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As most economists have pointed out, illegal immigrants mostly do work Americans won't do. They are, in fact, vital to the American economy. So visas should be granted far more freely. Certainly the agriicultural, construction, and services industries think so. And unlike now, workers shouldn't be tied to one employer. That's why employers love the H-1B program as it now stands. Those workers can't look for jobs elsewhere. That goes double for abusive employers like Musk. And, of course, if right wingers were serious about stopping illegal immigration, they would campaign to make it a felony to hire undocumented aliens. But they want to have their cake and eat it too. And so far, they're doing just that.

Not necessarily professors although some may teach as part of their duties. EB-2 A permanent visa that leads to a Green Card. It usually requires a job offer, but there is an exception for the NIW subcategory. EB-1 A first preference employment-based visa for foreign nationals who demonstrate extraordinary ability in their field. Qualifying areas include science, arts, education, business, or athletics. https://www.google.com/search?q=what+visas+do+highly+skilled+workers+get+to+work+in+the+usa&oq=what+visas+do+highly+skilled+workers+get+to+work+in+the+usa&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTEyMTEzajBqNKgCALACAQ&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Generally, US. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) grants H-2A classification for 10 months or less, at which time the worker returns to his or her home country. If the employer would like the worker to return for work the following year, the employer can request that USCIS renew the visa. https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/archive/doc/migration/H-2A_Fact_Sheet8.6.pdf At World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin, on Thursday, a coalition of dairy farmers and advocacy groups, including the American Business Immigration Coalition, held a press conference to demand the passage of a Senate bill that would legalize the nation's immigrant agricultural workforce in year-round jobs. By some estimates, 80% of the labor on Wisconsin dairy farms is now performed by immigrants. Most of them are undocumented, since there is no visa program for year-round low-skilled agricultural jobs. https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2022/10/07/dairy-farmers-demand-year-round-visa-for-immigrant-workers/#:~:text=At World Dairy Expo in,workforce in year-round jobs.

I see all you can offer is a denial without reasoning. Trump was clearly incensed by Disney firing workers. Are you really maintaining that he believed that these were agricultural laborers. And it's funny. First you declare that no other quotes are eligible to be cited, and now you claim that my argument is invalidated because I didn't cite them. Once again, explain to me how Trump believed that the workers Disney fired were agricultural laborers. Anyway, even though it's unnecessary, here are some more quotes for you "Many mothers across this country are worried their kids won't find jobs, and they are right to be worried. One of the biggest threats is outsourcing jobs for college-educated kids are being sent to other countries," the 70-year-old reality TV star told cheering supporters in Cincinnati, Ohio." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/default-subsec/budget/donald-trump-vows-to-create-25-mn-jobs-for-americans-rakes-up-h-1b-visa-issue-again/articleshow/54850487.cms?from=mdr "At the same time, companies are importing low-wage workers on H-1B visas to take jobs from young college-trained A .. Read more at: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/default-subsec/budget/donald-trump-vows-to-create-25-mn-jobs-for-americans-rakes-up-h-1b-visa-issue-again/articleshow/54850487.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst Trump has also vowed to end the H-1B visa program that allows US employers to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations for a period of time. He said: “I know the H1-B very well.We shouldn’t have it, it’s very, very bad for workers.” “It’s unfair to our workers and we should end it.” https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/donald-trump-s-most-controversial-quotes-from-his-campaign-trail-116052700503_1.html

First off, what's with the irrelevant comment about Kamala? You just throwing stuff out and hoping something sticks? And those elite universities you slam draw the best and brightest from around the world. Maybe you think coming up with a generic example constitutes some kind of valid evidence. And even then your example is a bad ones since brilliant programmers, engineers and researchers don't need H-1B visas to get into the United States. There are other visas for that. And maybe you're so infatuated with corporations that you believe that they won't try to save money any way they legally can. How H-1B visas have been abused since the beginning https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-h-1b-visas-have-been-abused-since-the-beginning/ What's really funny about this is that enforcement of the H-1B visa program depends on government workers. The same workers that right wingers routinely malign. Or, magically, in this case are they the good guys ? The same workers That Elon Musk is now gunning for. Maybe you believe that Musk, a notoriously abusive employer, is way too principled to let self-interest govern his decisions? It is to laugh.

First, define small. I know that if 42 percent of my income came from a certain source, I wouldn't think that was small. I doubt that an employer who had 42 percent of his workers being illegal aliens would call that a small number. Second, in a way you may be right. There may well be a lot more illegal aliens working outside the agricultural industry than in it. The construction industry for one.

In the mind of riclag, posing for photos is proof of criminal conduct.

That's actually the gist oif what Scott Tracy wrote.

