Bill Gates says in order to keep talent in America the country must overhaul 'perverse' immigration laws that send educated foreigners home
THE AMNESTY HOAX TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED
AND PASS ALONG THE REAL COST OF MEXICO’S
LOOTING, WELFARE AND CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN
AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS.
“This gain, however, comes at the expense from a total reduction of U.S. workers’ wages per year of $402 billion—this reduction being the consequence of competition from immigrant workers…”
- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates spoke about the 'perverse' Immigration policies in the U.S. that force educated foreigners out of the country
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates spoke about the 'perverse' Immigration policies in the U.S. that force foreigners who were educated here leave the country to get jobs elsewhere.
Gates, who spoke in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum on Friday said that the U.S. still has a 'phenomenal' amount of technological innovation in our country.
Gates also said that in order to keep the talent in America the U.S. needs to fix the immigration system to create jobs around Americans regardless of their country of origin.
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Change immigration: Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates spoke about the 'perverse' Immigration policies in the U.S. that force foreigners who were educated here leave the country
'It is kind of perverse to provide the education and then, even somebody who’s being offered a very high-paying job, they’ve got to go to Canada or back to India,' Gates said Friday on Fox's 'Opening Bell with Maria Barroom.'
Gates also said that in order to keep the future of technology in America the U.S. desperately needs to improve its education system.
Gates mentioned that Common Core, a set of standards for kindergarten through high school, only creates a uniform curriculum that doesn't leave room for new knowledge.
He emphasized that the U.S. needs set standards, 'that are high enough that we are competitive with other countries.'
In addition to Immigration Gates spoke on healthcare in our country and how we spend so much more when compared to other countries.
He said that the healthcare issue is not partisan, rather we should work as one to study why we are not working as efficiently as we could be.
'I’m afraid that we’ve been distracted from the issue of why we spend so much more than others,' he explained.
'This should be a technocratic thing, not a partisan thing, why this system is not working as efficiently as it could.'
Bill gates and his wife Melinda released their annual letter on children's mortality rates and mobile banking as a tool for healthcare and the results are astonishing.
Gates believes that children's mortality rates will be cut in rates by 2030 and that 82.5 billion people will have access to inexpensive financial services through mobile banking.
In addition to talking about how Gates helps to change the world he spoke about the future of Microsoft (MSFT).
The software now has its newest operating system, Windows 10, and also innovation in virtual reality.
OPEN BORDERS AND
ENDLESS HORDES OF IMMIGRANTS POURING IN IS ONLY ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED
To
cite just one example, if there is a shortage of U.S. engineers, are 1.5
million Americans with engineering degrees either unemployed or working in
other fields? In all too many cases, U.S. tech companies prefer foreign workers
on temporary visas because they are cheaper and more exploitable than Americans.
OPEN BORDERS AND
ENDLESS HORDES OF IMMIGRANTS POURING IN IS ONLY ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED
To
cite just one example, if there is a shortage of U.S. engineers, are 1.5
million Americans with engineering degrees either unemployed or working in
other fields? In all too many cases, U.S. tech companies prefer foreign workers
on temporary visas because they are cheaper and more exploitable than Americans.
UNDER OBAMA, TWO-THIRDS
OF JOBS GO TO HIS PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS!
“At
the hearing, Dr. Rakesh Kochar, Associate Director for Research at the Pew
Hispanic Center, testified that in the year following the official end of the
recession (June 2009), foreign-born workers gained 656,000 jobs while
native-born workers lost an additional 1.2 million jobs.”
"We
have a situation where the job market — the bottom fell out, yet we kept legal
immigration relatively high without even a national debate," he said.
"As a consequence, a lot of the job growth has been going to
immigrants."
Mr.
Obama did take action this year to grant many illegal immigrants up to 30 years
of age a tentative legal status that prevents them from being deported and
authorizes them to work in the United States.
Some
Republicans in Congress have criticized Mr. Obama's policy, saying it violates
his powers and will mean more competition for scarce jobs.
