The New York Times column "Trump Suspends Visas Allowing Hundreds of Thousands of Foreigners to Work in the U.S." covers the Administration's recent order to halt foreign work visas through the end of this year, while the nation suffers massive job losses stemming from the pandemic.
Corporations aligned to oppose this order, as businesses continue the myth that foreign workers are needed to fill crucial gaps in the U.S. labor market.
A significant number of comments tell how work visas depress wages and displace workers in the process.
No Planet BFlorida"...Most of the work these visa recipients do is low level...we're not talking genius... With less competition for jobs, the law of supply and demand posits that wages could go up...what a concept."
CharlesFlorida"...How many people are out of work due to the pandemic? Why bring or allow foreign workers into the country, I don't see this as holding back progress but possibly fostering growth, employment and retraining of the unemployed. If America is so great then let's use great Americans. The article leads one to believe we don't have any qualified technical workers or that foreign talent is better than what's available here which frankly is malarkey...".
Daphne SanitzTexas"Do H1-B visa employees get the same pay as an American employee? No, they work for less. Therefore it is corporate greed that motivates the company to replace tech people with H1-B visa employees. Most of us all know someone in tech that has been forced out of their jobs to only have to train their H1-B visa replacement."
BobotheclownPennsylvania"In a country of 330 million born engineers, there is no reason for the H1B visa program to exist. It is just another way to exploit American workers with the support of the law. No other country does this. All other industrial countries value and help train their technical workers because they know that home grown expertise is critical for a vibrant economy. We are the only country that stabs our own engineering work force in the back with layoffs, high turnover, age discrimination, and foreign worker programs."
Corporations aligned to oppose this order, as businesses continue the myth that foreign workers are needed to fill crucial gaps in the U.S. labor market.
A significant number of comments tell how work visas depress wages and displace workers in the process.
No Planet BFlorida"...Most of the work these visa recipients do is low level...we're not talking genius... With less competition for jobs, the law of supply and demand posits that wages could go up...what a concept."
CharlesFlorida"...How many people are out of work due to the pandemic? Why bring or allow foreign workers into the country, I don't see this as holding back progress but possibly fostering growth, employment and retraining of the unemployed. If America is so great then let's use great Americans. The article leads one to believe we don't have any qualified technical workers or that foreign talent is better than what's available here which frankly is malarkey...".
Daphne SanitzTexas"Do H1-B visa employees get the same pay as an American employee? No, they work for less. Therefore it is corporate greed that motivates the company to replace tech people with H1-B visa employees. Most of us all know someone in tech that has been forced out of their jobs to only have to train their H1-B visa replacement."
BobotheclownPennsylvania"In a country of 330 million born engineers, there is no reason for the H1B visa program to exist. It is just another way to exploit American workers with the support of the law. No other country does this. All other industrial countries value and help train their technical workers because they know that home grown expertise is critical for a vibrant economy. We are the only country that stabs our own engineering work force in the back with layoffs, high turnover, age discrimination, and foreign worker programs."
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