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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: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @02:41PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @02:41PM (#496319)

    they need to higher someone with a brain.

    Ooooh. Ouch. I, too, hate when that happens; all of the power of your statement has just been blown away like a fart in the wind.

    The Universe loves itself some irony.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @08:04PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @08:04PM (#496517)

    As much as I like your comment (I consider it to be a form of hire education, regarding proper selection of employees etc...)

    It should be noted that the H1B issue has primarily been considered to have been caused by the republican party.

    "Progressives" have been complaining about this for some time, with the exception of other helpful resources like Lou Dobbs, who has been going on about this for close to 20 years if not longer.

    The real cause, though, are business executives. It doesn't seem to matter who is in office; the only ones that have wanted to do something about it are those not presently in office.

    To see Trump look into this as a true issue is not going to remove any animosity he may have generated due to other actions of his, but it goes a long way to help smooth over the bumps that exist.

    At least in a case like this, if Americans in the IT industry can get and reliably keep a job, maybe they wouldn't need subsidies with the ACA when they are forced to be consultants because companies don't want the baggage of employees and the benefits/entitlements people seem to demand. It could be they actually might be able to afford the insurance!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @11:07PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @11:07PM (#496602)

      Trump isn't now just looking into the issue; this H1-B visa stuff was a major part of his campaign, but you "progressive" fools never bother to actually listen to what any opposition candidate has to say.

      Also, why are there benefits/entitlements demanded of companies? Well, because of decades of governmental meddling: Look up the history of wage caps put in place during WWII for the beginnings of the Health Care nightmare. It's ALWAYS government that is at fault.