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Trump may soon sign executive order re-vamping H-1B visa program

SouthernDemocrat said:
The H1B program has been abused by companies for years. There is not a day that goes by that some Indian recruiter / consulting agency does not send me candidate information. What they do is work with HR departments and hiring managers to have them write job descriptions with skill requirements that no candidate would legitimately have. For example they will need a Rails developer, but they put out a job description for a Rails developer that is also a CCNA (which is like saying I need a Cardiologist that is also an experienced Welder). Hardly anyone would have that skill set because one has nothing to do with the other. Yet, they run that job description so they can then say they cannot find anyone domestically to fill the position and then they work an Indian consulting firm to do it. That is the source of a large percentage of these jobs out there that supposedly we don't have Americans with the skills to fill them. Its just a way for companies to abuse the H1B program and bring in cheaper labor. Much of that money doesn't stay here either as its common for Indians coming over on an H1B to send a lot of their salary back in remittances.

I am certainly not anti-immigrant. Two of our kids are immigrants. I am not totally against the H1B program as I think it does have lot of use with research institutions. However, companies have been abusing the hell out of the program and really screwing over American workers in the process and it needs to be seriously reformed.
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I've been an employer for almost three decades and have interviewed and hired lots of technical people, including numerous H1B people. What you describe generally doesn't fit my experience. We hire the H1B people when we can't find Americans to fill the positions. Quite rare for me to run across an American who is both qualified and unemployed.
 
LessBiased? said:
I've been an employer for almost three decades and have interviewed and hired lots of technical people, including numerous H1B people. What you describe generally doesn't fit my experience. We hire the H1B people when we can't find Americans to fill the positions.
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We have 320 million people in this country. I cannot imagine how anyone in a major metropolitan area could not find an IT professional domestically to fill a position. We have always been able to find people and at times we are hiring for some fairly obscure skill sets. The only problem with hiring domestically is that in a good job market, you may have to try to entice someone to leave their current employer.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
We have 320 million people in this country. I cannot imagine how anyone in a major metropolitan area could not find an IT professional domestically to fill a position. We have always been able to find people and at times we are hiring for some fairly obscure skill sets. The only problem with hiring domestically is that in a good job market, you may have to try to entice someone to leave their current employer.
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My experience is in engineering, not IT. But if we look at things more generally, the unemployment rate is pretty low and, again, I rarely run across qualified Americans in any field who are unemployed. There may be more unemployed in some sectors such as manufacturing, but I doubt you have many H1B workers there, and US manufacturing has a general problem of being uncompetitive with other countries due to higher labor/production costs.
 
Chomsky said:
Well, I'll give credit where credit's due:

Good job, Trump! Keep it up!

(I'll try to refrain from comments about broken clocks :2razz:)
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It's a good idea, but without an education push to train Americans to replace these workers, the industries losing these people could suffer greatly. It's a "trying to run, before walking" situation. Everyone wants to go to college, no one really thinks about trade school as the more viable alternative. That's where he should focus first, before robbing the industrial sector of employees they need.
 
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