Posted on 10/02/2015 7:21:53 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
Congress allowed a fee intended to discourage outsourcing by companies that rely on H-1B visas to replace U.S. workers to expire Wednesday night.
“Congress watched employers discriminate against Americans in hiring and firing, and then ship American jobs overseas. Congress promised to do something about these pernicious practices -- and it did. It made them cheaper,” IEEE-USA President Jim Jefferies said.
The $2,000 outsourcing fee (along with a $2,150 fee on L-1 visas) applies only to firms with more than 50 percent of their workforce on H-1B or L-1 visas, a small percentage of tech employers, including the top outsourcing companies who have come to dominate the H-1B program. Originally used to fund border security in 2010, the fee was extended to help pay the cost for 9/11 first responders health care, but it expired at midnight on September 30.
“Congress should be looking for ways to discourage outsourcing, not make it more profitable.” Jefferies said. Tens of thousands of U.S. citizens per year working as IT professionals, accountants and engineers have been fired and replaced by H-1B workers employed by outsourcing companies. The new employees make far less than the people they are replacing, and the fired employees are often required to train their replacements.
“The fee isn’t enough, of course. Do the math -- the going rate for the kind of work being done at Disney and Southern California Edison was in the $100,000 to $120,000 annual salary range,” Jefferies said. “Congress allows H-1B outsources to pay as little as $60,000 for this work. So paying $2,000 for each H-1B to replace a middle class American worker is embarrassing.” IEEE-USA would like to see a federal investigation into this practice of discriminating against U.S. citizens in favor of H-1B workers, a clear violation of the 1986 law that protects Americans from discrimination based on citizenship.
Please be more specific - I watched the entire video and saw nothing that touches on the not a few alleged "conservatives" who would have us believe mass immigration is good for the nation.
Are you talking about Jeb and the GOPe types?
Even Carson has changed his views on this issue... he’s for ‘guest workers’ to do farm picking because Americans REALLY won’t do that job. But even Carson’s not for open door immigration ... that’s a liberal thing.
They are paying off our boys in Congress. This is not about "liberal companies" whatever that means. This is about our friends in Congress, GOPe, serving their true constituency, the K-street crowd, rather than serving the voters and taxapayers.
“Liberal businesses” could do nothing without the buy-in of the parties controlling the Congress - the Republicans.
Bet they would change their tunes if we outsourced THEIR a$$es, and eliminated their precious pensions.
Week, there always the military, provided you don’t mind fighting for a way of life the Oligarchs are giving away to foreigners.
If only!
Almost all H-1Bs are completely “average” scientists and engineers who take jobs away from completely “average” home grown Americans.
“Elite” foreign scientists and engineers understand their own market value.
They get paid elite salaries, in the USA, or in their home countries.
Even Carson has changed his views on this issue... he’s for ‘guest workers’ to do farm picking because Americans REALLY won’t do that job.
Horse apples. Americans will do almost anything for the right pay.
Give this four minutes of your time zee... you’re talking oranges - I’m talking apples.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE
Liberal high tech companies... you know the names...
Please add me
“Elite” foreign scientists and engineers understand their own market value.
Give this four minutes of your time zee... you’re talking oranges - I’m talking apples.
It's a good video - but it doesn't address zeestephen's point any more than it did mine.
I was explaining the many immigrants (even from Pakistan) who are nurses caring for a friend in a local philly suburb hospital just last night.
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