MESSAGE
| DATE | 2020-10-30 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
|
| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Trump Administration Proposes Eliminating H-1B
|
H1B has been covering up and supporting out complete failure to invest
in domestic education, esepcially in the inner-city, minority groups and
higher education. Instead, it allows us to IMPORT talent from 3rd world
contries, to bridge the education gap, Now we need a move to get
hardcore STEM education into the Ghetto!
ANother long overdo change brought forward by the radical preisdent
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-proposes-eliminating-h-1b-visa-lottery-11603935434
Trump Administration Proposes Eliminating H-1B Visa Lottery
Michelle Hackman
4-5 minutes
WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security is proposing to
effectively replace the H-1B visa lottery, the method for selecting
which foreign professionals receive the coveted visas each year, with a
selection process that gives priority to the jobs with the highest salaries.
The proposal, which was announced Wednesday and will be opened for a
30-day comment period, was one of the expected remaining pieces of the
Trump administration’s overhaul of the visa program before the U.S.
presidential election.
The proposal is the latest in a series of changes the administration has
made to restrict access to the H1-B program.
The administration has long argued that the visa program artificially
depresses wages by allowing employers to hire foreign workers at lower
salaries. Awarding visas to foreign professionals who would earn the
highest salaries in their fields would create upward pressure on the
market overall, according to administration officials.
“The current use of random selection to allocate H-1B visas makes it
harder for businesses to plan their hiring, fails to leverage the H-1B
program to truly compete for the world’s best and brightest, and hurts
American workers by bringing in relatively lower-paid foreign labor at
the expense of the American workforce,” said Acting DHS Deputy Secretary
Ken Cuccinelli.
The proposed change was criticized by business groups and other
immigration advocates.
“This proposal will significantly disrupt the operations of many
businesses by denying them access to the talent they need to grow and
create jobs,” said Jon Baselice, executive director of immigration
policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Under the proposal, visas would be awarded to applicants at the highest
wage level of their given occupation within a particular geographic
region. The government calculates four wage levels for each occupation
in a given region, and employers are required to pay salaries at or
above those levels based on their visa worker’s job experience.
That setup would almost guarantee that no applicants ranked at wage
level one—roughly entry-level workers—would qualify for visas. The
government awards 85,000 new H-1B visas a year, and demand has
consistently outstripped supply.
DHS offered an alternative that would keep a lottery-like system but
give foreign professionals at higher wage levels an increased chance of
winning.
A government official involved in enacting the new rule said the Trump
administration intends to complete the policy before the end of
President Trump’s first term, so that it will take effect before the
next registration period opens in March 2021.
If elected, former vice president Joe Biden could choose to reverse the
policy, though his views on it aren’t known.
A Biden campaign spokeswoman didn’t return a request for comment. His
immigration platform, however, has raised some concern among business
groups that Mr. Biden might favor some stricter policies regulating H-1B
visas.
“High skilled temporary visas should not be used to disincentivize
recruiting workers already in the U.S. for in-demand occupations,” the
Biden campaign’s platform states.
The administration’s announcement follows another set of rules, released
earlier this month, that would significantly raise the salaries
employers must pay their visa workers and restrict the sorts of degrees
and occupations that qualify applicants for the H-1B. Those rules are
being challenged in at least three separate lawsuits by business groups
and universities, who say the new rules would stifle economic growth by
limiting the pool of talent companies and research institutions can draw
from.
The Trump administration sought in June to block all new H-1B visa
holders from coming to the U.S. this fall, when the visas are typically
awarded each year, but its temporary ban was lifted by a federal court
earlier this month.
Write to Michelle Hackman at Michelle.Hackman-at-wsj.com
--
So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
http://www.mrbrklyn.com
DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
http://www.brooklyn-living.com
Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
_______________________________________________
Hangout mailing list
Hangout-at-nylxs.com
http://lists.mrbrklyn.com/mailman/listinfo/hangout
|
|
