More than 345,000 visas for high-skilled employment immigration were awarded in 2016 under the H-1B program, over four times the legal cap of 85,000, a new report from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) has found.
Additionally, among the top 20 H-1B requesting firms, those which were "H-1B dependent" (i.e., more than 15 percent of employees were H-1B recipients) paid their immigrant employees less on average and employed fewer immigrants with at least master's degrees, lending credence to accusations that some firms were using the program to crowd out U.S. citizens.
The H-1B program issues visas to certain high-skilled workers, primarily those with at least bachelor's degrees in fields that require complex, specific skills, like engineering or computer science. According to MPI's analysis of newly released data from U.S. Customs and Immigration Services, the majority of those petitioning for an H-1B visa are from India, with additional large numbers of applicants from China.
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How about some training programs for American citizens!
ReplyDeleteThere are a gazillion of them. It's called going to college or entering a vocational program.
DeleteHow many no-skills visas are awarded? How many going-straight-to-welfare visas are awarded?
ReplyDeleteAnd the people of the U.S. are wondering how all these other countries are taking, stealing, hacking. Hell, we are bringing them here to do it and giving them FREE schooling. There is no Russian Collusion. It is U.S. Collusion!!!! Another Democratic trick to watch and control people. Where is people's COMMON SENSE???
ReplyDeleteAny college grads with the needed skills who can't find a job shuold be up in arms about this crap.
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