Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) appears on Fox News to discuss H1B visas and the inherent fraudulent use of the system by companies trying to cut costs and avoid hiring American workers.
Schmitt says H1-B visas are being “abused” in the U.S. and argues that many American workers are being forced to “train their replacements.” WATCH:
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I love Trump but he simply took the wrong side of this argument which may cost home the midterms. He just should have stayed with MAGA on this topic instead of handing the leftists a win. Shoot me!!
I believe Trump uses only the H2B not the H1B visa program. Seasonal service employees
A big difference
Correct. And they are temporary workers to fill a sudden need.
True; but as was pointed out in the other blog post, Trump may be conflating H1B and H2B visas ( https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/12/29/despite-new-york-post-phone-call-and-question-on-the-matter-donald-trump-companies-do-not-use-h1b-visas/ ).
If true, that makes it easy for Musk & Co. to manipulate policy and make their case for increases.
Hopefully, someone on Team Trump has pointed out the differences between these two visas as well as the fraud/abuse issues that go along with them.
dd_sc …
Trump knows the difference between H1 and H2 visas. He has been at the pinnacle of power for a long time, is uncommonly intelligent. And his primary purpose, his source of public support … is America First immigration policy. He is not stupid.
Where does the info within the “” come from that you refer to? *It’s fake news*. A fake news industry is putting words in his mouth. It is a social sickness, this. It cannot be cured until it is *first* recognized for what it is. Remedy can only happen after the lying fake news industry is fully exposed and recognized by all.
Still, no jobs for Americans…
They are the same thing in principle.
They both hire “foreign” workers and pay them LESS than they would an American Citizen.
Hmm. Never saw this poster before and he didn’t read sundance’s previous article on the HB-2s.
Nice try.
Oh and by the way, “will probably cost him the midterms” has been a big talking point last two days.
We shall see.
I’m already tired of this “losing the midterms” crap. He hasn’t been inaugurated for this term yet!
I did read it. I have been here for years. You missed my point. DJT simply had to say he believes Americans should compete equally and that the H1 should not have preference or advantage.
I am to the right of Rush and rarely post unless I feel strongly.
Everyone on this site knows how President Trump feels about Americans first.
Sunlight and more sunlight.
American jobs for Americans!
I blame the guys that invented the Excel spreadsheet giving companies tools to cut costs and American workers…
Excel wasn’t the first spreadsheet… that was Lotus 1 2 3 and it was superior! (Still runs on Linux).
And I was using VP Planner, a cheap 1-2-3 alternative that implemented all the 123 inputs. But as we know about MS and DOS/Windows “the code’s not done ’till Lotus won’t run”.
Yup and Microsoft copy-catted Lotus 1-2-3, and dBase (databases, MS called theirs Access,) and WordPerfect. Then Microsoft bundled them all together to create “Microsoft Office” and exploited their monopoly control over the PC operating systems to ram it into business customers.
Almost everything Microsoft has ever done, including DOS and Windows, was copy-catted or outright stolen from other more innovative little companies. Bill Gates was the master of stealing other people’s ideas and using hardball market power to generate obscene profits.
Gates’ Microsoft was a marketing innovative business not a tech innovative business.
All about $. I live a few miles north of Myrtle Beach and home construction along with apartment building is booming. Sundance mentioned that the roofing industry is looking for a cutout. I have yet to see any Americans roofing , framing, drywall installation, cement or paving work. Only those from south of the border. Always one or two white supervisors. Greedy contractors hire only from this labor pool
They are up here in the far northeast where “white” America thrives.
Its quite different in Canada. Even with the millions of new immigrants.
I build roads and pave. There are a pile of company’s in Ontario. The vast majority of workers in this industry are white, born and bred Canadians. Im not sure why, because these companies are always looking for workers. Of course its seasonal, and the end of major projects always run into December, where we can be working in cold temperatures and snow. 12-16 hour days is the norm. 80 to 100 plus hours a week is also the normal hours. We dont get overtime until after 55 hours a week, in fact our industry is literally the only one with these rules. Castro Jr’s liberals say that because we are seasonal, we dont deserve to get the normal overtime after 45 hours. Go figure…
I have worked with a few immigrants, who were hired for a summer, over the last few years, and the simple truth of it is, they cant handle it all. Maybe its just where I’ve been working, but I rarely see any of the immigrants the next season at start up time. The temperatures, both hot and cold, and the long hours dont seem to attract many of them. Mind you this is in Northern Ontario. Im sure in the Toronto area, and all along the 401 corridor to the borders, may be a different story. Our weather up here is quite extreme compared to down South.
