Posted on 12/27/2024 9:34:56 PM PST by SoConPubbie
CNN contributor Scott Jennings said Friday on CNN’s “The Lead” that Republicans can comprise on immigration by going after fraud in the H-1B Visa program.
Jennings said, “There’s always been a push and pull on this in the Republican Party and I think there’s a way to work this out and solve it. I mean, I think what a lot of people would say is, and Elon Musk was making this point, if you take, like, the top 1% or the top 0.1% of the most talented engineering people from other countries, that’s perfectly fine. Do H-1B Visas for that. They’re unique, they have unique talent, unique, innovative skills, fine. If you’re using the H-1B program to abuse it, to recruit, you know, interns, accountants, other people that easily could be recruited from the United States of America, all because you just want to do it cheaper, that’s not fine.”
He added, “So I think what a lot of people in the party want to do is eliminate the fraud in this H-1B program, retain the top engineering talent, and there’s a way to do this. What Ramaswamy, did yesterday was not a great communications exercise, and it did anger a lot of people in the president’s coalition, and I think rightfully so.”
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Watch the weasels dance the weasel dance. Kill the H-1b.
America First = America made by American workers
If you can find them.
There needs to be a class action lawsuit against school boards, state legislatures, and the Education Department for child abuse - denying American students a basic education for them to succeed in the workforce.
The problem is the people who utilize the H-1B Visa program don’t want to end the fraud.
And if Jennings wants to be involved in politics he can run for office on the raw power of his ideas.
If you agree with the further replacement of Americans by foreigners then why are you here? Isn’t DU a better place for you?
Also, McCain is dead so you should update your about page. Just sayin’
Accurate!
Why hasn’t Elon led the way by already doing this?
Are these 1% ers or .1% ers? LOL.
Elon has zero cred.
“So you’re telling me that $70k per year entry level jobs are .1% level talent?”
https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1872396020224561279
Steve Bannon on H-1B Visas: “This whole thing about oh…they’re only geniuses…H-1B Visas…that’s NOT what it’s about. It’s about taking American jobs and bringing over essentially what have become indentured servants at lower wages…the thing’s a SCAM by the Oligarchs in Silicon Valley to basically take jobs from American citizens give them to what become indentured servants from foreign countries, and pay them less…SIMPLE…”
https://x.com/SaveUSAKitty/status/1872667773484363883
Time to kill the H1-B program.
The United States is looking more and more like western Europe. And I don’t mean that in a good way.
Cut ‘em out, ride ‘em in, ride ‘em in, cut ‘em out
Cut ‘em out, ride ‘em in rawhide
Scott you can’t fix the H1B program. It is abused wholesale and has been for decades it needs killed, period
You don’t need an elaborate enforcement mechanism in the H1b program. Just charge companies a fee per visa per year. Make the fee sufficient to ensure that it costs companies more to employ that foreigner than it would cost to employ an American. Viola! Cheating/Fraud will disappear overnight. Say, $50K per visa per year payable to the US Treasury. How many ya want?
Of course I get the “strange” feeling companies will magically no longer “need” anywhere near as many H1b Indians as they do now much less “need” ever more like they are clamoring for the instant it becomes MORE EXPENSIVE to employ them. Call me a cynic. But hey.....companies can have as many as they want if that’s what they truly need. Its just that there’s a price tag dangling off of that.....
psssst....how much ya wanna bet H1bs get radically slashed, job descriptions no longer sound nearly as technical AND companies restart the job training programs they killed off a generation ago? But again, I’m a heartless cynic....
That’s the next level down. First charge a fee for H1bs that makes them more expensive than Americans to employ. That will cause companies to restart job training programs they stopped back in the 80s/early 90s. That will also cause companies to loudly complain that they have to do this because universities are not cranking out young Americans sufficiently trained in the skills needed in the market.....which in truth, they are not. That then, can be wielded as a very useful cudgel to smash Leftist Academia with.
Out with various “studies” programs, 17th century French literature, Sociology, Philosophy and Transgender African Dance majors. In with useful and practical skills like fluency in microsoft office, how to run an SQL Query, knowing the basics of how to work with databases, basic econ/accounting skills, basic business writing, how to make good looking powerpoint decks, etc. Hardly any of this kind of stuff is taught in college. Its all meat and potatoes stuff for a ton of businesses nowadays.
You can fix the H1b program easily. Just shift the economic incentives. Make it more expensive to hire foreigners than it is to hire Americans. Do this by charging companies an annual fee per visa per year. I propose $50,000 though I’m open to other reasonable amounts. The goal is to let companies get foreign workers if they really need them and if they’re willing to pay a premium to get them, but to not allow them to have hordes of cheap foreign labor so as to deny Americans jobs in their own country and to push down the wages of the Americans they do employ.
Oh they’ll scream and wail and cry if you tell them they have to start paying a big fat fee. They’ve become addicted to CHEAP foreign labor. Too bad. Start employing Americans - and if necessary you will probably want to start training Americans to do the jobs you want done - OR pay more money to the US Treasury since you are harming Americans by employing all these foreigners for cheap and we need to raise money to offset the harm you are causing.
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