A 350 kiloton nuclear device centered on Washington, DC would get the process started.
Posted on 02/04/2016 8:26:52 AM PST by ConservingFreedom
[...] Its supporters, including the Obama administration, have touted the H-1B as a way to inject highly sought-after skills into the US talent pool. But more often, critics say, big companies exploit it to reduce labor costs, leaving more and more skilled American tech workers out of a job.
"There are literally tens of thousands of American workers who have trained their foreign replacements," says Ronil Hira, a public policy professor at Howard University and a leading authority on H-1Bs. "And the workers being imported have no more than ordinary skills that are abundantly available in the US."
[...] it needs some serious revisions. And as the controversy over both H-1Bs and immigration writ large heats up, a growing force of economists and lawmakers, are offering up ways to do it, from requiring companies to prove they recruited in the US first to limiting the program to foreign workers with advanced degrees.
[...] "most of the top H-1B employers are using the program for cheaper temporary labor - as a vehicle to outsource jobs overseas rather than as a bridge to permanent immigration," Hira said in congressional testimony last year. [...]
"Require that the market wage be paid and require employers to prove they recruited US workers first."
"Have a Labor Department database that requires you post the job for 30 days [in the US]," he continues. "If you really can't find anybody, you get your worker. If that is going to destroy the program, that means it really is just a tool for exploitable labor."
Hira also recommends conducting random audits of employers, particularly those with a past of displacing American employees. "The current compliance system relies on whistleblowers," he says, "who can face retaliation or legal action from their companies." [...]
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Well, Trump wants to fix it.
Of course it can be fixed. Will it be fixed is the real question
H1-B is simply a cover for immigration. Period.
H-1B is codified corruption. It can’t be fixed. Kill it.
“Well, Trump wants to fix it.”
As does Cruz:
https://www.tedcruz.org/cruz-immigration-plan-summary/
Cruz/Sessions bill would stop sneaky Obama sabotage of skilled U.S. workers - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3378412/posts
I don’t see this as necessarily a problem with the H-1B visa program, but a problem of enforcement. It’s analogous to our overall immigration system; we have immigration laws and regulations, they just aren’t enforced.
The regulations regarding the issuance of H-1B visas is quite clear. The problem is that many companies have found a way to skirt those regulations, the executive branch refuses to enforce them, and Congress (for varying reasons on both sides of the aisle) refuses to compel the executive branch to comply with the law.
I agree. We have Americans here that need and can do the jobs. We don’t need any more Democrats.
Kill it.
Here's the problem:
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
Just enforce the laws that employers are breaking/ignoring. It'll get fixed right quick.
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
For example, Murdoch owns Fox News & Wall Street Journal. Wants blanket amnesty & no cap on H1b visas. his wsj article:
A program of egregious misuse for political and economic misuse by Democrats and RINOs alike is bad by its very nature. We simply do not need them.
It’s the same as all Federal programs. Destroy the White Middle Class and replace them with Third Worlders.
ITS THE ONLY POLICY THEY HAVE!
A 350 kiloton nuclear device centered on Washington, DC would get the process started.
You have my vote.
As a tech worker who has been displace several times by cheap H1B’s ... I say ... ELIMINATE IT !!!!
Whew!
Just missed
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