Typical display of ignorance. After the Inspector General of the Justice Dept did an investigation and found political prejudice played no part in the Justice Dept's investigation of Trump, both William Barr, the Attorny General, and John Durham publicly released statements in writing that showed they didn't accept the IG's conclusion. The 2 of them spent a couple of years trying to prove otherwise. Barr and Durham even met weekly. Barr actually accompanied Durham to Italy to put pressure on Italian intelligence agencies to dig up dirt. (All that got them was some info that suggested that Trump may have been involved with organized crime.) The only 2 cases that Durham managed to come up on his own with were charges that 2 persons had lied to the FBI. In other words, the FBI may have been duped according to Durham (and Barr), but there was no malign intent on their part. As for the 2 people Durham prosecuted, they were both acquitted in what most legal experts called a case based on remarkably flimsy evidence.

It's funny. One member here cited the $40,000 payment James Biden made to Joe Biden after he received some money from China. Even though it has been repeatedly documented that it was repayment of a loan. These people are fact-proof. They don't seem to understand that you need to predicate such vague allegations. to set or ground on something. : find a basis for usually used with on [if Mary's claim is predicated simply on John's duty of support "W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al."] [pre-di-kət] adj : relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated [a act] [a crime] https://dictionary.findlaw.com/definition/predicate.html#:~:text=%3A to set or ground on,a act] [a crime]

The cows still have to be milked every day morning and evening. Dairy farmers largely have not been able to use H-2A visas because the current program is limited to the temporary and seasonal labor needs of agricultural employers. The current H-2A program simply isn’t an option for a commodity that “harvests” its product multiple times a day, every day. The Cuellar-Newhouse bipartisan amendment to this year’s homeland security appropriations bill would allow farm employers to use the H-2A visa program to hire foreign workers, regardless of whether those employees are engaged in temporary or seasonal work. https://www.lancasterfarming.com/farming-news/news/opinion-dairy-farmers-need-year-round-h-2a-employees/article_df1606ea-e567-51a5-b92d-a78bcb561e45.html

More nonsensical sloganeering about wokeness and DEI. H-1B visas are not for the highly advanced kind of workers that MIT and other elite universities produce. But what they do offer is cheaper and captive labor. Captive because they are tied to one employer. You think employers don't want to take advantage of that captivity? And as for the workers elite universities do produce, you might ask yourself why the most economically dynamic and advanced parts of the US economy are clustered where those universities are located.

H-2A visas are for seasonal agricultural work. Dairy farming is a year round operation.

There's a definite positive correlation between having a trigger finger on the ignore button and ignorance. Keep it clueless, cowboy!

This is an informal forum. No reason to cite unimportant spelling errors and solecisms. Also, for many members here, English is not their first language. blaze master may be one of them.

In some agricultural fields, like dairy, the percentage is over 50%. Probaby well over. Which makes sense given the constricted lifestyle that dairy farming demands. "UW-Madison estimates that more than 10,000 immigrants without legal status perform 70 percent of the labor on Wisconsin dairy farms. “This industry only thrives because of mostly Latin American immigrant labor, with the vast majority of these folks having an unauthorized immigration status,” Ibarra said. “Everybody knows it. It’s an open secret.” https://www.wpr.org/news/immigrants-economic-tax-contributions-wisconsin

Shared ownership, anyone? Elon Musk's secret Elon Musk's secret conversations with Vladimir Putin Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a linchpin of U.S. space efforts, has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022. The discussions, confirmed by several current and former U.S., European and Russian officials, touch on personal topics, business and geopolitical tensions. https://archive.ph/GT5x2#selection-5915.0-5919.156

Actually, I don't even need to introduce a new quotation from Trump to negate your point. Here is the quote again: "The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay. I remain totally committed to eliminating rampant, widespread H-1B abuse and ending outrageous practices such as those that occurred at Disney in Florida when Americans were forced to train their foreign replacements. I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program." https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-donald-j-trump-position-visas Ya think Trump believed that Disney was using agricultural visas to force its American gardeners to train foreign replacements? Not even Trump could be that benighted.

What predictions were those? I made no predictions about the outcome of the election. In fact I explicitly and repeatedly said before the election that I wasn't making a prediction. But, since you made the claim, provided evidence to prove that I'm misstating my stance.

They also know that he won the election in 2020. And he probably did in whatever alternate universe they get their info from.

Once again you offer no evidence or reasoning. You've got nothing.

You clearly haven't a clue about how the international oil market works. The US is already producing record amounts of petroleum and the price of petroleum has stagnated. Executives of oil companies drilling in America have made it very clear that they don't want to increase production because if they do, and this probably comes as a surprise to you, if there's more supply than demand prices tend to go down. And right now the price of a barrel of oil is already very close to the breakeven point for American producers.

You're seriously claiming that it's irrelevant to point out that the people who are trying to cut benefits in the name of lowering deficits are also cutting taxes? It is to laugh.

As your comment demonstrates, the mentality of a five year old can be found among right-wingers.

And here's a link to the transcript https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/James-Biden-Transcript.pdf which needs to be copied and pasted.