Basically, the H-1b visa is to make slavery legal again. I remember growing up in the mid 1970's and ever construction worker was American and was paid well.
Decades ago a small factory owner in I believe the Atlanta area made the news by going public with his difficulty in finding qualified people to employ. None of the many High School graduates he hired could perform basic math. A bit of a national debate ensued in which public education officials finally asked “Since when does a high school diploma indicate any level of competency in math or any other subject?”. Within the past week I saw another on campus survey of American college students. Of the several they showed answering, only one knew when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. At least one thought it was in WW1. Then we have the horrible results of geography surveys taken by us college students. The fact is, that even back when I was in college, I graduated in 2000 and even then about all many learned was what we would call wokeism today. Then we have that many of those who are capable of filling the jobs are derailed by being denied admission to what were once the highest level colleges due to failing Affirmative Action/DEI screenings. The need for foreigners on these visa to meet demand is artificial but exists all the same.
How many decades? My grandma worked in a shirt factory during the Great Depression, totally illiterate. Grandpa was a coal miner with Black Lung, he was literate at the 8th grade level. 7 0f the 8 kids, had up to 8th grade educations. My uncle was not school teachable. But worked in a factory his whole adult life, did home repairs lived with my grandparents. They didn't know what a Learning Disability was back then. My mom never learned to drive. I'm the eldest of 4, 3 girls, only one to graduate HS, other 2 GED's the 1 boy couldn't hold a job, he was smart with a computer but not a good worker. Couldn't even remember to put gas in his car. Died when he was 58, of alcoholism/diabetes. There never was money for college. I waited tables, worked in a wire harness factory, a wife, mother of 3. Divorced the abusive man I'd married. A decade of being a single parent. There were no Safety Net programs then. I'm self educated. And still have gaps in it.
And even in the 60's public school taught less than what was taught in the 20's, 30's, 40's, and 50's. Farm families from earlier might have had 3rd grade educations from a 1 room school. Girls they felt didn't need a education, were told to get married and have kids.
Could any of those fill the jobs of those getting these visa? My own grandfather had to drop out of school at 10 to run the family farm upon the death of his father. Never could read well. He was, however, a master builder. He could measure twice and cut once. Built the home my mother would grow up in. Was a true wood working master. Could not fill the positions those on these visa can.
I graduated college in 2000, the first in my direct family line to do so. Going from memory, when I graduated, less than 30% of Americans had a university degree. Most jobs do not require one, at least not then. Now, it seems a degree is needed to be dog catcher. Something like 78% of Americans now have at least a Bachelor degree. Most are working jobs that does not require one despite the fact that you may not get hired if you do not have one.
As I recall, the factory in question was actually a sheet metal shop. Basic math skills and pro[er measuring ability are required for such work, yet those with diplomas were unable to add fractions, decimals nor even use a scale or ruler. Many people without a diploma can do these, as my own grandfather fathers could, but how is it that high school grads cannot? This comes for the 90s. Learned of it while in college.
Now go make your argument to Mister MAGA, Trump himself, since he both supports the H1B program and has used it to find himself employees in past years.
Make America Great Again, but not at the expense of certain folks' personal wealth.
And the vaxxes keeps killing.....blind to nationality. Think about why this visa issue is in the news right now?....during worldwide genocide, 'Lets make the plebes hate each other a little more to distract from their mutual deaths by injection'. And the distractions work so well....so very well.
The other side is legal refugee's Obama/Biden tried to kick out of the USA. They hold the necessary papers to work. ROMIKE FAMILY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvg34GVsZvQ
They fled Germany's no home school/Christian regime 16 years ago. Every year they go through the visa process, they want Citizenship legally. They are assets to the community, they live in. They are Evangelical Christians.
So the Romeikes fled to America in 2008, where HSLDA helped them apply for asylum.
In January 2010, the Romeikes were granted asylum by Judge Lawrence O. Burman.
Two years later, in May 2012, their asylum was overturned by the US Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). After another two years of legal battles to reinstate their asylum, the US government finally granted the Romeikes “indefinite deferred action status” in March 2014.
