President Trump signs an executive order that he said would bring back jobs for American workers now held by visa holders, during a 2017 visit to the headquarters of tool manufacturer Snap-On in Kenosha, Wisc. By Ike Brannon and Kevin McGee March 27 at 12:16 PM President Trump insists he wants to attract high-skilled legal immigrants, even while pushing for a wall on the southern border – but his administration is moving to deprive thousands of highly trained immigrants of the right to work.
Congress created the H-1B visa program in 1990 to attract more high-skilled immigrants into the country. Companies were having trouble filling jobs in technical occupations like systems engineers and software developers, occupation that then had low unemployment rates. Turning to foreign-born workers is an effective way to plug this hole. Trained, experienced foreign workers are also much more likely to start new businesses, creating new jobs in the process.
Almost five out of six of our respondents had already obtained employment authorization documents , and three-fourths of these currently hold jobs. Unsurprisingly, most work in occupations tied to technology or engineering in some way. Almost half are employed in IT-math-stats occupations, which have chronic worker shortages. These occupations’ 2018 unemployment rate of only 2.13 percent indicates that the only unemployed workers in these areas are the ones in the process of changing jobs.
Interviews we did after our survey revealed that a significant number of families with an H-4 visa have made life-altering decisions predicated upon the ability of the visa holder to join their H-1B visa-holding spouse in obtaining work authorization, such as purchasing a house, beginning a business or having a child.
Priya Chandrasekaran married her H-1B spouse -- a software engineer for Microsoft -- in 2010 and came to the United States soon after to be with him. Although Priya had a Bachelors in business management, graduate training, and six years of work experience in India, she was initially unable to pursue her career because of the H-4 work ban in place at the time.
Besides being harmful to their families, rescinding the work authorization for the H-4 visa would impose costs both on our economy and tax coffers. Executive Order 12866 requires that any new rule issued by an administration -- or the rescission of an existing rule -- must be able to pass a cost-benefit analysis. The data show that this doesn’t come close to passing.
SaveH4EADs America should applaud and support our highly skilled and hardworking immigrants. Some of the best workers I have ever worked with in the medical field. Very caring, knowledgeable and prompt. Even the occasional language barrier was easily overcome shortly with patience & care.
what he gonna do when US population increase, Tech already started extending their roots outside usa. According to MR T In future american spouse cant work because of job shortage what an idea sir. Seems like political racism law change for vote banking.
Amazon's lobbyist will never mention most of these 70,000 H4EAD are fraudsters. They make fake resumes, bribe their way in and drive honest Americans out of jobs. Amazon likes them as cheap labor. 4US_Workers Dawnnewyorker NoHR1044 NoH4EAD No H1b
LEGAL immigrants! FAKE NEWS!
Build the wall
LOLOL....I'm so sick of Trump. Bring back the circus please!!!
LeChatNoire4 He meant **white** skilled immigrants. Duh.
its working already! My friend Irish girl spend there almost 2 years working for Marketing Company in NY. This December she was forced to leave job and come back to ROI. They were ready to give her full contract, but US Government refuse it They Were Not Allowed to Hire Her
And y’all actually believed him? Only stupid people would.
Is that who he hired with sons at his properties LMAO
Jow Ging Stupid Can American Be. Trumps Kicking Ev1 off of Healthcare;W/O a plan. He’ll probably fire everybody before he hires.Ask Trump about the Catch & Release He’s doing at the Border. Spent all Marine Corp Money& Fema(Needed for P.Rico)DETENTIONS CENTERS=HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
Such as Mail Order Melania? Same Mail Order Melania that received an EB1 GC -- which CLEARLY she was not qualified for. Same Mail Order Melania that lied and continues to lie about her education (or lack thereof)
Hey that funny, there are hundreds of thousands that have been negatively impacted by immigration as a whole, all from both low income to middle class families work or have worked at some of the jobs that have been discriminately going to immigrants throughout sanctuary cities.
POTUS realDonaldTrump 🤥🤡certainly the 70,000 include those employed by the corrupt trump organization
america wants skilled and logical president, as well, not a terrorist trainer or feeder UN EU_Commission AJEnglish cnni BBCWorld WSJ TIME AP hrw UNHumanRights ReutersWorld
Do maids at Mar-A-Lago count as skilled workers?
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