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Trump To Overhaul H-1B Visa Program To Encourage Hiring Americans (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: In a bid to court working class voters, Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday to revamp a temporary visa program used to bring foreign workers to fill jobs in the U.S. The president will use a visit to a manufacturing company in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a crucial state he snatched from Hillary Clinton in the election, to promote his latest "Buy America Hire America" offensive. Trump's executive order will call on government departments to introduce reforms to ensure that H-1B visas are awarded to the "most skilled or highest paid applicants," a senior administration official said. The executive order will also call for the "strict enforcement" of laws governing entry to the U.S. of labor from overseas, with a view to creating higher wages and employment rates for U.S. workers. The order will also call on government departments to "take prompt action to crack down on fraud and abuse" in the immigration system, a senior administration official said. The administration official sad: "Right now H-1B visas are awarded by random lottery and many of you will be surprised to know that about 80% of H-1B workers are paid less than the median wage in their fields. Only 5% to 6%, depending on the year, of H-1B workers command the highest wage tier recognized by the Department of Labor. [...] If you change that current system that awards visas randomly, without regard for skill or wage, to a skills-based awarding, it makes it extremely difficult to use the visa to replace or undercut American workers [...] It's a very elegant way of solving very systemic problems in the H-1B guest worker visa."
We are making America Great Again!
Only hours after the announcement, corporations all over America started hiring lawyers to find new loopholes in the law.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
At least it's moving in the right direction. However, there is no shortage of skilled American workers. Just the opposite is true. We have a glut of skilled American workers, but there is a dramatic shortage of decent, livable-wage jobs in America.
While tightening the rules around H1B is a good start, the system needs to be entirely gutted.
I haven't got all life. Let's do it already.
If the program really was there to fill a labour pool deficit, it never would have allowed for visas for positions where the wage was below the current median wage (for those employed, not for empty positions waiting to be filled). You'd still get downward pressure on wages as labour supply increased, but it'd be slower.
If your goal is to outsource to cheaper countries, the existing program works very well... until companies that can decide to move as much of their operations abroad as required to cut costs, until the cost of products domestically rises enough to throw sand in the gears of the economy, etc.
Free trade isn't just for goods, it's for labour and standard of living. We're watching it all even out but the process is uneven due to social and political differences between nations.
Raise the minimum salary to $100,000 per year, have it automatically increase by 1.5% per year. Done.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
Bout dang time.
I was shocked by this. I can't possibly imagine Trump uttering "systemic problems". I would like... kinda... Uh, no.
But then I re-read and realized the words were from the "administration official". Phew.
Must comport with standard progtard kneejerk reactions and reject this!
"Right now H-1B visas are awarded by random lottery and many of you will be surprised to know that about 80% of H-1B workers are paid less than the median wage in their fields. Only 5% to 6%, depending on the year, of H-1B workers command the highest wage tier recognized by the Department of Labor..."
This is really upsetting as it does not support the idea that huge corporations are getting filthy rich by helping foreigners are stealing jobs. No one wants to hear this. H-1B is making Americans homeless. they must be hiredat all costs. Go away!
I'm sure that together we can find a simplistic, singular explanation to why foreginers are job thieves, theives, terrorists, rapists or just incompatible with US life (which are enabled by greedy US companies that don't wanna pay honest Americans, honest pay or in fact pay US tax because they're smart). #MAGA
Every time it's the same thing in ever country...foreginers steal jobs, bring crime, are uneducated, dirty, lazy, dishonest, have pagan/satanic (or worse, atheist) beliefs...and employers are always trying to brig them in to make the locals poorer and cheat them out of fair wages either directly or by dilluting the market, oversupplying etc etc...
Now...will this be trump's very first good policy and will it actually improve the H-1B programme overall? Will we finally start to have #toomuchwinning
A 'singular oddity' is an event that cannot be explained and only happens when you are alone.
If I'm not mistaken, the law as written requires that H-1Bs be paid more than Americans. So what he's saying then is that there's nothing wrong with the law, it's just not being enforced? How about we actually enforce the law rather than change it, if that's the case, because the law can say whatever it wants and it won't matter a damn if you don't bother to enforce it.
This is a good start. Anyone in IT knows that most of the H1-B workers are half-assed at best. They aren't underpaid, if anything most are over paid. You might have 10% of H1-B workers that are great, but the rest.....awful.
Make the H1B minwage $100K + COL
That will fix the issue.