THE DEATH OF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS
OBAMA’S WALL STREET DRIVE CRONY CAPITALISM
The Great Recession should have put the victim-blaming theory
of poverty to rest. In the space of only a few months, millions of people
entered the ranks of the officially poor—not only laid-off blue-collar workers,
but also downsized tech workers, managers, lawyers, and other once-comfortable
professionals. No one could accuse these “nouveau poor” Americans of having
made bad choices or bad lifestyle decisions. They were educated, hardworking,
and ambitious, and now they were also poor—applying for food stamps, showing up
in shelters, lining up for entry-level jobs in retail. This would have been the
moment for the pundits to finally admit the truth: Poverty is not a character
failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.
WALL STREET’S LOOTING of AMERICA: Larry Ellison says
under Obama, it couldn’t get any better!
Topping the list was Larry Ellison, the CEO of
Oracle Corporation, a man who exemplifies the social character of the ruling
class and its manner of wealth accumulation.
THE ENTIRE BASIS OF AMNESTY IS TO KEEP WAGES
DEPRESSED.
“Tech tycoons like Larry Ellison
and Mark Zuckerberg have gotten rich while wages in the technology sector have
stagnated.”
Tech firms fight hiring rules in immigration bill
Tech firms fight hiring rules in immigration bill
Americans
would "be shocked to know that most of the H-1B visas … are going to
outsourcing companies," Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said during a recent
hearing.
VISAS
America… NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!
One-way trips to U. S. frustrate immigration authorities
An estimated
4.4 million people entered the country on legal visas and have never left.
Officials often have no way of knowing whether they do.
“Tech tycoons like Larry Ellison and
Mark Zuckerberg have gotten rich while wages in the technology sector have
stagnated.”
Silicon Valley Poverty Is Often Ignored By The Tech Hub's Elite
TECH
GIANT APPLE COMPUTER SAYS HELL NO TO PAYING TAXES and HELL NO TO HIRING
AMERIANS! KEEP THE BOATLOADS OF CHINESE AND INDIANS COMING!
Tech firms fight hiring rules in
immigration bill…. NO AMERICANS NEED APPLY!!!
Americans would "be shocked to know that most
of the H-1B visas … are going to outsourcing companies," Sen. Dick Durbin,
D-Ill., said during a recent hearing.
Story Highlights
- Bill provision that would require
firms to post jobs for Americans is targeted
- Technology firms have spent millions
on lobbying on immigration
- Judiciary Committee set to start
working on bill
WASHINGTON
– Technology firms, exercising new political clout on Capitol Hill, are
lobbying against a measure in the leading Senate immigration bill that would
make it harder for them to recruit workers from abroad without first taking
steps to hire Americans for highly skilled jobs in programming, engineering and
other fields.
The
measure, part of a sweeping compromise bill drafted by a bipartisan group of
eight senators, would require job openings to be posted on a new government
website for 30 days and order companies to first extend job offers to
"equally or better qualified" U.S. workers. It would give the U.S.
Labor Department the power to review and challenge those hiring decisions.
Proponents
say the measures are needed to curb abuses by companies who they say use the
visa program to hire cheaper labor. Technology companies say the proposed rules
would cripple their ability to hire the best employees from a global workforce
and represent inappropriate government intrusion in internal hiring decisions.
The
fight over hiring practices is part of the massive lobbying campaign underway
on the immigration measure and will offer a fresh test of the technology
industry's growing influence in Washington. The companies involved in the
computer and Internet sectors spent nearly $140 million in lobbying last year
-- more than twice the $69 million the industry poured into influencing
Washington a decade earlier, according to data compiled by the Center for
Responsive Politics, which tracks political spending.
The
Senate Judiciary Committee is set to begin work on the bill Thursday.
The
hiring battle centers on the program that grants H-1B visas, which go mostly to
college-educated foreigners in science, technology, engineering and mathematics
fields. Technology companies say they face a chronic shortage of qualified
workers in these fields. The United States sets an annual limit of 85,000 visas
for these companies, and the competition for them is intense: This year, U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services opened up the application process April 1,
and the cap was reached within a week.
