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Supreme Court doesn't want to hear union's beef about STEM grad work visas

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Re: We instead need a national apprenticeship, open to all, not just foreign students

I have seen several people get stuck on the OPT extension, never receiving an H-1b. That's sad. The way around that is to stop giving any H-1b visas to Offshore Outsourcing companies. Which we still do, typically around half the H-1b visas are used by Offshore Outsourcing to remove jobs from the United States.

The reason why this occurred is because in the U.S. politicians vote by campaign contribution. It takes someone who is immune from those same contributions to actually start speaking the truth about the H-1b visa, and how it damages U.S. economic progress more than it helps Big Tech.

If instead, we raised the salary requirements (they are stuck at 60k yr, and that is practically minimum wage now). And if we allocated H-1b visas based upon salary rather than a random chance raffle. This would cut down Offshore Outsourcing in the United States, and unemployment would be at 1%.

But the paid off class of politicians in the U.S. throw some jobs under the bus, for the sake of corporate contributions.

My feeling is limit Green Card retries to 2x, make the process open (require advertising on all free internet sites for example). If after the 2nd try, the Green Card is not certified, the local gets the job, the Green Card applicant leaves the job.

Allocate H-1b visas based upon salary.

And make the OPT Tax break available to all students and the unemployed, as part of an apprenticeship.

This would end our dependence on foreign worker, and clear up the Green Card cue, and make it possible for more OPT students to land an H-1b visa (since employers pay way more than Offshore Outsourcing companies).

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Re: OPT is a 15% discount to commit discrimination

No I meant queue not cue. The phonetic similarity causes improper linkage apparently, when writing quickly. Thanks for the cue on that one.

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We instead need a national apprenticeship, open to all, not just foreign students

This year our local STEM students are having great difficulty finding STEM jobs (just go to YouTube and see the testimonials on this). This year, companies applied for 400,000 H-1b visas, while at the same time laying off 250,000 similarly skilled local workers. To me that wreaks of massive discrimination by our local Tech companies. Part of this (not all) is because foreign workers become de-facto indentured during the process, that starts with a 15% tax discount from the Federal Government to favor foreign student workers over equally qualified locals. Instead we should extend the OPT tax break to all students, and the unemployed, because all tech jobs require some training. This apprenticeship could last for 3 years. If the worker leaves the job early (without cause), they pay the 15% tax break back to the Federal Government. This year we had 400,000 H-1b job offers extended to mostly foreign freshers right out of college. We need to end the cycle that is leading to massive discrimination in the United States (2600+ cases at Facebook see DOJ vs Facebook 2020, at the USDOJ). And is depleting our local STEM worker supply, because as locals are unable to break into STEM, they eventually find jobs in other industries, which might or might-not utilize their STEM skills, but are not engaged is massive discrimination against in the hiring process.

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OPT is a 15% discount to commit discrimination

The discrimination aspect of OPT needs be eliminated. The OPT tax break should be applied to all students, and the unemployed. Right now, we give companies a 15% tax break to hire a foreign STEM student (for 3 years). We then give the company an indentured worker, that can't leave the job, while waiting for an H-1b visa and then a Green Card. Local STEM workers have full 13th amendment rights, but a foreign STEM worker risks losing their place in the H-1b and Green Card cue if they leave the job, or worse returning to abject poverty. There is nothing funny about this kind of discrimination, it affects foreign workers badly (in different ways), and it is creating a condition where companies are preferring (in violation of our laws against such discrimination) foreign workers because of their discount and trapped visa status.

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Uncle Sam sounds like it may actually do something about rampant visa H-1B fraud

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So there are many reason why a person might/might not get hired. But one thing is certain, employers pay close attention to costs. STEM/IT workers, these days, are pretty much a commodity item. DOJ vs Facebook, Facebook receives hundreds of local resumes for every job IT they openly advertise. Of those hundreds, 30+ are better qualified than foreign workers undergoing the Green Card process (by Facebook's own admission to Federal Investigators). Still, the locals are turned away, the Green Card process is faked, so that it appears there is no one, local, who can actually do the job.

Companies can lie, all they want, to the Press and the Public, but they can't lie to U.S. Federal Investigators.

Another program, OPT, gives employers a 15% discount to hire a foreign worker. So we have to ask, to what extent is it a myth that foreign workers are better for a STEM job? When we don't put own own local STEM/IT students on the same competitive footing as foreign workers are given here in the U.S.?

The U.S. should extend the OPT tax credit to all students, even the unemployed. But will we? Not unless someone is willing to pay for it with bribes.

The Biden administration tabled the proposed change to allocate H-1b visas based upon salary. That change would have greatly helped the H-1b program, and made it more likely that highly skilled and vetted H-1b candidates only are using the program. The change was heavily opposed by external foreign interests, in the form of Offshore Outsourcing companies. And via their proxies, U.S. corporations, the Biden administration (which relies heavily on corporate campaign contributions) dropped the change.

Prediction: Despite all the talk, there will be no change to the current system, as it greatly benefits the Offshore Outsourcing of local U.S. jobs. Until we get a President that isn't will to sell U.S. jobs to the highest campaign bidders.

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GoDaddy CEO says US is 'tech illiterate' (so, yeah, don't shut off that cheap H-1B supply)

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Offshore Outsourcing companies use more than half of all H-1b visas

So Blake Irving gets on CNBC and tells a bald face lie that abuse in the H-1b visa system is a small fraction of the total.

When he knows, full well, that more than 50% of all H-1b visas go to Offshore Outsourcing companies in order to get better qualified, more experienced, U.S. workers and Green Card holders to train their H-1b replacement.

Why do liars like Blake Irving get to spout their fake new and false information? Why, because they paid for it, that's why.

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US tech CEOs demand Congress programs US kids to be tech workers

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Oh! Gosh thanks. I also noticed a few other typos, but too late change them (Register delayed my post, I guess they wanted the first belly-laugh).

All caps on INTEL might have been the way to go though, as it got you looking.

I hope the use of INTEL didn't stop you from seeing the irony in how industry whines to the government while wasting the talent they already have?

If you missed that, please read it again, and see if any of it gets you laughing, if not well you have my symphathies, and I wonder how did you get brain damaged?

Or is the subject so serious, so 100% in you, that can't see just a teeeeeny-tiny crack of irony?

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Yes, INTEL needs about 12,000 replacement engineers this week, how soon can you have them?

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Yes, and train those young workers quickly, we haven't got much time.

INTEL might have to move all of its facilities out of the United States...

Because INTEL just laid off 12,000, mostly old and expensive engineers last week.

We urgently need 12,000 more, cheaper, younger, cuter, engineers to replace those aweful family men and ladies that so expensive, old, ugly, skilled, and knowledgeable.

And don't give us any Bull about re-hiring them, their done.

They know way too much and so can't be trained to follow the leader.

All that experience and knowledge, in older workers, wreaks havoc on the the Reality Distortion Field that Steve Jobs invented (only thing he ever invented, you probably didn't know that (that's why we are executives), P.S. wisely, Steve had to copy all his other "original" - "ideas" from the young engineers he hired or the older obsolete guys at other companies).

Sorry for the management primer.

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