I can tell the article and website are biased by the first phrase. "In a bid to court working class voters..." No, it's not a bid for voters. It's fulfilling a campaign promise. It's helping the American worker. As a programmer, (and mighty successful at that) I've been denied jobs at many companies who hire H1Bs over citizens like me. It must change.
-- these are only opinions and they might not be mine.
If you change that current system that awards visas randomly, without regard for skill or wage, to a skills-based awarding, it makes it extremely difficult to use the visa to replace or undercut American workers [...] It's a very elegant way of solving very systemic problems in the H-1B guest worker visa."
This person is either extremely naive or lying through their teeth. Awarding visas for skills does not automatically translate to paying comparable wages to receive those skills. They would have to monitor wages and ensure that the wages being paid do not fall below the median wages for the job and sharply limit the number of visa recipients to prevent flooding the market and thus driving down the median wage.
Of course the problem is that reforms to the H1B visa program risk being basically a form of protectionism. It's potentially little different than slapping a tariff on imported products and has many of the same consequences. It ensures better wages for a small group of workers, typically at the expense of higher product costs for everyone else. For example if we protect steel workers from cheaper imported steel (presuming no dumping) we make cars more expensive the far larger general population. We hurt consumers to protect jobs that possibly don't need protecting. If the workers want to keep wages high they can unionize or lobby and that's just fine but honestly it's something of a loosing proposition if the labor they are doing can be done elsewhere. Programming and many other tech jobs are labor intensive work (albeit skilled labor) and if the labor can be gotten elsewhere for a lower price, sooner or later it will be. There is nothing magical about computer code written in the US versus in China or Russia.
How about a mandatory national job posting board for any employer that wants to use an H1B. Before getting an H1B slot, they have to first post the job and all requirements, and then they must interview anyone who meets the posted requirements, and justify in writing to the applicant why the American applicant is rejected for the H1B worker.... and they can't base the choice on a skill that is not listed in the job posting.
That US-Americans haven't learned to use that metric. Nor any decent metric. They are still stuck using Imperial.
(hmmm, quite fitting for Mr. Trump!)
I have seen so much lip service from politicians on this, and with Trump being the least reliable of them all, I will rejoice when I actually see something done that makes a difference.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Just set a minimum wage for H-1B visas so anyone imported in via a H-1B visa costs more than hiring an American to do the job would have cost and most of the abuse of the system goes away.
Combine this with some sort of labor market testing so they cant bring in a foreign worker if there is an American capable of doing the job and 99% of the problems with H-1B visas go away. (if you do this right you can structure it to also avoid the situation where companies import foreign workers to train them up and send them back to their home country as cheap outsourced labor)
Doing this ensures that H-1B visas only get used when there is no American capable of doing the job (and the company can demonstrate they tried to find an American for the job first) or when they need a specific individual for some reason (and can prove there is no American with the necessary skills/experience/knowledge to do the job)
Will this solve every issue with H-1B visas? No. Will companies try to find loopholes? Yes. Would this be significantly better than doing nothing? Most definitely.
...this means the headlines and summaries of many of the Slashdot articles will be understandable after just one reading again. Sounds great, I can't wait...
The Baha men.
Who let the trump out
Who, who, uurgh what a disgusting smell
Should H1B be an avenue for highly qualified graduates to get hired in the USA? i.e. People with little experience but highly skilled / trained, high potential
He has spent way more money going to his vacation resort every weekend then Obama did by this time in his presidency. Also, Trump refuses to use Camp David which is set up for the president, so the local government needs to foot the bill for the local police service to do crowd control and also the local airport needs to shut down for security. It is running into 30 million plus already.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Given the "swamp draining" skills Trump's shown so far, I'm expecting that he's going to outsource the implementation and enforcement of the H1B program to an Indian corporation...
Instead, just start the countdown clock until he reports that "No one realized that visas would be so hard." or until he has a 10 minute conversation with a foreign leader who explains to him why he's wrong.
Or until they find him in the corner of the rose garden smearing himself in his own shit as the dementia kicks into top gear.
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Good news for Canadians and Mexicans!
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The very best immigrant coders...
...get sponsored for citizenship.
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"Force shits upon Reason's back." - Poor Richard's Almanac
Ironic move by Trump considering the first lady arrived in the US on a H1B visa for models. Was it because there were not enough good talented models in the US? She was granted visa as a "Model of extraordinary ability"
This is the only Trump policy that I actually agree with. So I'm on the horns of a dilemma. Is this actually the only policy of his that is not actively harmful? Or am I on the wrong side of the issue?