They get paid the same as the rest of us, and of course, it all depends on your experience level. You get paid more as a veteran of the industry. The new workers get paid less, as it should be. Heavy equipment operators dont grow on trees, especially the paving aspect of it. You dont learn those machines in a year.
I can only guess that the work is just too hard for most of them. Even though the small City I live in is overrun with East Indians over the last 2 years, they dont want to work hard. The proof is in the pudding.
They own all the gas stations and corner stores and most of the businesses in the 2 Malls we have here. It is a strange thing to feel like a minority in your own City, these days.
Castro Jr has really, really wrecked the place…the same as the Demorats and RINO’s have wrecked the USA.
It’s because Canada does not border on Mexico or any other underdeveloped country. Immigrants must fly into Canada and they tend to be higher skilled, or else they only use Canada as a stepping stone to try to get into the USA. The low-skill immigrants who walk, swim or raft into the US from points south don’t go on up to Canada.
Exactly. I live in San Diego – same-same. When I needed work on my house a white American came to my house and we settled on a deal. Days later, he shows up with his Mexican workers. They have a lousy work ethic and, sure enough, I had to tell the “supervisor” the work they are doing is unacceptable and I won’t pay for it unless it is redone. Happens all the time.
An answer to the issue is to tell anyone you are contracting to do work that the contract is contingent on American citizens only on the crew(s)…
The H1 Visa fraud and abuse has been going on for over 60 years and they are discovering it now????? The media has found a dent on the MAGA armor and is exploiting it to the max.
Well, though I usually really dislike this reporter, she’s the very first I’ve heard mention the HB-2s.
So somebody is reading here.
Perhaps they think they can “gotcha” PDJT if it was a simple misspeak.
Or perhaps PDJT did it intentionally to glare some sunlight.
I lean toward the latter theory. ☺️
Well who put the dent there?
Idiots in MAGA that have no sense.
Some say the argument over H1B is a civil war. That implies irreconcilable differences. It is not that. This is healthy political debate as intended under the guiding principles of our Constitutional Republic.
It is unhealthy to simply fall in line and say what we are told to say – Democrats do this.
It is healthy to rationally engage an issue, listen, express views, modify views, be heard, decide.
“We are citizens, not slaves” (Tucker).
The Uniparty and their fellow travelers (or masters), the WEF, UN, WHO et al would disagree with Tucker.
Their centre will not hold.
Do not do as you’re told, do not sit down, do not shut up…
Carry on.
Can’t believe, from all I’ve heard from President Trump, that he will be on the side of Musk on this. There has to be a solid ground that will satisfy all sides. Hopefully will be more than having the employers pay more for the foreign help. That doesn’t hurt the pockets of them as much as it will keep Americans out of work. There needs to be a cap or ratio of how many foreigners per so many more American workers. Right now, President Trump seems to be having another crisis on his hands. Still, as he always promises, the best will favor Americans.
After four years of “Biden” and “his” ruinous reign there will be endless crises, all designed to destroy the Republic.
The enemy is still within the gates, and it seems has no intention of being evicted.
…”the calls are coming from inside the house…”
Still remember my absolute terror the first time I saw that movie! 😳
The shades have been raised and the sunlight is streaming in.
😁 Thank God for that.
Ugly as it is, sis, we can’t clean house unless we see the filth.
Amen.
Big Ugly filth.
Hugely, steph.
I can feel my face screwing up now every time I listen to any of them.
The root cause of the problem in this country is inflation, the cruelest tax of all. Inflation is caused by the federal reserve and fiat currency. Prices inflate and wages do not keep up. It’s like the dog chasing its tail. For example, my father made 15K a year and was able to buy and ocean view home in San Diego CA for 37K in the mid-sixties. When I was working, I was making about 10.5X that much yet that house today is valued at 2.50 million. Keep up? No way. Like Sundance said, those who receive the “money out of thin air first” are the ones who benefit from it the most. Us peons hardly get the crumbs. Just look at medical costs, tuition at colleges, private elementary and secondary schools, housing in general, etc. It’s crazy.
The Cantillion effect describes some of the effects of that inflation being beneficial to those with first access to the newly created currency.
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-cantillion-effect
You can say Bastiat was prescient.
root cause is 1913 Federal Reserve
Fortunately everything was beer and skittles before the fed. Ever hear of the panic 0f 1873 and panic of 1893?
https://www.myvisajobs.com/reports/h1b/ Top 200 companies using H1B visa employees in 2024
Some of those companies are Indian companies. No foreign company should receive h1b visas.
Thanks, good link!
