Do We Really Need So Many Foreign Tech Workers?... Americans don't usually think of technical professionals as "guest workers," yet at any one time, there are more than a half-million foreigners holding tech jobs in the U.S. They are here thanks to the H-1B visa program. H-1B, so the official
The H-1B Program Facilitates Blatant Racial Discrimination... Suppose there was a large, U.S. government-operated program that permitted U.S. employers to hire nothing but White Anglo Saxon Protestant (WASP) college-graduate men between the ages of 22 and 30.Suppose that program, more narrowly, allowed major U.S. employers to discriminate in favor of
Policy Limiting Staffing Companies’ H-1B Access May Be Scrapped... A coalition of anti-American citizen information technology staffing companies that rely on H-1B visas is moving forward with a lawsuit over agency policy. A federal judge in New Jersey refused to throw out the case, a move that the Small and Medium Enterprise Consortium’s attorney is calling a win
H-1B visas: The Bay Area's non-tech employers seek foreign workers, too... More than 5,600 Bay Area companies applied for H-1B visas in fiscal year 2018, according to data from the Department of Labor. And though the majority were tech companies seeking engineers, developers and programmers, including more than 70,600 software developers, the department’s data shows that
Trump to Offer Deal on Dreamers in Exchange for Border Funds... President Donald Trump will offer Democrats a deal that would extend protections for so-called Dreamers by three years in exchange for $5.7 billion in funds he is seeking for a border barrier, according to a person familiar with the proposal.Trump will an