This meant that the Romeikes could live legally in the US, obtain drivers’ licenses, work, rent, own property, and pay taxes. They have been operating legally under this status for 10 years.
German family who sought asylum for homeschooling faces deportation after 15 years in US
We are no financial burden for the government,” said Uwe Romeike, who has worked as a piano accompanist at nearby Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City. “We pay our taxes, we contribute to society and in the community.”
Immigration experts said the glacial pace of the Romeike’s deportation was likely because authorities deemed their case a low priority — but it was only a matter of time before the feds got around to revoking their ability to remain in the US.
Many of the family’s backers tore into the Biden administration for expending its resources on the Romeikes’ deportation, versus tracking down the more than 1.5 million migrants who illegally poured into the United States in the past three years.
Uwe is a classical pianist, teaches at the local University, Hannelore, home schools the 2 youngest children, as the first 5 are now grown. She is an artist. And now have grandkids.
The Romeikes fled to America for homeschool freedom.
Interesting. This is the same thing happening in the medical field. It's in businesses like who owns or runs the gas stations? They're doing it to nurses too. It would be nice if these workers could at least speak English, which in many cases they can't. Thanks for explaining the controversy of this program. I had no idea. With another option available, this program is redundant to say the least and slave labor at its worst.
Health care is currently in a personnel bubble, and when it bursts it will be tragic, no matter your opinion of health care these days.
I was in the position of having to recruit a physician in a specialty that is projected to have a shortage of 5,000 in the next few years. Other specialties are worse. Try and get a dermatology appointment. My only requirement was board certification or eligibility (required for credentialing). The offer was competitive and based on experience with an ownership track over one or two years, based on experience. And the icing on the cake was 13 weeks of paid annual leave. It's over a year now, and it's still vacant. I left that situation, so realistically they need two. I was going to consider H-1B at the time, but that idea was not supported. A lot of beneficial things are ruined by ill-meaning people.
As for the health care personnel bubble, you mentioned nursing. I agree. The laboratory and the operating rooms are in similar states. Hospitals cannot hire permanent staff and rely on traveling, temporary workers. Traveling staff earn quite a bit more than permanent staff and wage inflation in some fields, such as nurse anesthetists is such that you can hire at a competitive wage today and in six months to year be ten or even twenty percent below market, depending on the region. It destroys morale, because you have the travelers who dictate terms, get better shifts, no weekends, no holidays and earning more than the regular employees who have to work the less desirable days and hours. Low morale often leads to low quality.
I've heard the argument that you just need to pay them what the market demands, and they will come, but that doesn't change the wage inflation issue. And two years ago during the "interview" of administration as part of a laboratory inspection, that individual revealed that nationally it was next to impossible to recruit professionals to cities smaller than 250K population. Look around and see how many communities smaller than even 10,000 rely on health care as an important contributor to employment and economy. I was director of a laboratory in a 12 bed critical access hospital in the upper Midwest that had no permanent employees, and the only responses to advertised job openings came from Asia. They ended up hiring two from the Philippines. I have plenty of anecdotes.
Why this is happening, of course, is very complex. It starts in Washington D. C., with HHS and Medicare and involves state and local politics, Big Pharma, Big Health Insurance, Corporate Healthcare, accrediting agencies, physicians, mid-levels, nurses, and administrators and patients with unrealistic expectations and limited ability to judge necessity and quality for themselves.
I have a few comments/concerns Edwin: early education and upward is failing , education at home is failing and , the tuition for out of the country students is desired by administration at universities. ????
Which speaks volumes to the need of bringing order back to America....not importing! ( Yeah,it's more complex than that - but the base value is America First! ))
Basically, the H-1b visa is to make slavery legal again. I remember growing up in the mid 1970's and ever construction worker was American and was paid well.
And stuff was built to last.
