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Trump Targets the Abuse of H-1B Visas
An anonymous reader writes: As part of Trump's comprehensive immigration overhaul, his plan not only addresses immigrants who enter or stay in the country illegally, but also the H-1B visa program and its well-documented abuses. Parts of the proposal include requirements to offer positions to U.S. STEM graduates and effectively requiring a minimum wage for hiring out of the country that would make it prohibitive to do so.
I'm starting to like this Trump guy.
The H1-b visa is government meddling in the free market because of lobbying by tech firms who wanted to increase the supply of workers to reduce wages.
No free market of labour would mean that anyone who could get a job offer in the USA could come in. Not many people would want this!
"Trump will be the first alpha maleish candidate we've had since at least Kennedy"
Did you forget Reagan?
What on earth makes you think an H1B worker "isn't free to leave for a higher paying job"?
As someone in the US on an H1B, I can assure you, changing jobs is trivially easy (once you live in the bay area, and have something like "Google", "Uber" or "Apple" on your CV, everyone wants you). The process of changing jobs on an H1B involves exactly what it would do for a US citizen - go and interview, get the job, move. The only gotcha is that the other company must be willing to sponsor taking over the H1B (which is a tiny cost compared to the wage they'll be paying you).
Why do you think a businessman would be for a free market? Businessmen prefer regulation in their favor over free markets any day.
This "businessman" has driven his various companies bankrupt on at least 3 occasions, and fancies himself a self-starter when he inherited all his money from his actually successful father. No wonder he's a Republican.
That's BS. Sure he inherited money but there's not many people that achieve a 10,000 % ROI.
I don't even like the guy and don't believe a word he is saying but I can't stand people that make shit up
Yeah because that doesn't happen anyway
http://www.mercurynews.com/sci...
But hey never let a good crisis go to waste, when you can lie to move your agenda.
Remember, the president is like a CEO/Sales person. He can not really fix any of the issues, he can only suggest that it be fixed and push others to fix it.
Well said...seems every election year, people forget that most of the issues the candidates claim they will fix, actually require Congress to fix them. The President relies upon 535 House members and 100 Senators to actually do any of their promises...hence, most don't happen.