Thursday, October 03, 2019

Sen. Mike Lee vs. American Kids

Mike Lee (R-Utah) is pushing a No-Limits immigration bill for computer programmers.  (This is the bill Durbin (D-Ill) put a hold on a couple of days ago.)

So if your kid (or grandchild) paid $80K or more for a degree in I.T., they can pay off that college debt with a nice job at McDonald's.  At the grill.

Census data shows that one-in-seven software developers in Hudson County, New York, were born in the United States, down from a six-in-seven share in 1980.

This wholesale replacement of American software experts by foreigners — mostly by Indian visa workers — is repeated in many counties across the United States, according to 2017 federal census data analyzed by R. Davis, a software developer in Silicon Valley....
The trend is spreading into other sectors, including accounting, health care, and design because U.S. investors and Indian firms are cooperating to transfer many professional-grade jobs to India and the payroll savings to Wall Street.

In 2017, American-born programmers were just one-in-four software employees in Santa Clara, California, down from four-in-five in 1980.

Just one-in-three software developers in Richmond County, NY, were born in the United States. One-third of the workers in Forsyth County, GA; McLean County, IL; and in San Bernardino County, CA, in 2017 were American-born.

Americans comprise only four-in-ten programmers in Bergen County, TN; in Loudoun County, VA; in Broward County, FL; and in Denton County, TX....
And as we mentioned earlier, Kohl's employs 456 non-US citizens in its data center in Menomonee Falls, WI.

That's because they're really grateful to Milwaukee, where they got their start.

Some gratitude!

Meantime, Lee is spraying the foo-foo dust like crazy, hoping that you won't notice.  Lee runs his mouth about "no change to H-1B"--but....

...Lee’s statement hides the reality that his bill offers many more green cards to many more Indian graduates if they use other visa programs to take many more jobs from American graduates...
This is no different than the Great Offshoring of Manufacturing.  "Yes, you can buy stuff cheaper.  Too bad you don't have a job so you can buy it, eh?"

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