Posted on 10/06/2004 2:27:43 PM PDT by JesseHousman
Whether or not South Florida is "immigrant-rich" is in the eye of the liberal beholder.
Just scanning daily crime reports show that many immigrants and illegals contribute to the massive South Florida crime rate.
Should this say...
U.S. companies' pent-up demand for candidates in such technical fields as engineering, mathematics, research and landscaping.
Isn't this like reverse outsourcing or something? Giving away good jobs to foreigners, just that it occurs within our borders?
This is ridiculous. The administration should immediately lift this stupid quota. We need to draw the best and brightest here to remain competive economically. What a discrace!
Should read: GONE IN A DAY: YEAR'S SUPPLY OF CHEAP 'SKILLED' VISAS
-PJ
Dear employer: Have you considered hiring some of us skilled but unemployed U.S. citizens? (Maybe I'm just jaded because I've been out of work for over three years.)
It didn't help to drive by the big construction project in town today (new library) and see all the Mexicans wearing hardhats. I still have a hardhat. Why won't they hire me?
The unemployment rate in our little county is the highest in North Carolina, which is one of the highest in the United States.
But there are no jobs for us Americans here.
H1-B visas are supposed to be for especially skilled foreign workers. How many mathematicians or nuclear physicists does Florida need to rebuild or reroof buildings after the hurricane?
I expect that one problem with the H1-B program is that many companies are using it to bring in lower level less skilled people instead of limiting it to the cream of the crop. Too many Bombay tech school graduates designing web pages and not enough nuclear physicists are coming in and the government isn't doing any evaluation or screening - just approving the first 65,000 applications.
Uh huh. Sure.
One small town in Maine is larded with hundreds of Africans who refuse to go to work until 10:00 AM and go home before 3:00 PM. Many are on welfare and the town's budget is exhausted.
One of this particular tribes beliefs cause tribal elders to remove the bottom teeth of young males when they get their second teeth. They do it with the blade of a spear. (Which has to hurt!) They do this because they think that the bottom teeth make them look like animals.
Now that they are ensconsed in this little Maine town, the boys think they look stupid running around with half of their teeth. So, it has become an orthodontist's dream. The federal goobermint picks up the tab in order that implants can be placed in the lower jaws of these "immigrants."
Enough immigration, already!
We have the best and the brightest here already. Its not about that. It's about the cheapest.
Why pay a 35yo (or older) U.S. engineer $55k (or more) a year when you can get his cheaper foreign equivalent. Also when the project is done, you can ship his, differently colored, arse back to wherever he/she came from.
I didn't think lewiston was small town.
Well, it's no Cleveland, Ohio.
Visas?!?! They don't need no stinkin' visas! Just tell them to go on down to Mexico and walk across with the REST of the world!!!
Raise the wages offered and you will find someone to fill the job. It's called economics.
Agreed. I worked with eritreans, very hard working people. I gather somalis are not so "dedicated"?
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
Actually, South Florida attracts many of the wealthier immigrants in the nation. It aint native born Americans who are paying $500k-over one million for the houses in Coral Gables and Weston. When I lived in Miami (99-02), wealthy Colombians and Venezuealans were buying up property like crazy.
Oh yea, I forgot it's a secret...sorry
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