Single Issue Voter: Controlling The Borders

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Economists and journalists have exposed the ways tech companies take advantage of  HXXXB and OXXPT visa programs while bypassing American talent. 
 
Democrats abandoned the middle class and lost 3 Supreme Court picks because Hillary wanted to expand immigration

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/06/does-majoring-in-stem-lead-to-stem-job-after-graduation.html

Giving a blank check to foreign workers with a doctoral degree will only make it more difficult for highly-educated Americans, such as STEM workers, to find jobs in their fields of study.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, among the 50 million employed college graduates ages 25 to 64 in 2019, 37% reported a bachelor's degree in science or engineering but only 14% worked in a STEM occupation.

This means that less than a third (28%) of STEM-educated workers actually work in a STEM job. The statistics are far worse for minority students, where statistics show that minorities already struggle to gain employment.

The Computing Research Association's data shows that 2% of technology workers at seven Silicon Valley companies that have released staffing numbers are Black and only 3% are Hispanic.

But elites on this board only care about cheap housekeepers and cheap organic strawberries, screw three middle class.

My husband has an MD/PhD from a foreign country and has worked for NIH and biotech companies. In non-profit, a lot of his colleagues are foreign as well. In for-profit, most people are American-born or American-degreed.

Do you know why?

Because for that many years of study, Americans do not want low pay. There is actually no competition at all - the American research scientists and engineers are going to start-ups and techs. The foreigners are more willing to work as government contractors on half the income.

The numbers you cite for STEM grads doing something else with their lives are numbers you see in ALL developed countries - in my husband's home country, it's the same thing. It's because STEM is hard, not just the degree, but the jobs as well. Employers take the hardest-working and most capable. A lot of STEM professions have long hours, and a lot of women who want to become mothers are shunted to the side at some point.

You are looking at these numbers and totally misinterpreting them, PP, because it's clear you're not in this field and know nothing about what it's like on the ground.

you know little about history. probably easier to justify taking someone else's job and leaving your own culture.


https://users.nber.org/~sewp/references/archive/weinsteinhowandwhygovernment.pdf

Long term labor shortages do not happen naturally in market economies.

"Upcoming labor market shortages will devastate Science and Engineering.

This was a mantra heard through much of the 1980s. And yet, the predicted “seller’s market” for talent never materialized as unemployment rates actually spiked for newly minted PhDs in technical fields. In fact, most US economists seemed to think that the very idea of labor market shortages hardly made sense in a market economy since wages could simply rise to attract more entrants. Yet we have had workers visas for over 34 years to alleviate mythical worker shortages.

In the late nineties, in the course of research into immigration, I became convinced that our US high skilled immigration policy simply did not add up intellectually. As I studied the situation, it became increasingly clear that the groups purporting to speak for US scientists in Washington DC (e.g. NSF, NAS, AAU, GUIRR) actually viewed themselves as advocates for employers in a labor dispute with working scientists and were focused on undermining scientists’ economic bargaining power through labor market intervention and manipulation.

Increasingly the research seemed to show that interventions by government, universities and industry in the US labor market for scientists, especially after the University system stopped growing organically in the early 1970s were exceedingly problematic. By 1998, it was becoming obvious that the real problems of high skilled immigration were actually rather well understood by an entire class of policy actors who were not forthcoming about the levers of policy they were using to influence policy. The NSF/NAS/GUIRR complex appeared to be feigning incompetence by issuing labor market studies that blatantly ignored wages and market dynamics and instead focused on demographics alone.

During the late 1990s I became convinced that in order to orchestrate lower wages for scientists, there would have to have been a competent economic study done to guide the curious policy choices that had resulted in the flooded market for STEM PhDs. For this theory to be correct, the private economic study would have had to have been done studying both supply and demand so that the demand piece could later be removed, resulting in the bizarre ‘supply only’ demographic studies released to the public. Through a bit of economic detective work, I began a painstaking search of the literature and discovered just such a study immediately preceded the release of the foolish demography studies that provided the public justification for the Immigration Act of 1990. This needle was located in the haystack of documents the NSF was forced to turn over when the House investigated the NSF for faking alarms about a shortfall.

The title of this study was “The Pipeline For Scientific and Technical Personnel: Past Lessons Applied to Future Changes of Interest to Policy-Makers and Human Resource Specialists.” The study was undated and carried no author’s name. Eventually I gathered my courage to call up the National Science Foundation and demand to speak to the study’s author. After some hemming and hawing, I was put through to a voice belonging to a man I had never heard of named Myles Boylan. In our conversation, it became clear that it was produced in 1986, as predicted, immediately before the infamous and now disgraced demographic shortfall studies.

