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Kathianne
02-02-2016, 11:38 AM
As long as legal, right? Don't forget the 'wonderful door':

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/10/28/trump-i-never-criticized-zuckerberg-on-h-1b-visas-its-fine-if-they-come-in/


...He responded, “I’m in favor of people coming into this country legally. And you know what, they can have it anyway you want. You can call it visas. You can call it work permits. You can call it anything you want.” After saying he will create jobs, Trump continued, “As far as Mark is concerned, as far as the visas are concerned, if we need people, it’s fine. They have to come in to this country legally. We have a country of borders. We have a country of laws. We have to obey the laws. It’s fine if they come in, but they have to come in legally.”

http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/02/01/outsourcing-visa-may-hurt-even-more-than-reported/


THE ANTI-AMERICAN VISA“Outsourcing Visa” May Hurt Even More than ReportedJust in time for a primary season that’s highly-charged over the issue of immigration, the H1-B visa is back in the news for facilitating layoffs of American workers. The visa allows companies to bring over tech workers on a visa that gives them no path to citizenship status and ties their presence in the U.S. to their job. This makes the H1-B workers cheaper and more pliable than U.S. workers; furthermore, H1-B workers in the U.S. are often used to pave the way to outright offshoring. We’ve covered (http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/09/30/h-1b-visas-pave-way-for-outsourcing/) H1-B layoffs before, especially before the saga of workers laid off at Disney. But it turns out that due to a legalism present in many contracts, there may be far more affected workers who are not speaking out. ComputerWorld reports (http://www.computerworld.com/article/3027640/it-outsourcing/laid-off-it-workers-muzzled-as-h-1b-debate-heats-up.html):

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jimnyc
02-02-2016, 11:52 AM
I think he spoke up on this issue in the past, with Grassley, back in August.

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Donald Trump Aligns with Iowa’s Chuck Grassley on H-1B Visa Reform

Donald Trump has doubled down on his pledge to crack down on H-1B visa abuses and aligned himself with perhaps the most popular politician in all of Iowa, Senator Chuck Grassley.

The H-1B visa allows companies to replace American tech workers with foreign workers who will accept lower salaries. Some have described the H-1B visa as a form of “indentured servitude” against which no American worker can fairly compete.

A Trump campaign aide told Breitbart News: “The H-1B program should not be abused to replace the American worker–just as people like Senator Chuck Grassley and others have argued.”

Grassley, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has led the effort to reform the H-1B visa program to better protect American workers who are routinely forced out of their jobs in place of less skilled foreign laborers. Grassley’s Judiciary Committee recently held a hearing on the topic after hundreds of workers at Southern California Edison were forced to train their less expensive foreign replacements.

http://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2015/08/18/donald-trump-aligns-with-iowas-chuck-grassley-on-h-1b-visa-reform/

Kathianne
02-02-2016, 03:35 PM
I think he spoke up on this issue in the past, with Grassley, back in August.

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Donald Trump Aligns with Iowa’s Chuck Grassley on H-1B Visa Reform



Donald Trump has doubled down on his pledge to crack down on H-1B visa abuses and aligned himself with perhaps the most popular politician in all of Iowa, Senator Chuck Grassley.

The H-1B visa allows companies to replace American tech workers with foreign workers who will accept lower salaries. Some have described the H-1B visa as a form of “indentured servitude” against which no American worker can fairly compete.

A Trump campaign aide told Breitbart News: “The H-1B program should not be abused to replace the American worker–just as people like Senator Chuck Grassley and others have argued.”

Grassley, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has led the effort to reform the H-1B visa program to better protect American workers who are routinely forced out of their jobs in place of less skilled foreign laborers. Grassley’s Judiciary Committee recently held a hearing on the topic after hundreds of workers at Southern California Edison were forced to train their less expensive foreign replacements.

http://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2015/08/18/donald-trump-aligns-with-iowas-chuck-grassley-on-h-1b-visa-reform/

Well then, he must have changed his mind 2 months later, Oct. of 2015

jimnyc
02-02-2016, 06:02 PM
Well then, he must have changed his mind 2 months later, Oct. of 2015

I don't think so. I think he's always been in favor of the visas. I just think his concern was that the visas weren't used as a means to abuse.