I believe Trump uses only the H2B not the H1B visa program. Seasonal service employees
A big difference
Still unfair to our young who would be happy to have those jobs if only they could afford to do it. Remember this?
https://abc13.com/archive/8315451/
True.
But priorities matter.
Can’t eat the elephant all at once.
Me thinks Trump will come to the rescue and wants this all to come out in the open for everyone to see…
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round up ALL H1B visa people, and have them train Americans and then send them back. My son’s company had them train foreigners before they moved the company to India and fired ALL the American workers. MAGA means hire Americans FIRST, train others for American jobs. Musk doesn’t want to hire Americans then shut his business down.
Don’t other countries have laws that you cannot hire foreigners unless you can prove there is no native to do the job?
Yes, H1B is supposed to work like that too. Companies are supposed to demonstrate they could not find a qualified American for the job.
But companies have figured out a zillion ways to game that system. They write bogus job descriptions and post them online. Then they claim they didn’t get any “qualified” US candidates and go hire a less-qualified H1B.
The H-1B visa program is supposed to allow employers to hire very specialized skills that are difficult to find. Instead it has been perverted to allow employers to replace higher income American workers with lower-paid foreign workers.
Fifteen years ago there were many stories among the recently unemployed of people being required to train their foreign replacements. Everyone knew this was going on, but Democrats kept telling the unemployed that they weren’t competitive. They needed more education to compete with foreign workers, blah, blah, blah. Excuses, excuses. People got more education, but still ended up working at Starbucks.
It was always about hiring cheaper labor, not “qualified” labor. That is why the H-1B program went off the rails and needs to be reformed.
the hundreds of Indian IT workers Daimler Trucks North America brought in are certainly not geniuses. In many cases in fact the complete opposite.
If specialized skills are so “hard to find”, the MAGA response is to find out why and correct it.
The H1B replacements are often only half as productive as the Americans they replace. But they are available at one-third the total cost, after figuring in salary, benefits, seniority, etc. So companies hire two and pocket the profits.
When the news about Jeff Epstein’s international pimping of very young girls first appeared I was completely shocked that both Virginia Guiffre and her father worked at Trump’s Mar a lago resort!
Unheard of! White American native born citizens working at an American resort!!!
I’m not a conservative. These conservative websites always old White men complaining that teen and college age young Whites aren’t working at typical teen jobs.
Wake up grumpy grandpas.
It’s 2024 the era of no American Whites need apply. Not 1964 when you could easily get a fast food gardening baby sitting teen young person’s job.
Those jobs are reserved for illegal aliens supported by their women and kid’s welfare. The wages those illegals make goes mostly by western Union to Mexico and Central America. While welfare pays for rent utilities food and medical care. All the necessaries paid by the taxpayers.
Tens of billions are sent to Latin America every year because most Hispanic workers are supported by welfare.
Their wages that aren’t sent abroad go for cars toys and luxuries Americans living on their wages without welfare supplements can’t afford
End the sending of billions USD to Latin America. Send an army of investigators to expose all those immigrant families on welfare with a working father in the home.
Thank you for posting this! It is the TRUTH!
I’m not a conservative. These conservative websites always old White men complaining that teen and college age young Whites aren’t working at typical teen jobs.
Wake up grumpy grandpas.
If you maintain your closed mind and incorrectly drawn conclusions, you will find life even harder than it already is. Important lesson for you, if you care to learn it – if some of the first words ‘out of your mouth’ as it were are slams against someone you’re trying to communicate with, your chances of having a productive conversation decrease rapidly, regardless of the other(s). 😉
I’ve been reading CTH since 2015, when DJT first came down the escalator. This is the first time I’m posting in all that time, so please forgive me if I’m too wordy or seem to ramble. For nearly 15 years, I worked immigration as a CBP officer at Newark Liberty Intl Airport (EWR) and the seaport (2007-2021).
I heard Trump talk about building a wall, and found a candidate that was saying things that were the closest to the truth about immigration I’d ever heard from anyone in politics.
The current discussion on H1-B visas is a topic I believe I can add perspective to.
Each day at EWR, 7 days a week, we’d have 3-4 Air India flights arrive, as well as one United flight. Each flight would be nearly full, 275-325 passengers (pax), with a smattering of various nationalities; however the overwhelming number were Indians – either Indian heritage USCs or LPRs – Legal Permanent Residents (green card) or here on various visas: H-1B,
L-1, H-4, L-2, B-1, B-2, F-1, or J-1.
