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Twenty-five years ago, President George H. W. Bush signed into law the Immigration Act of 1990. Instead of reforming the corrosive effects of the Immigration Act of 1965, an act that birthed the mass immigration system we have today, the 1990 act made the situation dramatically worse and make it less likely Americans would fill American jobs.
The act raised the annual immigration ceiling from 530,000 to 700,000 (excluding other types of legal entry like refugee admissions) while creating a coterie of new immigrant and guestworker visas, mostly for semi-skilled and unskilled workers.
Perhaps the most controversial creation of the 1990 act was the H-1B guestworker program. This "grandfather of all American worker sellouts," according to Michelle Malkin and John Miano in their latest book on the subject, is taken up mostly by bachelor degree-holders from India (where such degrees take only three years) and, according to critics, was really designed not for the "best and brightest" but simply for "ordinary people, doing work."
The H1B program has been a disaster for the majority of Americans. The only ones it has benefited is the top executives and shareholders on Wall Street.
If you want to see one of the causes for the Soviet Style Income Inequality we have in this country, this is it!
Big Business in Bed with Big Government tailoring the markets to their whim rather than working within the markets like everyone else has to.
As a heads up, Cruz was all for it until it became politically destructive and then he flip flopped, but one of his top donors is still the Open Border Lobby.
We need to do it like Japan, the Government there allows companies to hires those who have a visa however they pay 25% more to each foreigner they hire, they do not have a oversized foreigner workforce for a reason which is that.
At least Donald Trump is on the right path, but I hope it is not more Hope and Change talk..
Trump says
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The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class Americans – including immigrants themselves and their children – to earn a middle class wage. Nearly half of all immigrants and their US-born children currently live in or near poverty, including more than 60 percent of Hispanic immigrants. Every year, we voluntarily admit another 2 million new immigrants, guest workers, refugees, and dependents, growing our existing all-time historic record population of 42 million immigrants. We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers in order to: help wages grow, get teenagers back to work, aid minorities’ rise into the middle class, help schools and communities falling behind, and to ensure our immigrant members of the national family become part of the American dream.
Its a complex topic, thats difficult for people like Cruz to see. He is surrounded by the wealthy, and this topic is where the most educated ones in high tech, that many respect intellectually are telling him that we need H1B's desperately. And it IS a complex topic in many ways.
Its truly damaged us though.
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Originally Posted by J746NEW
We need to do it like Japan, the Government there allows companies to hires those who have a visa however they pay 25% more to each foreigner they hire, they do not have a oversized foreigner workforce for a reason which is that.
Would not work. We are supposed to pay them the same here, but this is the trick.
Need a sr. software engineer? No problem, just change the job title to "Computer systems analyst", and put the requirements in. Voila, that 100K job? Just turned into 75,982.
Its a complex topic, thats difficult for people like Cruz to see. He is surrounded by the wealthy, and this topic is where the most educated ones in high tech, that many respect intellectually are telling him that we need H1B's desperately. And it IS a complex topic in many ways.
Its truly damaged us though.
Would not work. We are supposed to pay them the same here, but this is the trick.
Need a sr. software engineer? No problem, just change the job title to "Computer systems analyst", and put the requirements in. Voila, that 100K job? Just turned into 75,982.
Either way it goes.
It will be a continuous war against the top elite and then there is everyone else.
These policies will ensure the everyone else side will grow.
People like Sanders and Trump are the consequences of those policies.
Remember that Disney laid off hundreds of IT workers in Orlando and replaced them with imports with H1B visas.
When travel or vacation planning, thinking about what movie to see, or buying ridiculously expensive merchandise for the kiddies, keep in mind what Disney has done and don't book their cruises, don't go to their parks, hotels, or movies, and don't buy any Disney merchandise.
Remember that Disney laid off hundreds of IT workers in Orlando and replaced them with imports with H1B visas.
When travel or vacation planning, thinking about what movie to see, or buying ridiculously expensive merchandise for the kiddies, keep in mind what Disney has done and don't book their cruises, don't go to their parks, hotels, or movies, and don't buy any Disney merchandise.
Boycott the bastards. I am.
Yep.
Already there with you.
But even more importantly, spread the word around as well and vote accordingly as well.
We need to act more than just on what we buy, but also do like they do via Public Relations and Politics.
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