Posted on 03/03/2016 10:18:37 PM PST by GeaugaRepublican
"Megyn Kelly asked about highly-skilled immigration. The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay. I remain totally committed to eliminating rampant, widespread H-1B abuse and ending outrageous practices such as those that occurred at Disney in Florida when Americans were forced to train their foreign replacements. I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program. No exceptions."
The O-1 visa still exists for the Manhattan project geniuses.
Most IT projects today look like something run by Howard, Fine, and Howard than the Manhattan project.
I’ve had to work with H1-B & as a manager, I’ve had to work to keep a couple of H1-Bs employed. In my experience, less than 5 percent of the H1-Bs I’ve dealt with were truly worth keeping. After that, the next 15 percent of H1-Bs were cheap, compliant, & indentured servants that didn’t rock the boat. Perfect for today’s useless IT management. The remainder... I would have been better off with Howard, Fine, & Howard.
If these H1-Bs are that talented, why hasn’t the next hot internet company been created in Bangalore?
Again, all it comes down to is price.
Not long ago, a reasonably bright kid would have been hired out of college & trained by their employer for the job. This arrangement worked for a long time. Now, these kids can’t get an interview, due to the H1-B.
We need to go back to the old arrangement AND we need to get the old folks displaced by these H1-Bs working in their careers again.
There is no need for the H1-B at this point. Too many qualified Americans are out of work.
BTW, I received an e-mail for a potential position yesterday. They’re only interested if I have the appropriate visa. As a US citizen, why do I have to put up with this in my country?
Jeb always comes off as a kindergartener....
I used to be a “special” weapons officer and I forgot what that old Cold War term meant too.
Don't doubt that a bit. As far as I am concerned, they were hired under fraudulent auspices.
Not long ago, a reasonably bright kid would have been hired out of college & trained by their employer for the job. This arrangement worked for a long time. Now, these kids can't get an interview, due to the H1-B.
I know that and agree.
We need to go back to the old arrangement AND we need to get the old folks displaced by these H1-Bs working in their careers again.
No argument there either.
BTW, I received an e-mail for a potential position yesterday. They’re only interested if I have the appropriate visa. As a US citizen, why do I have to put up with this in my country?
That employer should be prosecuted for fraud as Cruz H-1B proposal intends to do.
I did not watch the debate, but I am going over the transcript right now.
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A country that is systemically and purposely de industrializing and switching to a pure service/low skilled economy does not need immigration of any kind at all - ever again.
NASA Moon Landings = imported rocket scientists. ‘Nuff said.
Note to Nick....I was replying to a post from you where you were bashing Trump , oh hypocrite.
As for Trump his policies on illegal aliens and deporting with no amnesty go back many years as he wrote in two different books.
Since March 1, you have posted that little nugget (or a variation on it) 42 times.
Reagan was a Democrat in what the 70’s? Nice manipulation of your data there. 30’s and 40’s...please.
Since Trump has been endorsed by Sessions and appointed him leader of his Security Committee, he is more and more adopting Sessions’ stances, and I think that is a good thing. Shows he can learn and take advice from the wiser ones around him.
Trump is aligned with Senator Sessions’ legislation in December.
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“Sessions introduced the bill along with Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. The legislation was inspired by cases at Southern Con Edison and Florida Disney where American workers were forced to train their foreign replacements before being fired.
If the bill passes Congress, H1-B visas would be cut from 65,000 to 50,000.
Ron Hira, an H1-B visa expert at Howard University, said the proposal by Sessions and Nelson would stop companies from taking advantage of the current program as Florida Disney and Southern Consolidated Edison did.
“More than 80 percent of H-1B visas are awarded to workers being paid less than the average wage in their field. Many of those H-1B workers have lower skills than the American counterparts they are going to replace, and the American workers often have to train their H-1B replacements,” he said. “Instead of giving visas to foreign workers with ordinary skills, this bill would allocate the visas only to the most highly skilled foreign workers – making it more difficult for employers to abuse the program.”
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/12/sessions_introduces_bill_to_cu.html
Yes, but you just bashed others. You never actually defend Trump.
