Posted on 01/05/2016 12:01:53 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
Does the United States actually have a shortage of qualified workers or is our government selling us down the proverbial garden path in favor of their biggest supporters....the corporate bottom line?
Happy New Year America! While you were out celebrating the passage of the new year, President Obama was busy signing another Executive Order that increases the number of Foreign Workers allowed in the United States. He has once again, bypassed Congress and is breaking quotas established by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of 1952.
Before the New Year, Congress passed an omnibus spending bill that dramatically increased the supply of H-2B foreign workers to fill construction, hospitality, truck driving and other blue-collar jobs. Although it does not allow increases over the current 66,000 cap, it does extend the length of their stays, further hindering the job market for blue-collar workers. Now President Obama, though his executive action, will offer extensions and increases to the H-1B foreign worker program. It will grant work permits to foreign workers who are in the country on a temporary work visa and offer them green cards. It would also extend the length of work permits for foreign STEM students.
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Another item for Trump and Cruz to discuss with the American voters.
It’s not the corporate bottom line they are concerned about. It’s Uncle Sam’s.
Generally I like Cruz, but he has been pushing to increase the H1B quota from 65,000 to 325,000.
In case you aren't familiar with it, the H1B Program amounts to nothing more than foreign outsourcing, but instead of sending the jobs to India, they bring the Indians here. Go into any IT shop and you will see that it is staffed primarily with foreigners, mostly Indians. Don't believe the argument that the US lacks sufficient qualified workers, the foreigners work much, much cheaper and drive down the rates.
Incidentally, big business and the fat cats are very happy with this, and reward politicians with generous "contributions".
I just figured something out today- The wage increases for ‘fast food shops’ means what? Yup- ILLEGALS will get the increases, businesses will fire WHITE folks because they can’t afford the increases- and the reason white folks get fired is because these shops do not want to appear ‘wacist’ and don’t want to face law suits by aclu if they fire the illegals and immigrants
The illegals and immigrants get to keep their jobs and get to profit handsomely now, while white folks get to lose their jobs-
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