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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @10:02PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @10:02PM (#496581)

    I simply believe it will come and is unavoidable.

    You've heard the term, "self-fullfilling prophecy?"

    Government is fundamentally nothing more than a shared belief. If enough people believe it will collapse, then due to their inaction in response to actual crises for fear of "throwing good after bad," it will collapse. Nihilism like yours is the primary enabler of collapse.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @03:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @03:19AM (#496672)

    ohh nooooeeeessss! what would we do without career thieves to try to steal from us everything that makes us human! fuck those parasites. all the chicken shits who fund them are the problem.

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday April 20 2017, @03:09PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 20 2017, @03:09PM (#496878) Journal

    It's not self fulfilling prophecy. I think Phoenix666 (552) above said it best:

    There are only so many times in a historically short span of time that you can vote for a complete change of government, seeking fundamental change, and not get it, repeatedly, before the reality you're pointing out sinks in.

    Obama: Change we need
    Trump: Make America Great Again
    Two big changes mandated by the people, in different directions. Yet the people seem to perceive their problems are not being fixed. I'm sure the 1% behind the scenes are laughing themselves silly as the people are deeply divided, the politicians are deeply divided, and everyone is fighting each other while they make out like bandits on the back of everyone else.

    I don't have to do anything to make it all collapse. I simply have an opinion that it will. I don't want it to. But I am able to not let what I want (or what I don't want) to affect my evaluation.

    --
    People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.