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US suspension of fast track for H-1B visas leaves foreign workers in limbo

4 points by davidf18 10y ago

davidf18 10y ago
"The H-1B visa program currently admits 85,000 immigrants each year. Technology companies have been lobbying to extend the program to allow for more foreign immigration, of which Donald Trump has been a vocal opponent. In the run-up to his election, Trump criticized Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, for pushing for more specialist H-1B visas, arguing it was a threat to jobs for American women and minorities. Meanwhile documents obtained by numerous news outlets have offered vague suggestions that White House reforms may seek to prioritize American workers and restrict outsourcing companies that have dominated the program." Interestingly, I often read in NYTimes, Washington Post, etc. about terrible Trump, but even the economics columnists don't mention the good things that he does and I wonder why that is.
- M_Grey 10y ago
  >Interestingly, I often read in NYTimes, Washington Post, etc. about terrible Trump, but even the economics columnists don't mention the good things that he does and I wonder why that is. Is it really that hard to understand? I realize this is hyperbolic, but it's for many of the same reasons that we don't tend to focus much on what an admirable animal right's activist, anti-smoker, and vegetarian Adolf Hitler was.
  - davidf18 10y ago
    Actually, I believe it is because the elites of the media probably don't know one scientist, programmer, engineer, that would be affected by H1-B. They certainly don't know working class Americans who are affected by illegal immigration. I am especially disappointed that the economists that seem to have so much empathy for illegal immigrants seem not to have empathy for Americans who lose jobs because of unfair H1-B. I don't think a single columnist in NYT or WaPo or The Atlantic has written anything about Trump and H1-B.
    - davidf18 10y ago
      Please state why downvoted. Do you believe that the elites of the media know people whose jobs have been or could be displaced by H1-B visas? I really don't think so and they never seem to write about it.

4 points by davidf18 10y ago

"The H-1B visa program currently admits 85,000 immigrants each year. Technology companies have been lobbying to extend the program to allow for more foreign immigration, of which Donald Trump has been a vocal opponent. In the run-up to his election, Trump criticized Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, for pushing for more specialist H-1B visas, arguing it was a threat to jobs for American women and minorities. Meanwhile documents obtained by numerous news outlets have offered vague suggestions that White House reforms may seek to prioritize American workers and restrict outsourcing companies that have dominated the program." Interestingly, I often read in NYTimes, Washington Post, etc. about terrible Trump, but even the economics columnists don't mention the good things that he does and I wonder why that is.

M_Grey 10y ago
>Interestingly, I often read in NYTimes, Washington Post, etc. about terrible Trump, but even the economics columnists don't mention the good things that he does and I wonder why that is. Is it really that hard to understand? I realize this is hyperbolic, but it's for many of the same reasons that we don't tend to focus much on what an admirable animal right's activist, anti-smoker, and vegetarian Adolf Hitler was.
- davidf18 10y ago
  Actually, I believe it is because the elites of the media probably don't know one scientist, programmer, engineer, that would be affected by H1-B. They certainly don't know working class Americans who are affected by illegal immigration. I am especially disappointed that the economists that seem to have so much empathy for illegal immigrants seem not to have empathy for Americans who lose jobs because of unfair H1-B. I don't think a single columnist in NYT or WaPo or The Atlantic has written anything about Trump and H1-B.
  - davidf18 10y ago
    Please state why downvoted. Do you believe that the elites of the media know people whose jobs have been or could be displaced by H1-B visas? I really don't think so and they never seem to write about it.