Posted on 09/01/2020 10:33:52 AM PDT by NobleFree
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., announced his strong opposition to Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s S.386 outsourcing bill, likely sinking the Utah Republican’s bill for the rest of the year.
Lee’s S.386 bill aids the tech industry and visa workers from India and China “at the expense of American workers, highly skilled immigrants, workers from Latin America and Europe, as well as Florida’s most important industries,” Scott wrote in the August 31 op-ed in the Miami Herald.
He continued:
I’ve heard from many constituents about how this bill would impact people in Florida, especially those who came to Florida from Latin America. Florida’s booming economy and location as the gateway to Latin America has allowed us to become a global hub for trade and business. We must look at the sectors that eliminating this cap would unjustly benefit, particularly the tech industry, and what sectors it would hurt.
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We need a new approach that protects American workers and protects the diversity we cherish, and I am hopeful my colleagues in the Senate will be willing to work with me toward those goals.
Scott noted that the legislation would have a huge impact on immigration — yet it has gotten very little publicity:
Right now the United States Senate is considering a massive overhaul to our nation’s immigration system. And, what is shocking is that it could pass without even a single vote in the United States Senate. You read that correctly: a major change to our immigration system is being considered under “unanimous consent” in the U.S. Senate, which means this bill could pass without a vote ever occurring.
It hasn’t yet passed because I am the only senator holding it up.
Scott’s op-ed shows that Lee’s S.386 will be blocked until at least election day [...]
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Mike Lee swallows.
I’d be OK with the system Japan uses.
In Japan, if you need a guest worker, really need one, you must pay them 25% MORE than their Japanese counterparts.
If they aren’t worth the premium, you don’t really need them!
Thank you, Sen. Scott.
H1B / Outsourcing bump for later.....
Praise YHVH (God)!!!
When unemployment is at 0%, then we can talk about H1-B visas.
Not enough skilled Americans, you say? Then start a training program.
Training would shore up the pipeline - but right now there are millions of under- or unemployed American STEM graduates. There ARE enough skilled Americans - just not willing to work for Third World salaries.
We don’t need or want any stinking H1Bs.
Americans-1
Globalists-0
At least on this one.
Utah’s contribution to the United States Senate is ... I lack the words that can stay within forum rules.
Amen to that! And *thank you* Florida voters.
What IS it with these idiotic politicians from Utah??
In Japan I think most imported labor is for jobs Japan does not have enough workers to fill.
In the U.S. the big corporations import labor for jobs there are willing Americans that can fill them. The only sector where that might not always be the case is in agriculture.
Exactly. The Japanese have the right idea. If they cost more, companies will suddenly discover that they don’t “need” them.
This is good news. I’ve worked with companies where I’ve seen the abuse of this system. As an executive at a software company, I have no problem finding qualified Americans for my team.
AND, if they DO need them, they can still get them!
That low life sonofabitch has sold out to the dots and he, and all of the the other pubbie traitors should be shXt.
The traitors are worse than the demonRATs, at least the demonRAT cockaroaches, tell you that they want to eat your heart.
He’s a hero, that Rick Scott fellow.
That we have all other Senate Republicans in support tells us all we need to know about our party.
There’s still a decade or more of work to do to eliminate this toilet scrum from the public square. And when the time is right we might even have to take a couple out in the general election.
The job before my last one I was replaced by THREE H-1Bs.
So Scot wants Latino immigrants but not Asians. Not really seeing an upside.
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