The scumbag Silicon Valley Hillary supporting CEOs are the ones shipping in cheap labor from foreign countries to steal American jobs. Trump proves he’s all talk once again. How many campaign promises can he break before the Trumpbots realize he’s a phony?
During a tour of a tool factory in Kenosha, Wisconin, President Trump signed an executive order reviewing the H-1B visa program. The initiative allows companies to fill jobs with skilled foreign workers and it has come under scrutiny in recent years with detractors claiming it has driven down wages for Americans. Trump in particular has criticized employers for abusing it in order to avoid dipping into the expensive U.S. talent pool. Tuesday’s executive order is actually fairly modest, falling short on abolishing the H-1B visa with any recommended changes from the review likely to take years to implement.
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85,000 H-1B visas are issued every year and 100,000 more are extended or re-issued. Some of America’s biggest tech companies including Google, Intel and Microsoft, are highly reliant on skilled foreign workers placed through the scheme. They are more than likely breathing sighs of relief today given the limited nature of the order but they could be at risk if the review ends up impacting the program. The workers most at risk of any changes include 126,691 visa holders from India and another 21,657 from China, according to State Department data. Last year, 82 percent of all H-1B visas were issued to recipients from India and China.
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The H1-B scam has been a constant topic for 8 fukkin years. CONgress does NOTHING, Trump pulls a smoke and mirrors hollow move with his EO that will do NOTHING. Why bother paying these crooks big money/pensions NOT to look out for our best interest?
Third World Shitehole here we come………
From above, “The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa that allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations.”
Well, BS.
What about the permanent U.S. workers doing their job for many years and getting replaced by a H-1B.
1. It isn’t Specialty jobs – these were jobs being satisfactorily accomplished by American citizens; it wasn’t due to a lack of qualified workers – they were already staffed by qualified workers.
2. It isn’t temporarily hire – the U.S. citizen’s job wasn’t ‘temporary’, it was full-time.
Corporations cheated and used much cheaper labor – that is the scam.
fuck trump. cocksucker is a two faced piece of shit that is only out for his own best interest. this was evident in the way he ran his campaign. he ruthlessly cut down anybody that opposed him, smearing them even if they were insignificant to the election. he has no integrity or honor.
this country is certifiably insane. and fuck anyone on this website that supports him.
So, procrastinator, let me guess: You’ve been thinking about changing your moniker but you’ve decided to wait? Right?
How curious is it that this very morning two truck loads of, Spanish speaking only, tree trimmers, contracted by PG&E, arrived across the street to clear branches near power lines in a residential area? Didn’t know that Mexico had a surplus of tree trimmers that are badly needed here in Mexifornia…which begs another question, do they have tree’s in Mexico?
The H1-B should be replaced by the H-B visa – for Hot Babes.
The H-1B visa category really is a total scam these days. I know because I used to adjudicate them. One Indian IT worker looks exactly like the next on paper. There’s nothing special about them despite what shitbags like Bill Gates would have you believe. I think the H-1B visa category probably started out for legitimate reasons way back in the day just like so many other visa categories as well, but over time it has been twisted and watered down by Congress, multinational corporations, commerce department, special interest groups, etc. There’s no way we couldn’t replace the majority of these guys with US workers and never skip a beat, but the corporate overlords really hate that idea. And it’s already too late to do anything serious about it this year as all of the 2017 applications were just filed in the first week of April. And based on Trump’s dismal flip-flopping so far, I wouldn’t expect anything meaningful to get done next year either. But hey, some call me cynical.
A simple supply and demand question: If the need for ‘talented’ software people is so great – then how come our salaries and consulting fees are going down?
As a software person, I’ve witnessed this first hand. The employers import the dot-head, half-assed code-monkeys, thinking they will do it on the cheap. In reality, most of them know nothing, except how to mimic. Their culture is to lie. They will tell you anything, never deliver, and then tell you ‘two weeks’.
And once a dot-head gets into management – they will hire only more dot-heads.
It just couldn’t be more obvious. So, why does this thing persist? That question was a joke, BTW.
The good news is, those dots make an excellent place to aim.
I appreciate the “concern” about the HB-1 Visa issue and Trump’s EO. But can you guys knock if off and return to reality? Hillary damn sure wasn’t going to touch the HB-1 program AT ALL. Neither was Jeb! or Cruz or Littl’ Marco. None of ’em.
Why the hate? It’s like yelling at clouds. This is a Congress problem and a Congress fix. Any administration can only try and lead and push for reform. Trump IS doing that. At least he’s calling attention to it and asking for a review. Seeds are being planted for later. If anything can get done on this, it will happen several years from now, but go ahead and keep screeching about broken promises and scary clouds. Good grief.
“But can you guys knock if off and return to reality?”
1). The path trend leads to downsizing Federal agencies and reallocating funds to prioritize capital structure that has been severely neglected for decades, severe austerity, and/or war and rationing.
