THE IMMIGRANTS WE NEED MOST [More]And how are they and their birthright children gonna vote, "economic advisor to Donald Trump"?
If there is any kind of "technological skills shortage," as the claim by this "Freedom Works" apparatchik to provide cover for subsidized cheap labor is made, try looking at the welfare state: the one that provides individual incentives for not working or improving oneself, the "public education" racket and the multinationals that find it cheaper to bring in foreigners than to cultivate domestic talent.
This guy is The Swamp talking, part of an unholy alliance of neocons, libertarians, moderates, sellouts, Deep State kapos, and rope-selling capitalists.
I understand the unelected First Son-in-Law is about to make his case, at which point I expect Ivanka's Daddy to disappoint again those who elected him because of his promised agenda.
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This has been for a long time a sore subject for American Programmers who are being pushed out and replaced by CHEAP foreigners.
Reason Magazine, the Koch brothers publication, thinks that the US would be poorer if President Trump's immigration restrictions are left in effect. Worse yet, Reason thinks that US universities will decline without foreign students.
None of which is true.
I support a total immigration moratorium for the next 50 years, or longer.
We don't need them at all.
The H1B visa program is so widely abused: if you are an employer and you can get a recent graduate from India to do an engineering job for 2/3rds the going rate, you can easily make up a reason why you can't find an American to do the work. The students from India and China know this, and many stay in the US and work after graduation intending to become permanent residents and eventually bring their families over. I have seen this in my own career. Back in the '70s there were not many Asian folks working in the lab; now, in many workplaces, Americans are in the minority.
I have known many Chinese and Indian colleagues and generally liked them as people. However, for every one of them, there was a young American man or woman with equivalent qualifications who did not get that job.
After a lifetime working in science and research engineering, if asked, I am discouraging young people from STEM careers. I tell them to go into health care (not necessarily medical school) or law instead. I don't see the H1B scam ending anytime soon, so there is no point in training for STEM fields that don't want you.
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