Let Spouses of H-1B Visa Holders Work In US, Says White House

Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "Carolyn Lochhead reports in the SF Chronicle that the White House has announced a plan allowing spouses of H-1B visa holders to work in the United States, a coup for Silicon Valley companies that have been calling for more lenient rules for immigrants who come to the United States to work in technology. 'The proposals announced today will encourage highly skilled, specially trained individuals to remain in the United States and continue to support U.S. businesses and the growth of the U.S. economy,' says Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. 'A concurrent goal is for the United States to maintain competitiveness with other countries that attract skilled foreign workers and offer employment authorization for spouses of skilled workers. American businesses continue to need skilled nonimmigrant and immigrant workers.'

Currently, spouses of H-1B visa holders are not allowed to work unless they obtain their own visa but tech companies have been calling for more H-1B visas, and supporters of the rule change argue that it will bring in more talented workers. Critics say they believe expanding the H-1B visa program will allow lower-paid foreign workers to take American jobs. The plan immediately drew fire from Republicans. Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who sits on the Judiciary Committee, accused the administration of acting unilaterally to change immigration law and bring in tens of thousands of potential competitors with Americans for jobs. 'Fifty million working-age Americans aren't working,' Sessions said in a statement, adding that as many as 'half of new technology jobs may be going to guest workers. This will help corporations by further flooding a slack labor market, pulling down wages.'"

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Re:seems like a back door

[sillybilly]

As long as they are not muslim, because muslims have serious religious issues with back doors. Which is probably why Alexander the Great's Persian wife killed his ass, not by a poisoned arrow, but by a poisoned mushroom dinner, a mushroom which looks like an arrow, and must have been misinterpreted in translation through the ages. Her upbringing taught her good morals, including sins similar to Sodom and Gonorrah. He had too many wives of his own kind too, so he wasn't totally in love with her, he killed some family members of hers, even if distant ones, he was trying to make her children learn Greek instead of their own mother tongue, he was bisexual like most Greek men of the time, including not having a problem with fucking sheep - there is a story of his army of male lovers marching through Anatolia, coming across a herd of sheep, and why do the same stinky hole day after day, variety is the spice of life, something fresh and exciting, like sheep-booty - all he really needed was a warm hole. So she probably had a religious problem with taking it in the back door, or sharing a dick with him, alternatively sucking it after pulling it out of his male lover's ass, and his Greek dick was too small (just look at all the statues), only good for anal sex, when she was used to bigger dick in her population, so she kill his ass, she didn't want him polluting her gene pool.

By the way the biggest issue facing the Greeks was sex, and overpopulation, which is why they had to start colonies in Sicily and southern Italy, like Syracuse (Archimedes lived there), Constanta, Cyrene, and most of it them Anatolia=Asia Minor, and the encroachment of these Asia Minor colonies on the indigenous populations was what really invited the Persians and Darius over, which invited Alexander and his Greek army over to Persia. There was constant racial disharmony between the Philistine colony Greeks of Israel, living in 5 city states, Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gath, with stories such as David and Goliath being representative, also in Cyrene at one time the jews killed all the Greeks and danced with their intestines in their necks to celebrate, so the Persian semites sort of came over to the aryan Greeks after continuous colonization harassment from the Greeks, and the victory at Marathon was a turning point for the Greeks, then Hannukah is a celebration of not letting yourself be hellenized, under a hellenic king left by Alexander, but maintaining your identity, language and culture to which you have a right to do. Also Alexandria in north Egypt had a library established that held vast knowledge of ancient civilizations, but it was burned down by a muslim conqueror, saying it's either in the Quran, and then it's superfluous, or it's not in the Quran, then it's dangerous. Also the Iron Pillar of Delhi was shot at with cannons and withstood it a few times by muslim conquerors - there have always been continuous racial disharmony for millenia now, a lot of it having to do with immigration and encroaching on other people's territories, because of overpopulation, and because of sex. By the way a lot of creativity and perversion seems to go hand in hand, as sexually high functioning always horny and perverted people seem to also be very creative. There is two sides to everything. Sex, and population control issues are still here today, just like in the ancient world, and the Greeks finally found a solution, when they discovered silphium, as shown at http://www.damninteresting.com...

The prized plant became such a key pillar of the Cyrenean economy that its likeness was stamped upon many of the city's gold and silver coins. The images often depicted a regal-looking woman sitting in a chair, with one hand touching the herb and her other hand pointing at her genitals. The plant was known as silphium or laserwort, and its heart-shaped fruit purportedly brought the ancient world a highly sought-after freedom: the opportunity to enjoy sex with very little ri