For this discussion, we’ll talk mostly about the H-1Bs and H-4s. On first entry, the H-1B would present his /her passport and their I-797, the approval notice for that visa, as well as his I-129, Petition for a nonimmigrant worker. Let’s call our H-1B applicant Mr. Patel. Mr Patel shows me his passport, with the newly-affixed H-1B visa, and the I-797, the I-129, as well as his Customs declaration, etc. Since Patel is a very common name in India, similar to Smith or Jones here, you might have to clear a few ‘hits’ on our computer system (an intranet), to make sure you have the right Mr Patel. If all goes well, after perusing the docs for validity, and asking some questions about who he’ll be working for, where he’ll live, etc, you’d take fingerprints and ‘stamp ‘ him in. (CBP officers refer to themselves as ‘stamp monkeys’). Mr Patel is now free to go get his bags (subject to search), leave the confines of EWR, and begin his new life in the USA.
In reviewing his papers, you’d notice that he most likely was sponsored by Tata Consultancy, Infosys, or Cognizant – three of the biggest employment agencies involved with work visas. You’d see his contracted salary – as of 2020-21, the H-1Bs stated salaries were usually (if I remember correctly) around $62,000-$68,000 USD; probably more now. Mr Patel seems nice enough – he appears well-groomed and speaks english passably well – but from your experience, he does not strike you as a super-genius – no rocket scientist is he. You also are pretty sure that an American IT specialist wouldn’t be taking this position for $60K – he’d be asking for much closer to $100K. So, absolutely, the H-1B process is about getting cheaper labor.
However – and I’ve seen little or no discussion about this point – when Mr Patel got his approval for an H-1B visa, for him, it was like hitting the lottery. Not because he’ll spend the next 3,4,5+ years slaving away at a company where he has to be very careful not to make waves… because he is, in some respects, an indentured servant: get fired, and back to India you go! And not because he may be staying with other H-1Bs in an ‘Extended Stay’ hotel – something like a student dorm with kitchen facilities.
But because of something an H-1B visa offers: a ‘pathway to citizenship’. The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa. However, it is dual-intent: it allows both work and residency. Mr Patel can start applying for LPR status as soon as he has his H-1B visa and comes to the US. That’s also why he wants to remain on good terms with his employer – since an employer can sponsor his green card application.
So, Mr Patel settles in – he soon petitions his spouse to join him – usually within 6 months to a year. Mrs Patel will be an H-4, and will have no trouble navigating the immigration process, as long as she can show a valid marriage certificate.
If Mr Patel was not married yet – he will – after a reasonable time – travel back to India, usually during ‘the wedding season’, to be be wed (there are still many arranged marriages in India). In any case, Mrs Patel is now here. I’ve noticed many Indian couples seem to have 2 children. Since they are born on US soil, they are USCs.
Mrs Patel may also work – she’ll have an EAD card (Employment Authorization Document). So, she can also get a job, between having babies.
Now, you might say, how can Mrs Patel work, when she has little children at home? Not to worry – that’s where the parents of our happy couple come in. Every day I’d see parents of an H-1B come in on a B-2 (tourist) visa, to stay for up to the normal maximum allotted time of 6 months. When those 6 months are up, the the in-laws come over for 6 months – a rotation that can go on until the kids are in school. By that time, perhaps the H-1B has now received his/her green card, so can petition one or both sets of parents to join them permanently in the US.
I’ve seen H-1Bs start with the visa… then see them a few years later with a green card… and then finally, with a US passport.
All perfectly legal.
However, when the talk only focuses on the annual 65,000 H-1B visas issued each year – they are referred to as work visas.
You need to stop and realize that the company that cuts labor costs by importing cheaper labor from overseas is saddling the US with other consequences – permanent immigration that no one ever debated.
Those 65,000 annual visas most likely represent 65K x 2 = 130,000 potential new permanent residents/citizens… and that’s just including a spouse. Each of those 65,000 couples most likely will birth 2 children – brand new USCs. Plus, other relatives will most likely also come over.
So, each year, those 65,000 visas may represent, conservatively, an increase of (4 people per visa, or 4 x 65,000) approx 250,000 potential additions to the permanent US population. A quarter-million. That’s the wonder of chain migration.
Anyone talking about this?
Yes indeed – there were people on sundance’s previous article talking about it – but never in such real-life detail as this. Good job.
Welcome and hope to see more comments from you!
Thank you for the warm welcome – I’ve learned a lot and seen issues through a different perspective, by visiting this site.
Btw, read Atlas Shrugged years ago – what an interesting book. More than a book – a philosophy. Rand’s novel still is relevant today.
Take care!