The use of H1B visas can only serve to short-circuit one of the foundational principal of capitalism, which is supply and demand. When demand exceeds existing supply, prices must rise in order to stimulate the generation of more supply. When supply exceeds demand, prices must go down to discourage excess production. If this mechanism is undercut, then supply and demand get out of whack and the relevant market becomes distorted. This happens any time that price controls are imposed on a market, or when there is a sudden unanticipated spike in demand for a product, or when supply is artificially inflated. This is true of any market, including the labor market.
The use of H1B visas is actively depressing demand for more American STEM graduates, which is the exact opposite of what President Obama said he wanted. Who wants to go into a field where their jobs can be easily outsourced to cheap imported labor? Into a job market where the government is actively working against its own citizens? Nobody who has any sense, that's who.
So I do feel that Trump is actually correct on this issue. Let's see how long it is before he flip-flops on this one, too.
"The only good windmill is a tilted windmill."
If it's one thing Trump has shown in his pattern of behaviour in his first 3.5 months in office, is his policies will always have exception clauses for his corporate buddies. in other words, he'll try to make things look like they support principle, but allow loopholes for his corporate colleagues as well as his own private businesses. (which is a conflict of interest). For example, the so-called, Anti-Muslim Immigration act (it does discriminate against Muslim countries but that isn't the bill's name). Apparently Muslim countries that did business with Trump businesses were exempt. Trump talks the talk, but doesn't walk the walk. While I agree that corporate abuse of foreign visa to get in cheap labor and lowering the quality of living overall in the USA needs to stop, I don't think Trump is the one to do it. He just talks big. I'm going to have to much fun see how his "wall" plays out.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
First loading printers, then a Computer Vision system admin, finally a unix System Admin
in her 50s. All at AT&T when it was good, 40-odd years back.
Our company makes very sincere effort to recruit Americans and comply with the laws in spirit as well as letter. We pay way above median wage for our areas. We are hard core engineering software company, not IT. I have not seen applicants with degrees from Indian Institutes of Technology in the last 10 years. It has simply dried up. IITians now a days get fantastic jobs in India, or they go do MBA and come to USA to do MBA and get jobs in top Wall Street firms and top 4 consultancy companies.
I do see applicants with degrees from next rung in India, NITs and good engineering colleges with Masters from USA.
The only change they really need to make to the H1B program is to state that degrees from accredited US universities will be given first preference. Degrees from diploma mills from India should not count. That would be enough to make sure these companies like TCS, Cogniscent, Wipro, Infosys and the lesser known body shoppers like R-systems, UBICS, Bharat Desai's companies, Sunil Wadhwani's companies etc stop gaming our laws.
(my background: IIT, IISc, UT, F1, H1B, Green Card, Citizen now.)
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
I suspect we will see an increase in "students" looking for work via J-visa:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The administration better be ready for body shops to work around the new restrictions - there is too much money here to simply walk away.
Yeah, I worked 6 years in the US under H1B a couple of years back (I am a Canadian electrical engineer). There seem to be to class of H1B:
1. The special kind of skills that the US gets for those job where the skill pool is not sufficient for the work in the US. Those are paid well, and generally used only when no equivalent workers are available in the US. During my time in the US I paid good taxes to the US, and I helped company stay in business without stealing anybody's job. After 6 years, I came back to Canada and now these companies in the US are doing just fine without me and are employing US workers. Making a minimum salary is sensible (be it a fixed amount or a % above the median salary are two god options).
2. The cheaper replacement than US workers that are used simply to save $. These are the "stealing" job kind. There seem to be some companies specializing in that sort of things. (like the whole Disney story?). This should be outlawed plain and simple.
I think that before they made me a job offer, the american companies had to have proofs that they tried to find american worker first (Public job offering, etc.) That can't be the case for #2.
We have the same kind of lowballing companies in Canada too! They offer a job for 6 months at 40K when the going rate is 90-100K, then they ask for government for grants to subsidize them with tax credit to pay for the 40K gap. This is the socialist equivalent of H1B... but the same thing. Cheap corporation trying to make easy $ on the system.
If you can't pay the going rate for the worker you need, you business plan doesn't hold the road. I believe in corporate natural selection: your company should Die-off! and be replaced by one with a valid business model that can pay your country's citizen at a valid going pay rate, plain and simple.
