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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: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday April 19 2017, @04:17PM (7 children)
I should add that they originally came as H1-B workers, but were obviously not H1B when they passed the test, because our obtuse immigration rules would never allow that.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bob_super on Wednesday April 19 2017, @04:53PM (6 children)
Yes, you need to go through the Green Card stage for a few years first.
Side note: If you came to do code/engineering work, taking the citizenship test is passing the test.
They give you a booklet of answers, don't require you to know all of them, and unless you have a terrible translator or memory, you're going to pass.
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:14PM (5 children)
Even more hillarious: taking the language test for someone born and raised in the UK.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:40PM (4 children)
Poor bastards, how could they ever pass? Colour? It's COLOR moron :)
(Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Wednesday April 19 2017, @07:53PM (2 children)
It is usually lifts, lorries, flats, and hundreds and thousands that fuck up the British on that part of the test.
T-Shirts and bumper stickers [zazzle.com] to offend someone
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @09:07PM (1 child)
tannoy snog chips boot biscuits knickers knackered woohoo
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @02:02AM
Spam, spam, eggs, bacon, and spam,
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @01:15AM
and it's neighbourhood you twat!