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'H' visas amount to guest-worker status
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| Saturday, June 21, 2003
| Patrick Osio Jr.
Posted on 06/21/2003 7:37:44 AM PDT by FryingPan101
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To: FryingPan101
With 6.1% unemployment all H visas should be revoked period. All they do is dort the free market within the USA. H1B visas for IT have driven Americans out of the field. If a job can not be filled by an American or a legal immigrant when there is 6.1% unemployment then perhaps the company needs to change the wage it is offering or its training policies or maybe decide to get out of that business and sell off its assetts to someone who van manage it to make a profit while using Amwericans or legal immigrants.
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posted on
06/21/2003 7:57:50 AM PDT
by
harpseal
(Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
To: sarcasm; BrooklynGOP; A. Pole; Zorrito; GiovannaNicoletta; Caipirabob; Ed_in_NJ; grb; TLBSHOW; ...
H1B visa ping
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posted on
06/21/2003 8:19:11 AM PDT
by
harpseal
(Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
To: FryingPan101
What we need to accept is that a vast majority of Mexican/Central American undocumented immigrants . . . take jobs that a majority of workers do not want. Illegal immigrants steal jobs from Americans by lowering the price of wages to the point no tax-paying American can afford to take them.
Americans are willing to work in coal mines, so don't anyone tell us that Americans aren't willing to pick apples.
To: harpseal
What we need to accept is that a vast majority of Mexican/Central American undocumented immigrants do not threaten the employment of any high-skilled U.S. worker, but rather take jobs that a majority of workers do not want. This elitist fool is only concerned about the high-skilled legal worker. Hes not concerned about the low skilled workers that these criminal aliens are hurting.
Not everyone in America is a high-skilled worker. The carpenters, plumbers, bricklayers, roofers, cooks, maids, burger flippers, are people too. They shouldnt have their jobs taken away by criminals.
The Dallas Morning News had a story about a week ago about high school and college kids who couldnt find summer work because unemployed adults have the jobs the kids used to get. They never mentioned the fact that the criminal aliens have the jobs these Americans need.
The government needs to use the RICCO laws against anyone, employing or harboring these criminals. Companies like Tyson get confiscated and some people get their homes and farms confiscated, others will stop helping these criminals break the law.
Ahscroft took an oath to enforce our laws. In his conformation hearing he said that he would enforce all laws, even if he disagreed with them.
If he doesnt start enforcing the immigration laws congress should hold him accountable.
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posted on
06/21/2003 9:21:26 AM PDT
by
SUSSA
To: FryingPan101
What amazes me is there are thousands of unemployed immigrants from Mexico in this region ----the Trabajadores Fronterizos are suing the federal government for more welfare benefits because their jobs went to Mexico ---where they're from in the first place. But you won't see them taking jobs away from the illegals. We don't really need more illegals from Mexico when 34% of the immigrants from Mexico are living off welfare programs. Or else we could keep the workers and try to get rid of the idle non-workers.
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posted on
06/21/2003 9:23:22 AM PDT
by
FITZ
To: SUSSA
that these criminal aliens What gets me isn't so much the hard-working illegal ---if someone is willing to work 12 hours a day in the hot sun, 100+ temperatures, you almost can't be against them ---but around here that's far from the only immigrants we're getting. So many unwed mothers from Mexico get over here to give birth, many use those temporary visitor visas to come over the legal ports of entry, they head over to the county hospital and they end up staying and collecting a welfare check besides Medicaid, food stamps, WIC and all the rest. Plus all the legal immigrants can sponsor any number of indigent elderly and get them right onto SSI and Medicaid for a nice easy retirement here in this country. I'd rather see all welfare cut off and those moochers deported first.
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posted on
06/21/2003 9:28:25 AM PDT
by
FITZ
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: FITZ
"when 34% of the immigrants from Mexico are living off welfare programs" Mind-boggling, huh?
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posted on
06/21/2003 10:42:24 AM PDT
by
FryingPan101
(Ya know?)
To: FryingPan101
It is mind-boggling. In spite of all those using food stamps in most of the grocery stores and living in the projects and the large number of unemployed and NAFTA-displaced, the illegals don't seem to have much trouble finding work. The majority by far living off the many welfare programs here are people from Mexico or their kids ---and they're not about to get out there and pick chilis or help bale hay. They're always trying to find some new recreation center to get the gangs off the streets ----but work is obviously beneath them. I can't say I always blame the farmers when they hire a willing-to-work illegal because the cholos from the projects aren't employable.
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posted on
06/21/2003 11:17:25 AM PDT
by
FITZ
To: harpseal
H1B visa ping
Myself, I call the H1B workers "Gästarbeiten," the German word for guestworkers, but that's me having 4 years of German in high school. That is the truth, used to temp at a computer company that brought workers from India by the boatload for like 18 months, maybe 24 and working in payroll, I can see when the worker came into the country and when he wa supposed to be mustered out and a new one come in.
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posted on
06/21/2003 11:39:27 AM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
("Laws are the spider webs through which the big bugs fly past and the little ones get caught.")
To: SUSSA
Agreed not every American is highly educated and/or skilled but every American deserves to have the borders protected from an invasion of illegal immigrants. There are some here on Free Republic who think because their own job or business is not threatened yet they want the advantage that the cheap labor of illegals gives them. The problem is that costs too many other Americans their livelyhood and tax dollars. It destroys the fabric of our nation and for what so somebody can hire an inexpensive landscaper to mow their lawn.
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posted on
06/21/2003 12:26:46 PM PDT
by
harpseal
(Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
Comment #13 Removed by Moderator
To: harpseal
With 6.1% unemployment all H visas should be revoked period...There are certain H categories where there are simply no qualified Americans. Revoking those will bring those industries to a stall. Example: Electric power system engineers. During the internet bubble most engineering students went to hi-tech related programs. Traditional power engineering programs were discontinued at most universities due to lack of applicants. The older professionals are now retiring, creating a very serious shortage, at a time when the power system infrastructure has lagged behind and needs extensive expansion.
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posted on
06/21/2003 2:27:20 PM PDT
by
Mihalis
(The French boycott continues)
To: harpseal
The problem is limited H visa have produced the outsourced back office which is outside the USA. India for example, it the technical back office.
(s)We need manual labor robotics which are affordable. Thus there will be no need for migrant labor. Its 2003 where are the robots? (/s)
To: Mihalis
I personally know of several unemployed electrical power systems engineers and there are still such engineering programs in colleges and universities.
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posted on
06/22/2003 4:42:17 AM PDT
by
harpseal
(Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
To: harpseal
To: longtermmemmory
(s)We need manual labor robotics which are affordable. Thus there will be no need for migrant labor. Its 2003 where are the robots? (/s) As long as we H visas and subsidized outflow of capital from the USA there is neither the incentive not the capital to develop these.
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posted on
06/22/2003 5:56:25 AM PDT
by
harpseal
(Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
To: crazykatz
good morning I was not able to be online long yesterday. sort of a rough day.
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posted on
06/22/2003 5:57:28 AM PDT
by
harpseal
(Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
To: this_old_man_101
...but also the transfer of PEOPLE into America to perform work to perform work that produces goods and services HERE! These people have no stake in America they do not even have immigrant status due to the nature of their visas they are for all intents and purposes slaves.
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posted on
06/22/2003 5:59:30 AM PDT
by
harpseal
(Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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