“We want to encourage talented and highly skilled people to pursue career options in the U.S.”
Most of the H1Bs I interact with aren’t talented or highly skilled. Replace one American tech with two Pakistanis who then walk the halls all day murmuring into their phones.
Why is he not ENDING H1B? They are temp, but instead stay, they bring chain migration, who get permits. Send them all home, free those jobs for Americans! Shame on Trump for giving an inch on H1B. Next he’ll endorse Cruz’s once offered 500% increase. /s
Bringing certainty to the visa holders would make it more difficult for employers to abuse them. Path to citizenship would make it impossible for employers to abuse them and play them off against American workers. I don’t like the idea of American students taking on all the debt only to get swept aside for some individual of questionable qualifications who will work cheap because they are in a weak bargaining position, but I could see how the abuse and b.s. could be shut down if the playing field was leveled a bit. Still pretty mad about the college debt though. If he does this I hope he does it in a way that cleans up the mess we have now. I also hope this comes with a crackdown on employers and visa holders who don’t play by the rules.
We want smart people with marketable skills to be citizens of this country. What we don’t want is to be a job training program for the developing world at the expense of our own graduates and other citizens. We don’t want to bleed out resources, we want to keep them. As long as this goes to stabilize the work situation for people with real and not fake qualifications, and as long as they have a path to citizenship, this is a good thing for the long term.
For what its worth, they recently celebrated the top students at my college. Gave them a party and recognized their accomplishments. The attendees were not foreign students, they were Americans from a variety of states. You hear a lot about how the foreign students are all the best and the Americans are crap, but it just isn’t so from what I saw at that event. Maybe the good ones are all getting their golden tickets to Harvard and Yale because for sure we aren’t seeing them here.
It's a shame = he should give it much more thought and attention.
Why don’t many go home and improve their own country instead of coming here to destroy and change ours FTBO cheap labor globalists? This program is there not to improve America for Americans but to make money for the few and elites at the expense of many native born citizens.
Interesting knowledge gained on the way to the forum
In the Raleigh/Durham/Research Triangle area there is a large Indian population. The population is large enough to support a radio station broad casting in the Indian language.
Hmmm...... H1 B visas grow a radio stationI
Companies should be forced to pay H1B’s the same as American workers. The H1B’s would dry up in a heartbeat.
And yeah, I am in I.T.
I am completely burned out having to work with foreigners I can barely understand.