Posted on 11/07/2014 1:25:24 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted last week to admit more high-tech foreign workers in some categories than the annual supply of them.
In its eagerness to meet the wishes of the high tech industry — and steal jobs from qualified American workers — the Republican majority on the committee, with the single, commendable exception of Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), voted to allow as many as 55,000 green cards to be issued annually to aliens with advanced science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) degrees from American universities.
It also voted to increase the existing H-1B quota for such workers (again those with STEM master's degrees or doctorates from U.S. institutions) from the current 20,000 to 40,000.
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No problem, IF the business has to prove that no qualified American citizen was available to fill the job. Case by case, one at a time.
How many of them were up for re-election?
How many would have been re-elected if this was publicized?
They do that all the time and it’s always fraudulent.
These Republicans should be punished in the same manner the Dems who voted for Obamacare were; I believe nearly half of them are no longer in office (for whatever reason).
This makes a US STEM education more valuable. Universities must be thrilled.
No, it makes the Asian STEM education more valuable; American STEM graduates can’t get jobs.
They will get around it by offering a salary that no American could exist on. Just last week I read a story about a hi tech company importing a bunch of Indians, paying them $1.21 and hour and working them 120 hours a week.
Not happy. As a STEM worker myself, as well as parent of 2 STEM students (1 @ PhD level), I prefer to see us focused on helping keep the market open to US kids, rather than imports. Imports work for way less. Accustomed to living multiple unrelated people per housing unit, accustomed to working nearly 24x7, etc. Prefer to keep the really good jobs for US citizens. But hey, what do I know, I’m not a billionaire.
I gave a talk at a university last night to engineering students. Mostly undergraduates. I had to look hard to find Americans.
I told the faculty advisor I would not be back, he is a foreigner too. In fact most of the faculty are not US. Just a bunch of PhDs who stayed on education visas as long as they could.
I see no reason to spend my time helping kids who are not interested in the United States for any thing but comfort and a paycheck and because their home is a cesspool.
As I understand it, these tech workers are being imported from Asia (as opposed to Asians schooled here).
For the H1-b visa, yes. For the green cards it is for non US students studying at American universities.
Or they simply fly them in. And pay them the same rates as living in India!
Bay Area tech company caught paying imported workers $1.21 per hour
'The eight employees are being paid $40,000 in owed wages; they were reportedly installing computer systems at the company's headquarters. EFI was charged $3,500 -- yes, seriously -- for being at fault.
They probably could get away with it because they are only screwing over one industry. But it is bad policy and bad politics.
Does the GOP think they will gain votes by increasing the number of guest workers in different industries?
I see; thank you for clarifying. That POS Bill Gates then publicly laments that young Americans don’t go into computers anymore.
Asians are now the white-collar “Mexicans”, increasingly displacing Americans in the financial and other sectors.
Yes...think NAFTA, GATT, China’s MFN status.
We do not need them.
Interesting vote.
Zoe Lofgren voted against H1-B’s?
It’s her entire district. She’s the most pro-mass immigration freak in the Congress.
There’s a back story here....
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