Decades ago a small factory owner in I believe the Atlanta area made the news by going public with his difficulty in finding qualified people to employ. None of the many High School graduates he hired could perform basic math. A bit of a national debate ensued in which public education officials finally asked “Since when does a high school diploma indicate any level of competency in math or any other subject?”. Within the past week I saw another on campus survey of American college students. Of the several they showed answering, only one knew when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. At least one thought it was in WW1. Then we have the horrible results of geography surveys taken by us college students. The fact is, that even back when I was in college, I graduated in 2000 and even then about all many learned was what we would call wokeism today. Then we have that many of those who are capable of filling the jobs are derailed by being denied admission to what were once the highest level colleges due to failing Affirmative Action/DEI screenings. The need for foreigners on these visa to meet demand is artificial but exists all the same.
How many decades? My grandma worked in a shirt factory during the Great Depression, totally illiterate. Grandpa was a coal miner with Black Lung, he was literate at the 8th grade level. 7 0f the 8 kids, had up to 8th grade educations. My uncle was not school teachable. But worked in a factory his whole adult life, did home repairs lived with my grandparents. They didn't know what a Learning Disability was back then. My mom never learned to drive. I'm the eldest of 4, 3 girls, only one to graduate HS, other 2 GED's the 1 boy couldn't hold a job, he was smart with a computer but not a good worker. Couldn't even remember to put gas in his car. Died when he was 58, of alcoholism/diabetes. There never was money for college. I waited tables, worked in a wire harness factory, a wife, mother of 3. Divorced the abusive man I'd married. A decade of being a single parent. There were no Safety Net programs then. I'm self educated. And still have gaps in it.
And even in the 60's public school taught less than what was taught in the 20's, 30's, 40's, and 50's. Farm families from earlier might have had 3rd grade educations from a 1 room school. Girls they felt didn't need a education, were told to get married and have kids.
Could any of those fill the jobs of those getting these visa? My own grandfather had to drop out of school at 10 to run the family farm upon the death of his father. Never could read well. He was, however, a master builder. He could measure twice and cut once. Built the home my mother would grow up in. Was a true wood working master. Could not fill the positions those on these visa can.
I graduated college in 2000, the first in my direct family line to do so. Going from memory, when I graduated, less than 30% of Americans had a university degree. Most jobs do not require one, at least not then. Now, it seems a degree is needed to be dog catcher. Something like 78% of Americans now have at least a Bachelor degree. Most are working jobs that does not require one despite the fact that you may not get hired if you do not have one.
As I recall, the factory in question was actually a sheet metal shop. Basic math skills and pro[er measuring ability are required for such work, yet those with diplomas were unable to add fractions, decimals nor even use a scale or ruler. Many people without a diploma can do these, as my own grandfather fathers could, but how is it that high school grads cannot? This comes for the 90s. Learned of it while in college.
Now go make your argument to Mister MAGA, Trump himself, since he both supports the H1B program and has used it to find himself employees in past years.
Make America Great Again, but not at the expense of certain folks' personal wealth.
And the vaxxes keeps killing.....blind to nationality. Think about why this visa issue is in the news right now?....during worldwide genocide, 'Lets make the plebes hate each other a little more to distract from their mutual deaths by injection'. And the distractions work so well....so very well.
Excellent summation Edwin.
The other side is legal refugee's Obama/Biden tried to kick out of the USA. They hold the necessary papers to work. ROMIKE FAMILY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvg34GVsZvQ
They fled Germany's no home school/Christian regime 16 years ago. Every year they go through the visa process, they want Citizenship legally. They are assets to the community, they live in. They are Evangelical Christians.
Time line facts https://hslda.org/post/romeike-fact-sheet
So the Romeikes fled to America in 2008, where HSLDA helped them apply for asylum.
In January 2010, the Romeikes were granted asylum by Judge Lawrence O. Burman.
Two years later, in May 2012, their asylum was overturned by the US Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). After another two years of legal battles to reinstate their asylum, the US government finally granted the Romeikes “indefinite deferred action status” in March 2014.
This meant that the Romeikes could live legally in the US, obtain drivers’ licenses, work, rent, own property, and pay taxes. They have been operating legally under this status for 10 years.
