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Trump said Spoke out against Zuckerberg who called to make to make legal immigration easier especially for H-1B visas. Trump said he would make employers have to pay H-1B visa employees more to discourage businesses and he wants tech jobs to be first offered to Americans before H-1B applicants can be considered.
I live in San Francisco and I can tell you there is a shortage of programmers in the US and that is why companies want to make H-1B visas more available. I don't like government controlling these kinds of decisions, it should be the business's decision, so in these regard, he is more of a Democrat than even Sanders!
Hmmmmm I applaud Trump for saying what he believes, but Conservatives will hate this idea. I'm a moderate and I also hate it. We need to make legal immigration more available while cutting down on illegal immigration. We should encourage educated people to move to the US.
Trump said Spoke out against Zuckerberg who called to make to make legal immigration easier especially for H-1B visas. Trump said he would make employers have to pay H-1B visa employees more to discourage businesses and he wants tech jobs to be first offered to Americans before H-1B applicants can be considered.
I live in San Francisco and I can tell you there is a shortage of programmers in the US and that is why companies want to make H-1B visas more available. I don't like government controlling these kinds of decisions, it should be the business's decision, so in these regard, he is more of a Democrat than even Sanders!
Hmmmmm I applaud Trump for saying what he believes, but Conservatives will hate this idea. I'm a moderate and I also hate it. We need to make legal immigration more available while cutting down on illegal immigration. We should encourage educated people to move to the US.
You really believe businesses should decide American immigration and work permit policy? Umm no
I have some unemployed programmers as my friends. They were fired after their companies imported cheap labor from India. I think we should close ALL H1b immigration even if it would cost some tech companies money.
Trump wants to raise the compensation level of any foreigners hired to make it less attractive to hire them to take jobs away from American citizens. High tech employers are gaming the system, following outright deceptive and illegal practices, and putting our citizens out of work. Rubio's immigration sellout was written by them and for them. Trump is, once again, right on target.
I have some unemployed programmers as my friends. They were fired after their companies imported cheap labor from India. I think we should close ALL H1b immigration even if it would cost some tech companies money.
So we can't get jobs in janitorial work because of the illegals and if we go to college, we can't get those jobs because of the H1B. Ah, something isn't right there.
I really don't know the answer to this, but are US programmers considered less qualified (worse) than foreign programmers getting these visas, or is there a shortage of qualified programmers in the US? Or is it purely a labor cost issue? Maybe it's hard to get an unbiased answer, but give me your thoughts if you are knowledgeable about the industry.
I have some unemployed programmers as my friends. They were fired after their companies imported cheap labor from India. I think we should close ALL H1b immigration even if it would cost some tech companies money.
Totally agree.
If a job doesn`t pay enough to attract an American, it can remain unfilled until it does.
When Trump says to pay "more" he means that he has to pay them the REAL market value instead of the value pricing that workers have been paid.
There is a shortage of good programmers in some areas. That is true. And if companies really need these employees they will still be able to get them at the same price they would have paid to hire a qualified American. Not at a discount.
I have some unemployed programmers as my friends. They were fired after their companies imported cheap labor from India. I think we should close ALL H1b immigration even if it would cost some tech companies money.
H1B is fine, it just needs to be closed off to certain countries and sectors of the economy. We did the same to nurses from the Philippines, we put a moratorium on new visas for skilled RNs from the Philippines, and now American RNs have a much better chance of landing jobs. I'm very positive that the SEIU had a decision in this, as nurses are highly organized like teachers. Lesson learned perhaps
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