Without noting that this contradicts everything that they’ve been telling Americans for 20 years, the New York Times suddenly says that bringing in welfare-dependent low-skill migrants exacerbates homelessness among native-born Americans (full article):
What will happen next in this New Age of Wonders? Will the NYT tell us that buying an electric car won’t reduce CO2 emissions from India and China? That Kamala Harris’s laughter/joy in situations that appeared to call for neither was not a sign of hypercompetence and fitness for high office but instead a sign of dementia, consistent with “Observing conversational laughter in frontotemporal dementia” (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry; 2017)?
Speaking of immigration and Indians, here’s a highly Deplorable tweet on the subject of reducing H-1B “nonimmigrant” visas (that somehow produce a huge number of permanent immigrants to the U.S.):
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Elon Musk now says that he wants only the top 0.1% of engineering talent as H-1B-style migrants (tweet). But how could this be implemented with the bureaucrats that we have? What stops 100 percent of potential migrants from writing down on their applications that they scored in the top 0.1% of an exam that Americans have no way to verify?
Related:
- “PhD dropout to OnlyFans model” (YouTube video from Zara Dar, holder of a Master’s in Computer Science from University of Texas-Austin; she’ll need to be replaced in the tech workforce)
The O-1 visa is a good fit for the top 0.1%. And the H-1B visa can be eliminated.
Or perhaps the H-1B visa could be retained with the following changes:
1. Reverse Obama’s executive action to extend OPT to automatic 3 years
2. Eliminate exemptions to the so-called “cap,” making the cap a real cap.
3. Reduce the total cap by 70%-75% to around 22,000 and index this to the number of high school graduates.
4. Introduce per-country caps of no greater than 7%, and possibly 5%. If a country splits in the future, prorate the cap among its successor states.
Regarding #3, as the US population stops reproducing, in large part due to economic instability, the number of work visas needs to DECREASE in order to keep a the work visas to a reasonable proportion of new Americans entering the economy. In other worse, this should not be a “Population Replacement Visa.”
Regarding #3 and #4, the Green Card already has the “7% from any one country rule,” and, according to one easily searchable source[1] 72% were awarded to Indian nationals and 13% to Chinese nationals. The total “cap” is officially 85,000 (65,000 bachelor’s and 20,000 advanced degrees). Thus 71% of current approvals would exceed the per-country cap, so cutting the total quota to 20,000-25,000 would leave leave the number of non-Indian and non-Chinese approvals relatively constant.
We could at least start here and consider further reductions in the future.
[1] https://cis.org/North/New-Data-Chinese-and-Indian-H1Bs-Educational-Backgrounds
@Faucian Bargain @PhilG we only hire US citizens for our IT positions and ask to come to office 2 to 3 days a week. Typically we would look for 4 to 5 years experience in full stack programing with some experience with databases. But we never get any applications with this experience, most of the applicants do not have any IT/programing experience instead they are sales/admins applying as they do not have a job currently. Couple of people who has this experience and apply ask for at least $175K + bonus + all of them want 100% remote work. This position is in a small city in FL. Basically it is so hard to hire US citizens for these positions. How do you explain this.
Adding to the above. Most of the citizen applicants are naturalized citizens not US born.
Hey Trump: fire Elon, hire Faucian Bargain.