[FoxNews] Elon Musk has called for bringing in more migrant workers to the US
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., says H1-B visas are being "abused" in the U.S. and argues that many American workers are being forced to "train their replacements."
Schmitt made the comments on Fox News Sunday with host Shannon Bream, cutting against a push for more migrant workers from Elon Musk.
"I think there's an important, thoughtful debate that's happening. But the context that we need to, I think, keep in mind here is that American workers have been left behind by this economy. Many factory jobs have been sent overseas," Schmittt said.
"I think the abuses of the H-1B program have been evident, where you have sort of the sons and daughters of those factory workers who lost their jobs, got white collar jobs as accountants, and they're, you know, training their replacements, the foreign workers who are undercutting their wages," he continued.
"So I think the solution here President Trump has actually articulated in 2020 is to reform that system and, you know, get rid of the abuses, make it merit-based and make sure that we're not undercutting wages and having, you know, Americans train their foreign replacements," he added.
Schmitt went on to argue that the U.S. needs to "invest" more in Americans workers, as well as defend President Trump's plans for deportations.
#2
It's been a sham since the 80s. The game then was to advertise for a job with a long list of requirements that no one could meet, then get permission to get a H-1B to fill the job. Only no one followed up to see if the H-1B met all those requirements.
Then they bought off enough Congresscritters to remove the requirement that to hire a business had to show no Americans were available. When you have Americans doing the jobs and they have to train their H-1B replacement you know exactly what they're doing.
Since the 80s business has had the time to establish the programs for us to 'grow our own' but instead have used it to undermine our own talent. Why put in years of work to get a skill that they'll just hire a foreigner to fill anyways. Its a total disincentive for Americans.
#3
It's been a sham since the 80s. The game then was to advertise for a job with a long list of requirements that no one could meet, then get permission to get a H-1B to fill the job. Only no one followed up to see if the H-1B met all those requirements.
#4
The H1-B program has been abusive to the folks 'imported' for these positions for a long while, too.
Many of these folks are brought over by 'employment agencies' (unregulated, of course) who then contract their services to the firms using these workers. The immigrant is contractually bound to these agencies, not actually employed by the firm they are working at, and are often paid far far less than what the firms hiring the agencies would pay even their newest employees. The firms pay the agencies supposedly good rates (so it looks good on their books), but in reality the H1-B individual hired is actually paid a near starvation wage (out of which the agency subtracts fees for 'placement', admin, etc.) and becomes so indebted to that agency over time that it borders on indentured servitude or worse.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
12/30/2024 8:13 Comments ||
Top||
#8
The 'buy American' argument doesn't work here any better than it does with cars. Reflexively buy Ford if you want to, but I'll continue to choose the best car thank you. Is the system abused? Yes. So fix it. But at the conceptual level I'm 100% behind denuding foreign countries of their best and brightest.
[RS] An intriguing video from Feb. 2018 went viral over the weekend and had a lot of folks on the right talking because of something that actress Claire Danes said to talk show host Stephen Colbert and how he immediately interjected and changed the subject. When you hear it, you'll understand why.
Danes was sharing about how her "Homeland" show went to something of a weeklong "spy camp" because they knew someone in the CIA. There in Georgetown, they met actual "spooks," people in the State Department, and journalists. Colbert asked her, what was the most surprising thing that she learned from that experience?
Danes said every year it was different, but that year it was "all about the distrust between the [Trump] administration and the intelligence world, and the intelligence community was suddenly kind of allying itself with journalists, which usually they're not..."
It was at that point that Colbert interjected and deflected to another point about when they had started shooting the season's episodes.
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace mocked Trump and others for spreading one of his favorite “conspiracy theories.” MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt insisted that “we know it’s been debunked that this virus was manmade or modified,”
#4
How does a comedian like Colbert get to be so sensitive about such matters? Is it because he's really not a comedian and is, in fact, something else?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
12/30/2024 12:52 Comments ||
Top||
#5
And then there's the clip of little Chuckie Schumer, further down in the article, with his famous statement about how the intel community has "six ways from Sunday at getting back at you", one of the most chilling and sinister statements I've ever heard.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
12/30/2024 12:55 Comments ||
Top||
#6
#4 I'm reminded of Richard Dawson's character in the movie Marathon Man.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
