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posted by on Wednesday April 19 2017, @02:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the let-'em-eat-brioche dept.

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.]


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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday April 19 2017, @03:44PM (8 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 19 2017, @03:44PM (#496365)

    Indentured servitude as a form of slavery devalues your fellow man, so in a sense slavery devalues yourself.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday April 19 2017, @04:44PM (6 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday April 19 2017, @04:44PM (#496413)

    Mumble mumble violently imposed monopoly mumble mumble mutually beneficial contracts mumble unicorns mumble rainbow ponies mumble competitive enforcers mumble...
    Nope, still can't figure out how he does it...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @05:39PM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @05:39PM (#496438)

      Man

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @07:15PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @07:15PM (#496497)

        Woman

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @07:35PM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @07:35PM (#496504)

          Aardvark.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @08:39PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @08:39PM (#496533)

            Mardwark

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @09:18PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @09:18PM (#496558)

            Platypus

      • (Score: 1) by charon on Wednesday April 19 2017, @07:27PM

        by charon (5660) on Wednesday April 19 2017, @07:27PM (#496499) Journal
        Speak of the devil!
  • (Score: 2) by NewNic on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:19PM

    by NewNic (6420) on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:19PM (#496467) Journal

    Indentured servitude as a form of slavery devalues your fellow man, so in a sense slavery devalues yourself.

    H1s as used today. No so much in the past.

    I lived in the USA as an H1 non-resident alien twice, going back to my home country (and some others) in between. During my second H1 stint, I was able to change employer, get a green card and eventually become a citizen. No indentured servitude and I don't think that I was a cheap employee: in fact, I am quite certain that I cost my first H1 employer far more than local hires.

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    lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory