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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 DannyB on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:35PM (6 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:35PM (#496479) Journal

    If a government, even the best, most benign government with the best possible public interests in mind; if that government is unable to coerce things with the force of law, then it simply is unable to function. It's regulations mean nothing. Laws mean nothing. Taxes to pay for public projects are meaningless.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @07:14PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @07:14PM (#496496)

    Why do you not yet understand that? The problem is one of organization, not enforcement.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 19 2017, @08:22PM (4 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday April 19 2017, @08:22PM (#496524) Journal

      Hey, dumbass, what the fuck do you think "entity that has power to enforce consensual mutually-agreed-upon contracts" is called? That's right: government. Even if it doesn't call itself that, at the end of the day, that is government.

      Your ancap retardation is a shallow, literal-minded, shortsighted third-grader's caricature of a free society. 30 seconds of logical thought would show anyone with a shred of honesty how that system would quickly collapse into dictatorship.

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      • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @08:43PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @08:43PM (#496536)
        • There is very little support in a western society for strong contract agreements; it's all smoke and mirrors that hide the ultimate truth: "The outcome is whatever the government says".

        • What makes an organization a "government"? I'll tell you: An organization becomes a government when it allocates resources by imposition, rather than by agreement (including agreement in advance). In a given jurisdiction, any such organization which has the greatest claim to a monopoly on such imposition is the organization that people usually call "government".

        • (Score: 1) by charon on Wednesday April 19 2017, @11:58PM

          by charon (5660) on Wednesday April 19 2017, @11:58PM (#496608) Journal
          You appear to be saying something, but really you're hiding behind vague words. Tell us all what precisely you mean by "strong contract agreements". What makes them strong? What would make them weak? What happens when someone cheats? What happens when everyone cheats? Who enforces the letter of the agreement, and (the tricky part) how do they do it without using violence or threat?
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @12:32AM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @12:32AM (#496618)

          What makes an organization a "government"? I'll tell you: An organization becomes a government when it allocates resources by imposition, rather than by agreement (including agreement in advance).

          I guess you have never heard of this thing called democracy? Democracy actually does work by agreement, at least in theory; that is what that whole idea of "consent of the governed" is all about. Granted, it isn't perfect (nothing ever is) but that is precisely the way it is supposed to work. You should read up on it sometime.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:44AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:44AM (#496790)

            Equal votes for unequal minds.

            It's based around the notion that it's OK for one group to dictate to another group.