Monday, July 7, 2014

Backlash Stirring in U.S. Over Foreign Worker Visas That Many Say Lead to Reduced American Employment

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Jennifer Wedel of Fort Worth, Texas is photographed at her home after challenging President Obama in 2012 on the H-1B visa issue, making headlines when she asked him via a public online chat about the number of foreign workers being hired, given that her husband, a semiconductor engineer, couldn’t find work. (Image source: AP/Star-Telegram, Khampha Bouaphanh, File)

Amid calls for expanding the nation’s temporary skilled worker program, some Americans are pushing back.

They argue the so-called H-1B program has been hijacked by staffing companies that import cheaper, lower-level workers to replace more expensive U.S. employees.

More @ The Blaze

4 comments:

  1. Those dolts at The Blaze, how can something so ineffective as those lawsuits and counting on the courts to hold .gov to the outcome be considered a backlash?

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    1. It's originally an AP story, so I imagine the more they post, the more dinero they get.

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  2. Quite a number of years ago Diane Alden had a website that covered a lot of the problems of H1B vistas and the large number of them that were given out to foreigners to the benefit of companies trying to keep wages down. I'm not sure if she is still on the web but I know she was originally from northern Minnesota.

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