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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: 4, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday April 19 2017, @03:54PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 19 2017, @03:54PM (#496374)

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/04/18/presidential-executive-order-buy-american-and-hire-american [whitehouse.gov]

    Section 3 is basically ordering some future behaviors of a vague sort and a bunch of reports. The EO doesn't specify how forcefully it'll be enforced nor does it provide numeric beancounter metrics.

    It is a major policy change in that the past couple decades the policy has pretty much been "middle class white people you need to hurry up and die off".

    So its simultaneously meaningless and epoch changing depending how you look at it.

    Its kinda like when Lincoln freed the slaves toward the end of the civil war. On one hand that's shocking policy change coming from the fedgov not even a decade after "Dredd Scott" decision, on the other hand they're not living in the lap of luxury merely because some cracker yankee politician said they're free...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @08:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @08:02PM (#496515)

    And nothing about it prevents companies from closing the req's down here and opening them in a low cost centers , which is very possible for many jobs being done by H1B holders today . . .