This is true . I’m an American and every job I’ve had I’ve been replaced by immigrants. Now trying to get going in IT again and again they want to import immigrants to take my job away. Plus also Obama’s oppressive regulations have destroyed every business I’ve attempted . I hate Obama.
and often the American worker is asked to train the new immigrant that’s replacing him
I lost my last full time job to THREE H1-Bs. Took me over six years to replace that income.
This is a deal breaker for me.
Yes, sometimes we must look outside the country for special skills, no, we don’t need to do this when only 3% of our own STEM graduates can find jobs in STEM related fields.
Japan has a good solution, their equivalent of our H1-B program requires that the foreigners with special skills must be paid 25% more than their native counterparts.
If the skill really is so critical, and really is so vital, and really is so rare, a company should be happy to pay a bit more for it.
They have to pay these H1-B people enough to make it worth their while to give up friends and country to come to this country and perform the same tasks that you can do. Are you unable to compete with them on a wage basis?
We all claim to be capitalists here, but we all want the government to protect us from competition.
We do need to stop all illegal immigration, and Cruz is the only candidate who is consistent on that end. OTOH, legal immigration needs to be regulated and Cruz's proposal on that end made it clear that the H1-B visas would only be given where it is documented that there is a need and that American workers would not be displaced.
Right now there's not a lot of regulation on that end.