Thanks, that is great information. I think we all need to take a deep breath and remember that Trump’s top policy advisor is Stephen Miller.
Stephen Miller is a smart guy. The H-1B program isn’t going away – but it definitely needs reform.
Here’s an idea – if you made the provisions of the H-1B visa more similar to the J-1 visa (which does not have a pathway to a green
card) you might find less interest; at least you would not be enabling immigration that never was Intended.
O-1 visas are for those who are ‘extraordinary’ in their field – not so the H-1B.
No reason legislation can’t be passed to re-imagine these visas – while tackling illegal immigration is of critical importance, Legal immigration Also must reflect this country’s needs – and should have the consent/assent of this nation’s citizens.
For some time, it seems John Q. Public has been frozen out of these conversations.
A pathway to a Green Card for qualified H1B employees is not the problem. They do have some useful skills. Better for us to keep those skills here and keep all the technology secrets they learned while here, instead of having them go back home to strengthen our foreign competitors.
The problem is the 3-8 family members they will sponsor into the US under “chain migration” once they get that Green Card. The one talented child is the beachhead their families use to bring a whole flock of welfare-dependent family members into the USA.
You make some good points about chain
migration. It is an issue that needs to be aired more thoroughly.
Regarding the skills and possible security implications of H-1Bs… in my opinion many of these visa holders are just ‘worker bees’ – they only handle the relatively routine IT ‘stuff’ – not the creative side of things.
Their value to companies who contract them is their lower cost to employ – in wages and long-term fringe benefits.
Those that are higher up the ‘food chain’ are the L-1 visa holders – they are usually described as being in management or an employee with specialized knowledge.
L-1s will make more than the H-1Bs – they also can bring their families over, as L-2s.
Hopefully he will keep Trump from making a bad decision on this.
I don’t know how you could stand to watch this travesty for 15 years, but your careful description of what you saw happening is yet another graphic example of why the anchor baby scam must be remedied to its original intent.
Until President Trump came along, no one cared. There was no one to talk to about it. Most of the officers I worked with knew it, but the policies were set in stone. After CBP was organized in 2003, a lot of the INS guys either retired or moved to another agency.
The people who assumed command were bigger on stopping terrorism than something as ‘mundane’ as immigration – legal or illegal.
You do what you can – you do your job the best you can.
The H-1B issue is only a small part of the whole immigration story.
There’s L-1s… and F-1s… and ESTA… and other ‘stuff’.
Outside of people in BP, ICE, USCIS, and other related agencies – practically no one in the US understands what the immigration issue really is.
That’s why a former INS/ICE guy like Tom Homan is a good pick.
He’ll bring along like/minded people. ‘Personnel is policy’.
President Trump is this nation’s only leader who is trying to do the right thing.
He has almost all of ‘The Establishment’ working against him.
If he can finish the Wall, remove the majority of the illegal aliens, and reform the process by which people are admitted to this country, he will have accomplished far more than any president on this issue.
Demographics is destiny (as Mark Steyn has repeatedly said).
President Trump is the only leader with the vision and courage to undertake this tremendous challenge.
What a scam – should be stopped IMMEDIATELY! If Trump doesn’t know about this, someone needs to tell him. No wonder our country is going down the tubes – millions of people who know nothing of our heritage and have zero fidelity to our country and only care about what’s in it for them. This is actually an emergency that requires action by we the people NOW.
The problem is – it’s not a scam. It’s legal. What’s ‘legal’ though, is not what’s always right – or fair.
That’s why our new President and his policies will be so important.
A nation’s citizens have the right to determine who will enter – and who will stay.
President Trump is the first leader who believes The People have a say in this.
Thanks for insight as to how the system is worked.
You’re welcome. It is difficult to communicate the complexity and depth of the problem.
I’m just a regular ‘schmoe’, who wants to help people understand the issue. Most of the people coming to the States legally are decent people.
However, there’s been little if any public debate over whether the current number and type of people who enter the US legally are helping or hurting those already here.
The world is filled with “decent people” – but they can’t all come here or here will become like there…
Thanks for dropping in. Pull up a chair on the branches and rest a spell as you can.
Very true – the world is full of decent people. And yes, they all can’t come here.
Think of the lifeboat analogy – there’s only so many places in the lifeboat, and only so many who can have a place.
We cannot import the whole world. That’s why a nation has borders. A country can decide who – or how many – can enter.
The INA – the Immigration and Nationality Act – is quite complex.
In some ways, it resembles the Tax Code – in that it has many parts that require study to comprehend.
And also like the tax code, it can be manipulated to give certain interests an advantage where none was intended.
