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This Year's H-1B Visa Applications Look A Lot Like Last Year's (newsweek.com)
"This year's round of H-1B visa program applications was scheduled to launch Monday, and it was largely absent of President Donald Trump's proposed policy changes," writes Newsweek. An anonymous reader quotes their report:
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services last updated its online page dedicated to the program, which granted visas to skilled foreign workers, Wednesday with the rules mostly similar to those of last year and quotas remaining the same. These requirements were set to launch despite Trump's vow to reform the program on the grounds that companies exploited it to fill jobs once held by U.S. citizens who earned higher wages.
An alleged draft of an executive order was leaked last month and widely circulated, raising fears that the administration was preparing to gut the program. These measures were never announced. "There was a window in which the White House could have made serious reforms," Russ Harrison, head of government relations for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-USA, told The Wall Street Journal. "For whatever reason, they decided not to take it."
An alleged draft of an executive order was leaked last month and widely circulated, raising fears that the administration was preparing to gut the program. These measures were never announced. "There was a window in which the White House could have made serious reforms," Russ Harrison, head of government relations for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-USA, told The Wall Street Journal. "For whatever reason, they decided not to take it."
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Imagine that, trump sold out his voters.
Big fucking surprise...Trump is more concerned about his own ego and self-image than keeping his word.
You get what you vote for.
The story is framed as bad but isn't it better that they take some time to craft a reasonable update to the policy? Trump has been president just a bit over two months now!
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Trump is a Businessman, he does what he is paid to do. Rich multi-national outsourcing companies clearly pay well to keep replacing American workers with third world minimum wage workers.
Why do slashdotters hate government clampdowns on freedoms except when it comes to H1B visas? I fucking hate the hypocrisy of it all.
Our company hired 80 of them last year and plan to hire a further 100 this year.They are often times (not always) superior to the homegrown talent that comes through our doors looking for a job.
If you have a problem with H1B tech workers then make yourself a better candidate, FFS.
He only wanted your votes. He hires Mexicans to build his properties and uses shady contractors to cut costs doing so maintaining them.
Joke is on you for thinking he would be different. You can't be pro automation and pro free market and libertarian and cry wahaha it's not fair ai have to compete too?
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Can people just stop whining like little brats who didn't get the toy they wanted. Your team loss ... time to get over it.
How the hell are APPLICATIONS the fault of Trump? He has no control over who and when companies APPLY to an H-1B visa.
This constant whining is becoming ridiculous. Grow up and learn how to lose. In the real world you don't get a participation trophy for just showing up.
We do not want you here.
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Wait, are you telling me that once again Trump *didn't* help his voters in favor of his rich business associates? You know, this together with the gutting of the FCC and the EPA almost, *almost*, makes me think that he's not trying that hard to make America great again.
I know you can't see my face right now, but if you could, it would have a look of surprise.
Anyone from the nyc building trades will tell you Trump never ran a tight ship. His buildings are a confusing headache to work with and work in. He's an idiot, not a manager and certainly not a good business man. He just played one on TV.
That said the Visa program is yet another corporate scam. If they do get it together to "reform" it I'll be surprised that they were walking and chewing gum but it would be a good thing.
can't seem to find a placement. It looks like the consulting firms prefer to place H-1B Visa programmers because there is a lot more profit in it for them.
Please. He said one thing and did another.
"Did" would imply he is done doing things. We are only two months into his administration of his FOUR YEARS of dong things based on what he said. You can talk about what Trump "did" after the first four years are up...
But even if he doesn't - are you an idiot? It would appear so because you seem to believe campaign promises, and if there was a surer sign of an idiot I've never seen it.
No Trump voter voted for Trump based on promises of what would be done. They all voted for Trump based on what he was not in general, and what he was in general. Everyone know specific campaign promises mean nothing.
The FCC to let ISPs throttle your connections and sell your browsing history show the GOPs intentions otherwise
You say that like the GOP and Trump are the same thing. As was shown by the healthcare bill, plainly they are not - Trump is our first third party president.