2). Trump picked a Progressive Republican as Vice President, and his staff-cabinet picks by a factor of 5 to 1 are opposed to downsizing Federal agencies, reigning in the catalysts requiring sacrificing rights for security, and prioritizing capital structure.
These actions:
-Guarantee attempts to change the path trend’s path to severe austerity or war and rationing are sabotaged.
-Path trend course correction away from severe austerity or war and rationing becomes impossible, and they become inevitable in a vain attempt to turn the corrupt sole superpower status as sole power status the GDP bubble mandates.
You do realize Russia, China, and Iran can militarily blockade OPEC exports via the Strait of Hormuz, Horn of Africa particularly the Red Sea, and Russian gas-oil exports entirely? To minimize the rapid increase in energy costs and gas per gallon rapidly increasing towards $20 Dollars per gallon, domestic production of oil-gas must be increased through deregulation and best to also exit the Paris Accord while also deploying US forces to Somalia to seek ensuring a sea lane for OPEC exports exists.
3). The entire premise is to enable Trump to say ‘I tried’, and this is called ‘easier to beg forgiveness than get permission. You’ve already acknowledged it in your initial statement:
” Hillary damn sure wasn’t going to touch the HB-1 program AT ALL. Neither was Jeb! or Cruz or Littl’ Marco. None of ’em.”
If policy actions and policy catalysts only differ in the manner, they are advertised; this is a difference without distinction. So, you’re saying that at the end of the day; Trump is no different than President Hillary Clinton.
“Seeds are being planted for later.”
Old school measurements place over 80% of GDP a bubble and historically boom-bust cycle occurs after reaching 93% of GDP.
So goes the world’s reserve currency status, so goes the GDP bubble. This requires simultaneously considering the global economy as national interests as national security, and this requires smashing China’s AIIB banking system and the BRICS bloc.
By the way, the longer the path trend is continued; the better shot Progressive Democrats have to better align their sexism accusation in 2020 under ‘difference without distinction’. Think it through, if the difference without distinction rests in narrative, skin tone, gender, and etc, you amplify the accusation attack utilized in Alinsky tactics. Think it through…
Trump picked the Church Lady as VP.
I agree. Besides, who is saying that the “review is likely to take years to implement” anyway? How do they know? These people who start bitching about every time Trump is unable to immediately fulfill his promises in the way they expect ought to grow the fuck up. And unless they were among the very few who actually predicted his victory, I’m not sure I have that much confidence in their assessments of Trump or what he is likely to do. It hasn’t even been 100 days yet. Chill out.
Jimmie, people aren’t “bitching about every time Trump is unable to immediately fulfill his promises in the way they expect”. It’s more a case of people bitching about Trump turning out to be Hillary when he campaigned as a maverick outsider who would make some changes.
Shine his shoes while you’re down there.
Let me correct something for you – this is a PEOPLE of this country problem. NOT a congress problem. If the people in this country would stop believing the stupid excuses that the liars in Washington keep shoveling down our throats of why all of these visa’s are needed, it would end tomorrow. The problem is that the shoppers at Walmart (that shop at Walmart because they can’t afford anywhere else) have no problem buying cheap foreign goods, but at the same time will rail about how they hate China. They will reelect an asshat like John McWar yet rail against our ‘occupation’ of other countries. They will have no problem saying that we need more millions in bond money, for the ‘children’ of course and voting as such in the next local proposal, but at the same time say taxes are too high.
The problem, unfortunately is US. H1B visa is just the manifestation of the fact that EVERYONE wants their cheap shit, and everyone simultaneously wants more government largess as long as someone else pays for it.
I can see it from the companies perspective, and you can too. Does not mean it is right, just that it is necessary. Whom would you hire if wall street continuously wants more profits, the government continuously wants more money in taxes, the public wants cheaper shit, and students in this country ‘need’ a certain salary just to keep up with inflation (caused by us BTW) and high student loan debt (again a product of us). Other countries workers seem rather attractive in those circumstances, as they don’t have the baggage of US citizens caused BTW by our OWN institutions.
What we need that would solve all of this is pretty simple: a true free market, a currency that actually was just a medium of exchange and not a ‘policy tool’, and the rule of law. Those three simple things would immediately and quickly solve this, among many other problems. However, it would hurt someone, probably a lot of someones, and that is not acceptable, by many, not just the 1% or the politicos. So, we continue to bitch about this program or that being the ’cause’ to make ourselves feel better so that we can continue to get our piece of the pie and free shit collectively.
Unc, Hillary never even hinted that she would do anything about it. Trump, however, made it part of his package of lies to voters during his campaign. That’s where the anger over broken promises comes from.
True, it’s Congress’ problem, but Trump signs an EO which does nothing to “lead and push for reform”. If you want to run cover for Trump, prepare to be as busy as a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest.