I’m not a lawyer – so I can’t speak to all the legal ramifications of this or that article or provision.
But I can say that the way the INA is enforced – or not – makes all the difference.
Yes, reform of the
immigration system is needed – But, IF the INA had been enforced as written, we wouldn’t be in the situation we now face.
Again, only President Trump has had the vision and courage to take on this issue.
And thanks for the invite – CTH is one of the few places that doesn’t ‘pretend’.
There are many reasons this debate is occurring, and corporate profit is one of them. Fraud is another. Displaced American citizens is another.
But there is also the reason of Labor Shortages. One quick metric is job openings versus unemployed workers. The most recent data from BLS is 7.7 million job openings versus 7.1 million unemployed workers. And this mismatch in the numbers has been going on for some time. In certain regions and sectors of the economy it is worse. I am very aware of the statistics in construction in my area, right now in an area with a population of about 300,000 there are over 100 job openings in the construction sector. Add to that, that over 50% of the construction workers are over the age of 60.
If we get the economic growth that DJT can deliver, labor supply is a very important factor. Labor supply issues are not just easily resolved by hiring citizens versus non citizens.
The entire labor supply versus labor demand area of concern is about to get hit with another tsunami. It/They are called AI Agents. As of 2023, 2.86 million Americans were employed as Contact Center customer service representatives – usually family wage jobs. AI Agents over the next few years will displace many of them. I know we have a Department of Labor, but we may need a Labor Czar who can help untie this Gordian Knot.
Hopefully this debate can broaden into all of the issues related to gainfully employing all citizens who want to work. There are many thorny issues that have to be addressed. We need smart, clear thinking individuals who have integrity to America First to work on this. Perhaps this first debate around immigrant labor can be a starting point.
I stopped reading when you reference the BLM. BLM is a totally corrupted agency with political numbers. Have you not been watching the massive adjustments BLM makes every quarter/year. Garbage in and garbage out by BLM.
Think you mean BLS?? But really have no idea if BLS is “totally corrupted”.
Kinda like Tyson firing their whole staff to be replaced completely by illegals. It’s just wrong. D.I.E has got to die, really.
Spelling it DOGE isn’t gonna work.
In addition, another poultry (Tyson) operation just burned to the ground.
Someone posted over the last few days about driving past abandoned farm after farm in the heartland.
The destruction of this country has been mounted on numerous fronts. Once the new administration is in place –I would love a televised town hall, with informed participants, discussing these multiple issues that plague this country.
Ever since I’ve heard illegal immigration discussed, I’ve heard the following:
The right (RINOs) want it for cheap labor.
The left (DementoRats) want it for more voters (or ballots, as it turns out).
But now we see that the UniParty has been embedding guaranteed cheap labor into the legal immigration system for a long time as well. Many of us knew it in the abstract – I saw it in person before retirement – but until this, I was not aware of the large scale and intricate Blob coordination.
This probably why the backlash against any public notice of corruption in the latter system has raised such an uproar in the Blob institutions.
They already lost the battle on Plan A – but they didn’t expect Plan B to become so visible, so early.
I don’t eat 🍿 anymore, but I’m kinda craving it today!
The Left wants more than just new voters.
They also like the dilution of traditional American culture. The Left HATES traditional (heritage) American culture and loves the opportunity to water it down by importing people raised with foreign mindsets, foreign traditions, foreign customs.
If the Left can import people with a very different culture, set them up as economic successes and hold them up as a model for brainwashed young Americans to emulate, then the Left can weaken traditional American culture for the future.
I think the H1B visa mess could lead to a war and or President Trump losing a large portions of the base because it is irreconcilable to the America First agenda.
Unless you have been affected by it you will not get it , I guess.
People are tired of getting shafted especially the white male.
I truly hope President Trump will halt the H1B visas and the educational visas as well for at least 2 years to sort this out and allow Americans a level playing field. JD Vance will not stand a chance of winning in 2028 otherwise.
The H1B program was put in place to benefit lazy CEO’s and CFO’s chasing cheap labor. The accounting system we currently use does a god job of tracking labor cost and the cost of goods but a very poor job of tracking other types of costs. It was developed in Venice during the late Middle Ages by merchants in the Far Eastern silk trade. It was a major advancement at the time but the world of commerce has become far more complicated since then. But stock analyst look at balance sheets in the annual report when pricing stock, these are the products of an accounting system that overemphasis labor cost and ignores other cost. Since the CEO gets most of his income in the form of stock options he wants high stock prices and he gets that with lower labor costs. For most major stock companies the CEO is in the final phase of his career and has a very short term outlook. He get lower labor costs by layoffs and H1B’sfor what labor you can’t layoff. Besides that Layoffs are easy to do, he can layoff 10 to 20% of his workforce and still make his early tee-off time at the country club.