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you're a fucking idiot. Trump is the president, not the congress. And, you're so remarkably stupid that you don't even realize that the congress voted to CONTINUE Obama's policy for the last 8 years.
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I see a lot of comments from people who didn't vote for Trump that seem angry he isn't keeping Pajeet from joining your IT department. Hillary wasn't going to and you voted for her, so why aren't you happy? I'm still happy because I think Trump will do it eventually, probably after he resolves the situation with activist judges fighting to let terrorists fly in. If you're getting what you want in the meantime then you should be happy too.
and benghazi? It's to do with that isn't it?
Who's the bigger fool, the fool or the fool who voted for him?
Trump dropped the ball, it's that simple. But, even if the wheels of government turn slowly, at least they turn at all. The bad H1-B visa program can still be repaired someday in the future.
But....I am more inclined to believe that Trump just huffed and puffed about putting Americans first so that he would get elected. You know...the way all presidents do. We never really know a president's agenda until after they have executed on it, and even then we never know all of it.
Funny, it takes about 150 people in a government team to craft a reasonable policy over 3 years, but you think a campaign team should be able to write several dozen in 2 years, while running the campaign? Let me guess, you "supported" Bernie but didn't actually get around to voting.
I haven't heard of French parents scaling the walls of a school to help their kids cheat in exams.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
they're the Indian middle class. I don't know why it's so hard for Americans to understand that India has a middle class. They're a country of over a billion people.
These aren't refugees from poverty, they're mostly folks coming over here to take advantage of the currency differences with the plan to go back home with fat stacks of cash. A lot don't because they have kids, they kids put down roots and they stay around. But they're not escaping poverty. If you want those guys than ban the Indians are let the Syrians in. They're not just escaping poverty, they're escaping genocide.
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and he's got the power to do it via Executive Orders. He won the election by a hair's breath and part of that was tech workers who want their jobs back. It's not unreasonable to expect a man who's portrayed as a great negotiator and who's party controls a super majority in Congress could get some Executive Orders done. American Tech workers are suffering now. They don't want to wait another year, two or 4. If they wanted to be patient they could have thrown their lot in with Hilary.
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people want the government to keep _them_ safe. Them. No the other guy. The other guy just needs to work harder and stop leaching off them.
The best quote I've heard in years came from a CNN pundit calling Rick Santorum to task over his opposition to Medicaid for the poor. She said Nobody's a Conservative when it comes to their family. She was right, too.
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I haven't met any Trump supporters that have been open about it first hand besides family members, but I am pretty sure the ones complaining about H1B workers in the worst ways are also complaining about illegal immigrants in the worst ways. I doubt "hipster techies" are saying illegal immigration is fine and dandy but fuck all H1B workers. I consider myself left and think some companies are exploiting H1B and illegal immigrants for their own gain, on the other hand, shutting down both completely is likely going to lead to some issues. I also have no issue with H1B workers themselves as they are taking a golden opportunity being offered to them and I'd do the same in their shoes.
Companies should be allowed to employ foreign workers if they simply cannot find local talent, but they should be required to offer those workers the same salary, benefits, working hours, and holidays as domestic workers. Oversight of that process should also be stronger to make sure companies aren't finding loopholes to continue as is. This applies to both companies employing H1B visa workers and those employee illegal immigrants.
There are a surprising number of misguide people like you. The capitalism of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, and Ford built this great nation.
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Problem is.... the H1B program is really only valuable to a company that plans on abusing it.
If you're a typical small or mid-sized business with a need for technical employees, it doesn't make sense to try to hire foreigners who have thick accents / language barriers, as well as a work history that's often a total "unknown" (since you can't just skim a resume and get an idea of their skills and knowledge based on who they worked for previously -- because you're likely not that familiar with any foreign firms they worked for).
I've worked my whole life in I.T. and know for a fact there are plenty of Americans with solid expertise in various parts of the field. I can barely imagine a scenario where nobody in America is competent in what's needed, while someone from over in India is just who they need? It's all about getting budget priced labor and nothing more.
