Comment: “Trump has come out strongly against the H-1B visa again. It seems like someone (Jeff Sessions probably) talked some sense into him. Trump also called on Disney to rehire the workers they replaced with the H1b.”
BNN: The media has been filled with stories about companies flying in low-wage H-1B workers to replace American workers in tech jobs. Adding insult to injury, these American workers have been forced to train their replacements. If you were President, would you put a stop to this practice?
DT: Day one. This is why I got into this race. Because the everyday working person in this country is getting screwed. Lobbyists write the rules to benefit the rich and powerful. They buy off Senators like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79%
to help them get rich at the expense of working Americans by using H-1B visas–so called “high tech” visas–to replace American workers in all sorts of solid middle class jobs. If I am President, I will not issue any H-1B visas to companies that replace American workers and my Department of Justice will pursue action against them.
BNN: Hundreds of workers at Disney were forced to train their foreign replacements. But while Florida Senator Nelson rallied to their cause, Senator Rubio did not. While Nelson has called for an investigation, Rubio has not. While Nelson has called to reduce H-1Bs, Rubio has demanded more. Senator Rubio has been the top promoter in Congress for expanding the H-1B program even though millions American tech workers are out of jobs. Rubio’s new bill triples H-1Bs and has zero protections for American workers. Advocates for tech workers said Rubio’s bill would “destroy” the U.S. tech workforce. Rubio’s bill is even endorsed by the CEO of Disney. What do you think of Rubio’s bill?
DT: It’s a disaster. It would allow any company in America to replace any worker with cheaper foreign labor. It legalizes job theft. It gives companies the legal right to pass over Americans, displace Americans, or directly replace Americans for good-paying middle class jobs. More than 80 percent of these H-1Bs are paid less than the average wage. Senator Rubio works for the lobbyists, not for Americans. That is why he is receiving more money from Silicon Valley than any other candidate in this race. He is their puppet.
BNN: During the debate, Senator Rubio listed several protections he thought American workers should receive. But the New York Times said Rubio’s bill would does the opposite of what he said, and does not contain a single one of the protections he mentioned. Instead, his bill simply triples the number of H-1B visas given as low-wage substitutes to corporations. Does Rubio have a problem with the truth?
DT: Yes, Senator Rubio is incapable of telling the truth. He should be disqualified for dishonesty alone.
BNN: Do you think agree with Senator Rubio that there is a shortage of talented Americans?
DT: Rubio is dead wrong. America produces the best and brightest in the world. It’s time to stand up for own students–many of whom are racked with terrible, terrible debt and facing a disastrous job market. We are graduating two times more students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) than find jobs in those fields every year. We have a surplus of talented Americans and we need them to get jobs first.
BNN: What should happen with the Florida workers who have been replaced?
DT: I am calling TODAY on Disney to hire back every one of the workers they replaced, and I am calling on Rubio to immediately rescind his sponsorship of the I-Squared bill and apologize to every Floridian for endorsing it. I am further calling on Rubio to return the money he has received from Silicon Valley CEOs and to donate the money to a charity helping unemployed Americans whose jobs Rubio has helped to destroy.
Comment to Steve Sailer: At a Nevada rally, Trump came out against H1bs replacing American workers.
He said he’s only for foreign graduates of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford staying. Which seems reasonable. Not because those grads should stay, but because the numbers are trivial enough. The overwhelming majority of H1bs (75%) are non-US graduates. Of the remaining 25% H1bs who graduate from US schools, almost all graduate from tier 2 and tier 3 US universities. The number of foreign Ivy graduates is really small, especially since they have smaller STEM departments.
Published on Oct 29, 2015
Following CNBC’s GOP debate, Donald Trump brought his campaign to The Nugget Casino in Sparks, Nevada, where he will held a rally Thursday afternoon. Donald Trump threw out the idea today that future Republican debate moderators should have to show that they vote Republican. A rally goer at a Trump campaign event in Nevada today asked why they can’t get rid of future debate moderators. A big consensus today is that CNBC came out of yesterday’s debate looking really bad. Trump today said, “These moderators, they’re not big Republican voters… we’re having a Republican debate. Maybe every moderator should show that they vote Republican.” After all, he asked, “why should we have these people that hate everything we stand for?”A group of protesters, complete with a Mariachi band, staged a peaceful protest against Donald Trump outside The Nugget in Sparks Thursday, fearful of Republican presidential candidate’s proposed immigration plans. About 20 protesters, organized by the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, marched on the public sidewalks outside of hotel-casino as a crowd of about 4,000 gathered inside to hear Trump, a leading GOP candidate for president. Trump told the crowd at his rally that he is “No.1 with Hispanics in Nevada” because he would create jobs and get back jobs that have gone to foreign counties. Meanwhile, the protesters said Trump has advocated the massive deportation of undocumented non-citizens back to their nation of origin. Protesters said it would tear apart many Latino families that have undocumented members. “The main message today is about his (Trump’s) extreme and racist anti-immigration views,” said PLAN executive director Bob Fulkerson. “But of course, he would be a disaster on everything else we care about, from clean air, clean water, turning everything over to corporate control. It’s terrifying.” As Fulkerson spoke, a Trump supporter walked by and chanted, “Build a wall, build a wall,” referring to Trump’s past statements that he wanted to partially solve the nation’s illegal immigration problem by building a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico. The protesters did not respond.
* But when polled, “American” citizens consistently prefer lower rates of both legal and illegal immigration. It is the financial, media and cultural elites that push for open borders. Just because our bought and paid for politicians and media clowns support a particular policy, does not mean that “Americans” do not prefer a different policy. It is likely possible that a pollster can come up with a study that shows that a majority of Americans support “comprehensive immigration reform” because the term is effectively meaningless. If the same poll was changed to “Do you support mass amnesty and continued open immigration?” the poll results from “Americans” would be very different.
The Elites do not care about marginal returns on immigration because they are taking the skim from the aggregate increased demand, but any losses are socialized. Goldman Sachs, Walmart and McDonalds do not care about the per capita benefit to American citizens as long as their take from the ever increasing pie keeps increasing. Add in those elites who are actually hostile to American culture and society for ideological reasons, and you have the interested parties that determine our current immigration policy.
* Jeb always had sub-par, sluggish aura about him, it didn’t help that he looked like a special needs adult either.
* That description is very apt, although I would substitute “mental patient” for special needs adult. Every time I look at Jeb Bush, I get the distinct feeling that I’m seeing a middle-aged, high-functioning schizophrenic walking around in a Thorazine fog. That probably is a pretty fair characterization of his actual mental state, come to think of it.
By contrast, I couldn’t help but notice how tall and robust Donald Trump looked last night among the other candidates. Even though Trump is obviously no longer a young man, what with the cotton candy hairdo and the sagging facial skin, he somehow embodies real solidity and determination.
