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Trump is planning on signing an executive order on Tuesday that will cause a review of the H1-B program. It is just a review, and undoubtedly business interests will step up the pressure, but there are some interesting ideas:
"If you change that current system that awards visas randomly, without regard or skill or wage, to a skill-based awarding, it makes it extremely difficult to use the visa to replace or undercut American workers, because you're not bringing in workers at beneath the market wage," the official said. "So it's a very elegant way of solving systemic problems in the H-1B guest worker visa."
Breitbart of course has an article out (though it reads like they need to hire some native speaking editors) -- still, recent college grads face a huge hurdle:
The federal government releases little data on the many different guest-worker programs, but the available evidence says the national population of white-collar contract workers is up to 1.5 million. That population is roughly twice the population of 800,000 Americans who graduate from college with skilled degrees each year.
And finally, lest people forget that progressives also have issues with H1-B visas, here is Bernie Sanders (a decade ago of course) attacking this ploy to make sure money only trickles up by ensuring low wages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR9QdQIKqMc
[Ed Note: Trump did sign the executive order at a photo op in Wisconsin.]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by hemocyanin on Wednesday April 19 2017, @03:34PM (2 children)
Only if they do something with the report after it comes out. I wouldn't be surprised if it is basically marketing, a way for Trump to claim he's doing something for American workers without doing anything. Sort of like how Warren lambastes banks when there is no real risk of any sanctions against them, as a way to market herself to Democrats.
In the end, we all know where the power is and what happens as a result -- remember the hue and cry by the American public to have their private data monitored, collected, packaged, and sold by Comcast and that lot? Yeah, me neither but that bit of legislation slid through like greased lightening. On the other hand, allowing average citizens to use international markets (buy cheap drugs in Canada) was killed by a bipartisan coalition of Democrats and Republicans. Ultimately, cynicism about this review is in order.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday April 19 2017, @04:31PM
I would extend that to cynicism about anything the clown circus and the houses of congress critters do.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:32PM
Sort of like how Warren lambastes banks when there is no real risk of any sanctions against them, as a way to market herself to Democrats.
Which must be why the banks don't give a damn about her Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. [wikipedia.org]
Oh, wait, they fucking hate it:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/09/investing/gop-war-elizabeth-warren-cfpb-trump/ [cnn.com]
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-17/the-glory-days-of-elizabeth-warren-s-cfpb-are-numbered [bloomberg.com]
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/10/court-rules-consumer-financial-protection-bureaus-structure-is-unconstitutional/503660/ [theatlantic.com]