Slashdot Mirror
Will Trump Protect America's IT Workers From H-1B Visa Abuses? (cio.com.au)
Monday president-elect Donald Trump sent "the strongest signal yet that the H-1B visa program is going get real scrutiny once he takes office," according to CIO.
Slashdot reader OverTheGeicoE summarizes their report:
President-elect Donald Trump released a video message outlining his policy plans for his first 100 days in office. At 1 minute, 56 seconds into the message, he states that he will direct the Department of Labor to investigate "all abuses of the visa programs that undercut the American worker." During his presidential campaign, Trump was critical of the H-1B visa program that has been widely criticized for displacing U.S. high-technology workers. "Companies are importing low-wage workers on H-1B visas to take jobs from young college-trained Americans," said Trump at an Ohio rally. At other rallies, Trump invited former IT workers from Disney who had been forced to train their H-1B replacements to speak.
"What he didn't say was that he was going to close the door to skilled immigrants," one tech entrepreneur told CNN Money -- although Trump's selection for attorney general has called the shortage of qualified American tech workers "a hoax".
"What he didn't say was that he was going to close the door to skilled immigrants," one tech entrepreneur told CNN Money -- although Trump's selection for attorney general has called the shortage of qualified American tech workers "a hoax".
Your link shows he kept 46% of promises and compromised on 26% of them. Furthermore, if you read through the list of recently-rated promises, you'll notice that politifact stretches pretty far to give him a positive rating, particularly on the compromise ones.
A particular favorite of mine:
Restrict warrantless wiretaps
Update November 18th, 2016: Some limits on warrantless wiretaps but loopholes remain
Note also that the full list of promises omits several key items, not the least of which was the promise for transparency, which has obviously been broken.
As someone in a management position in an indian IT shop, we would rather keep workers here in india. Margins are much higher (~90%) for indian labour than an H1B(50%). Infrastructure is pretty good in india - the govt helps with a lot of the infrastructure, and infrastructure costs are even more cheaper in india. Plus the IT industry is exempt from labour laws so you can make 'em work long hours, weekends, whatever. Developers are seen as mostly disposable - colleges churn out tons of STEM grads, so most of the older ones who don't leave or don't work their asses off are kicked out in the name of performance anyway to make way for young blood.
Power gone for half the time and armed guards? Power is not an issue in the cities, and armed guards? even the cops here don't carry arms. only the ones in our movies do.
the only reason we do H1B's is when a client insists on someone there. and we try to discourage them as far as we can.