President Donald Trump said on his second day in office that the U.S. government should allow companies to import “talented” workers, from waiters to engineers.
At a White House press conference introducing talks with three major investors, he was asked: Want to get one? ”
“I like both arguments,” Trump responded, implicitly acknowledging the growing backlash among middle-class supporters of H-1B and other white-collar immigration programs. He continued:
But I also like that very talented people come to this country. I don't want to stop doing it, even if it involves training or helping other people who may not have the same qualifications as them. [bringing in people] I'm not just talking about engineers. I'm talking about people at all levels.
We want talented people to come to this country. As for H-B1, I am familiar with the program. use the program [to bring in] This includes managers, wine experts, and even waiters, quality waiters. We have to attract the best people.
Well, you go to people like Larry [Ellison, CEO of Oracle]he needs an engineer and a massa [Masayoshi Son, CEO of Softbank] needs [engineers] and this gentleman [Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI] Just like no one needed engineers before, we still need engineers, right? Therefore, we must attract high-quality human resources.
In doing so, we grow our business and value everyone [ordinary Americans]. I mean, I've been on both sides of this debate, but what I really feel is that we have to get really talented people, great people, to come to this country. [H-1B] program.
Notably, President Trump did not call for an expansion of the massive and unpopular H-1B program, but he also did not suggest cuts that would boost hiring of young American professionals.
President Trump's comments about waiters are likely referring to the employment of H-2B service workers.
His strong support for “qualified” legal immigration also differs greatly from his instinctive opposition to unregulated illegal immigration across the southern border. The left-wing district attorney said, “What we're looking for is… [illegal migrant] Murders, people who are killing everyone,” he said at the same meeting with reporters, adding:
But we are driving them out of the country. I just started it. drive them out of the country. They will be kicked out of the country soon. They entered the country illegally from prisons and detention centers. they killed many people. Some of them killed many people. About 50 percent of them killed more than one person. They were released into our country. That's what we focus on.
Kevin Lin, founder of U.S. Tech Workers, said President Trump's zigzag rhetoric on legal immigration reflects how quickly the issue has become more prominent as white-collar professionals organize politically. He said that it shows that it is happening.
The debate over white-collar and mixed-skill H-1B immigration exploded over Christmas, and “forces people to look at employment visas with the right nuances and in the right way,” Lin said.
This country will always need talented citizens and talented immigrants. But these employment visa programs and the whole legal immigration system aren't producing that, so they need to be completely remade. I believe that is where we will ultimately end up. So over the next year, we're going to see gradual changes…building toward a major culmination of meaningful reforms that put Americans first.
The number of white-collar occupations is increasing. [political] Zigzag,” Lin said.
Since Christmas, many American professionals have been talking about the influx of low-wage, mixed-skill Indian and Chinese visa workers into their jobs, companies, and careers. . For example, more than 70 percent of Silicon Valley's workforce is now Indian or Chinese, as immigration has enabled two generations of innovative American professionals to earn citizenship, a government-funded gold medal. This is because they have been replaced by the deported Indian labor force working in India.
Most U.S. professionals have lost their jobs to crony Indian managers and workers imported through the H-1B visa program by corporate investors focused on short-term stock price gains.
“I think if you find something, [technical problem] Please raise this issue immediately,” an American expert told Breitbart News. But he said the rules were different in a Silicon Valley office run by an Indian manager.
“One of the biggest troubles we had with Indian was when we found a bug, and clearly our device was the cause of the problem,” he said. So when he announced the news in a department email, the Indian manager “became indifferent, yelled at me in the conference room and called me the worst engineer,” he said.
The lesson for Americans working in Indian offices, he said, is this:
If you find a bug, please don't announce it [to your department colleagues]. please announce it to you [Indian] boss [because] They want to be sure it's not their problem or bug. Don't go through the normal process.
“Most of the managers are Indian now, so it's very difficult for Americans to get hired over there…If you go into a room of 30 people, 15 to 17 of them are Indian,” he said, adding He added:
they are all from the same area [in India]they all know each other and play together…Indians are a very, very close-knit group. They automatically know the caste system…those at the bottom know to flatter those of the caste above them.
Not surprisingly, many U.S. companies have been ruined by investors' stock-focused decisions to rely on cheaper, inferior Indian labor.
As Chinese companies produce market-leading electric vehicles, American companies lose innovation. AI softwarehandheld mobile phoneand 5G communication More advanced equipment than what US companies offer.
