Posted on 04/23/2018 5:52:20 PM PDT by davikkm
President Donald Trump’s deputies are planning to shrink the H-1B program and force companies to pay higher wages to American graduates, according to a document from the Department of Homeland Security. The huge H-1B outsourcing program — which now keeps a population of at least 460,000 non-immigrant foreign graduates in U.S. professional jobs — would be shrunk by narrowing the law’s definition of “specialty occupations,” according to the agency document provided to Breitbart News.
The proposed change is huge, said Rosemary Jenks, policy director at NumbersUSA. “If Trump can get done what is in that letter, I think it will be a huge motivator for American high-tech workers to come out and vote” in November, she said.
Polls suggest the H-1B program is very unpopular. An August 2017 poll reported that 68 percent of Americans oppose companies’ use of H-1Bs to outsource U.S.-based jobs that could be held by Americans.
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Gotta Love Trump...every move the dems make or have made...Trump continues to jerk the rug out from under um.....lmmfao
Just end it!!! And send all home, end spouse permits. Terminate everyone.
This has held salaries of top American software developers down. I work at a Wall Street bank and raises for the last decade run less than 1% per year. For programmers in their late 50’s you are stuck. No one else will hire you and you need the benefits.
While I favor stronger restrictions on bringing in the cheaper foreign labor, it really won’t accomplish much since the big tech companies can easily and fairly cheaply move the jobs to India or China or some other third world country.
Great news. Unfortunately it is extremely popular with the political donor class and therefore the uni-party is going to resist this proposal with everything they’ve got.
“While I favor stronger restrictions on bringing in the cheaper foreign labor, it really won’t accomplish much since the big tech companies can easily and fairly cheaply move the jobs to India or China or some other third world country.”
Then let them. It ain’t the financial benefit, which is why they moved back here. That, and we can stop the importation of said software.
They have it backwards. Companies should be forced to pay the H1Bs more. Much more. That will take away the incentive to hire them over Americans.
100% surcharge, used to fund engineering students.
Then put tariffs on their stuff! Problem solved.
I know State Street Bank some years back moved a huge portion of their IT development to Hangzhou, China. Many others are eager to do the same.
If that is their intent it is better for them to follow the labor they want rather than vice versa.
Why the Department of Homeland Security... that should be about things like terrorists and even illegal immigrants.
I would think that this should be under Commerce.
H1B bump for later.....
Offshoring has checkered results. Some of foreign folks employed are quite bright. Some large foreign outsourcing firms are catching up in technology quite well.
But others are trouble waiting to happen.
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Under Obama, immigration became terror in a very real way.
Its only superficially ‘commerce.’
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But Donald Trump is the president now. I have no earthly idea why you are dragging in an outdated situation except to sound so clever.
About time. Each H1-B job authorization should have a tariff of 1 million dollars a year.
Easy enough to say until you start losing jobs because your position is offshored. Let that happen to you when you are near 60 and see how you feel about it then.
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