{"id":78026,"date":"2015-10-29T18:41:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T02:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78026"},"modified":"2015-10-29T18:50:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T02:50:18","slug":"donald-trump-rights-ship-on-immigration-demands-disney-rehire-workers-replaced-by-cheap-foreign-labor-calls-rubio-silicon-valleys-puppet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78026","title":{"rendered":"DONALD TRUMP RIGHTS SHIP ON IMMIGRATION: DEMANDS DISNEY REHIRE WORKERS REPLACED BY CHEAP FOREIGN LABOR, CALLS RUBIO \u2018SILICON VALLEY\u2019S PUPPET\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.”<\/p>\n

BNN<\/a>: 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?<\/p>\n

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%
\nto help them get rich at the expense of working Americans by using H-1B visas\u2013so called \u201chigh tech\u201d visas\u2013to 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s new bill triples H-1Bs and has zero protections for American workers. Advocates for tech workers said Rubio\u2019s bill would \u201cdestroy\u201d the U.S. tech workforce. Rubio\u2019s bill is even endorsed by the CEO of Disney. What do you think of Rubio\u2019s bill?<\/p>\n

DT: It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

BNN: During the debate, Senator Rubio listed several protections he thought American workers should receive. But the New York Times said Rubio\u2019s 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?<\/p>\n

DT: Yes, Senator Rubio is incapable of telling the truth. He should be disqualified for dishonesty alone.<\/p>\n

BNN: Do you think agree with Senator Rubio that there is a shortage of talented Americans?<\/p>\n

DT: Rubio is dead wrong. America produces the best and brightest in the world. It\u2019s time to stand up for own students\u2013many 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.<\/p>\n

BNN: What should happen with the Florida workers who have been replaced?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Comment to Steve Sailer<\/a>: At a Nevada rally, Trump came out against H1bs replacing American workers.<\/p>\n

He said he\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Published on Oct 29, 2015
\nFollowing CNBC\u2019s 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\u2019t get rid of future debate moderators. A big consensus today is that CNBC came out of yesterday\u2019s debate looking really bad. Trump today said, \u201cThese moderators, they\u2019re not big Republican voters\u2026 we\u2019re having a Republican debate. Maybe every moderator should show that they vote Republican.\u201d After all, he asked, \u201cwhy should we have these people that hate everything we stand for?\u201dA 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\u2019s 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 \u201cNo.1 with Hispanics in Nevada\u201d 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. \u201cThe main message today is about his (Trump\u2019s) extreme and racist anti-immigration views,\u201d said PLAN executive director Bob Fulkerson. \u201cBut 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\u2019s terrifying.\u201d As Fulkerson spoke, a Trump supporter walked by and chanted, \u201cBuild a wall, build a wall,\u201d referring to Trump\u2019s past statements that he wanted to partially solve the nation\u2019s illegal immigration problem by building a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico. The protesters did not respond.<\/p>\n