Thread: Homeland Security announces steps against H1B visa fraud

The lottery for fiscal year 2018 opened on Monday without changes.

Another failed campaign promise. The problems with the program should have been resolved before any 2018 applications were accepted.

Unfortunate. Perhaps the DOJ will keep them in line.

https://www.alipac.us/f12/doj-employ...ricans-345625/

Congress determines how many visas are issued each year, and DHS just complies with that number. DHS can do some enforcement of abuse, fraud and cheating within the program but neither DHS nor Trump can eliminate the H1B program, Congress has to do that.

As to firing Americans and replacing with them H1B visa workers, that element is not handled by DHS. It's handled by the Department of Labor. Trump still doesn't have his Cabinet Secretary for the Department of Labor confirmed yet. If Puzder had been confirmed, this aspect would already be a done and finished deal.

We'll see what Alexander Acosta can or will do on this once he's confirmed. He passed committee last Thursday, so he should be voted on by the Senate maybe sometime this week unless the Democrats decide to drag it out. We'll see what happens.

Trump will fix the H1B program. Trump doesn't want Americans being fired and replaced by visa workers, whether high-skilled, low-skilled, or otherwise. He doesn't want any unemployed or underemployed American anywhere competing with visa workers for any job in the United States.

But we always appreciate the Democratic Yahoo News staying on top of a situation they've never before shown any interest in whatsoever. I don't know where we'd be today with the DNC tracking our President and half-reporting the story with their bias against this Administration.

If it needed to be implemented in the first place, it should have been given a time period of about 5 - 7 years.

During that time, we should have made a concentrated effort to educate our own people to do the work.

Truthfully, I think we have a lot of people who can do this work. I have really talked with people who say some of these 'tech' workers are not as savvy as it is put up to be and many of them do have to be trained by those who are replacing them.

So, to fix it - begin phasing it out and allow it to operate for maybe 5 more years.

It's just suicide.

Our government is bringing, protecting, subsidizing the illegals to work at all jobs, but particularly the entry level jobs. Those are the places many young people begin their journey into the workforce.

So those jobs are taken by the illegals.

For those young people who are trained in the tech fields, their jobs are going to the asinine HB program.

So every wonder why young people want to sit and play video games, rather than go out looking for jobs that are non existent or that they will loose to an illegal when it shows up?

Ever wonder why so many young people don't go to college or tech school? They know they may not can get a job due to HB worker or will loose it and have to train their replacement.

Of course, that isn't the case with all of them - or even most of them - but it has to enter into the mindset of a lot of young people.

Our people already know how to do these things. There are a few skilled, special artisan construction type workers that the Europeans know better than we do, it's passed down through the ages of masons, stone-cutters, and other trade groups in Europe. But that's not who we're bringing over, you could count those on a couple of hands a year, short term specific projects.

Employers don't hire these workers because they need them, they hire them because they can and do so at a cheaper wage.