I’m ready. Heh
Wanna round up 3000 H1-Bs, all “temporary” for over 5 years, most much much longer ? Come on down to the NASA & NOAA headquarters in GreenBelt Maryland. All of ’em on Federal projects, nearly all working on global warming and similar stuff. Half of the whole place are non-citizens.
Yep. Nothing will get done. On the ground here in north Dallas. Got laid off in 2010 by an outsourcing company that had taken over a family run company. Was fortunate enough to land on my feet at 15% pay cut. New company then bought by an multinational. When we hire, nothing but H1-B choices in the pile of resumes.
Go into Costco in Lewisville or Plano at any given time. Feels like you are in a foreign country.
Lived in Plano across the street from the Heritage Yards complex…….Indian and Asians working in the Legacy area all over. Was EDS now HP…….close them.
The fact of an election can have the effect of changing the frame of reportage that happened on the campaign. So, when the new president began vacating positions he had taken on the campaign trail, I began going back and rereading some stories to see what I had missed or dismissed at the time.
I ran smack into a story from Bloomberg, March 6, 2016, by Jesse Drucker: “Trump Tower Funded by Rich Chinese Who Invest Cash for Visas.” This isn’t about H-1B; it is about EB-5 Visas. 8500 of 10,000 of these issued each year go to overseas Chinese, who pay $500k apiece for the Visas, then begin moving their family members into the U.S. The money is held as some kind of deposit that is said to be tantamount to a zero interest loan to the landlord/guarantor, or something like that. Presumably, other readers may know more specifically about this. Apparently this program is controversial, as some have suggested it could potentially be abused for money laundering purposes.
I have often wondered where some of the capital flight out of China has been going. According to the article cited above, Jared Kushner as well as the old man could be positioned on the receiving end. If so, it is at least a substantial, potential conflict of interest, especially given the relationship the president has established with President Xi of China. I would hope there would be no element of coercion between the two, but the inconsistent behavior demonstrated after they shared chocolate cake together is suggestive. While trying not to suggest that Trump Tower is like Bertram’s Hotel, nevertheless something does seem a bit too good to be true, or at least somewhat odd.
The whole situation is even worse when you consider all of the college students being sold a bill of goods about how they need to get a STEM degree because that is where the jobs are. Too bad they don’t see that the jobs are there all right but just not for them. But please do take out that 50K loan for that degree because those college administrators, bankers, et al gotta pay for their yachts.
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How ’bout all those American citizen EE degree holders still in hock to their eyeballs with student loans whose jobs are being robbed by the dot-heads? That’s the tragedy of this story.
EE’s mostly order parts from catalogs.
Where do you think all our Indian physicians come from?
WHO is stupid enough to think a medical degree from Bangalore costs the same as one from Northwestern?
We’re getting overrun by dothead doctors, who are here to milk Medicare for all it’s worth.
H1B visa’s 11-20 MILLON illegals most speaking spainish meanwhile MS13 has amassed a criminal army of near 10,000 and take note the liberal fools that said you cannot deport millions BULL SHIT ! The MS13 offspring have trained in our military and are now training gang members . Yes I know they are citizens now blah blah blah . Many Hispanics born here from illegals are Americans and many are not !
President Trump seems to be attempting to fulfill his promise to save our country from itself . Sadly he is being fought every inch of the way . I know he is a savy business man and my one major criticism of him was: I don’t think he understands how bad the problems have gotten in America because the visa/illegal and low pay no benefit employment and the industries that have been wiped out as if they were carpet bombed really is . For 40 years many have said stop you are allowing the profit intrest of the investor class (Trump Buddies and Customers) to destroy the middle class ! The response was we can get it done cheaper or those damn unions want to much and as with any spiraling fall gravity takes over and the result is crash . Who paid the taxes for the police and schoolteachers salary and benefits ? It was not a greeter at Walmart or an illegal cutting the grass or now working every construction site in America . People use your eyes it’s everywhere every concrete worker is brown skinned 5 foot nothing ! Now tell me Americans won’t work those jobs BULL SHIT . Americans just want more money and benefits than employers are willing to offer .
We have not truly trained the number of people in the mechanical trades necessary to make America great Again . I fear it’s to late we are now like a starving man eating his own hand now or each other !
I had a debate with an Indian (dot) physician once. This guy couldn’t see that he was a PARASITE in our country. It never occurred to him that he was a highly-educated WETBACK, brought into the USA by a massive vertically-integrated Health System (thanks, Obamacare) because they can pay him less than they need to pay some guy educated and trained in the US, who probably racked up $500,000 in school loans.
THEY ALL HAVE TO GO BACK.
This is my home. I have nowhere else to go. Everyone who is a “fill-in-the-blank”-American, even if 3rd generation US born, has to GO HOME. This is NOT their home.
When the time comes, they’ll leave voluntarily or stuck on the end of a bayonet.