Posted on 11/20/2019 7:54:05 AM PST by NobleFree
Since 1990, the H-1B visa program has let companies temporarily employ foreign workers in occupations requiring specialized skills and a bachelor’s degree — when they struggle to find a U.S. worker to do the job. [That's a lie; the truth is they actively avoid U.S. workers in favor of cheap indentured foreign labor.] The sensible program has faced intermittent controversies over the years because some companies used the visas to replace higher-paid Americans with lower-paid foreign workers. Some economists argue that H-1B visa holders help suppress wages in fields like computer science.
But with 700,000 tech jobs unfilled in the U.S., the value of and need for the program is difficult to dispute. [No, the need to pay market salaries is difficult to dispute.] This is why more than 60 U.S. business school deans and CEOs wrote a joint letter to the Wall Street Journal last month imploring President Donald Trump to expand the program and allow more than 85,000 H-1B visas to be issued a year.
Perhaps he’ll listen. Perhaps not. The Trump administration not only doesn’t grasp the value of H-1B visas, it is averse to them. A new study by the National Foundation for American Policy, based on government data, shows denial rates for H-1B visa requests have skyrocketed from 6% in 2015 to 24%. [That's because applications have skyrocketed; the number of approved visas has increased.] The White House also is seeking to make it more difficult for the spouses of H-1B visa holders to work in the U.S. No wonder that many foreigners working in the San Diego area are looking to relocate to Canada, a nation more welcoming of skilled immigrants.
Given that hostility to foreigners is the root of Trump’s success as a politician, this is no surprise. Yet it is bad news for the U.S. economy — and for the future of a nation with an aging work force and a declining birthrate. The U.S. could use highly talented immigrants. [H-1B is not about highly talented immigrants.] The president should know this.
Javanka are heavily involved in ‘reforming’ our visa rules.
A bit off topic, but I was listening to Dave Ramsey the other day. A caller (with a thick accent) wanted to know if he should use his savings to fly his spouse back to her country to get her US citizenship. Dave didn’t understand WHY she had to leave the US - turns out she was a DACA and had to return to her country of origin to get a US Visa - first step in citizenship. It was a funny, probing, call ... LOL !!!
H1Bs are nothing but third world scabs, and those flooding our country with them are traitors.
Period.
Americans First.
End of discussion.
There are not 700,000 unfilled tech jobs. Those are made up positions used to justify importing cheaper labor. If there were that many openings, there would be close to zero unemployed Americans qualified to fill them, and business would be racing to see more trained.
Headline translation: H1B’s needed in order for employers to continue to engage in age discrimination.
Since when does anyone take advice from CA “experts” who have lost their major cities to armies of foreign peasants and the mentally ill?
ML/NJ
Good for her. Doing it legally. I respect that!
If: Old style mainstream journalist populated newspaper.
Then: Not worth reading.
Age discrimination AND wage suppression.
No one has a beef with fair and square supply and demand for labor. H1Bs tamper with the free market and screw American workers.
The GOP wants to get back to business as usual, importing cheap labor.
Hahahahahahahahahahahah*gasp*hahahahahahahahaha*gasp*hahahahahahahahahahahah...
*Thump*
Laughing myself to death.
1. How much to the positions pay?
2. Is there relocation?
3. Are there benefits like a 401K, retirement, healthcare?
4. Employer has to pay FICA.
Just guessing... if an employer hires a foreigner.
1. Pay? Below the standard for a citizen.
2. Nope. You are on your own.
3. Unlikely.
4. Doubtful that the employer is required to pay FICA.
This program was originally billed to bring in people with rare, extraordinary tech skills. Tech companies use it to bring in your ordinary java coder from india for about half the salary and who does not mind sharing a house with 6 other coders.
One can only hope the “journalist” and editor are replaced with a foreigner.
Because it allows them to shed those IT and Engineering careers for the freedom and flexibility of the gig economy and Uber driving?
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