Ted Cruz just upped the populist ante for 2016 Republicans

Fortune ^ | June 24, 2015 | Tory Newmyer

[Fledermaus]

Then you aren’t paying attention. Americans are being replaced by H1B Visa holders working for less. California has wiped out American tech for foreign labor.

Disney just did the same.

The “need to show there are no Americans available to do the job” is just a requirement. And we now know words don’t mean things and the law is anything some politician or sychopantic useful idiot says it is.

[impimp]

Then replacing lottery with salary requirement fixes it.

[setha]

I believe that they would just find a new way to abuse the policy. Much better to scrap it and offer ways that encourage assimilation.

[SauronOfMordor]

The thing that creates H1B abuse is that the guy is shackled too much to the sponsoring corporation. If the person could immediately accept any higher-paying job offer, then companies would be less interested.

[ConservingFreedom]

Dont’ bother with the trolls. Their agenda is to poison Cruz at all costs.

Paranoia is treatable.

[ConservingFreedom]

California has wiped out American tech for foreign labor.

Disney just did the same.

Then replacing lottery with salary requirement fixes it.

No, a high salary bar would address Hostage's best-and-brightest argument. Disney et al. weren't looking to fill top-tier positions.

[impimp]

The employee wouldn’t receive an H1-B under my plan if the salary is too low. If there are 20,000 H1Bs available, then they would go to the 20,000 highest job offers.

I doubt Disney employees would be taking up the H1Bs as their salary would be too low. The investment banks would get a lot more of them as they would be able to offer a lot of money and wouldn’t need to worry about the lottery.

[ConservingFreedom]

I doubt Disney employees would be taking up the H1Bs as their salary would be too low.

Which is why your proposal doesn't address the 'Disney et al. can't find qualified Americans for middle-tier positions' argument.

[impimp]

I see what you are saying. But I am more concerned about the investment banks getting the high end foreign workers than I am about Disney getting lower end workers. I think you should be too.

[ConservingFreedom]

Disney's argument is bogus - I'm "concerned about" it in the sense that I recognize that it needs to be addressed/neutralized by any politically viable solution.