Let me tell you about these people. I am a truck driver. They have flooded the work force. All of you that drive the highways of the U.S. Watch semi’s on the road. See one swerve out of it’s lane. It will be a person from South Asia looking at his phone because he can’t read signs or speak the language. See a truck driving so fast his trailer is swaying. It will be a S. Asian trying to make an extra .60 cents. Get cutoff same guy after another fraction of a dollar. A mini van smashed flat. Same guy and who knows what he is after that is worth an entire family’s life. I wish I had time to see how many accidents are caused by people from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc. I guarantee it is far out of proportion to the number of drivers on U.S. roads. I don’t even care if womens calls me a racist. I see it every day. They care not about other people. The various states that issue them commercial licenses. I hope being woke is worth the lives you cost us every day. You workers that know that people that barely speak English are unable to read it. I hope you spend eternity some place warm. You know that a driver must be able to read the language to have a CDL. My name is A. LEE
Thank you for posting. I believe every word you said – I see it too and is why I am afraid to drive on the freeway now.
I see this in Houston, Tx all the time. Houston is a very international city now so you see a wide variety of driving styles. it is almost impossible to predict what the other car will do. so I just assume the worse.
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Yes, my experience with semi drivers has been predominantly positive throughout my long life.
I am noticing a difference– more hazardous– with some semi drivers. It occurred to me to question who is behind the wheel?
I guess this needs to include, “And where are they from?”
why does the enforcement of immigration laws depend on which party is in power? The laws haven’t changed.It just depends on the schemes of individual political parties.No one is above the law is 100% BS.A tiny minority of politicians,their government worker allies and media mouthpieces use and abuse the majority who are forced to pay taxes to support the BS.We could end tax deduction at source that makes employers and retailers collect taxes.If we had to write checks once or twice a year we could decide we arent paying because you are fcking us over.Some fundamental changes are needed where we the people hold the whip hand.Politicians and government workers should fear us.Right now they kick us around like we were helpless puppies
Why? Because the umpires and referees always determine how the rule-book is enforced and how the game is played.
TESLA Replaced Laid-Off US Workers With Foreign Workers Using H-1B Visas That Musk Wants To Increase
article link…
https://electrek.co/2024/12/30/tesla-replaced-laid-off-us-workers-with-foreign-workers-using-h-1b-visas-that-musk-want-to-increase/
12/30
Vivek most likely will play shrinking violet and not have the nads to accept…
Vivek: this hurt a lot of Americans.
I invited you to a public debate about your claims as I’ve been fighting this insinuation of inferior American values in STEM for 35 years or more.
It’s a myth that came out of the @NSF & @theNASEM.
Let’s debate this in public. On camera.
Techno Fog, as usual, brings some interesting research data from the legal corner…
They’d have you believe that H-1B is a meritocracy.
That’s a lie.
A VP for Cognizant, who supplies thousands of H-1B workers for Silicon Valley, admitted under oath that visa workers are not more “skilled” than US workers.
In the case of IT, the numbers are worse than most…
Foreign workers on special visas (H-1B, OPT, etc) are taking as many as 25%-33% of all new IT jobs in America. There’s strong evidence they are holding down wages: IT jobs grew 20% from 2014-2019, yet wages rose only 3% during that period
If anyone tries to tell you the IMMIGRATION issue isn’t RACIAL, just ask them this: Would they rather have a million Swedish immigrants or a million Indian immigrants? Confront them with their biases.
Let’s explore what these countries have contributed to the world recently and historically:
Don’t make it just Sweden – make it any Western, predominately Christian nation or historically “white” nation.
My brother in law got here as an “elite H1-B”.
Pfffftt! Ran around plugging in speakers and installing CD Roms in the genpop home computers after paying a giant fee.
Now he’s a nurse.
Here we have a bought and paid for Congressional person, pushing the concepts desperately wanted by not only Silicon Valley subtards like Musk and Vivek, but a large segment of the large corporate world and Chamber of Commerce types.
My response would be – yes, most definitely, we need to do something about that country caps being at 7%!!
Considering that diversity and inclusion are so fantastic, and the businesses truly want the best talent from around the world let’s look at it from a global perspective. There are around 195 nations in existence today, so we really should LOWER those country caps to at MOST 2%. That way no single country or small group of countries can take all the jobs and only the best from across the globe are chosen…
THAT would TRULY be a Dignity Act 😉
Dims always twisted any comments on subjects to be about themselves or conform to their biases. In this case, not only do they make it about themselves – but they also show severe religious bigotry, for as everyone knows Siks and other groups in India are NOT Hindus. Then their is the severe racism on display, excluding all the other ethnic groups in the world from the debate and potential visas.