The author turned out, again as predicted, not to be a demographer, but a highly competent Ph.D. in economics who was fully aware of the functioning of the wage mechanism. But, as the study makes clear, the problem being solved was not a problem of talent but one of price: scientific employers had become alarmed that they would have to pay competitive market wages to US Ph.D.s with other options. The study’s aim was not to locate talent but to weaken its ability to bargain with employers by using foreign labor to undermine the ability to negotiate for new Ph.D.s

That study was a key link in a chain of evidence leading to an entirely different view of the real origins of the Immigration Act of 1990s and the HXXXB visa classification. In this alternative account, American industry and Big Science convinced official Washington to put in place a series of policies that had little to do with any demographic concerns. Their aims instead were to keep American scientific employers from having to pay the full US market price of high skilled labor. They hoped to keep the US research system staffed with employees classified as “trainees,” “students,” and “post-docs” for the benefit of employers. The result would be to render the US scientific workforce more docile and pliable to authority and senior researchers by attempting to ensure this labor market sector is always flooded largely by employer-friendly visa holders who lack full rights to respond to wage signals in the US labor market.

The correlate of these objectives were shifts in orientation toward building bridges to Asia and especially China, so that senior scientists, technologists, and educators could capitalize on technological, employment, and business opportunities from Asian (and particularly Chinese) expansion. This, in turn, would give US scientific employers and researchers access to the products of Asian educational systems which stress drill, rote learning, obedience, and test driven competition while giving them relief from US models which comparatively stress greater creativity, questioning, independence, and irreverence for authority.

I wrote this up in a study that the National Bureau of Economic Research published. Until a few weeks ago, it was available on their website. With other studies now appearing that are consonant with my conclusions and the Trump administration studying a possible revision of legislation on visas, I am grateful for INET’s encouragement and willingness to republish my study.

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I'm a European in the green card process and have lived in the US for years on various visas, all pertaining to professional expertise.

Having spent so much time and money on visa and green card attorneys, I think all nations that face immigration surges need well-organized and humane procedures. The bigger the crush, the harder it gets to treat people humanely. Look at migrants drowning in the Mediterranean. It's awful. I will never forget the photo of a toddler that washed ashore on a European beach many years ago. There have been so many since that fishermen on the north African coast routinely see bodies in their fishing nets. One fisherman who was interviewed said the day he saw an infant in his nets, he cried.

Here on this continent the arduous journey to cross the Americas into this country is no less fatal and exploitative. Knowing how desperate these people are, one would need a heart of stone to deny them basic human rights.

I don't know what the solution is, but surely it has to involve long-term stabilization of conflict zones. Climate change will bring about even more conflict and more migration, so the problem is only going to get worse around the world.

And yet, the GOP opposes the solutions you suggest in your last paragraph. Most rational people understand that conflict and climate change are the two biggest drivers. So what is the GOP plan, other than caging people and separating minors from their families?

And yet the democrats refuse to mandate e-verify which republicans passed. The best solution to reducing immigration

And democrats continue to expand work visas which let companies outsource US workers

There is NO worker shortage. Stop with the chamber of commerce nonsense

Raise wages and pay health benefits. People will flock to the jobs. Instead business wants cheap disposable desperate workers to work for peanuts.

OMG, you have this backwards. Dems have been pushing eVerify for YEARS. It is the republicans who hire undocumetned workers, Like Donlad J Trump, who oppose it. Please stop with the BS and gaslighting.

nd the fact that wages are rising so much is a testament to the FACT that there is a worker shortage.

get out of your echo chamber

both Warner and Kaine refuse to mandate e-verify. they hate low wage workers!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I'm a European in the green card process and have lived in the US for years on various visas, all pertaining to professional expertise.

Having spent so much time and money on visa and green card attorneys, I think all nations that face immigration surges need well-organized and humane procedures. The bigger the crush, the harder it gets to treat people humanely. Look at migrants drowning in the Mediterranean. It's awful. I will never forget the photo of a toddler that washed ashore on a European beach many years ago. There have been so many since that fishermen on the north African coast routinely see bodies in their fishing nets. One fisherman who was interviewed said the day he saw an infant in his nets, he cried.

Here on this continent the arduous journey to cross the Americas into this country is no less fatal and exploitative. Knowing how desperate these people are, one would need a heart of stone to deny them basic human rights.

