Posted on 05/27/2015 11:21:41 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
The Washington Times reported on Monday that a district court has refused to halt part of President Obama’s immigration program that allows spouses of legal guest workers from seeking employment in the United States. Federal District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan ruled that a claim by a group of technology workers that they were being displaced by foreign workers was “highly speculative.” The Obama administration has also refused to consider what seems to be a growing problem for American high-tech workers who are finding themselves out of a job in favor of cheaper foreign guest workers under the H-1B visa system. The spouses will now be able to work under the H4 visa system.
The H-1B program allows some foreign guest workers who have high tech skills, such as information technology or engineering, into the United States to apply for jobs that are not being filled by American citizens. However, increasingly, some companies are using the program as a cost cutting tool to lay off more highly compensated American workers and replace them with cheaper foreign workers. The economy is simply not growing enough to accommodate an influx of foreign guest workers. So Americans are finding themselves out of a job to make way for the foreign workers instead.
[...] The growing practice presents a quandary for the Republican presidential candidates. Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, considered immigration reformists, are in favor of expanding the H-1B program. Even Ted Cruz, a hawk on illegal immigration, is in favor of expanding legal immigration programs that bring in more highly skilled foreign workers. The policy would be great in a booming economy, but not so much in the current state of economic malaise, Republicans, therefore, may miss a great opportunity to attack an Obama policy that hurts American workers.
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Why should we expect Obama to treat US tech workers any more considerately than he is the rest of us?
Big business and Obama...doing their best to destroy the middle class.
We need to import more lawyers, journalists and judges under H-1B. They make too much as it is.
It will too. I didn’t see it in this article, but there were some articles posted her on FR that said 400k new H1B’s under this “immigration” bill. If so, you can kiss I.T. good bye.
This program should be against the law.
” The growing practice presents a quandary for the Republican presidential candidates. Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, considered immigration reformists, are in favor of expanding the H-1B program.”
forming the Obama-Marco-Jebster immigration caucus.
Ya left out Cruz.
That’s truly unfortunate if Cruz is in their camp. A non-starter for me when it comes time to vote.
I’m with you.
On a related note The Wall Street Journal reported that Broadcom is going to be purchased by Singapore based Avago Technologies. As you can imagine Singapore has a lower corporate tax rate than the US.
Too bad they can't outsource federal judgeships. Then this judge ( an Obama appointee by the way ) would see how "speculative" these claims are.
I'm not sure the average American IT worker truly understands how much their profession is detested by corporate management, from Boards of Directors on down. IT is seen as an overpriced, unmanageable cost center that may be necessary on some level, but needs to be as rigidly cost controlled as janitorial or landscaping services. The GOP is just listening to what their big donors want, and think with H1B they are actually creating new jobs by lowering the overhead for American business.
Today's IT workers are still being punished for the excesses of the late 90's. Nevertheless, the message is clear - corporate America dislikes the very existence of IT workers, so rather than wasting time fighting the trend you should be retraining and moving toward more business-oriented roles.
It's the same fight, though on a smaller scale, as over those millions of "jobs Americans [allegedly] won't do" - should that fight be abandoned as well?
Actually it’s not. H1B can be fixed with one simple change - allowing H1B card holders to freely move between jobs at market rates - but the larger “War on IT” will not go away even if the borders are sealed and no one is allowed in or out, as some seem to be advocating.
That would be an improvement, but would still leave H-1B holders entering a market in which the only "shortage" is of those willing to take the Great Recession salaries that global corporations have seemingly come to see as their birthright.
- but the larger “War on IT” will not go away even if the borders are sealed and no one is allowed in or out, as some seem to be advocating.
Really? Can you quote anybody advocating letting no-one out - or is that a straw man?
Google "FATCA" and find out how difficult they are making it.
” The growing practice presents a quandary for the Republican presidential candidates. Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, considered immigration reformists, are in favor of expanding the H-1B program.”
forming the Obama-Marco-Jebster immigration caucus.
Walker appears to be adopting Jeff Session’s view and is against expansion.
Anyone know how Carly Fiorina stands on this issue?
Or anyone else running for that matter...
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