German family who sought asylum for homeschooling faces deportation after 15 years in US
https://nypost.com/2023/09/30/german-family-who-sought-asylum-in-us-for-homeschooling-faces-deportation/
We are no financial burden for the government,” said Uwe Romeike, who has worked as a piano accompanist at nearby Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City. “We pay our taxes, we contribute to society and in the community.”
Immigration experts said the glacial pace of the Romeike’s deportation was likely because authorities deemed their case a low priority — but it was only a matter of time before the feds got around to revoking their ability to remain in the US.
Many of the family’s backers tore into the Biden administration for expending its resources on the Romeikes’ deportation, versus tracking down the more than 1.5 million migrants who illegally poured into the United States in the past three years.
Uwe is a classical pianist, teaches at the local University, Hannelore, home schools the 2 youngest children, as the first 5 are now grown. She is an artist. And now have grandkids.
The Romeikes fled to America for homeschool freedom.
Now their freedom is being threatened.
https://hslda.org/romeike-update
ICE grants German homeschooling family in East Tennessee another year in US
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2024/10/29/german-romeike-family-east-tennessee-homeschool-deportation/75897460007/
Interesting. This is the same thing happening in the medical field. It's in businesses like who owns or runs the gas stations? They're doing it to nurses too. It would be nice if these workers could at least speak English, which in many cases they can't. Thanks for explaining the controversy of this program. I had no idea. With another option available, this program is redundant to say the least and slave labor at its worst.
Health care is currently in a personnel bubble, and when it bursts it will be tragic, no matter your opinion of health care these days.
I was in the position of having to recruit a physician in a specialty that is projected to have a shortage of 5,000 in the next few years. Other specialties are worse. Try and get a dermatology appointment. My only requirement was board certification or eligibility (required for credentialing). The offer was competitive and based on experience with an ownership track over one or two years, based on experience. And the icing on the cake was 13 weeks of paid annual leave. It's over a year now, and it's still vacant. I left that situation, so realistically they need two. I was going to consider H-1B at the time, but that idea was not supported. A lot of beneficial things are ruined by ill-meaning people.
As for the health care personnel bubble, you mentioned nursing. I agree. The laboratory and the operating rooms are in similar states. Hospitals cannot hire permanent staff and rely on traveling, temporary workers. Traveling staff earn quite a bit more than permanent staff and wage inflation in some fields, such as nurse anesthetists is such that you can hire at a competitive wage today and in six months to year be ten or even twenty percent below market, depending on the region. It destroys morale, because you have the travelers who dictate terms, get better shifts, no weekends, no holidays and earning more than the regular employees who have to work the less desirable days and hours. Low morale often leads to low quality.
I've heard the argument that you just need to pay them what the market demands, and they will come, but that doesn't change the wage inflation issue. And two years ago during the "interview" of administration as part of a laboratory inspection, that individual revealed that nationally it was next to impossible to recruit professionals to cities smaller than 250K population. Look around and see how many communities smaller than even 10,000 rely on health care as an important contributor to employment and economy. I was director of a laboratory in a 12 bed critical access hospital in the upper Midwest that had no permanent employees, and the only responses to advertised job openings came from Asia. They ended up hiring two from the Philippines. I have plenty of anecdotes.
Why this is happening, of course, is very complex. It starts in Washington D. C., with HHS and Medicare and involves state and local politics, Big Pharma, Big Health Insurance, Corporate Healthcare, accrediting agencies, physicians, mid-levels, nurses, and administrators and patients with unrealistic expectations and limited ability to judge necessity and quality for themselves.
I have a few comments/concerns Edwin: early education and upward is failing , education at home is failing and , the tuition for out of the country students is desired by administration at universities. ????
Which speaks volumes to the need of bringing order back to America....not importing! ( Yeah,it's more complex than that - but the base value is America First! ))
Preach brother.
H1B is indeed a gangster operation for Indian tech billionaires to steal the US middle class economy for the Indian middle class.
By Musk's and Ramaswamy's logic, India should be the tech powerhouse of the world. Efficiency or Influence? The Story Behind the creation of DOGE https://ss40006f7d51ab75.wordpress.com/2024/11/29/musk/