Naughty, naughty…
Remember Facebook’s discrimination scandal against Americans? Requiring Americans to mail in their resumes to funnel jobs to foreign workers?
Well, it wasn’t just Facebook. Look at these companies: Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, Alibaba, Tesla, Uber and it doesn’t stop there. I’ve seen Salesforce, PayPal, eBay, DoorDash, LinkedIn, Workday, BMW, and MANY more doing the same thing. After the Facebook scandal, many switched from “mail in your resume” to “mail or email your resume” to just email submissions but the discrimination remained.
So the lesson here is once something is published, you can’t go back in time to erase it. From 2015-2021, countless Americans were discriminated against, while companies and individuals gamed the system to get foreign workers into green card backlogs. Now, they’re scrambling to protect their fraudulent practices, hoping no one audits their applications.
It’s time to grow awareness and hold these companies accountable, not reward them with even more foreign workers. If America wants to see how deep this runs, I’ve got the receipts, and I’m ready to share. I’ll do whatever it takes to help America put its workers first.
Let’s make America American First again! Otherwise MAGA will never happen!
Here’s the direct link to the CBS article, so you don’t have to let Gulag near you…
http://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/facebook-discrimination-claims-settlement/
Musky too, eh. Tsk, tsk…
Here’s an H1B visa stat for you:
Last year, the top 30 H-1B visa employers laid off 84,556 people at the same time as they sought 34,414 new H1-B foreign workers. This includes firms such as @elonmusk‘s Tesla.
The number of people who can personally testify to this is staggering…
Oh snap…
It isn’t just high tech either as seen by VegasMike’s response.
Dearest Vivek,
Meet Dale, a man who flew A-10s to defend and protect not only our nation, but our ground forces. Highly skilled, hard work, long hours.
Now back off a couple of steps…
cross posted at https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/6551/senator-schmitt-discusses-issue-visas
I have knowledge of two H1B Visa hires who worked with a relative of mine. One, at Halliburton, was from Russia, was paid much more than even the head of his engineering group, and was incompetent. No one knows why he was hired. The other was from India, paid the same as everyone else in the group, and did such poor work it had to be redone by an American engineer. He was the nephew of the director, also Indian, and not a word could be said against him. This was at Nvidia.
“train their replacements.”. An old old screed. Applies well to having to train your cubicle neighbor to take your job. Immigration status, race, sex, all of these descriptors mean nothing if you’ve both lost your job and had to give it to your replacement. It always hurts.
https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/stakeholder-messages/dhs-announces-h-1b-modernization-final-rule-to-improve-program-integrity-and-efficiency
December 17, 2024
DHS Announces H-1B Modernization Final Rule to Improve Program Integrity and Efficiency
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced a final rule modernizes the H-1B program by streamlining the approval process, increasing its flexibility to better allow employers to retain talented workers, and improving the integrity and oversight of the program.
The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations, defined by statute as occupations that require highly specialized knowledge and a bachelor’s or higher degree in the specific specialty, or its equivalent. The final rule aims to provide greater flexibilities for employers and workers by modernizing the definition and criteria for specialty occupation positions as well as for nonprofit and governmental research organizations that are exempt from the annual statutory limit on H-1B visas. These changes will help U.S. employers hire the employees they need to meet their business needs and remain competitive in the global marketplace.
The rule also extends certain flexibilities for students on an F-1 visa seeking to change their status to H-1B to avoid disruptions in lawful status and employment authorization. To improve program efficiency, the final rule will allow USCIS to more quickly process applications for most individuals who had previously been approved for an H-1B visa. It will also allow H-1B beneficiaries with a controlling interest in the petitioning organization to be eligible for H-1B status, subject to reasonable conditions.
….Today’s rule builds on a previous final rule, announced in January 2024, which has already dramatically improved the H-1B registration and selection process.
Been saying this all along. Coming from watching the growth of Tech over the years at Silicon Valley and in the Telecom industry… We need to create another bumper crop of Hi Tech Talent like we did in the 50s to 70s. We can’t compete with raw tech talent from overseas, when our schools are focusing on turning out DEI, socialized robots that can’t think for themselves.
https://x.com/CPTCforSC/status/1873382176210985295
The difference between use and abuse. A forest fire is bad but sometimes a competing fire solves or prevents that problem