Posted on 12/27/2024 9:29:44 PM PST by SoConPubbie
The majority of likely American voters says the United States does not need any more foreign H-1B visa workers to fill white-collar jobs, a new poll finds.
A Rasmussen Reports survey reveals that 6-in-10 Americans say the U.S. “already has enough talented people to train and recruit” for white-collar jobs when asked whether Congress should increase the inflow of foreign workers, primarily those arriving through the H-1B visa program.
Meanwhile, just 26 percent of Americans say Congress should increase the number of foreign visa workers taking white-collar jobs.
Republicans and swing voters, in particular, say the U.S. has enough American talent for such jobs and does not need more foreign visa workers.
The survey shows that 72 percent of Republicans, 63 percent of swing voters, and a plurality of 47 percent of Democrats say the U.S. has talented people who can be trained and recruited for open white-collar jobs.
For years, Breitbart News has chronicled the fraud and abuse within the H-1B visa program where white-collar Americans are laid off and forced to train their foreign replacements, primarily from India and China.
While corporations lay off Americans in white-collar jobs to import foreign H-1B visa workers, hundreds of thousands of young college-educated Americans enter the workforce every year looking for entry-level jobs with decent salaries.
Annually, about half a million American graduates enter the STEM workforce looking for high-paying jobs with good benefits packages. Their chances of landing such a job are cut significantly with the annual inflow of tens of thousands of foreign H-1B visa workers who will compete directly against them in the white-collar labor market.
In President-elect Donald Trump’s first term, the administration reformed the H-1B visa program to better ensure that companies were not wrongfully firing Americans only to hire foreign visa workers.
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What do they know?
BTTT
I propose providing an annual check of $50,000 to every American worker displaced by a young man from India.
To be paid separately by each and every company the white man has applied for.
I got yer “reparations” right here.
Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’
Rawhide
Could the Vivek / Musk drop on H1bs be planned?
How would the average American know how many skilled workers we need?
3 times 3 equals… “I don’t know.”
We need a moratorium on all immigration, legal and illegal, for at least 10 years, probably more like 20 years, after deporting ALL illegals already here.
Enough is enough.
US taxpayers cannot support the entire planet’s population indefinitely.
40% think we need one?
Regarding that aspect of this whole discussion, it brings us full circle back to who destroyed education in this country. Leftists. ie Democrats.
The entire Democrat Party should be run out of this nation on a rail.
I’m all for it. Just show you applied, were denied, then make the claim and the company must pay, but not $50,000. They should pay the salary rate.
Agree!
IMO, Trump needs to dump Ramasmarmy, and give Musk a chance to “Come to Jesus”. This entire stupid event could become a positive for MAGA. Use it to convince Americans that outr entire immigration and education system needs to be fixed to ensure our economic security.
I agree these special foreign worker programs need a close look, but with unemployment at 4% or less, there may be areas where certain kinds of workers are in short supply. I doubt most Americans have any idea what is needed in the growing computer and AI fields. Regarding other kinds of immigration one problem has been the complete abandonment of trade education in our schools. Who is responsible for the idea EVERY student should have a college education. Some people are quite happy working with their hands and making things. The high school I graduated from, graduating class about 250 students had 4 education tracks. There was College Liberal Arts, College Scientific, Clerical Secretarial, and Industrial Trades. There was also a large factory in that area. On the other hand, the smaller high school I had transferred from had no such track, but it was a bedroom suburb for a major University.
If we are going to be transferring manufacturing businesses back to this country, we will need to be education our young for jobs available in such businesses. At the moment in the areas I know best, if I need a construction worker for a major house project, I find a competent Latino. Meanwhile there is a significant unemployment level among Negroes. There is only one small trades program in one High School, and the local major black College mistreats the street vendors who sell to the local students, because why would any negro want to work with his hands after slavery. Abolishing the US Dept. of Education is not the solution. Refocusing the directions of education based on current and future needs for workers and current interests of potential students is what is needed. I have a son who dropped out in the tenth grade. He learned electrical work and has had his own business for more than 20 years. He did have to take the Adult Ed course on electricity in Spanish because almost no English primary students had applied. He said it was useful as there were more Latino immigrants seeking education of this type than native born Americans.
I spend time in a Virginia ocean resort town. There every year the businesses are forced to use a program of temporary foreign workers, because there are not enough local young workers. The stores and hotels are catering to the annual vacation population, and the retired people who live there year round.
We have way too many as is. The reason is simple - they’re cheap. Make them more expensive and companies will instantly discover they don’t “need” nearly as many of them.
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