I don't know what the solution is, but surely it has to involve long-term stabilization of conflict zones. Climate change will bring about even more conflict and more migration, so the problem is only going to get worse around the world.

And yet, the GOP opposes the solutions you suggest in your last paragraph. Most rational people understand that conflict and climate change are the two biggest drivers. So what is the GOP plan, other than caging people and separating minors from their families?

And yet the democrats refuse to mandate e-verify which republicans passed. The best solution to reducing immigration

And democrats continue to expand work visas which let companies outsource US workers

There is NO worker shortage. Stop with the chamber of commerce nonsense

Raise wages and pay health benefits. People will flock to the jobs. Instead business wants cheap disposable desperate workers to work for peanuts.

Exactly. Democrats fighting E-verify is outrageous. Shame on them!

[Anonymous]

To a majority of voters the 2024 election single issue will be the US SUPREME COURT!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatever your single issue is, I'm sure the RNC and DNC are planning their strategy to dupe you into thinking their candidate will be efficient and effective in resolving the issue. Bills do get passed and tax dollars are spent in bundles of trillions but most issues are converted to cans and kicked down the road because most of our lingering issues require decades of time and serious commitment in order for the root of the problem to truly be fixed. The RNC and DNC aren't going to put their money and support behind political candidates trying to sell policies that address the roots of problems due to the time it takes for policy actions to render positive results that can be felt and seen by the average Joe. Their efforts are focused towards vote buying strategies ahead of the next mid-term or general election. It isn't politically advantageous to spend time and money on an issue that requires a 30 year fix. Preservation of power at it's finest. Immigration/border control, 2nd amendment revision/gun legislation, poverty.......................
policies that will truly lead to long term solutions or improvements to these issues aren't being put on the table by any viable mainstream candidates. It is what it is. This is life under the rule of the RNC and DNC.

I've worked in various campaign finance roles over the past 20 years and can attest to what you say about political messaging strategies but I have to say, the left has done a little better job of at least making an effort to tackling some of our long standing issues. But yes, 95% of political messaging from both sides is just smoke in mirrors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Huge articles on kids being used as essentially slave labor in the USA and Libs are all: “bring more!!”

Regarding the above,
“SOUND of FREEDOM” opening in most local theaters (and across America) on July 4th. A definite “must see” for most of us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I'm a European in the green card process and have lived in the US for years on various visas, all pertaining to professional expertise.

Having spent so much time and money on visa and green card attorneys, I think all nations that face immigration surges need well-organized and humane procedures. The bigger the crush, the harder it gets to treat people humanely. Look at migrants drowning in the Mediterranean. It's awful. I will never forget the photo of a toddler that washed ashore on a European beach many years ago. There have been so many since that fishermen on the north African coast routinely see bodies in their fishing nets. One fisherman who was interviewed said the day he saw an infant in his nets, he cried.

Here on this continent the arduous journey to cross the Americas into this country is no less fatal and exploitative. Knowing how desperate these people are, one would need a heart of stone to deny them basic human rights.

I don't know what the solution is, but surely it has to involve long-term stabilization of conflict zones. Climate change will bring about even more conflict and more migration, so the problem is only going to get worse around the world.

And yet, the GOP opposes the solutions you suggest in your last paragraph. Most rational people understand that conflict and climate change are the two biggest drivers. So what is the GOP plan, other than caging people and separating minors from their families?

And yet the democrats refuse to mandate e-verify which republicans passed. The best solution to reducing immigration

And democrats continue to expand work visas which let companies outsource US workers

There is NO worker shortage. Stop with the chamber of commerce nonsense

Raise wages and pay health benefits. People will flock to the jobs. Instead business wants cheap disposable desperate workers to work for peanuts.

OMG, you have this backwards. Dems have been pushing eVerify for YEARS. It is the republicans who hire undocumetned workers, Like Donlad J Trump, who oppose it. Please stop with the BS and gaslighting.

nd the fact that wages are rising so much is a testament to the FACT that there is a worker shortage.

get out of your echo chamber

both Warner and Kaine refuse to mandate e-verify. they hate low wage workers!

there are people on both sides who support it and people on both sides who oppose it, but the GOP generally has been opposing it writ large, whereas the Dems are willing to include it as a compromise. Read the articles posted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I'm a European in the green card process and have lived in the US for years on various visas, all pertaining to professional expertise.

