In any other discussion they would swear that raising taxes, regulatory costs and wages has no effect on the consumers or labor.
At least until brown skinned people want to feed their families...
n2doc (39,700 posts)
Congress set to make the H-1B visa less costly
Patrick Thibodeau
Congress is set to drop a $2,000 H-1B visa fee mostly paid by India-based IT services providers. It's a move being met with incredulity by H-1B critics, but relief by the Indian offshore industry.
The fee, adopted in 2010, was sought by U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who chaired the Senate immigration subcommittee when Democrats were in power. Schumer described the overseas firms as "multinational temp agencies" that undercut U.S. wages.
The fee expires on Oct. 1, the start of the new fiscal year and there's is no immediate effort in Congress to extend it. The fee raises between $70 million and $80 million annually for the U.S., according to an Indian industry trade group. The money initially went to improve border security, but is now used to help pay the medical needs of 9/11 first responders.
Russ Harrison, director of government relations of the engineering association IEEE-USA, said eliminating the fee makes no sense, particularly after lawmakers in both parties have expressed outrage over the use of H-1B workers in recent layoffs.
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http://www.computerworld.com/article/2985498/it-outsourcing/congress-set-to-make-the-h-1b-visa-less-costly-for-india.html
CrispyQ (19,946 posts)
1. Why does Congress hate American labor?
This is really a sore spot for me, since my husband & I have both worked in IT for many years & both of us have seen jobs outsourced.
djean111 (9,405 posts)
2. Assholes. And all I can do is wait for the list of who voted yes.
No more votes for them, or for anyone who shilled for H-1B visas.
Hortensis (795 posts)
4. I remember Obama putting some restrictions on it briefly, but
apparently the bill they applied to lapsed. Or something. It could be a good program if the law was applied properly, as intended, instead of perverted to cannibalize the nation to serve business interests alone.
BTW, I could not confirm this story on searching; maybe it won't happen. It is an election year.
In any case, it's a reminder that we're not just voting for a new president, we NEED A NEW CONGRESS!
lumberjack_jeff (30,697 posts)
5. What they say is disconnected from what they do because they don't work for us.
They work for corporations, and their goal is to make you "price competitive" with the third world.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027194966Yeah. Yeah. Enough bitching already.
Everybody get back to denouncing Trump's anti-immigration demagoguery or we'll have you outsourced.
