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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: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:49PM (7 children)
Okay, I have a purely hypothetical question.
Imagine that someone just committed the criminal act of painting a swastika on a Trump tower.
Who should the police be first to suspect:
1. His detractors?
2. His supporters?
That would seem to make it difficult to narrow down the suspects.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @09:58PM (1 child)
His detractors.
The nazis have been emboldened, but they aren't going to tag a trump tower because its already tagged with their leader's name.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @11:16PM
Clever giiirl.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:21AM (4 children)
Imagine that someone just committed the criminal act of painting a swastika on a Trump tower.
Who should the police be first to suspect:
1. His detractors?
2. His supporters?
Shouldn't it be obvious that spray painting a swastika is meant as an act of disrespect? His supporters aren't going to do that.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday April 20 2017, @02:53PM (2 children)
His supporters (some of them) would do it as an act of allegiance. Just google for: "bannon endorsed by nazi party". Among the results, the KKK also endorses hiring of Bannon. All of this speaks volumes. You don't have to make anything up. Their own supporters say the crazy things for you. I could provide links, but I thought the hint on what I googled for would be more useful.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday April 21 2017, @07:57PM (1 child)
His supporters (some of them) would do it as an act of allegiance.
No, I don't buy this ridiculous narrative. Spray painting swastikas is an insult and vandalism. That's disapproval not approval. Supporters aren't suddenly going to get the idea that spray painting it on the side of the Trump building will tell the world that they support Trump.
Just google for: "bannon endorsed by nazi party".
And? Hitler endorsed vegetarianism. Should I be concerned about vegetarianism's ties to the Nazi party?
All of this speaks volumes.
What I find telling here is that you are the second replier here to speak of the quantity of evidence rather than the quality. I don't need volumes of mediocre reasons to own a cat, I need just one good one.
I could provide links, but I thought the hint on what I googled for would be more useful.
It does save me from having to explain the problems with any links you provide. Thanks.
The US media is quite hostile to Trump. If there was really a strong linkage between Trump or his political allies (particularly, a media player like Bannon) and the Nazi party, then that would come out. We wouldn't have to play this game of googling for fringe propaganda.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday April 21 2017, @08:20PM
I don't have to google for fringe propaganda. I get told way too much of it by word of mouth. Some of which, I don't evaluate critically enough. Nobody may paint swastikas as an act of support. (Which I intended to be mostly humorous.) There are plenty of Trump's supporters who identify with or as racists. Also Trump doesn't have to consider those people allies for them to potentially act in bizarre ways that they might believe to be an act of support. I would definitely agree that nobody sane would vandalize a property as an act of support for the owner of that property.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday April 20 2017, @07:50PM
God, you are a fucking idiot. Of course they would. Trump was elected in part due to White Nationalism, and huge swaths of his most rabid supporters are fans of Info Wars, Daily Stormer, Brietbart, etc.
OF COURSE they would tag the tower with Nazi imagery. Why not? They feel that their time has arrived, and by doing that, they announce to all the minorities that the OLD ORDER is back, and you'd better start showing the respect and fealty that they demand. Especially to their race.
The evidence is fucking everywhere you complete moron. Destruction of Jewish cemeteries, burning of Mosques, beating the shit out of Muslim women in hijabs, etc. Do you think the safety-pin movement came from nothing? Or did it come from a massive increase in hate crimes after Trump started his campaign.
Basically the only way you can say something that blissfully unaware, is that you are a White Nationalist yourself pushing a false narrative that racism and bigotry hasn't come roaring back in America.
Fuck you, and burn in hell. As usual.
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