"Who knew that using government force to prevent free markets would be so hard?"
I get why liberals voted for this guy to be president, but why the fuck did conservatives?!
one thing they could do is add the percent over average in unemployment to the taxes paid for having H1-B workers (corrected for sector).
So if your state has 15% unemployment (lets say national unemployment is at 10%) you would pay an extra 5% of payroll taxes on your H1-B workers.
but anyway an easy way to MAGA is to ban retail sales of pre-shredded cheese
and just like Magic America is now Grate Again
Citation/Proof? Not that it matter - He deserves vacation not taking presidential pay and bringing back many times more real jobs than Obama ever did in a far shorter timeframe also. Obama kept getting us in debt and war. Trump stopped WWIII with Korea instead. You SJW's always talk 'freedom of speech' and yet you down moderate anything that doesn't fit YOUR agendas. How transparent. Is that your favorite color? You're the WORST ABUSERS of free speech there is hypocrites. Now, go eat your welfare food us taxpayers pay for and stfu!
APK
P.S.=> Show me Obama brought back Intel, Carrier, Ford, GM, Lockheed (some before he was elected), IBM, Amazon (both adding jobs) & that's not even touching the entire list of GOOD paying jobs w/ DISPOSABLE INCOME (not part time no insurance minimum wage service industry only "jobs" (slavery))... apk
bomb some more countries and alienate some more minorities and noone wants to come to the US anymore, anyway. No workers and no tourists, not even terrorists.
He goes to his resort every weekend at a huge cost to taxpayers. The amount of money he has spent on providing security for his weekend excursions far outweighs how much of his presidential salary hes donating.
The man hasn't actually done a days worth of work. In the first hundred days he has not even visited another country, or heck even gone west of the Mississippi. Just every weekend in Florida.
While this H1B thing is good, its more of a stopped clock being occasionally right sort of thing.
With a lottery, the big shops put in for 500 visas and if they get 400 they are happy and hire a few good ones and hundreds of bodies.
A small shop that needs a specific Phd, loses out.
With an auction, the small shop can get the $200k Phd. The big shops bid on only the highest priced positions.
The thing the government would have to watch out for is collusion amongst the Big shops. (like MS and others did already)
How much has George Soros paid YOU for your SJW anti-Trump message? I understand he's blown 5 billion so far. How much of that is your cut??
Finally a president who cares about the america people! This is exactly why I voted for Trump
The same president who supported a health care bill that would take insurance away from 24M+ Americans over ten years and give the rich a $200K tax break?
So he's Obama. Clearly, that will make him great.
Oh wait, he's a white guy, not black, and he made a bunch of money building things, instead of living in a fancy house off government grants. (yes, that's what a community organizer does). They were both populist democrats (look at trump's history. He was a democrat until he picked a republican flag of convenience). He's shat on the constitution with the exact same tools that Obama demonstrated.
The only difference is that his rabble is rural poor shitheads instead of urban middle class shitheads.
Do an auction - companies file for applicants, minimum wage is average salary + 10% within given region (and they must work within region), then allow them to bid. Create a race to the top (not bottom) and take 5% cut to support social security. Solved!
Meanwhile: http://thehill.com/homenews/ne... And: http://www.foxnews.com/food-dr... But, I guess that's ok because #hypocrisy
Since the beta-carotene cucklord gave fuck all information about his proposals beyond "make america great again" and "it'll be a yuge wall, a bootyful wall" and "it'll make your head spin", we have to take him at his word, and he will be making america great again here. None of the others did that, the closes they got to was making some policy statments and claim they would make america richer or more powerful etc.
Tinyhands just said "make america great again".
Especially since after he'd said he'd be so busy fixing things that, unlike Obama, he'd not have time to go golfing, therefore indicating that he's already done all the work needed to maga the shit out of his office. Given he's gone golfing more than once a week so far....
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Final proof that Slashdot editors intentionally introduce typos into the summary to spur people to comment more. Sad!
The H1B program has been abused for years, and almost any improvement is welcome.
Given the disastrous Executive Orders and ACA reform, however, I am not going to get excited just yet.
I want to see a final draft with commentary by experts---probably labor lawyers---before I take this effort seriously.
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I want to agree with this statement (assuming "China or Russia" can be replaced with a generic "overseas"), but my experience tells me otherwise.
