Posted on 11/25/2016 9:09:50 AM PST by Kaslin
President-elect Donald Trump’s policies on illegal immigration, particularly on the border wall and cracking down on sanctuary cities, were at the center of his election campaign. Now, advocates of immigration restriction are hoping for reform to H-1B visas that they say are hurting American workers.
The H-1B is a temporary, non-immigrant visa, currently capped at 85,000 visas a year, that allows employers to hire skilled, specialty workers on a temporary basis -- particularly scientists, engineers, or computer programmers.
However, critics say that the system is rife with abuse, and is no longer a limited short-term program to help employers with unexpected labor shortages in niche areas, and has instead become a way to push out American workers in favor of cheap foreign labor.
“Because of lobbying by the Chamber of Commerce and big tech companies, they’ve succeeded in loosening standards and we’ve seen the increasingly common scenario where American workers are fired, and have to train their replacements,” Dan Stein, President of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, told FoxNews.com.
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With the elimination of H1-B visas should also come the elimination of “Diversity hiring.”
IMHO they need to look into the F1 Student Visa program even more than the H1B.
Colleges and Universities can pretty much rubber-stamp an F1. The foreign student gets to live in the US while they study, AND gets a work visa for one year afterwards for purposes of “practical training” (extended to 3 yrs. for some STEM fields).
The idea was for these kids to get some hands-on experience and then go back and build their home countries. In reality most find H1 sponsors and never go home. This is a money-minting scam for low-ranked universities (including online schools). Anyone who can scrape up the tuition basically gets a ticket to the USA.
A lot of these F1 kids are landing jobs with incredibly fake resumes.
particularly scientists = China; engineers = China; or computer programmers = India.
I’d start the US Citizen recruiting process about now.
Businesses need not brace, just look to hire talented, legal Americans.
I wonder how Disney will deal with this. Disney gambled on Hillary and laid off all of those IT personnel and hired India. I’m curious what they will do now.
Salary levels are gonna skyrocket for U.S. STEM graduates, especially when President Trump has a 500% tax placed on foreign workers who service the U.S.
They may need to brace for paying real salaries for real skills.
Should be a simple way to deal with it - just bar transition from an F1 to an H1-B without a period of time out of the US. I.E., can’t apply for an H1-B unless the person isn’t in the US and hasn’t been in the US for at least (say) a year.
As someone who’s 48 with a masters in computer science forced to work freelance I can attest that there is a bias against older white male American IT professionals. These scumbag startups bring in all the Indians and Asians to work for slave pay.
They claim that older IT workers aren’t educated on latest technologies which is BS. We are talking men and women in 40s and early 50s who made their way during the Internet revolution, starting in the 90s. They like to use narrative that these are a bunch of ex IBM mainframers using punch cards or something. So untrue. Those guys and gals were the generation ahead of me and mostly retired now.
I should hope so - corporate globalists have been using legal immigration to gut the American middle class, the pledge to end which practice propelled Donald Trump to the White House.
It's worse than that: pushing out American workers in favor of cheap foreign labor is not an "abuse" but how H-1B was designed and drafted to work.
Not to mention that at the current pace of technological change, "education" matters far less than the ability to learn new technologies on the fly as I and my teammates have been doing.
The goal is to import as many (presumably) Democrat-voting immigrants as possible for the future.
The other thing that needs to get fixed is that foreign nationals' countries pay top dollar tuition for their students to come to the US. This has driven up the cost of a college education at a rate of three times inflation for the past 40 years.
Further eroding the ability of American kids to get an education and later, a good paying job.
The immigrants can get those, after they finish being H1Bs and become citizens.
It's unbelievably biased against white American kids, who have no Affirmative Action programs or quotas to give them parity with the immigrants or the minorities.
The H1B program was created to bring in the “best and brightest” foreign technical talent.
Rarely is that the case anymore.
Employers have consumed the Kool-Aid that the H1B will allow them to bring in someone who is an expert in some technology, and thus they won’t have to invest a penny in training.
In reality what they are buying is a fake resume and a phone interview given by proxy.
Sadly Colleges and Universities will be reluctant to let go of these foreign students since they charge more for them in many cases. Remember, it is not just about diversity but growing the campus and programs and maybe getting your name on a building, that all takes money...
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