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DHS Describes Plan to Cut H-1B Outsourcing, Raise Graduates’ Salaries
breitbart ^ | NEIL MUNRO

Posted on 04/23/2018 5:52:20 PM PDT by davikkm

President Donald Trump’s deputies are planning to shrink the H-1B program and force companies to pay higher wages to American graduates, according to a document from the Department of Homeland Security. The huge H-1B outsourcing program — which now keeps a population of at least 460,000 non-immigrant foreign graduates in U.S. professional jobs — would be shrunk by narrowing the law’s definition of “specialty occupations,” according to the agency document provided to Breitbart News.

The proposed change is huge, said Rosemary Jenks, policy director at NumbersUSA. “If Trump can get done what is in that letter, I think it will be a huge motivator for American high-tech workers to come out and vote” in November, she said.

Polls suggest the H-1B program is very unpopular. An August 2017 poll reported that 68 percent of Americans oppose companies’ use of H-1Bs to outsource U.S.-based jobs that could be held by Americans.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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1 posted on 04/23/2018 5:52:20 PM PDT by davikkm
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Gotta Love Trump...every move the dems make or have made...Trump continues to jerk the rug out from under um.....lmmfao


2 posted on 04/23/2018 5:52:37 PM PDT by davikkm
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Just end it!!! And send all home, end spouse permits. Terminate everyone.


3 posted on 04/23/2018 6:02:21 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: davikkm

This has held salaries of top American software developers down. I work at a Wall Street bank and raises for the last decade run less than 1% per year. For programmers in their late 50’s you are stuck. No one else will hire you and you need the benefits.


4 posted on 04/23/2018 6:07:49 PM PDT by Plumres
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To: davikkm

While I favor stronger restrictions on bringing in the cheaper foreign labor, it really won’t accomplish much since the big tech companies can easily and fairly cheaply move the jobs to India or China or some other third world country.


5 posted on 04/23/2018 6:09:30 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: davikkm
Polls suggest the H-1B program is very unpopular. An August 2017 poll reported that 68 percent of Americans oppose companies’ use of H-1Bs to outsource U.S.-based jobs that could be held by Americans.

Great news. Unfortunately it is extremely popular with the political donor class and therefore the uni-party is going to resist this proposal with everything they’ve got.

6 posted on 04/23/2018 6:11:01 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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“While I favor stronger restrictions on bringing in the cheaper foreign labor, it really won’t accomplish much since the big tech companies can easily and fairly cheaply move the jobs to India or China or some other third world country.”

Then let them. It ain’t the financial benefit, which is why they moved back here. That, and we can stop the importation of said software.


7 posted on 04/23/2018 6:11:30 PM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: davikkm

They have it backwards. Companies should be forced to pay the H1Bs more. Much more. That will take away the incentive to hire them over Americans.


8 posted on 04/23/2018 6:13:00 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: IndispensableDestiny

100% surcharge, used to fund engineering students.


9 posted on 04/23/2018 6:15:58 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: PAR35

Then put tariffs on their stuff! Problem solved.


10 posted on 04/23/2018 6:18:56 PM PDT by vette6387
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While I favor stronger restrictions on bringing in the cheaper foreign labor, it really won’t accomplish much since the big tech companies can easily and fairly cheaply move the jobs to India or China or some other third world country.

I know State Street Bank some years back moved a huge portion of their IT development to Hangzhou, China. Many others are eager to do the same.

11 posted on 04/23/2018 6:21:35 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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If that is their intent it is better for them to follow the labor they want rather than vice versa.


12 posted on 04/23/2018 6:53:06 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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I know State Street Bank some years back moved a huge portion of their IT development to Hangzhou, China. Many others are eager to do the same.

And many of those off-shoring experiments failed miserably.
13 posted on 04/23/2018 7:14:40 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: davikkm

Why the Department of Homeland Security... that should be about things like terrorists and even illegal immigrants.

I would think that this should be under Commerce.


14 posted on 04/23/2018 7:15:40 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: davikkm

H1B bump for later.....


15 posted on 04/23/2018 7:16:27 PM PDT by indthkr
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Offshoring has checkered results. Some of foreign folks employed are quite bright. Some large foreign outsourcing firms are catching up in technology quite well.

But others are trouble waiting to happen.


16 posted on 04/23/2018 7:18:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

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Under Obama, immigration became terror in a very real way.

Its only superficially ‘commerce.’
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17 posted on 04/23/2018 7:18:46 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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But Donald Trump is the president now. I have no earthly idea why you are dragging in an outdated situation except to sound so clever.


18 posted on 04/23/2018 7:20:26 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: davikkm

About time. Each H1-B job authorization should have a tariff of 1 million dollars a year.


19 posted on 04/23/2018 7:23:38 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: CodeToad

Easy enough to say until you start losing jobs because your position is offshored. Let that happen to you when you are near 60 and see how you feel about it then.


20 posted on 04/23/2018 7:36:17 PM PDT by No_Doll_i
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