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60 Minutes had a segment on about how younger cheaper workers from mostly India are taking high level American worker jobs in IT and other such professions, some government institutions are among employers outsourcing jobs to save money (so they claim). The result is that older, highly skilled American workers are unemployed with little hope of finding comparable work.
Trump (the shameless one) made a major issue of this and is not dragging his foot on renewing the H1B Visa program. I hate that Trump has such a powerful issue to play with and wish that Democrats would become fierce opponents of the program if qualified, unemployed American workers are given serious interviews and hired. Trump hires foreign workers in the place of Americans, but it is clear that won't stop him from using the program to his political advantage.
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bdamomma
(63,652 posts)horrible these corporations are just pocketing more money for themselves, and screwing the American people. So they are deporting Illegals and bringing people for less pay, just total BS, and firing Americans????
Yes, it's just a matter of time...........
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... the law when it comes to pay but the laws for displacement are very soft when a second or 3rd party is involved.
Benedict Donald wont do anything to change that once money is thrown at his Trump Steaks business.
The "we don't have the specialties" is a 100% lie... America is the 3rd largest country population wise on Earth..., but since they through in the 60,000 dollar portion of the law the business's don't have to prove its
Both sides of the political isle are screwing the US worker on this issue but Benedict Donald promised change ... something else he'll never deliver on
TexasBushwhacker
(20,043 posts)I wonder if that number has been the same since 1990, because in 2017 dollars it should be double that.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)greedy scumbags find a way to take advantage of a decent idea to screw people out of jobs and money.
It's close to the time we need to start oiling up those old French guillotines.
LisaM
(27,759 posts)They just don't want to make the investment.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)to the overall economy when they had jobs, the dollar value of that is large.
Rene
(1,183 posts)Running out of IT options
frazzled
(18,402 posts)You can cherry pick others:
In Fargo, N.D., a gastroenterologist from Lebanon who is among thousands of foreign physicians in the state has risen to become vice president of the North Dakota Medical Association.
In Great Falls, Mont., 60 percent of the doctors who specialize in hospital care at Benefis Health System, which serves about 230,000 people in 15 counties, are foreign doctors on work visas.
Small-town America relies on a steady flow of doctors from around the world to deliver babies, treat heart ailments and address its residents medical needs. But a recent, little-publicized decision by the government to alter the timetable for some visa applications is likely to delay the arrival of new foreign doctors, and is causing concern in the places that depend on them.
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The procedural change regards temporary visas for skilled workers, known as H-1B visas. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services recently announced that it would temporarily suspend a premium processing option by which employers could pay an extra $1,225 to have H-1B applications approved in as little as two weeks, rather than several months
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/us/doctor-shortage-visa-policy.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fus&action=click&contentCollection=us®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0
But don't think that the issue of H1B visas is reducible to a simple good-bad dichotomy. It's complex and varied.