Wednesday, October 28, 2015

H1B Visas are an legitiamte issue with American labor.

Zuckerberg (click here) is one of the leading tech executives who has called for a more open immigration policy. Specifically, he wants to make more H-1B visas available to tech employers so they can hire foreign skilled workers.

Trump said he wants to require employers to pay H-1B workers much more money, which he said would discourage companies from hiring them and boost job prospects for Americans. He also wants to have tech jobs offered to unemployed Americans before they can be filled by workers with H-1B visas.

"This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg's personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities," Trump wrote in his immigration plan. Rubio is also seeking the Republican nomination for president.... 

Mark Zuckerberg might be an interesting study in H1B Visas, but, his focus is on foreign workers for some reason. I doubt he is focused on asking for influence in a criminal way. 

Mark Zuckerberg (click here) made a donation of $5 million to a college fund for undocumented immigrants.
The Facebook CEO and his wife, Priscilla Chan, gave the money to the "I'm In" campaign launched by TheDream.us, a national scholarship fund for undocumented immigrants...

It is my guess Marco Rubio's bill to H1B Visas is more about CAFTA.  Wow, there is a lot of 'stuff' going on with CAFTA-DR (Dominican Republic). There was a study done in 2013 about the abuses that have occurred because abuses of the law. There is no enforcement.

This is a picture of a sugar worker in the Dominican Republic. If the USA is going to have trade laws that rob wages from the American people, they need to know it isn't just the American people that are victims to trade laws.

Andrés Michel, 75, (click here) lost an eye cultivating cane meant for the sugar company Central Romana. He still works the fields.

This report responds to U.S. Submission 2011-03 (click here) (Dominican Republic), filed by Father Christopher Hartley on December 22, 2011, with the Office of Trade and Labor Affairs (OTLA) of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs. The submission alleges violations of the Labor Chapter of the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), which has been in force between the United States and the Dominican Republic since March 2007....

Rubio pushed through US - Columbia Free Trade Agreement (click here) almost from the first day as a US Senator. I am sure his H1B Visa bill is more of the same.