Laid Off Disney Worker Heads To The Hill To Dispel Four H-1b Myths

Daily Caller ^ | 10/19/2015 | Rachel Stoltzfoos

[ConservingFreedom]

H-1B ping. Let me know if you're not on the list and want to be added (or are and want to be removed).

[TheDon]

Employers like cheap labor, no surprise there.

[dirtboy]

Sessions is a leading advocate for immigration policy that puts American workers first, and Cruz is an H-1B proponent who has worked to dramatically expand the program in the past.

Hopefully this will propel Cruz to change his position on increasing H-1B visas. There are already laws in place to prevent the abuses we see today and those laws are ignored and not enforced.

[Gen.Blather]

I’m willing to bet that there aren’t a half dozen positions in the whole country that can’t be filled by Americans.

However, if you make welfare sufficiently lucrative, they might just go on welfare and get their cash from the off-books economy.

[pepsionice]

H-1B should exist....but I think it has to be attached to a salary offered...say $75,000 minimum and a two-year maximum usage for the company.

[God luvs America]

“Nelson asked the Department of Labor to investigate the Disney layoffs, Sessions is a leading advocate for immigration policy that puts American workers first, and Cruz is an H-1B proponent who has worked to dramatically expand the program in the past.”

what is Bill Nelson’s stance on illegal immigration?

[arthurus]

4-H1b0? Are we importing young foreign aspiring farmers now?

[ConservingFreedom]

H-1B should exist....but I think it has to be attached to a salary offered...say $75,000 minimum and a two-year maximum usage for the company.

Double or triple that minimum and we're talking; if H-1B is really about 'top talent' that's still a bargain.

[indthkr]

H1B bump for later...

[vette6387]

“Sessions is a leading advocate for immigration policy that puts American workers first, and Cruz is an H-1B proponent who has worked to dramatically expand the program in the past.”

This issue alone makes Cruz unelectable in my view! Cruz evidently is the “organ grinder’s monkey” for Disney!

[Political Junkie Too]

Myth #5: This IT work is "temporary," and therefore fillable with people who hold temporary work visas.

How did work that was previously being done by permanent career employees suddenly become temporary work? How long is "temporary?" Will these H-1B temporary visa holders still be doing this work in one year, two years, five years from now?

-PJ

[Guenevere]

Bill follows the Democrat party line on everything!

He’s from my area...25plus years ago convinced us he was a Christian....
...his children were in Young Life like mine....
Oh he pulled a lying number on us
.....He votes liberal to the core.... Planned Parenthood too, of course

He doesn’t give a flying fig what his constituents think.....if they have an R on their voting record

[Dilbert San Diego]

I would like to know what sort of severance these workers get.

If this happened to me, I can imagine that I would be out of there, and not stick around to train my foreign replacement.

But, if the severance were good enough, then I would have incentive to stay.

Just wondering how it all works. Would you really stay for a period of 3 months, or six months, to train your replacement, when you need to be out there looking for a new job???

[Moonman62]

Bill Nelson is probably producing theater while being bought and paid for by Disney. The laid off worker shouldn’t talk to him. Most likely Nelson is doing some spy work for the bad guys.

[ConservingFreedom]

Hopefully this will propel Cruz to change his position on increasing H-1B visas.

This is a golden opportunity for him to gracefully abandon his wrongheaded support for H-1B. No Republican who doesn't take a strong "America for Americans" stand can win the White House in 2016.

There are already laws in place to prevent the abuses we see today

The problem with H-1B is not that it's being "abused" but that it's working exactly as designed:

H-1B Is Designed to Allow Employers to Replace Americans with Cheap Foreign Workers
H-1B Is Designed to Allow Employers to Pay Foreign Workers Extremely Low Wages

[driftdiver]

It’s a firm of wealth and knowledge redustribution. Both of which Nelson supports.

[Dante3]

bttt

[AppyPappy]

This will last at Disney until things start to collapse. The Asians can punch a lot of code but their code is never wrong in their eyes so it never needs to be fixed. If something stops working, it is not their code that did it. You have to bring in someone to fix without their knowledge.

[Buckeye McFrog]

There is such a thing as an “LCA”....a minimum salary that the employer must offer in order to justify the H1B. It varies by region but I think it is only around $50K right now.

Ten years ago a lot of these people were actually well-qualified. Today there is an avalanche of fake resumes out there. If you audited the resumes vs. actual experience you could probably revoke 80% of the visas for fraud.