Breitbart reports that "India Demands Migrant Visas for Job-Seekers in Trade Talks." Basically India wants the U.S. to ease access for Indians seeking to take jobs from Americans.
The reports suggested that India’s government wants to expand the one million-plus population of Indian graduates who are now in the white-collar jobs needed by Americans. Each year, at least 400,000 additional Indians arrive to work U.S. white-collar jobs legally or illegally, so pushing a huge number of American graduates into lower-tier jobs, such as coffee barista.
But Indians may also want to send more low-wage workers into U.S. jobs via the H-2A, H-2B, B-1, and M-1 visas for trade school students. Many Indian migrants use B-1 tourist visas to work as illegal truckers and cargo handlers on U.S. freeways.
The article goes on to note:
“Any U.S. trade deal that links market access to more visas is a bad bargain for American workers,” said a September 24 note from U.S. Tech Workers.
Many skilled U.S. graduates are unable to secure career-starting jobs amid the current Indian migration.
The article indicates that it is unlikely that the Administration will agree to special accommodations for Indian immigrants. Particularly, as Breitbart reports elsewhere, "[a] September poll of white-collar professionals shows that 56 percent of U.S. citizens say the huge H-1B visa-worker program is transferring their jobs and careers to white-collar migrants."
- Related: RodeoProfessor on X: "My college students want seasonal work in ski resorts but all the resort labor is now imported on J-1. Old timers always talk about how much fun ski bum lifestyle was for them when they were kids, but it’s not open to American kids anymore." There are a lot of jobs that used to be entries to the work force for American teens that are no longer available or in short supply because of foreign workers taking those jobs.
No. Send them all home. Right now 22% of Indians want to come to the United States. We don't need 400 million Indians. We don't need 4 million.
ReplyDeleteLiberals should agree. The brain drain on countries like India is a horrible remnant of colonialism. As one article explains, "what many people don’t realize is that [the brain drain] often affects human rights. Immigration policies in high labor-demand economies that actively attract skilled workers impose huge training costs on source countries. These costs undermine social services and therefore many economic and social rights." We cannot let this continue to hurt India and other undeveloped countries. Stop the brain drain!
DeleteI'll remember to use that :)
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