Industry
groups have made big gains in the Senate's immigration proposal. The bill, for
instance, Would increase the H-1B cap to 205,000 annually. However, tech
officials warn the new recruiting requirements could drive companies to move
their skilled jobs overseas, rather than comply. A commonly cited example:
Microsoft's decision to open a software center in Vancouver, British Columbia,
after Congress failed to pass immigration legislation in 2007 that would have
significantly increased the number of H-1B visas.
Under
the bill, "employers are going to have an arbitrary government standard
imposed on every hiring decision," said Robert Hoffman, the top lobbyist
for the Information Technology Industry Council, a trade group. The proposed
rule, he said, ignores subjective factors that influence hiring. "A
perfect example: How does one define whether or not someone has the personality
to fit into a corporate culture?" he said.
"We
are not trying to change any of the fundamental policy goals that they are
trying to achieve" in the Senate, Hoffman said. "We are just trying
to tweak it, so that these goals and other goals, like retaining the best and
brightest and growing in the United States, so that those types of goals are
advanced as well."
Ron
Hira, an associate professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of
Technology, has criticized the visa program, saying it allows firms to hire
"cheap indentured labor."
"The
technology industry is asking the government to come in and intervene in the
normal functioning of the U.S. labor market, specifically on their
behalf," Hira said.
Bruce
Morrison, a former Connecticut congressman who lobbies on behalf of a group
that represents American engineers, said the organization will object to any
effort to "dilute worker protections" as the measure moves through
the Senate. "The arguments from the companies is that there aren't any
Americans to take these jobs," he said, "so there shouldn't be any
problem."
The
biggest users of H-1B visas are not brand-name companies, but little-known
staffing companies that provide foreign workers on a temporary basis to U.S.
companies — including banks, health insurance companies and big retailers.
Cognizant, a New Jersey-based company that employs 27,000 people in the USA, is
the top user of the temporary visas, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
records show. Most of its workers come from India.
In addition,
three India-based outsourcing companies rank among the top five recipients of
H-1Bs, according to the federal data.
Americans would "be shocked to know that
most
of the H-1B visas … are going to
outsourcing companies," Sen. Dick Durbin,
D-Ill., one of eight senators who drafted the immigration bill, said during a
recent hearing.
"They're going to these firms, largely in India,
who are
finding workers, engineers, who will
work at low wages in the U.S."
Durbin
is a driving force behind the hiring requirements in the Senate proposal.
The
measure would make business harder for staffing companies dependent on foreign
workers. It would impose higher fees on firms that rely on overseas employees
for more than 30% of their workforce. Starting in 2016, the bill would bar
granting any new temporary visas for foreign workers at companies with more
than half their workers on the visas. Both measures apply to companies that
employ more than 50 people.
Cognizant
spokesman John Procter said he did not have a breakdown on the percentage of
the company's workers in the USA on H-1B visas. He said the bill imposes an
"arbitrary, detrimental restriction on the number of skilled
immigrants."
"It
would really change the way America does business," he said. "The
company is very focused on educating legislators and making sure this language
doesn't make its way into any final outcome."
Cognizant
hired its first federal lobbyist in 2010 andby last year, it had spent nearly
$1 million on federal lobbying, congressional records show. Its team includes
Democratic power broker Heather Podesta, who did not return a telephone call.
Other companies also have stepped up their political activity.
Last
month, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix's Reed Hastings, Google's Eric
Schmidt and other technology executives teamed up to underwrite an advocacy
group to promote their views on immigration. Two of its subsidiaries began a
seven-figure advertising campaign to shore up voter support for key senators in
the immigration debate.
The tech
industry "has clearly come of age," said Ellen Miller, executive
director of the Sunlight Foundation. "In the last decade, we've seen this
tremendous recognition from Silicon Valley of the need to play in the power
circles — to both protect their bottom line and to alter the political scene to
their advantage."
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