Only because you aren't comparing things from the right perspective. You are thinking about a few malfunctioning teams. But think of it this way. That smartphone you have in your pocket was built by some very bright and capable Chinese engineers. Russia has a space program that arguably exceeds ours in many ways. To pretend that none of them are any good at coding because you've seen a few who didn't have what it takes is not a logical position to hold.
The immigrants I've worked with, while nice (very much so), and knowledgeable in very specific technology, have no broad critical thinking skills, software design/architecture skills, or outside-the-box thinking.
And some immigrants are guys like Elon Musk. There is a range just like with every population including Americans. Substitute "americans" for immigrants in your sentance and I could say exactly the same thing in many cases. The notion that Americans are better or smarter is just xenophobic nonsense easily refuted. There are and awful lot of very smart guys from China and India and elsewhere. The US is 5% of the global population so the notion that we have some sort of monopoly on smarts is dangerously foolish. There are plenty of people overseas (many educated here) who are every bit as good at engineering and programming as anyone here in the US. We should be trying to bring those smart people here as fast as we possibly can.
I want the H-1B visas overhauled not only to ensure America jobs stay American, but also so these immigrants aren't exploited.
The flaw in your reasoning is in assuming there is such a thing as an "American job". Americans have earned one of the highest standards of living in the world by out competing workers and companies in other countries. But that doesn't mean we get to stop competing. If we want to stay on top we're going to have to work our ass off to stay there.
It's like the idiotic Trump rhetoric about bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US. Those jobs left because US labor was too expensive. The only way we are getting labor intensive manufacturing jobs back in the US is for US wages to fall substantially relative to other countries. Do you really want a bunch of $2/hour jobs or should we focus our energies on trying to do something more economically reasonable?
The source of this is body shops. They're the ones paying $35k and charging $80k pocketing the difference.
Instead of that let them get paid 1% of the take home salary of the visa holders. Maybe 2% if we're feeling generous. When they start making $350 - $700 per person per year then the business isn't sustainable and the problem diminishes significantly.
So what about that $45k difference? Where does that go? Good question. I'd say it goes into job training programs and scholarships.
I know. I'm a dreamer. But the problem lies with how profitable it is for companies to bring in these indentured servants. There needs to be a way to take away the profit so they move on to some other leech business model.
Ok, so if the h1b quota stays the same, and the h1b salaries increase, then that implies that US citizens' salaries will decrease.
Is that the message he's sending?
Trump is not a good man, he is a vile ignorant lying bufoon, much like you APK.
The existing H1-B visa system is a cross between a bad joke, an outright scam and a tragedy. Truly exceptional foreign applicants get tossed into the mix with diploma-mill exhaust and are less likely to make it to the US under the existing system. Likewise, US workers are likely to get replaced with *much* less qualified H-1B visa holders under the current system and enforcement attitude. Glaringly overdue for a reset, the current system only exists because of a few US and Indian tech companies throw lobbying $$ at D.C. Enough already.
Finally US citizens will be able to apply for the visa. This will allow them to negotiate rock bottom salaries.
It's not that simple. There aren't "two classes" of H-1Bs, they're all the same, there are just honest companies, and dishonest ones. There is no way to kill one of those without harming the other. In fact, the more you try to crack down on the dishonest ones, the more you hurt the honest ones, while the cheaters just find new ways to cheat.
Now stepping up enforcement is probably warranted, but it's not as easy as it sounds, and changing the rules doesn't necessarily accomplish what you think it will.
As for the Canadian equivalent, that would be the TFW program, which has been equally abused, but equally essential to some companies' survival.
Crafting rules that allow companies to fill legitimate vacancies they can't fill otherwise, while not allowing companies to simply undercut the local labour market, is no easy task.
There are a few suggestions I've seen that would help though:
- Mandate a certain % that you must pay over the going market rate for the job (still very hard to enforce as proving the market rate for any exact job is tough)
- Allow the foreign worker control of their visa, if they leave the employ of one employer, they have a grace period to find similar work at another employer before they must leave the country. This would address the issue of companies bringing in people that won't rock the boat for fear of being shipped home, and give those workers similar power to domestic workers to stand up for themselves, removing an incentive to game the system to get them. A similar effect could be achieved by replacing temporary workers with permanent ones. If we really have a skills shortage in a specific area, what's wrong with looking for actual immigrants with those skills? (not temporary ones that can be sent home at a whim)
You realize that philosophy goes both ways, right?
If you want more pay than the going rate, your career plan doesn't hold the road. Worker natural selection: your job should die off and be replaced by a cheaper worker that will accept the going rate.
