Trump’s Plan to Boost Jobs for U.S. Graduates

[Swordsmyth]

Trump’s pending regulation reportedly would end the policy of giving bonus work permits to wives of foreign workers who have H-1B visas, and would, therefore, shift jobs and salaries from foreign temporary workers to American graduates.

The H-1B program allows foreign visa-workers — but not spouses — to take middle-class jobs from Americans. But the H-1B salaries are very low, so the bonus program allows the spouses to supplement the family income. The extra income encourages the lower wage H-1B workers to stay in the United States instead of returning home after several years.
Roughly 100,000 bonus work permits have been issued via the program, which is dubbed the “H4EAD” program.
This bonus program was created by former President Barack Obama — without any approval by Congress — because many H-1B workers from India are leaving the United States. The Indians are leaving because they know they have to work and wait many years to get the real payoff for their low-wage H-1B work — a green card which would allow them and their extended families to move to the United States.
But each Indian H-1B who leaves opens up a middle-class job for an American graduate, marking another success for Trump’s Inauguration Day promise of “Hire American.”

More at: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/23/george-w-bush-center-slams-trumps-plan-boost-jobs-u-s-graduates/
kahless

[Zippyjuan]

But the H-1B salaries are very low, so the bonus program allows the spouses to supplement the family income.

$80,000 a year is very low pay? http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/08/16/salaries-have-risen-for-high-skilled-foreign-workers-in-u-s-on-h-1b-visas/

US median income is $59,000 a year.


U.S. employers planned to pay high-skilled foreign workers with H-1B visas a median salary of $80,000 a year in fiscal year 2016, up from about $69,000 a decade earlier, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data.

This is the first time the U.S. government has made salary information about H-1B applicants publicly available. Most H-1B applicants get approved for visas, so the data provide a window into the salaries of high-skilled foreign workers employed in the United States.

The 2016 median salary reported for H-1B visa applicants was higher than the median salary paid to some U.S. workers in similar high-skill occupations. For example, U.S. workers in computer and mathematical occupations had a median salary of $75,036 in fiscal 2016, a slight increase from 2007, when the median salary was $73,979 (adjusted to 2016 dollars), according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data on all U.S. workers. The majority (60%) of all H-1B applicants from fiscal 2007 to 2016 were seeking employment in computer and mathematical occupations.


Facebook planned to pay an average salary of $140,758 on 1,107 H-1B visa applications (a total that includes both first-time and renewal applications), the highest average salary paid among the 30 companies with the most visa approvals. Apple planned to pay a $138,563 average salary on 1,992 applications, while Google paid a $131,882 average salary on 2,517 applications.

[phill4paul]

$80,000 a year is very low pay? http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/08/16/salaries-have-risen-for-high-skilled-foreign-workers-in-u-s-on-h-1b-visas/

US median income is $59,000 a year.

Thank you. American median income would rise if not for foreign workers. You do this site a great justice. Even as you try to pull it down.

[kahless]

Trump’s pending regulation reportedly would end the policy of giving bonus work permits to wives of foreign workers who have H-1B visas, and would, therefore, shift jobs and salaries from foreign temporary workers to American graduates.

The H-1B program allows foreign visa-workers — but not spouses — to take middle-class jobs from Americans. But the H-1B salaries are very low, so the bonus program allows the spouses to supplement the family income. The extra income encourages the lower wage H-1B workers to stay in the United States instead of returning home after several years.
Roughly 100,000 bonus work permits have been issued via the program, which is dubbed the “H4EAD” program.
This bonus program was created by former President Barack Obama — without any approval by Congress — because many H-1B workers from India are leaving the United States. The Indians are leaving because they know they have to work and wait many years to get the real payoff for their low-wage H-1B work — a green card which would allow them and their extended families to move to the United States.
But each Indian H-1B who leaves opens up a middle-class job for an American graduate, marking another success for Trump’s Inauguration Day promise of “Hire American.”

More at: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/23/george-w-bush-center-slams-trumps-plan-boost-jobs-u-s-graduates/
kahless

Well, good to see were back to where we were before statements in November, December and January. As long as he sticks to it. "Pending" is the keyword here. Given his record of failing to follow through while claiming success and his reversals, I am doubtful.

[enhanced_deficit]

Early reports can be foggy:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?527029-Trump-I-want-to-scrap-all-H1B-visas&p=6733646&viewfull=1#post6733646

[Swordsmyth]

Well, good to see were back to where we were before statements in November, December and January. As long as he sticks to it. "Pending" is the keyword here. Given his record of failing to follow through while claiming success and his reversals, I am doubtful.
President Donald Trump's administration has ramped up scrutiny of visas for foreign skilled workers, rejecting more H-1B requests and requiring extra evidence to process thousands of applications, according to government data released Friday.
In the fourth-quarter of 2018, US Citizenship and Immigration Services issued requests for evidence in 60% of H-1B applications submitted by companies on behalf of their employees, up from 46% in 2017 and 28% in 2016, according to a report from the agency (https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/BAHA/non-immigrant-worker-rfe-h-1b-quarterly-data-fy2015-fy2019-q1.pdf).
The agency has more than doubled the instances in which it asks for additional supporting information over the last two years - it made 26,799 such requests in the last quarter of 2016, compared with more than 60,000 in last quarter of 2018.
The application-approval rate for H-1B visas has also plummeted, declining to 76% in the fourth quarter of 2018, compared with 83% in 2017 and 92% in 2016.

