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As a libertarian, I was always been pro immigration and have an enormous amount of empathy for people that are born in very poor and unstable countries.
I know how fortunate I am to be born in America. But over the past few years, my perspective has changed. I've seen what unrestricted immigration has done to the trucking industry and how it has destroyed the livelihood of millions of veteran American truck drivers. It has made the trucking industry an economic wasteland and made it impossible for legit operators to make a profit and survive. |
Please explain to me every option I have that ends in H-1B's being restricted. I can only think of one. Voting for Trump. It's pretty simple. If you can't understand or don't believe that I have an option with my vote, then this isn't a Democracy. |
What industry? Because hiring of h1b is rampant in the tech space, and not just big tech, but basically any company with sophisticated technology needs- financial services, media, etc. Almost every senior person in tech in my co is foreign born, and they hire other foreigners. |
This. Tech and IT had long been dominated by the offshore/inshore bodyshops like Tata, Cognizant, Wipro, etc, who would get the lion's share of H1 b visas on the cheap and them pimp them out to all the fortune 500 corporate IT departments and major consulting companies. Making bazillions on the spread. Then a whole bunch of small time recruiting shops also popped up trying to do the same and you would hear from the H1b hires how they are ripped off by 3 layers of various middlemen and aspiring to become middlemen themselves. It was a racket over so many years. |
Those days are over in the US. Wait till these tech companies start screaming. |
What days are over? And I’m trying to point out that this issue is not just a ‘tech’ company issue. Pretty much every sophisticated business today is technology driven, so this issue reaches far beyond Apple, Google etc. I work for a company that you would not think of as a ‘tech’ company but we spend about as much on technology as we do in our core business. |
This. People are so clueless. Every major company has a big technology department, everything is digitized now, from financials to HR, to inventory/sales, client relationships, business analytics and senior management reporting, and some even maintain their own customer facing systems. Even if you don't build these digitized services in-house you still need a sizeable staff to maintain their data, use and reporting out of them if paying a cloud services vendor. Financial companies, insurance companies and banks tend to maintain their in-home systems that are quite hefty and process a lot of data. Every merger of big companies is a huge technical undertaking too down the line. |
Yes, and if you look at the company websites and where the jobs are, you will see the tech jobs are offshore. People also need to understand that if jobs other than tech can be done from home, they can be done offshore as well - accounting, HR, business analysts, etc. I think hib visas are abused by employers but offshoring has been growing and not just for tech jobs. |
First, no major US company is putting that their workers are offshore on their consumer facing website. Second, you are not entirely accurate. You are thinking about tech in simplistic terms. Some is offshore- think some of the call service, customer (and I mean internal business customer) IT stuff and other basic stuff. But a lot is still in the US. My co info security team is in the US (and every one of these co has a robust info sec system set up), and the people who oversee our most important and complex tech systems (think CDN, CMS, etc) are US based. This stuff is so key to the business that you can’t have faceless people abroad handling it. These people are here, and more and more, they are not American. Why? There aren’t enough US workers? Why do I know multiple Americans in tech who have been laid off the last years? Why are US CS students saying the job market is terrible? |
Please, the trucking industry is short on drivers, even as they pay up to six figures. It's a hard job, so a lot of people don't want to do it. FWIW my spouse's cousin's husband was a truck driver in Canada. He recently died of a heart attack at the age of 62. https://www.prepassalliance.org/the-ongoing-truck-driver-shortage-causes-effects-and-solutions/ |
Please explain why you are going after one visa over the one Trump uses. Did I say you don't have an option voting? Comprehension is important. |
Can you really not read through this weblog and figure it out? I ask because maybe you're just fishing for another answer you don't like. You might need to read between the lines; this weblog is patrolled by Democrat corporate HR trolls that take down any criticisms of corporate HR policy. |
Let me just expound upon this. How do Democrats expect to win, when they can't even enumerate the oppositions position. Maybe you can pretend like it doesn't exist or is morally objectionable some more. We are over three hundred posts into the thread at this point. |
Not very libertarian of you. |
Why can't you respond to the post about why it's ok for Trump to use foreign workers but not other businesses? Is it because most of the h1bs are Indian, and most of Trump's foreign workers are white Eastern European? |