Having spent so much time and money on visa and green card attorneys, I think all nations that face immigration surges need well-organized and humane procedures. The bigger the crush, the harder it gets to treat people humanely. Look at migrants drowning in the Mediterranean. It's awful. I will never forget the photo of a toddler that washed ashore on a European beach many years ago. There have been so many since that fishermen on the north African coast routinely see bodies in their fishing nets. One fisherman who was interviewed said the day he saw an infant in his nets, he cried.

Here on this continent the arduous journey to cross the Americas into this country is no less fatal and exploitative. Knowing how desperate these people are, one would need a heart of stone to deny them basic human rights.

I don't know what the solution is, but surely it has to involve long-term stabilization of conflict zones. Climate change will bring about even more conflict and more migration, so the problem is only going to get worse around the world.

And yet, the GOP opposes the solutions you suggest in your last paragraph. Most rational people understand that conflict and climate change are the two biggest drivers. So what is the GOP plan, other than caging people and separating minors from their families?

And yet the democrats refuse to mandate e-verify which republicans passed. The best solution to reducing immigration

And democrats continue to expand work visas which let companies outsource US workers

There is NO worker shortage. Stop with the chamber of commerce nonsense

Raise wages and pay health benefits. People will flock to the jobs. Instead business wants cheap disposable desperate workers to work for peanuts.

OMG, you have this backwards. Dems have been pushing eVerify for YEARS. It is the republicans who hire undocumetned workers, Like Donlad J Trump, who oppose it. Please stop with the BS and gaslighting.

nd the fact that wages are rising so much is a testament to the FACT that there is a worker shortage.

get out of your echo chamber

both Warner and Kaine refuse to mandate e-verify. they hate low wage workers!

there are people on both sides who support it and people on both sides who oppose it, but the GOP generally has been opposing it writ large, whereas the Dems are willing to include it as a compromise. Read the articles posted.

desantis, a Republican, passed it as law in Florida.

please show me where Democrats have passed it as law?

[Anonymous]

Earlier this year, the Florida legislature passed, and DeSantis signed into law, a comprehensive immigration enforcement bill. It would enhance criminal penalties against human smugglers, mandates the use of E-Verify for certain employers, and invalidates out-of-state driver’s licenses given to illegal aliens, among other things.

DeSantis focused on the rule of law in his speech, recognizing the burden on American taxpayers. He said, “It’s profoundly unfair to American citizens who are having to bear the brunt of this illegal migration. It’s also unfair to legal immigrants who’ve actually navigated the process like they’re supposed to.”

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/florida-broadens-requirement-to-utilize-4872426/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I'm a European in the green card process and have lived in the US for years on various visas, all pertaining to professional expertise.

Having spent so much time and money on visa and green card attorneys, I think all nations that face immigration surges need well-organized and humane procedures. The bigger the crush, the harder it gets to treat people humanely. Look at migrants drowning in the Mediterranean. It's awful. I will never forget the photo of a toddler that washed ashore on a European beach many years ago. There have been so many since that fishermen on the north African coast routinely see bodies in their fishing nets. One fisherman who was interviewed said the day he saw an infant in his nets, he cried.

Here on this continent the arduous journey to cross the Americas into this country is no less fatal and exploitative. Knowing how desperate these people are, one would need a heart of stone to deny them basic human rights.

I don't know what the solution is, but surely it has to involve long-term stabilization of conflict zones. Climate change will bring about even more conflict and more migration, so the problem is only going to get worse around the world.

And yet, the GOP opposes the solutions you suggest in your last paragraph. Most rational people understand that conflict and climate change are the two biggest drivers. So what is the GOP plan, other than caging people and separating minors from their families?

And yet the democrats refuse to mandate e-verify which republicans passed. The best solution to reducing immigration

And democrats continue to expand work visas which let companies outsource US workers

There is NO worker shortage. Stop with the chamber of commerce nonsense

Raise wages and pay health benefits. People will flock to the jobs. Instead business wants cheap disposable desperate workers to work for peanuts.

Exactly. Democrats fighting E-verify is outrageous. Shame on them!

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I'm a European in the green card process and have lived in the US for years on various visas, all pertaining to professional expertise.

Having spent so much time and money on visa and green card attorneys, I think all nations that face immigration surges need well-organized and humane procedures. The bigger the crush, the harder it gets to treat people humanely. Look at migrants drowning in the Mediterranean. It's awful. I will never forget the photo of a toddler that washed ashore on a European beach many years ago. There have been so many since that fishermen on the north African coast routinely see bodies in their fishing nets. One fisherman who was interviewed said the day he saw an infant in his nets, he cried.

