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2024-12-30 Economy

Eric Schmitt blasts 'abuse' of H-1B visa program, says Americans 'shouldn't train their foreign replacements'

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-12-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Eliminate the entire H1 program.

It will harm the interests of billion dollar companies, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2024-12-30 03:06|| 2024-12-30 03:06|| Front Page Top

#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.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-12-30 06:53|| 2024-12-30 06:53|| Front Page Top

#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.

All known as "Pre-Selection."

Posted by Besoeker 2024-12-30 07:50|| 2024-12-30 07:50|| Front Page Top

#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 2024-12-30 08:13|| 2024-12-30 08:13|| Front Page Top

#5 You want companies to hire this?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-12-30 10:25|| 2024-12-30 10:25|| Front Page Top

#6 The idea was decent, but then government got involved.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-12-30 11:10|| 2024-12-30 11:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Class dismissed: Colleges expected to close as enrollment numbers tank

Posted by Skidmark 2024-12-30 11:10|| 2024-12-30 11:10|| Front Page 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.

Posted by Angstrom 2024-12-30 13:34|| 2024-12-30 13:34|| Front Page Top

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