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Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com)
India's IT lobby warned on Tuesday that a bill before the U.S. Congress aimed at imposing tougher visa rules unfairly targets some of its members and will not solve a U.S. labor shortage in technology and engineering. From a report on Reuters: Industry lobby group Nasscom was responding to a bill introduced by Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from California, that would double the minimum salary required for holders of H-1B visas to $130,000 and determine how many of the visas were allocated, based on factors such as overall wages. India's $150 billion information technology sector, led by Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipro, uses the H-1B visas to fly engineers and developers to service clients in the U.S., their biggest market, but opponents say they are using the visas to replace U.S. workers. Concerns about President Donald Trump's immigration policies were heightened by his ban on refugees on Friday. "The Lofgren Bill contains provisions that may prove challenging for the Indian IT sector and will also leave loopholes that will nullify the objective of saving American jobs," Nasscom said.
Low Cost Labor Shortage
Not sure if this will affect Trump's resorts flying in seasonal workers from Romania because not enough American's apply to their 3-day ads in small local papers.
I really see almost nothing Trump says (or has done) as beneficial to this country, but his election helped get THIS moving. You can actually give that tiny fingered vulgarian some credit for this, even if he's not taking credit for this bill. (Actually, I'm sure he will take credit for it, if it passes. If the weather's nice next week, he'll take credit for that.)
Hillary wanted the H1B status quo. Hillary wanted a lot of things status quo.
Bernie was definitely going to revamp H1B. He had my vote. The Democratic party should wake up and aggressively purge of all the top folks who actively favored Clinton over him. He was a obvious winner and the top folks showed they couldn't accept success if it rocked the boat.
Hell, I THINK even Jeb Bush had some H1B reform in his ticket.
But let's all take a second to acknowledge Trump for getting this moving, then let's figure out how to get rid of both him and his VP.