What does that have to do with anything?
Cruz is not my man. But more than the issue, it shows that Trump flipflops on everything and can’t be trusted.
Yep. There’s a number of policies of Trump’s that I disagree with but future conservative candidates have a LOT to learn from Trump’s style.
You were trying to make the case for Trump being a Democrat in the same vain as Reagan was.
The Democrat party of the wartime 1930-40s can in no way be compared to the modern day party. Reagan was not promoting a radical left wing agenda when he was a Democrat and when they started to lurch left under FDR and went further post he left the party.
Trump has admitted to being a self identified Democrat in the modern, left wing sense:
“In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat,” - DT, 2004.
They are not the same. Trump was supportive of so many left wing plank positions at one point. He embraced them, Reagan rejected them.
Reagan promoted the Conservative agenda, Trump has done absolutely nothing to promote it pre-June 2015.
Like I said, promote your boy on his own merits. Reagan is in a class by himself and Trump is nowhere near him.
Enforce existing federal protections for American workers: Conduct systematic audits of the companies that have taken advantage of the H-1B visa program during the last 15 years. All companies that have violated the terms of the H-1B visa program will be barred from using it for a period of years. The Attorney General will have authority to prosecute any individual found to have committed H-1B visa fraud, and offending companies will be suspended from receiving government grants and contracts.
If there ever was a textbook case or template on the way Cruz operates it is this.
The application process or "season" is 180 days, April to October. Cruz says he will suspend the program for 180 days, and you can bet it won't be during the processing 6 months of the year.
And since when can an investigation be completed in 180 days, that's usually how long it takes to agree on a font for outgoing communications.
So the program will be suspended, not for the length of an in-depth investigation, but for the six month off period of the h1b application applicable dates.
Cruz will, at the end of the 6 months, apply his tweaks, authorize the attorney general, and the program will proceed as usual.
He is going to investigate and audit this circuitous program, all in 180 days, and citizens will have to believe what he says needs tweaking or changing.
Sound familiar? Sound like way business is done in Washington all the time? If Cruz actually proposed to suspend the program for as long as it took to get at the root of the corruption and do a meaningful audit, he definitely wouldn't put a deceptive 180 day moratorium on it. He would be serious about getting to the bottom of things.
You say, "That's the difference between Cruz and Trump: specifics and accountability under existing law. No action from Congress is needed here."
You're absolutely right. Trump, upon taking Sessions on as his Security Director, has now opted into Sessions' program and stipulations. You might want to notice, too, that he didn't put Sessions' name out there to blunt the incoming. Yep, there is a big difference between Trump and Cruz.
Since Trump has been endorsed by Sessions and appointed him leader of his Security Committee, he is more and more adopting Sessions’ stances, and I think that is a good thing. Shows he can learn and take advice from the wiser ones around him.
Trump is aligned with Senator Sessions’ legislation in December.
— - - - -
“Sessions introduced the bill along with Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. The legislation was inspired by cases at Southern Con Edison and Florida Disney where American workers were forced to train their foreign replacements before being fired.
If the bill passes Congress, H1-B visas would be cut from 65,000 to 50,000.
Ron Hira, an H1-B visa expert at Howard University, said the proposal by Sessions and Nelson would stop companies from taking advantage of the current program as Florida Disney and Southern Consolidated Edison did.
“More than 80 percent of H-1B visas are awarded to workers being paid less than the average wage in their field. Many of those H-1B workers have lower skills than the American counterparts they are going to replace, and the American workers often have to train their H-1B replacements,” he said. “Instead of giving visas to foreign workers with ordinary skills, this bill would allocate the visas only to the most highly skilled foreign workers – making it more difficult for employers to abuse the program.”
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/12/sessions_introduces_bill_to_cu.html
Yeah, sure. He’ll probably have Bill Clinton in his cabinet too. That’s going to show ya something.
I don't believe that. I think Trump is USING the appearance of Sessions and will change his program as soon as it suits him. Trump has already said he will expedite the return of the existing population of illegals ASAP and repeated that desire more than once.
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