rule of law... not to hand favors to corrupt cronies, like a whole lot of republicans. Another reason gop-e politicians and their supporters are trying to prevent Ted from winning. The gravy train will end.
You are very, very welcome! It’s a high-volume ping list I try to imitate what So-Con Pubbie was doing so it is a high volume ping list. ;)
Whatever happened to SoCon? I hope he/she is alright.
You are doing a fabulous job.
Regards
I have worked on the immigration issue for nine years as part of a grassroots immigration group that lobbies on the Hill. I know more about the immigration issue than you or Ted Cruz. I also know how politicians use the language to disguise their positions and fool the gullible and uninformed. You appear to be one of them.
The H-1B visa program if run as it was designed, means that employers cannot displace or replace american employees. Employers would have needed to get certified that qualified americans are not available for the job. Originally when this visa program started, it was pretty hard to get this labor certification. The foreign worker would have to be exceptional with unique skill sets to be able to get the approval. Then crony capitalist corrupt republican politicians and democrats subverted the law in favor of corrupt corporations.
The H-1B visa program is totally corrupt and the law governing it needs to be changed. If it is run as designed, it is still weighted in favor of bringing in low wage foreign workers to take American jobs and depress wages. Like so many of our laws, the H-1B visa legislation was crafted by special interests.
The first problem in the system is that the employer determines the prevailing wage and the employer can use nearly any source for that determination. Prior to 2005, employers used this combined with the restrictions on enforcement to pay H-1B workers low wages. However, in 2004 Congress explicitly changed the law to allow employers to pay H-1B workers absurdly low wages.
Pettifoggers will tell you that H-1B workers are required to be paid the higher of the prevailing wage or the wage paid to similar workers. And golly gee willikers, it says just that right at the top of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(n)(1). That's enough information for the willful ignorami writing the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
But if you look at 8 U.S.C. § 1101(p)(4). There you will find that the Department of Labor is required to take an existing wage survey and divide it into four skill level prevailing wages. Notice there is no requirement that the employer pay the H-1B worker at his skill level. Even if there were such a requirement, it would be unenforceable because skill is a subjective measure.
Under this system, employers classify
52 percent of H-1B workers at the lowest skill level, where they command a wage at the 17th percentile for the occupation and location.
30 percent at the next lowest skill level, where they command a wage at the 34th percentile.
12 percent at the next skill level, where they command the median (or actual prevailing wage).
6 percent at the highest skill level, where they command a wage at the 67th percentile.
Notice that H-1B workers are "highly skilled" when industry wants more of them, but those very same workers become low-skilled when determining what they have to be paid.
Also notice that if the H-1B program excluded aliens paid less than the actual prevailing wage, the quota would not come close to being reached.
For example, in Silicon Valley the prevailing wage for a programmer is $93,891. However, an employer can legally pay an H-1B worker $57,179. An employer can save $36,000 a year by going H-1B. It is no wonder that H-1B workers are concentrated in high-wage locations of the country.
And Obama has now thru Executive Order allowed the spouses of H-1B holders to work as well essentially doubling the numbers.
Ted Cruz is for the rule of law... not to hand favors to corrupt cronies, like a whole lot of republicans. Another reason gop-e politicians and their supporters are trying to prevent Ted from winning. The gravy train will end.
Ted Cruz wants to drastically increase the number of H-1B visas and lift the country caps on immigration for Mexico, China, and India. He tried to amend the Gang of 8 bill to do it.
The H-1B program was created 25 years ago. Since then, Congress has expanded the program and made it easier to abuse. In all that time, Congress has done nothing, zero, zip, nada to address abuse. Cruz is part of the problem. He responds to his corporate paymasters.
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