DHS Describes Plan to Cut H-1B Outsourcing, Raise Graduates’ Salaries

breitbart ^ | NEIL MUNRO

[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.

[CodeToad]

Read my comment again. I wasn’t supporting offshoring. I HATE it. Illegal H1B acts are made without prosecution all the time.

Trumps needs to get on this immediately.

[SoConPubbie]

Some of foreign folks employed are quite bright.

No argument there, but the landscape is littered with the failures of off-shoring, and where it has been successful, the cost differential is not all that great because of the vast sums of money that US companies must invest to insure software quality and delivery at an respectible amount of time.

[StolarStorm]

please please please!!!

[No_Doll_i]

So Sorry I misread! My bad, it will not happen again!!

This is me slinking off to a dark corner.

[PAR35]

Because everyone knows that there’s no risk in having the Peoples’ Liberation Army know more about your computer systems than you do.

[zeugma]

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.

Somewhat. A bunch of companies have discovered how horribly inefficient and ultimately destructive to business offshoring is. Get rid of H1B, and you really are putting a big dent in this crap.

[CodeToad]

No need. I like people who will put it out there for American workers!

[NorthMountain]

President Donald Trump’s deputies are planning to shrink the H-1B program

Good start.

Shrink it to ZERO.