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According to law, H1-B Visas are only for those jobs which cannot be filled by Americans, that is no American has the skill to perform them. The law has been g
by davidf18 10y ago
According to law, H1-B Visas are only for those jobs which cannot be filled by Americans, that is no American has the skill to perform them. The law has been greatly abused, but that is in fact the law.
I find it really, really hard to believe that there are 85,000 jobs per year (the H1-B Visa limit) that cannot possibly done by Americans.
As I have pointed out the issue is that firms do not want to pay prevailing wages for IT people so they back reforms that allows the import of lower-wage labor. (Former Republican) Candidate Rubio cared not for his Florida constituents, 250 IT workers who lost jobs from being displaced by low-wage immigrants and instead took $2 million from Disney and wanted to increase the H1-B Visa limit to 250,000 from 85,000.
Trump was backing the 250 workers who lost their jobs to H1-B Visa abuse and wants Disney to give them their jobs back.
Many of the elites who want to pay less money for IT work backed candidates who wanted to depress IT wages and make more Americans unemployed. Hilary and all of the Republican candidates were for this. Only Sanders and Trump spoke out against this.
Hilary and others called Trump racist, etc. but they never addressed the fundamental issue which is not exporting American jobs overseas and not importing labor to depress wages and cause unemployment among Americans.
- mavelikara 10y ago> According to law, H1-B Visas are only for those jobs which cannot be filled by Americans, that is no American has the skill to perform them. This, I believe, is a misunderstanding of the H-1B program. There is no requirement that there "is no American has the skill to perform" a job before it being filled by someone on H-1B. Please see the Wikipedia page here [1]. The employer only has to attest that: The employment of H-1B non-immigrants does not adversely affect working conditions of workers similarly employed. At this point, I think it is advisable for you to get educated about the program you so vehemently oppose here on HN. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Protections_for_U.S._workers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Protections_for_U.S....