Trump’s DHS Starts to Import 85,000 H-1B Graduate Gig Workers

[ananda]

"President Donald Trump’s deputies announced Friday that they had begun the process of importing 85,000 H-1B gig workers to take white-collar jobs that will be needed after October by the millions of American graduates who are now losing jobs in the coronavirus crash. ... “If the H-1B program is just for filling jobs that Americans cannot fill amid for labor shortages, then this would not be happening,” said John Miano, a lawyer with the Immigration Law Reform Institute." (source)

 

[Vylo]

Somehow I don't think we will have labor shortages.

 

[SimplyMe]

Is it any surprise that Trump is doing this, when he himself hires foreign workers to staff his hotels.

 

[iluvatar5150]

There is some seriously whiny buck-passing in that article:

“This is just an unspeakable action,” said Marie Larson, a co-founder of the American Workers Coalition, which opposes the many visa worker programs that have transferred at least one million white-collar jobs to foreign workers. “I don’t believe President Trump ordered this — the swamp went ahead with this,” she said.

“The people surrounding President Trump don’t have his back — they are not helping him keep his campaign promise,” Larson said.

What sort of mindless sycophancy does it take to absolve an executive like this?

 

[Kentonio]

There is some seriously whiny buck-passing in that article:

What sort of mindless sycophancy does it take to absolve an executive like this?

Same thing happened in Germany in the late 30’s/early 40’s. Unpopular measures were often blamed by supporters on subordinates with the claim ‘oh the Fuhrer would never have wanted this’. Not that I’m in any way comparing this fine president with a fascist or his supporters with mindless fascist sympathizers. That would be the last thing I’d ever do.

 

[seeking.IAM]

Somehow I don't think we will have labor shortages.

We already have labor shortages. I'm an employer. Unemployment rate is (was?) so low that I can't hire all the staff I need.

Who knows how COVID-19 is going to affect the workforce? Maybe enough workers will die we won't have enough? Maybe enough businesses will close will have an abundance of unemployed?