Hot Air's Beege Welborn on whether Donald Trump regrets dispatching
Jared and Ivanka Kushner to Silicon Valley to sue for peace with the
likes of Mark Zuckerberg: <URL:https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/05/16/big-tech-lays-off-workers-who-need-coffee-bars-and-yoga-rooms-hires-h1-visa-types-n551266>
| Based on data the government just put out, it seems Google, Meta,
| Zoom - shoot, they all went on a hiring spree last month for visa
| recipients. It's a schweet workaround for tech firms, big and small.
|
|| ...The top 30 H-1B employers hired more than 34,000 new H-1B workers
|| in 2022 and laid off 85,000 employees
||
|| The H-1B program was created with the intent to attract skilled and
|| talented workers to the United States to fill labor shortages in
|| professional fields--a sensible goal that has widespread support.
|| But its implementation has been bungled by the U.S. Departments of
|| Labor and Homeland Security. Since employers aren't required to test
|| the U.S. labor market to see if any workers are available before
|| hiring an H-1B worker or pay their H-1B workers a fair wage,
|| employers have exploited the program. Rather than turning to the H-
|| 1B program as a last resort when U.S. workers cannot be found, most
|| employers hire H-1B workers because they can be underpaid and are de
|| facto indentured to the employer. This is evidenced by government
|| data showing that technology companies continue to hire H-1B workers
|| in large numbers while significantly reducing the sizes of their
|| workforces.
|
| Of course, if you're already a visa worker and included in the lay-
| offs, you're screwed. You have 60 days to find a new gig or you're
| supposed to leave/be deported.
|
| Rather a kick-in-the-teeth for the American techs they could have
| rehired who might well have been willing to work for less as their
| severances packages eroded or were already gone, if they got one.
|
| And that's how the visa game is played, ladies and germs.

Does Susie Wiles fear that Ken Griffin and Lachlan Murdoch will allow
Ron DeSantis to invite the likes of Mike Emmons onto their campaign
stage to stump for an immigration moratorium?

John
groenveld@acm.org
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"Without Trump at the top of the ticket we did great." All I see is
narrative peddling right now." - Gavin Wax <URL:https://twitter.com/GavinWax/status/1590396373849214976>

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