At the end of the day, sure -- we're all human beings and have similar wants, needs, and hopes / desires. You can make an appeal to emotions about someone, anywhere in the world, who is in an unfortunate situation. But most of those are the result of the government their country is ruled by. America, for all of its faults, is still pretty good about ensuring its citizens enjoy a top-tier lifestyle. That doesn't mean we "owe" it to everyone else on the planet who'd like to come here and get in on the action.
And avoid exposure of his russian connections.
how about those 2015 tax forms, while we are at it?
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
But but but Trump said he was going to "eliminate" or "radically scale back" the H1-B program. Don't tell me he was fibbing!
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
As before Trump ever ran his cock sucker. And will be exactly the same when he or anyone else leaves or takes office.
Sorry about your luck.
Oh yeah, it must mean that just doesn't happen then...I mean if you have not heard of it.
Every culture has particulars to that culture. Like indians are likely to live 9 people in a flat of 3 rooms and yet drive a benz. Does that make them all more likely to cheat?
The highest proportion of ethnic population size utilizing welfare services in the US is amongst black people. The highest spend on welfare is on white people. Does that mean black people are more likely to game the system? -could there be an underlying racism, descrimination and purposeful lack of development of black communities that goes hand in hand with that problem?
I've not seen you donate to charity. I guess that means you're a scumbag. -or maybe it just means I didn't see you do it.
That's what it takes these days right? people have to justify their existence to others so they are not thought of poorly.
Look, the harsh reality is that every western government in the world needs 20-40 year olds to pile into their nations. Why? Because for the last 30 years politicians and corporations have made a succession of unrealistic pension promises to the current crop of workers, and those workers didn't have enough babies to pay for those promises in the future.
Your retirement contributions now pay for current retirees - not your future retirement. That will be paid for by whoever is working at the point you retire. It is a ponzi scheme that only works if your population continues to grow at the rate you are making outrageous promises to win votes. Unfortunately, most western nations stopped growing from natural population increases decades ago.
This is why, despite widespread anger about immigrants in almost all western countries, governments will not do anything about it. Look at the UK. A major reason for the Brexit fiasco was a desire by many to slash immigration, and yet the government refuses to commit to reducing it after Brexit. The reason they won't commit, is because they have decided that people would rather whine about immigrants than have their pensions slashed.
Trump will have seen the projected pension cost figures now. Even he will be able to conclude that stuffing the country with workers who the USA didn't have to pay the costs of raising and educating, is a remarkably good deal for the country. All he has to do now is make the right noises so that it appears he is doing something about it, then ultimately do very little.
Do people really believe that every incoming President comes in with all discussed topics as written legislature? Or is this just a thing that partisans like to do
I have never seen that to be the case even once in my lifetime.
What we saw with Obama is the same thing that we see with Trump: the legislature (aka Congress) writes the laws with some level of help from the White House (depends on the experience of the incoming administration and, many will remember, this is why the ACA did not pass until the Fall of Obama's term under incredibly unprecedented terms: a Sunday vote). This is why it's not just Obama that receives the blame for passing the ACA; it was the Democrats in Congress that filled the bill with pork and insanity, which said that they needed to pass it to see what was in it. Obama deserves the blame for not vetoing it, but Congress wrote the majority of it.
After the blunder that we all just witnessed from the GOP trying to do the same thing, what idiot wants the administration to rush into fixing another major problem with the GOP in Congress? This is the same GOP that is in the process of trying to literally sell us out via privacy rules. Just like Obama, Trump will receive the blame if he does not veto such a bill.
Trump has been here for just over 2 months. I certainly don't want him "fixing" H1-B until his administration figures out how to work the system. Otherwise, his "fix" is clearly going to be the politicians making money -- and I'm pretty sure that's what got us into this mess in the first place.
It's almost like "draining the swamp" wasn't just a joke. It's just that both parties are filled with garbage. Hopefully when the opportunity to pass term limits comes around, we all immediately pass it.
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