That's extremist too, but in between these two extremes, is where you actually find the market equilibrium, and how much a job should really pay. You should have both companies and workers occasionally failing, raising their offers or lowering their requirements to try to avoid failure. Companies should be competing with other companies for employees, and workers should be competing with other workers for employers.
that is why the H1-B minwage needs to go up and / or have no staffing firms and the works must be W2 workers.
A lot of this is because we allow tech firms to drive down costs by importing cheaper labor.
Why not just get real and allow anyone with a PhD from a US top 50 university to get a green card? We already know they have skills, we already know they can speak English.
Just saying.
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If the people can't move here, the work will move to them.
And how are computer science students supposed to get work experience if no one wants to hire them?
Internships and open source contributions...
Seriously, there is no excuse for lack of experience. There is lots of opportunities to make high impact contributions to reputable open source projects.
I didn't say it wasn't hard work, but the opportunities are there... And internships are widely available in the US, sure there is competition, but many of the good internships are well paid too.
I wonder if putting an Indian name on my job applications would have helped.
Try it, I bet it won't help... You can also try attaching a fake picture why not...
Multiple studies have found that using a foreign name or attaching non-white pictures is a huge disadvantage.
If you don't believe that I see absolutely no harm in trying, hehe, for real though try it if you don't believe the studies.
ok so now you have all these jobs americanized....meaning thing swill cost more....NOW you screw trade with canada the 7-8th largest economy and think you will get more jobs .....my bet is we just shut our border and go deal with europe ( now that we have free trade with them ) asia ( deal with china already ) and if you push to hard i can see lifting russian and syrian sanctions and doing trade with russia....
GO AMERICA lets make CANADA GREAT AGAIN DOWN WITH NAFTA
They never really had it to begin with, as they were on the dole.
They never really had it to begin with, as they were on the dole.
The Medicare expansion was only one-half of ObamaCare. Since this wasn't a single-payer option, not everyone got covered via Medicare.
President Trump has made a habit of signing executive orders which say we will do what we are doing.
And that's all the latest executive order does. It literally doesn't change anything. It simply says we will do what we've been doing.
And, really, that's all the president can do except veto things. Mr. Trump shouldn't even be able to order acts of war without prior approval of congress. It's one thing to attack terrorists (for which president's have some approval). It's illegal and unconstitutional to attack the legitimate military forces of sovereign nations without explicit approval by congress.
When are people going to catch on to the fact that Mr. Trump isn't really achieving *anything* with most of his executive orders except publicity? He's dependent on congress to budget money and to change laws.
And since his government is still largely unstaffed after nearly 90 days in office, he lacks the people to implement his policies. There is a serious disconnect between the presidency and the departments right now created by thousands of unfilled upper level positions.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
While few things that Trump has done so far has inspired any confidence in me, this is one change I'm glad of. H1-B immigrants are the modern version of indentured slaves, and I'll be glad when the process is revamped or replaced.
Now, I would prefer that it was replaced with relaxed immigration controls allowing more new blood to legally join our nation... we are a country if immigrants (barring the sadly marginal population of native indians), and I think it is short-sighted of us to assume that a native-born american is somehow superior to a foreigner who upended their entire life to take a risk in a new land. Immigrants have historically been more successful at creating new businesses than native born, because they have already self-selected to be risk takers.
But baby steps. Removing the downward wage-pressure of a large population of indentured slaves is a good start. If I get few nice things from this idiotic presidency I'll be pleasantly surprised.
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I am speaking about the middle class subsidies. Here's a novel idea. Pay your doctor.
I am speaking about the middle class subsidies. Here's a novel idea. Pay your doctor.
I don't qualify for subsidies because I make too much ($50K+ per year). So, yes, I have to pay my doctor in cash.
He's switched sides on tons of other key issues (Syria anyone?). CNBC is saying he's gonna switch ("might" in journalist speak pretty much means "will", they're kinda like scientists in that regard).
So far everything he's done has been to enrich himself and his immediate family. He'll throw in for TPP and use the same tired excuse that failing to do so give China an edge (and maybe say he'll negotiate a better deal to boot). Yeah, TPP is bad for the American worker but it's _great_ for the American Economy. And that's what Trump (and the corporate Dems who pushed it) care about. After all, it'll trickle down, right?
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For the record, I am an IT professional with 40 years of IT experience in a wide range of fields and I am living in constant fear of losing my job to somebody overseas.
