“...like Cruz supporting 500% increase in H1B until just a few weeks ago...”
Well for one thing, the nation *does* need legal H1B visa’s for the tech industry because American kids are stuck-on-stupid majoring in something like “non-profit-clothing-design” or “transnational-gender-equality-studies” and their supposedly American parents support them!! Somewhere in each of our extended families, we likely have one or more kids committing suicide with their (and our) futures doing this same crap.
So there are a crap-ton of *needed* H1B visa’s working in the tech sector and they are most certainly *not* day-labor cheap. The contracts I’ve worked on do not specify a different pay-scale for H1B vs US Citizen and the H1B’s are about as evenly skilled and capable as their US Citizen colleagues. My biggest prob working with them is the language barrier, not their work ethic or skills. That’s just my personal, first-hand observation.
So, if we want to eliminate H1B’s, we will have to slowly wean the tech sector off them by taking some personal responsibility and firmly guiding our children onto learning paths that are actually in demand that can replace the need for H1B’s AND away from the current trend towards a four-year college “adult-day-care” program which tends to render the rest of their adult life on welfare, blogging at the local coffee shop where they can mooch free WiFi.
Don’t vote for Cruz if you don’t like him for whatever reason you may have. There are things about each candidate that are anywhere from unattractive-to-detestable in a given person’s eyes and that goes for everyone from Trump on down. But you should also refrain from dinging any candidate on a topic until you have a solid understanding of the topic. Don’t just parrot some news headline or article you read somewhere because you then risk allowing the media to use you to further *their* narrative.
You are way off base. I work in IT for the past nearly 35 years and can tell you without any hesitation that there is absolutely no shortage of Americans for IT jobs in the US and there is absolutely no need for any H1B. H1B is simply a way to suppress wages by importing cheap foreign labor.
There is a shortage of IT workers in the USA the below market wages we want to pay. The laws of supply and demand are for you not for the establishment.
There’s no fix to the HIB’S until you fix the Company heads “Abuse” of them...
Ted Cruz has addressed this time and again.....the problem isn’t the visas....it’s companies not following the laws established to hire American workers first by tactical loopholes they use to sidestep the law.....