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The U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday that household income for noncitizens working in the United States rose 6.0 percent between 2012 and 2013, 15 times more than the paltry 0.4 percent increase for households led by native-born U.S. workers.
Census said income households led by foreign-born workers, which includes noncitizens and naturalized citizens, rose 1.7 percent over the same period of time. That’s still about four times higher than the 0.4 percent increase for native born workers.
The summer lull in illegal border crossings from Mexico is about to give way to a rush of even more immigrants in a frenzy of fear that Washington is about to shut the door, according to several Hispanic leaders.
In Honduras, for example, U.S. threats coupled with those from local leaders warning about the dangers of crossing the border have instead reenergized children and adults to run fast to America and pay inflated fees to “coyotes” to get them there.
Illegals rushing border fearing U.S. crackdown
The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa in the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 101(a)(15)(H). It allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations.
The regulations define a "specialty occupation" as requiring theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge in a field of human endeavor including but not limited to biotechnology, chemistry, architecture, engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, social sciences, medicine and health, education, law, accounting, business specialties, theology, and the arts, and requiring the attainment of a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent as a minimum.
originally posted by: Indigo5
a reply to: xuenchen
Your are deeply confused. People here from all over the globe that are lucky enough to qualify for an H1-B Visa or O1 visa etc. have by definition highly sought after skill-sets that are difficult to come by in the USA. What made you think these were illegal immigrants?
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Indigo5
The problem is that we are awash in STEM grads who cannot get jobs in STEM fields that those H1-B workers are coming in a taking. Most H1-B come to work in places like Silicon Valley, and you can't tell me that there aren't IT and technical computer engineering grads coming out of American unis who can do the jobs.
What's really going on is that people like Zuckerberg are pressing for the foreign workers who can be hired for much less because it depresses wages. Meanwhile, American grads are SOL.
originally posted by: kosmicjack
This is exactly the purpose of allowing unchecked immigration....
Wrong on both counts...There are not enough SW and IT grads to meet the demand. That is just the truth. And Zuckerberg does not pinch pennies. Average starting salary for a fresh grad at FB is 85k, plus abt 30k stock and an annual bonus of 15k...and that is year one.
Cries that “the STEM sky is falling” are just the latest in a cyclical pattern of shortage predictions over the past half-century, none of which were even remotely accurate. In a desert of evidence, the growth of STEM shortage claims is driven by heavy industry funding for lobbyists and think tanks. Their goal is government intervention in the market under the guise of solving national economic problems. The highly profitable IT industry, for example, is devoting millions to convince Congress and the White House to provide its employers with more low-cost, foreign guestworkers instead of trying to attract and retain employees from an ample domestic labor pool of native and immigrant citizens and permanent residents. Guestworkers currently make up two-thirds of all new IT hires, but employers are demanding further increases. If such lobbying efforts succeed, firms will have enough guestworkers for at least 100 percent of their new hiring and can continue to legally substitute these younger workers for current employees, holding down wages for both them and new hires.
Claiming there is a skills shortage by denying the strength of the U.S. STEM workforce and student supply is possible only by ignoring the most obvious and direct evidence and obscuring the issue with statistical smokescreens – especially when the Census Bureau reports that only about one in four STEM bachelor’s degree holders has a STEM job, and Microsoft plans to downsize by 18,000 workers over the next year.
originally posted by: kosmicjack
a reply to: ketsuko
While I think you make good points, I think you omit that the corporations control DC through lobbying and campaign finance loop holes.
originally posted by: sheepslayer247
a reply to: kosmicjack
My employees will often say that they have never seen a juedo work as hard as I do. That's not because I'm superman, it's because even though I have a good position in life I still get down and dirty in the job that's needed to be done.
We have lost that in America. We've lost the ability, in general, to roll-up our sleeves and get dirty.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Indigo5
The problem is that we are awash in STEM grads who cannot get jobs in STEM fields that those H1-B workers are coming in a taking. Most H1-B come to work in places like Silicon Valley, and you can't tell me that there aren't IT and technical computer engineering grads coming out of American unis who can do the jobs.
What's really going on is that people like Zuckerberg are pressing for the foreign workers who can be hired for much less because it depresses wages. Meanwhile, American grads are SOL.