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...have nothing to do with H-1Bs. Naturally, certain people are never going to give Trump credit for anything (even something like this, which should have unanimous support on a site like Slashdot), but they know better than to take the other side on this particular issue, too. So why post at all? You know, no one's forcing you to chime in on this. You don't actually have to post in every Trump-related thread. When he does something good you could simply not say anything and save your righteous indignation for one of his screw-ups. Maybe people won't get tired of your message as quick that way, and they'll actually feel like listening to you those other times. Just saying. Web 2.0/social media has conditioned people into believing that they need to have their digital mouths open at all times. How else will people know you exist unless you're constantly saying SOMETHING? You wouldn't think that would apply to a site like this, but it sure does, at least since the last election. To borrow one of The Donald's favorite phrases... "Sad!"
It's the most simple problem America has to fix.
Remove the random selection component. Grant the places to the those offering the highest salaries - that is the capitalist way of allocating resources, after all, those willing to pay the most for them get to use them.
There are X places. Companies can ask for as many places as they want, but must specify the minimum salary they will pay to the person who fills the position. The highest X get the places. That the promised salaries are met by the actual salaries is checked at intervals.
Simple. No need for the government to decide which categories of workers are required - the market will sort it out.
Republicans should love it. The government still decides the value of X, so Democrats can be happy too.
And, frankly, he's no more of an embarrassment than Obama was ...
At least we know that he's not a (knowledgeable about the religion) Muslim.
He bowed to a Muslim head of state. There was some flap in the US media about that, but they missed a big point: That was literal blasphemy. Muslims don't bow to heads of state - or anyone else but God.
It was a very good thing he had diplomatic immunity. An ordinary person doing that in a country with a sharia-based legal system could have been in serious trouble.
(By the way: Citizens of a republic also don't bow to heads of state, according to diplomatic protocol. In a republic we're ALL (at least all that are elegible to vote) sovereigns, and thus formally peers with kings and queens. The President is just the guy holding a particular job - which is why he's addressed as "Mr. President".)
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Two issues. First of all, who determines "X"? If it's too low, businesses who need the workers are screwed, and if it's too high, those who exploit the system aren't hindered. Secondly the salary level doesn't necessarily equate to the job scarcity once you take skill level in to account. Imagine a job that normally pays $150,000, the company decides to get an H-1B to fill it and lay off the existing worker, post it at $100,000 to save money, they still get the foreign worker over the company that has a job that normally pays $50,000, but still can't find anyone to hire at $75,000 due to a lack of enough domestic workers with the right qualifications.
Only hours after the announcement, corporations all over America started hiring lawyers to find new loopholes in the law.
See? Trump is already creating more American jobs!
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
A degree from India is absolutely meaningless. They have a "university" practically on every street corner ...
Worse than that: The body shops often claim the worker in question has degrees that they don't actually have - but which the employer requires.
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Back before things got egregious, more than a decade ago, my wife was involved in making a hiring decision, and one of the candidates was an H1-B. My wife asked her about the masters degree on her resume and she was appalled: She had no such degree, (nor a CS bachelors - just some classes in the field.) She risked her immigration status rather than be party to the fraud.
(My wife hired her: She had adequate skills for the position and had demonstrated her honesty.)
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Four years ago I received a surprising call from my manager's manager: I was being fired immediately. After 20 years on the job with nothing but glowing annual reviews and a measurable profitiabity track record, I asked why. "We just have to do it. We can't afford you when talented people will work for half as much salary." "Really? Who are these talented people?" I soon found out, when a stream of Asian and Indian H1B workers arrived, taking over our desks and labs. Literally every technical person in our division had been fired. In the preceding weeks management had been "documenting procedures" under the guise of an ISO 9000 certification. The truth was that we were being replaced and they needed the docs for our replacements.
I've since heard of many other abuses of the H1B system, which seems to have peaked under the Obama administration, but actually started much earlier. Hopefully this EO will take the covers off the seriously mismanaged H1B job drain.
Obama famously spent nearly a TRILLION on "shovel ready jobs" only to laugh about it years later and say "there's no such thing as shovel ready jobs" when asked about the lack of results. Go look for the video on Youtube, and then weep at the thought that you will be paying taxes for the rest of your life to pay the interest on the 10 TRILLION dollars Obama added to the national debt.