Here on this continent the arduous journey to cross the Americas into this country is no less fatal and exploitative. Knowing how desperate these people are, one would need a heart of stone to deny them basic human rights.

I don't know what the solution is, but surely it has to involve long-term stabilization of conflict zones. Climate change will bring about even more conflict and more migration, so the problem is only going to get worse around the world.

And yet, the GOP opposes the solutions you suggest in your last paragraph. Most rational people understand that conflict and climate change are the two biggest drivers. So what is the GOP plan, other than caging people and separating minors from their families?

And yet the democrats refuse to mandate e-verify which republicans passed. The best solution to reducing immigration

And democrats continue to expand work visas which let companies outsource US workers

There is NO worker shortage. Stop with the chamber of commerce nonsense

Raise wages and pay health benefits. People will flock to the jobs. Instead business wants cheap disposable desperate workers to work for peanuts.

OMG, you have this backwards. Dems have been pushing eVerify for YEARS. It is the republicans who hire undocumetned workers, Like Donlad J Trump, who oppose it. Please stop with the BS and gaslighting.

nd the fact that wages are rising so much is a testament to the FACT that there is a worker shortage.

get out of your echo chamber

both Warner and Kaine refuse to mandate e-verify. they hate low wage workers!

Gonna need a citation for these claims.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I'm a European in the green card process and have lived in the US for years on various visas, all pertaining to professional expertise.

Having spent so much time and money on visa and green card attorneys, I think all nations that face immigration surges need well-organized and humane procedures. The bigger the crush, the harder it gets to treat people humanely. Look at migrants drowning in the Mediterranean. It's awful. I will never forget the photo of a toddler that washed ashore on a European beach many years ago. There have been so many since that fishermen on the north African coast routinely see bodies in their fishing nets. One fisherman who was interviewed said the day he saw an infant in his nets, he cried.

Here on this continent the arduous journey to cross the Americas into this country is no less fatal and exploitative. Knowing how desperate these people are, one would need a heart of stone to deny them basic human rights.

I don't know what the solution is, but surely it has to involve long-term stabilization of conflict zones. Climate change will bring about even more conflict and more migration, so the problem is only going to get worse around the world.

And yet, the GOP opposes the solutions you suggest in your last paragraph. Most rational people understand that conflict and climate change are the two biggest drivers. So what is the GOP plan, other than caging people and separating minors from their families?

And yet the democrats refuse to mandate e-verify which republicans passed. The best solution to reducing immigration

And democrats continue to expand work visas which let companies outsource US workers

There is NO worker shortage. Stop with the chamber of commerce nonsense

Raise wages and pay health benefits. People will flock to the jobs. Instead business wants cheap disposable desperate workers to work for peanuts.

OMG, you have this backwards. Dems have been pushing eVerify for YEARS. It is the republicans who hire undocumetned workers, Like Donlad J Trump, who oppose it. Please stop with the BS and gaslighting.

nd the fact that wages are rising so much is a testament to the FACT that there is a worker shortage.

get out of your echo chamber

both Warner and Kaine refuse to mandate e-verify. they hate low wage workers!

there are people on both sides who support it and people on both sides who oppose it, but the GOP generally has been opposing it writ large, whereas the Dems are willing to include it as a compromise. Read the articles posted.

desantis, a Republican, passed it as law in Florida.

please show me where Democrats have passed it as law?

Zip. Democrats love illegal, dirt cheap labor for their landscaping and toilet scrubbing.

[Anonymous]

his why workers should never vote democrat anymore . And why Biden will lose to desantis.

Two reports indicate that the U.S. government plans to make three changes to make the program even easier for industry:

- Postpone any raise in wages;
- Postpone any fee increases; and
- Make it possible for HXXXB workers extending their visas to do so in the U.S. rather than in India, China, and other home countries.

The planned changes were reported in the SHRM website and the Tribune newspaper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:his why workers should never vote democrat anymore . And why Biden will lose to desantis.

Two reports indicate that the U.S. government plans to make three changes to make the program even easier for industry:

- Postpone any raise in wages;
- Postpone any fee increases; and
- Make it possible for HXXXB workers extending their visas to do so in the U.S. rather than in India, China, and other home countries.

The planned changes were reported in the SHRM website and the Tribune newspaper.

Thank you.
Looks like the corporate elites are going full speed ahead with their World Economic Forum agenda. Depopulation isn’t happening fast enough for Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates, even with the wars, pandemic, and illegal migrations.

[Anonymous]