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Is Hillary's Silence on H1 Visas Golden?
May 1, 2016
By Cyrus D Mehta
(The writer is an immigration lawyer at Wall Street, New York, and adjunct associate professor of law at Brooklyn Law School. In other words, a man who has no problem with H1 Visas stealing American tech jobs.)
....The H-1B visa has become controversial since 2015 after the media reported about US workers being laid off upon American companies contracting with India-based IT firms to take over their IT functions. If Clinton does support an increase in H-1B visa numbers and understands the benefit that the H-1B programme brings to US companies and to the consumer, perhaps it is strategic of her to not say anything at this point.
In the past, Clinton has spoken in support of increasing H-1B visas, like in a 2007 speech to Silicon Valley executives where she said, "I am reaffirming my commitment to the H-1B visa and increasing the current cap. Foreign skilled workers contribute greatly to what we have to do in being innovators." When Clinton was a senator from New York in 2003, she inaugurated the offices of TCS in Buffalo. However, when America was in its worst recession in 2009, she said while visiting India,.. "Outsourcing is a concern for many communities and businesses in my country."
..Clinton's silence on H-1B visas is a good sign when the visa programme has become so poisoned in recent times. However, if she is pushed by Trump in the general election campaign, she may sound tougher on H-1B visas, although this may all be part of campaign rhetoric.
Her past statements in support of H-1B visas, and her silence in this campaign even when Bernie Sanders criticised her for her past support of H-1B visas, mean that she will probably support the H-1B visa programme if she is elected president, and will push Congress in the direction of expanding rather than curtailing the H-1B visa.
Read more at:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/52057165.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
Wall Street has their fingers & toes crossed for her to be our next president. So many reasons, so much profit to make with Globalization of Low Wages spread in the US & throughout the world! Massive Profits for the top .05% 2016!!! GO Hillary!
yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)djean111
(14,255 posts)work - this is another quite unalterable reason I will not vote for Hillary.
Oh, and anyone who slings "racist" shit at me - we all would have just as devastated and unemployed if our jobs had been taken by Norwegians or Peruvians. That is a stupid stupid word to use.
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)Much like Clinton.
But they have to reach for something when its clear that Hillary is more republican than many republicans.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)It's the trump card that enables the user to silence debate while maintaining the illusion of moral superiority.
Ino
(3,366 posts)http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/politics/memo1.pdf
(more at link)
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)Thanks for the info. Its just so devastating that this is what we'll most likely get. And she'll be calling herself a Democrat. The damage to the US coming our way is beyond frightening.
Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)I witnessed this personally over and over and over. There is but ONE REASON corporations crave H-1B visas: lower labor costs.
edited to add:
That H-1B Indian engineer typically see much less than $78,000 because they must pay their Indian H-1B visa headhunter shop for their health insurance and placement fee such that their personal income is actually $53,000-58,000.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)SF has a bad habit of doing this ever since the 1840s
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)spending, cannabis as a class1 drug, prison sentences 1000X for crack vs the powder. 10,000 percent profits on medicines..... we need to make a longer list.
Retrograde
(10,181 posts)Where was the author for the previous 20 years? It's been an issue in Silicon Valley since the late 90s, when we started to notice large groups of foreign - usually Indian engineers - no more qualified than their US counterparts being brought in to replace the more expensive native workers. And as senator in the early 2000s Clinton was a big advocate.