Consider:
Supporters of H1-B visas claim that they need to import special workers from the rest of the world that have skills Americans lack and will do jobs Americans will not do. Here's the problems that disprove the entire argument:
1. If something is so rare and special that you must search the entire world for it and specially import it, then it demands a high price (rarity + law of supply and demand = high price). The majority of H1-B workers are, however, not paid above the prevailing wage in their fields.
2. Most small startups lack the time, money, and paper-pusher employees to handle the bureaucratic rules to bring in H1-B visa workers, therefore the vast majority are going to big established employers filling existing jobs rather than to unique talented people who are key workers in small shops.
3. Most H1-B workers are imported to fill positions previously held by US citizens, therefore by definition they are taking jobs Americans ARE willing to do - and often they are imported while Americans are actually holding those jobs.
4. A shocking number of American workers have been forced to train their H1-B replacements. This very fact however proves that the imported worker was LESS qualified to do the job than the more-qualified American who the company admits is better qualified by the very act of requiring the training.
Simple: Death penalty if you import an H1-B worker and ANY American can prove that he/she could do the job.
Bogus "requirements" which are just there to help the employer pretend something exotic is required should not count. Any company that wants a bunch of workers from India and therefore specifies experience only likely to come from India, but which actually will never need those capabilities, should not be able to get away with the fake requirements. The argument should be about ABILITY TO DO THE JOB, and if an American CAN then no visa should issue and anybody who certified that no American could should be snuffed.
Within 6 months of the policy change, nobody would apply for H1-B visa workers. Economic treason that weakens the nation is no less serious than diplomatic or military acts of treason.
an escape clause that says "when rich employers want to get richer and normal market forces would cause wages to rise, run away to a communist county for cheap labor."
This improves the whole model (in the minds of Wall St investors and CEOs doing IPOs) by making the supply-demand equation one-directional and making it a win-win equation for the fabulously wealthy who raise prices on the products they sell when the products are in short supply but never see wages they pay raise when the labor they must buy is in short supply.
This is just window dressing. The existing regulations already prohibit the abuses currently taking place. The problem is a lack of enforcement.
If the government just performed a thorough audit of the likes of Infosys, Tata, Wipro, etc. they'd uncover the way these companies are gaming the system and they'd be able to shut it down. Unfortunately, since the politicians receive ass tons of money from these companies, that will never happen.
This latest regulation/order won't have any meaningful effect on the U.S. tech labor market.
I don't like him outside of entertainment, and didn't vote for him.
However, give him credit for occasional good he does. Reward good behavior and dissuade bad behavior.
Table-ized A.I.
No I don't do that impersonator - obviously YOU DO though, projecting it the way a weak weasel like you always does.
APK
P.S.=> That IS what "your kind" (inferior fuckups) do all your life literally & figureatively... apk
Citation/Proof? Not that it matter - He deserves vacation not taking presidential pay and bringing back many times more real jobs than Obama ever did in a far shorter timeframe also. Obama kept getting us in debt and war. Trump stopped WWIII with Korea instead. You SJW's always talk 'freedom of speech' and yet you down moderate anything that doesn't fit YOUR agendas. How transparent. Is that your favorite color? You're the WORST ABUSERS of free speech there is hypocrites. Now, go eat your welfare food us taxpayers pay for and stfu!
APK
P.S.=> Show me Obama brought back Intel, Carrier, Ford, GM, Lockheed (some before he was elected), IBM, Amazon (both adding jobs) & that's not even touching the entire list of GOOD paying jobs w/ DISPOSABLE INCOME (not part time no insurance minimum wage service industry only 'jobs' (slavery))... apk
I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine. Your software is well written, functional. The Host File Engine performs exactly as promised by mmell
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg
I've never tried to belittle (APK's) work, I've flat out said it's good by BronsCon
take a look at the APK hosts file engine by SuperKendall
APK is kinda right. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works by bmo
I like your host file system by Karmashock
I find your hosts file admirable by vel-ex-tech
* My code's liked + recommended & hosted by Malwarebytes' hpHosts!
APK
P.S.=> See subject UNIDENTIFIABLE sjw "ne'er-do-well" - let's see YOU do the above ("ain't happenin'")... apk
Even the high profile Disney case, which was a blatant violation of the law, was simply dismissed by the judge. The argument, made by the judge was a ludicrous mis-interpretation. Oh, your jobs were harmed, but no jobs of the contracting firm were harmed. So no case....WTF.
Disney should of been fined $1 billion dollars for that violation.