Posted on 12/11/2015 7:32:15 AM PST by VinL
Sens. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 97% and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)82%together are promoting new legislation to reform the H-1B visa program, after scores of abuses by companies including Disney, Southern California Edison and more.
The bill, the American Jobs First Act of 2015, is essentially an antidote to the woes of the H-1B program. The bill, which represents a crackdown on immigration program abuses by special interests, has several components.
First, it requires companies that use H-1B workers to pay such visa holders “either what an American worker who did identical or similar work made two years prior to the recruiting effort, or $110,000,†whichever is higher. What that does is it takes the incentive to pay foreigners less than Americans away from corporations, thereby ending the ability for the program to be abused in that regard.
Second, the bill requires that within 730 days—two years ..of "an employee strike, an employer lockout, layoffs, furloughs, or other types of involuntary employee terminations other than for cause dismissals," a company cannot bring aboard any H1B labor. That means it wouldn't be able to replace Americans with foreigners. The bill also has more transparency requirements throughout.
Cruz, in an appearance on Breitbart News Daily with Stephen K. Bannon on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel on Friday morning, laid out the importance of the bill.
"Jeff Sessions and I together we launched a major reform bill on the H-1B visa program. As you know,
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
This seems potentially quite important.
Bump to this.
Ted Cruz doing more to please the union guys than Hillary will likely EVER do.
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Senator Ted Cruz 2016 : ABANDON the Political SUICIDE of Increasing H1B Visas (An Open Letter)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3355516/posts
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Wait a minute. He already said he wanted to increase these visas.
It is certainly a good start.
Not sure of the bill, or of Ted Cruz’s motives, but at least this Trump supporter is very much in favor of this.
Big time.
Its easy to write job ads such that no American qualifies. Then go hire the guy you want.
-PJ
Oh no! Is it possible he changed his mind after getting more information?? Heavens to Betsy, whatever shall we do with such a flip flopper who changes his vote based on the will of voters?
Oh...wait.
/SARCASM (heavy duty because I’ve not had coffee yet)
This is typical Cruz behavior. LOL
LMAO. NO.
Senator Cruz official website:
..."In 2013, Sen. Cruz proposed amendments to the "Gang of 8" bill that would strengthen border security, expand green card opportunities, increase high-skilled "H1B" visas",....Was he lying then or is he lying now?
‘Bout time Cruz backed out on his increase of and double talk on H1B visas. Nice to see he finally gets it! I wonder what his big $$ from Club for growth thinks about it.
Ted Cruz: I’ve introduced legislation to increase the number of H1B visas…I want innovators, I want–
Laura Ingraham - But they abuse that…the H1B thing is one of the most abused vehicles that corporations are using today. Disney just laid off a bunch of Americans– I assume you don’t support that? 150 Americans laid off by Disney…bringing in the foreign replacement and they’re training their foreign replacements. I mean, that’s an H1B visa person we need!? I don’t get that…you don’t support the way they did that, do you?
Cruz - I, uh, um, I dont know the facts of that Disney example–
LI - I just told you the facts!
Cruz does seem to be ‘responsive’ to his supporters when they push back on some of his initial topics, ie TPP, H-1B.
Nah. But they arent all that bright anyway.
he backed off that idea to increase visa by 500 percent ... I heard him discuss the “new” h1b visa package in Orlando a few weeks ago ... it was “fantastic” ... I think he actually read my “open letter” ..
Glad Ted’s wised-up on H1-B’s, but the big corporations aren’t going to like him now.
Yeah how dare he be beholden to voters and loyal to the Constitution. What a demon.
lolol. No it is all trump and they can’t handle truth.
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