Posted on 12/08/2018 8:17:02 PM PST by RightGeek
Internet billionaire Marc Benioff is urging the GOP Congress and President Donald Trump to fast-track 400,000 foreign visa-workers — plus 400,000 family members — to green cards, the U.S. job market, and the ballot box.
“This is good for our economy,” Benioff said in a Tuesday tweet that was applauded by Silicon Valley lobbyists. “We need to grow our workers to grow our economy.”
Benioff’s comment is a tautology: Expanding the population by importing more than 800,000 people would obviously grow the nation’s economy, retail sales, government taxes, company profits, and Wall Street stock options.
But Benioff’s cheap-labor importation plan would also shrink the income and careers sought by millions of American college graduates, many of whom will vote in 2020 for or against Trump.
The planned giveaway is in a pending House bill, dubbed H.R. 392. It is also hidden in the House version of the 2019 funding package for the Department of Homeland Security. If Trump accepts that funding package, he will help companies import more cheap visa-workers from India and China an inflict more economic and career damage to the nation’s professional-status workforce of at least 55 million American college-graduates.
The nation’s workforce now includes roughly 1.5 million foreign college-graduate contract-workers who are imported via the H-1B, L-1, OPT, O-1, J-1, and other visa programs. These outsourcing workers are not immigrants, but instead, they are contract workers hired for one to six years, at lower wages, to take jobs that would otherwise go to American graduates.
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How about hiring AMERICANS who have been sidelined thanks to the crash of W and (now) best bud Barack Obama?
How about THAT?
Provide a YUGE tax incentive to support legal citizen, married couples to have more kids.
How could the NEA object?
I'll just say that back in the day, Assembly on embedded microprocessors with limited ROM, RAM and processor cycles got the job done, in real time. With only a few peeps...
Why do they hate American citizens so much?
They’ll object because the kids will be too....white.
Can’t have that. The Chief Diversity Officer of the NEA would have a nervous breakdown...
He is my things and this is just my opinion, why is it that we keep going for more foreign labor but we have many citizens here here in places here in the US all over the place that would move for these jobs if they were long term and stable, it makes no sense.
Is this the 400 percent increase in H1b’s Cruz was advocating for? This is a little worse. Basically a million people just like that. Insane. I work in a tech company currently and it is already unbelievable and upsetting as far as hiring practices -; PC uber left cult mentality everywhere is making the workplace miserable.
Look for 23 semi-equivalent bills to be offered by the Dem Congress in case this one fails.
Dems must be orgasmic over what they were able to achieve in CA with their election trickeries. Look for hundreds of repeats; at which point, as we all know, the system will be so overwhelmed there will be almost no possibility of law enforcement over voter fraud.
Coming. Bank on it.
Ding ding ding - we have a thread winnah!
The point of a work visa is to work. But, they don’t simply do that. They also $hit out kids that are magically ‘citizens’. Vast amounts of legal and illegal persons help to keep wages low. We have been doing that for decades. That is part of the reason for wage stagnation.
Add the outsourcing of all of our credit card telephone reps to South America, the Philipines etc.
No.
It’s good if they do. Go get some foreign contracts in those countries and bring the profits home. Don’t bring the people here and send the money away.
In view of who supports it, there is very good reason to stop 95% of immigration.
Personally I’d say shut it all down for 5-10 years. It is not necessary and it harms the United States.
Why must these people come to the US? They could telecommute. These companies simply do NOT want to hire Americans. Their is a much darker agenda behind this.
Government Labor subsidies - bump for later...
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