“The H-1B is often used by companies to bring in guest workers who are trained by the Americans they wind up replacing. The most notorious example came earlier this year when Disney laid off 250 American IT workers this summer and had many of them train their incoming replacements.”
Laura Ingraham interviewed several of these Disney employees. Many were highly skilled and well paid employees, with children and high (California) mortgages to deal with. Many must have lost their homes. I hate these Disney TRAITORS with a passion. Record profits declared right before they did this too!
Here’s some info caught along the way.....
The problem isn’t H-1B workers stealing jobs from Americans, ... it’s the third-party consulting firms that are ‘stockpiling visas’ and outsourcing H-1B workers to large companies for low wages. Re-classifying them as “contractors” rather than pay the prevailing wage...
Tech giants like Microsoft, Facebook and Google repeatedly press for increases in the annual quotas, saying there are not enough Americans with the skills they need.....there are a limited number of the visas, 85,000, are granted each year, and they are in high demand.
Then there are three major ‘consulting companies’ that get a ton of H-1B visa workers and outsources them to companies at lower rates,” he said.
The US government grants 85,000 H-1Bs each year, setting aside 20,000 for people with advanced degrees.
“These firms are likely mis-classifying their workers’ prevailing wages by classifying them as low-level workers and paying them the lowest wage possible...They are ‘required to pay H-1B workers the ‘prevailing wage’ pay based on their job classification....... If the H-1Bs are being handled coreectly there isn’t a problem, it’s when they classify the hibs as “contractors”, then that changes the equation entirely to a lower wage.
San Francisco Bay Area employs the lion’s share of H-1B workers.
According to a report from the Brookings Institute
Silicon Valley ranks highest in “H-1B intensity,” with a reported 17 foreign workers sought for every 1,000 people in the workforce.....
60 percent of H-1B workers in the San Francisco-East Bay region work in computer occupations. The second largest group are engineers. Financial specialists, scientists and healthcare professionals follow suit.