More at: https://www.businessinsider.com/more-h-1b-visa-applications-rejected-under-trump-2019-2

[oyarde]

There is no need for these visas .

[kahless]

President Donald Trump's administration has ramped up scrutiny of visas for foreign skilled workers, rejecting more H-1B requests and requiring extra evidence to process thousands of applications, according to government data released Friday.
In the fourth-quarter of 2018, US Citizenship and Immigration Services issued requests for evidence in 60% of H-1B applications submitted by companies on behalf of their employees, up from 46% in 2017 and 28% in 2016, according to a report from the agency (https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/BAHA/non-immigrant-worker-rfe-h-1b-quarterly-data-fy2015-fy2019-q1.pdf).
The agency has more than doubled the instances in which it asks for additional supporting information over the last two years - it made 26,799 such requests in the last quarter of 2016, compared with more than 60,000 in last quarter of 2018.
The application-approval rate for H-1B visas has also plummeted, declining to 76% in the fourth quarter of 2018, compared with 83% in 2017 and 92% in 2016.

More at: https://www.businessinsider.com/more-h-1b-visa-applications-rejected-under-trump-2019-2
+1

https://i.imgur.com/xocUx6t.gif

If this is correct we are making progress.
https://cis.org/North/Newly-Revealed-Statistics-Show-USCIS-Quietly-Nibbling-Away-H1B-Program

H-1B Approval Rates Fall as
More Questions Are Asked, FY 2015-2019
Fiscal Year H-1B
Approvals H-1B Requests
for Evidence
2015 95.70% 27.30%
2016 93.70% 20.80%
2017 92.60% 21.40%
2018 84.50% 38.00%
2019 (first three months) 75.40% 60.00%

Not enough. Cut it to zero.

[kahless]

There is no need for these visas .

That will result in the ultimate destruction of America and any chance of furthering a libertarian like society or individual liberty in our society.

[kahless]

President Donald Trump's administration has ramped up scrutiny of visas for foreign skilled workers, rejecting more H-1B requests and requiring extra evidence to process thousands of applications, according to government data released Friday.
In the fourth-quarter of 2018, US Citizenship and Immigration Services issued requests for evidence in 60% of H-1B applications submitted by companies on behalf of their employees, up from 46% in 2017 and 28% in 2016, according to a report from the agency (https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/BAHA/non-immigrant-worker-rfe-h-1b-quarterly-data-fy2015-fy2019-q1.pdf).
The agency has more than doubled the instances in which it asks for additional supporting information over the last two years - it made 26,799 such requests in the last quarter of 2016, compared with more than 60,000 in last quarter of 2018.
The application-approval rate for H-1B visas has also plummeted, declining to 76% in the fourth quarter of 2018, compared with 83% in 2017 and 92% in 2016.

More at: https://www.businessinsider.com/more-h-1b-visa-applications-rejected-under-trump-2019-2

Here we go backing away from it again and promoting the opposite. Jared Kushner is a cancer in the White House.

Trump Touts Legal Immigration System for ‘Our Corporations’ at Expense of American Workers
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/03/trump-immigration-our-corporations/

Over the last two months, Trump has regularly touted his support for admitting more foreign workers to the country to compete against America’s working and middle class for jobs, a reversal from his commitment in 2015, 2016, and 2017, where he vowed to reduce overall legal immigration levels to boost the wages of U.S. workers.
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Trump’s shift from a wage-boosting legal immigration system to one that benefits corporations and their shareholders concides with recent big business lobby influence over his White House, at the behest of advisers Jared Kushner and Brooke Rollins.
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Increasing legal immigration would cut the job prospects of the at least 13 million working-age Americans who are either unemployed, not in the labor force but want a job, or who are working part-time jobs but want a good-paying full-time job.

Out of those 13 million Americans who are available for U.S. jobs, about 6.5 million are unemployed. Of those unemployed, close to 13 percent are American teenagers who are ready for entry-level U.S. jobs — the exact jobs that low-skilled foreign workers generally tend to take.

About 1.6 million Americans are not in the labor force at all, but they want a job, including about 426,000 discouraged American workers who are demoralized by their job prospects. Also, there are 5.1 million Americans who are working part-time jobs but who want full-time jobs. More than 1.4 million of these U.S. part-time workers said they had looked for full-time jobs but could not find any.

Mass immigration, whether legal or illegal, puts downward pressure on Americans’ wages, researchers have repeatedly noted.

[Swordsmyth]

Here we go backing away from it again and promoting the opposite. Jared Kushner is a cancer in the White House.

Trump Touts Legal Immigration System for ‘Our Corporations’ at Expense of American Workers
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/03/trump-immigration-our-corporations/
He says a lot of different things, we need to keep an eye on him but what he actually does is what matters.

[jon4liberty]

I swear trump will play 6 sides to an issue. Actions are the key part. We still have one of the lowest labor force participation and we want more immigrants??