JimBowie1958
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For me personally, I had lost at least one job to H1-B visa abuse, and at least several jobs I have applied for in the past. So I am inclined to simply scrap the whole damned program until the corporations are brought under control and their influence cropped to less than that of the Middle Class, way less than.
But for the record, here is Ted Cruzes last proposal on the H1-B program from last year. Yep that was in gearing up for his run for the presidency (he already announced by then) so how much it can be trusted is up to the individual, but Cruz is an ideological thinker and if he pushes something as a new bill I think he can be trusted because that is the kind of person he is.
Ted Cruz, Jeff Sessions Roll Out Antidote To Broken H-1B Program: American Jobs First Act - Breitbart
The bill, the American Jobs First Act of 2015, is essentially an antidote to the woes of the H-1B program. The bill, which represents a crackdown on immigration program abuses by special interests, has several components.
First, it requires companies that use H-1B workers to pay such visa holders “either what an American worker who did identical or similar work made two years prior to the recruiting effort, or $110,000,” whichever is higher. What that does is it takes the incentive to pay foreigners less than Americans away from corporations, thereby ending the ability for the program to be abused in that regard.
Second, the bill requires that within 730 days—two years—of “an employee strike, an employer lockout, layoffs, furloughs, or other types of involuntary employee terminations other than for-cause dismissals,” a company cannot bring aboard any H-1B labor. That means it wouldn’t be able to replace Americans with foreigners. The bill also has more transparency requirements throughout.
This would fix the H1-B visa abuse.
But for the record, here is Ted Cruzes last proposal on the H1-B program from last year. Yep that was in gearing up for his run for the presidency (he already announced by then) so how much it can be trusted is up to the individual, but Cruz is an ideological thinker and if he pushes something as a new bill I think he can be trusted because that is the kind of person he is.
Ted Cruz, Jeff Sessions Roll Out Antidote To Broken H-1B Program: American Jobs First Act - Breitbart
The bill, the American Jobs First Act of 2015, is essentially an antidote to the woes of the H-1B program. The bill, which represents a crackdown on immigration program abuses by special interests, has several components.
First, it requires companies that use H-1B workers to pay such visa holders “either what an American worker who did identical or similar work made two years prior to the recruiting effort, or $110,000,” whichever is higher. What that does is it takes the incentive to pay foreigners less than Americans away from corporations, thereby ending the ability for the program to be abused in that regard.
Second, the bill requires that within 730 days—two years—of “an employee strike, an employer lockout, layoffs, furloughs, or other types of involuntary employee terminations other than for-cause dismissals,” a company cannot bring aboard any H-1B labor. That means it wouldn’t be able to replace Americans with foreigners. The bill also has more transparency requirements throughout.
This would fix the H1-B visa abuse.
