Trump Defends Foreign Worker Visas
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/12/30/0910218/trump-defends-foreign-worker-visas
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His comments follow recent [2]support for the program from Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy . The H-1B program allows 85,000 skilled workers to immigrate annually, including 20,000 spots for those with U.S. advanced degrees. Trump's businesses have received approval to hire over 2,100 foreign workers since 2008, with about 70 positions through H-1B visas, mostly over a decade ago.
[1] https://nypost.com/2024/12/28/us-news/donald-trump-backs-h-1b-visa-program-supported-by-elon-musk/
[2] https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/12/27/0127229/trump-transition-leaders-call-for-eased-tech-immigration-policy
MAGA no longer requires (Score:3)
Trump's been voted in now and no longer needs his MAGA morons.
Re: (Score:2)
Well, he stills needs the Trad-Maggots as his brownshirts to threaten all the enemies only he sees.
He's stuck, really. He's been selling off the government agency headships to the TechBro-Maggots and those in the Billionaires Club, all for juicy kickbacks to his "companies".
The TechBro-Maggots argue that they bought el Bunko fair and square and that got him elected. So he must listen to them. The Trad-Maggots argue it is their xenophobia that that got him elected. So he must listen to them.
When in doubt abo
Re: MAGA no longer requires (Score:2)
Oh that would be gold if he just dumped them on the spot. But I doubt he would do that. He is going to wrap it all in typical Trump speak. But he better starts saying more than "it is great". MAGAs are hungry. You better feed them occasionally or they bite.
Just for the Record (Score:3)
From: [1]https://www.nytimes.com/2024/1... [nytimes.com] (but the facts can be acquired elsewhere):
Both the H-1B and H-2 programs are overseen by the Department of Labor, which imposes different rules for each. The skilled worker program currently has a cap of 65,000 per year, a number that technology companies have pushed to increase.
H-2B visas, which are for nonagricultural unskilled labor, are capped at 66,000, while H-2A visas, for agricultural workers, have no caps, but are limited to certain sectors of the industry.
From 2003 to 2017, Mr. Trump’s companies were approved for more than 1,000 H-2 visas for jobs like cooks, housekeepers and waiters at his properties, including Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., and the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Fla., Labor Department data show. In each instance, the companies had to attest that there were no American citizens who could perform those jobs.
His companies continued to hire H-2 workers during his first presidential term, posting applications for visas for 78 housekeepers, cooks and food servers at Mar-a-Lago in mid-2018, for example.
Currently Mr. Trump’s winery in Charlottesville, Va., is seeking 31 foreign vineyard farmworkers under the H-2A program, offering them $15.81 per hour.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/business/trump-immigration-h1b-visa.html
Re: WTF? (Score:2)
My standard phrase these days: Don't worry, January is coming. Trump will fix everything. In writing I can add the /s. It is a lot of fun using that phrase with MAGAs. They have to suck up their frustrations like real men for the first time.
Is H1B Visa like the Australian 457 Visa? (Score:2)
In Australia, the large tech companies e.g Cisco offer Channel Partner discounts to MSPs, which have a certain number of Certified Cisco Engineers. Australian Universities and Technical Colleges do not really push Cisco certification as a must-have for students preferring to have their own degree/certificate programs. Now employees at Cisco TAC India, and other countries are trained on the job while they get paid to work at Cisco. They also get to sit their certification exams for free. Compare that to Univ
Profit (Score:3, Insightful)
So I guess Trump only dislikes foreigners when they aren't profitable for him. Such a blatant example of the problem with having Trump as president. Helping him is first. Helping Musk is second. Helping everyone else is last.
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we the people get the governments we deserve, therefore we irresponsible, selfish, and unethical people get irresponsible, selfish and unethical governments
greed will be our undoing, this is the inevitable result of classism and corruption
Trump's staff work mostly on H2-B visas (Score:4, Informative)
It seems kinda odd Trump can't get American locals to work for him, cheap. I'm surprised he hasn't convinced MAGA to pay him to work at his 'resort' properties. So he [1]hires temporary immigrant workers every 'season' at Maga-Lardo [washingtonpost.com].
> U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services’ guidelines allow U.S. employers to hire short-term, non-permanent foreign workers if “there are not enough U.S. workers who are able, willing, qualified and available to do the temporary work.” Foreign nationals from 87 countries are eligible to apply for these jobs via the federal government’s H-2B visa program. Businesses must petition the Department of Labor for permission to hire these workers, listing the number of vacancies they are looking to fill.
[2] Mar-A-Lago Sought 380 Foreign Workers During Time Trump Had Access To Classified Documents [forbes.com]
> Mar-a-Lago relies on foreign nationals to work as servers, cooks and housekeepers. In 2016, the club sought 65 foreign workers. The figure has increased every year since, with the exception of 2020, when the club shut down in the early days of the pandemic and furloughed more than 150 employees. Last winter, Mar-a-Lago sought out 91 foreign workers, according to records filed with the Department of Labor.
> The requirements listed on the job orders do not seem particularly strict. For example, the qualifications to be a housekeeper during the 2021 to 2022 season included three months of verifiable housekeeping experience and a drug and background check. The position also required the ability to communicate in English, maintain flexible hours and move 25 pounds. It paid $11.70 an hour.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-mar-a-lago-club-in-florida-seeks-to-hire-40-foreign-workers/2018/07/05/5ef094b8-8099-11e8-bb6b-c1cb691f1402_story.html
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2023/06/14/mar-a-lago-foreign-workers-trump-classified-documents/
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I don't get it. It's bad when Trump is allowing imigrants to come to country and it's bad when he does not allow? Can you people decide What Trump should do to satisfy you guys? Or is this just what ever Trump does or says it's automatically bad.
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His election platform was that immigrants are bad, and that's what his electorate voted for. Now he likes to differentiate between immigrants, which are not as bad, because they are cheap workers to him and those, who are working for someone else or - how dare they! - founding their own businesses. And if the first group are no longer cheap workers, they are bad again.
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As far as I understood he always was illegal imigrants bad or did I miss something? Can you dig up any interview etc. where he says he is against imigration in general? I would be interested.
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One, it shows he's not anti-foreigner like many like to claim. Second, he's for what's best for the US. Skilled immigrants help us as a country. Unskilled immigrants can be a drain on our resources (they are needed in some controlled quantity for unskilled labor, but hired legally above the table). Citizens should have first opportunity for needed jobs with dynamic immigration quotas filling in the unmet needs. We really need the Department of Labor to be involved with immigration to set quotas and nee
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Trump never really hated migrants, he just said that stuff to radicalize his base and sacre swing voters. You would have to be pretty daft to have believed him.