Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she will introduce a bill to end H-1B visas, which allow companies to bring skilled foreign workers, days after Donald Trump backed the program.
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she will introduce a bill to end H-1B visas, which allow companies to bring skilled foreign workers, days after Donald Trump backed the program.
H-1B visas are how our universities fill crucial teaching roles. Ending them would be disastrous to American higher education.
I had an H1-B for three years. I was one of thousands of PhDs who brought expertise to US labs. US biomedical research is primarily driven by H1-Bs because very few in the US can afford to be scientists with the cost and debt levels of US education. So, the best and brightest in US universities head to Wall street to steal money.
I was offered a US permanent position and a J-1 Visa. Three years was enough for me.
Perhaps there could be a better way to fill those crucial teaching roles?
LOL. With Americans educated in schools who prioritize sports teams? Good luck with that.
Here’s the problem with that, when your university is trying to hire the foremost expert in (field of study) and they are not from the US, that means there isn’t an American that can fill that role. H-1B visas are how that gets done. Why would you hire less than the best?
You need a professional degree or Masters or PhD to qualify for H1-B, with a job offer. i.e. no one who ever voted for MTG has ever been effected by an H1B visa holder.
Force the university to pay 10x the mean salary. That way the university is disincentivized to abuse the program. If he is truly the foremost expert in whatever field, then his salary should be a drop in the bucket compared to the grants he will need to actually do his research and it shouldn’t be a big deal.
Do you understand that universities have to compete to get these people as it is? Go back to stacking boxes man
Some of them sure, but more often then not they hire adjunct professors, or use graduate students on visa’s to ensure they don’t have to pay tenured professors. I say if your employee is on a visa, 10x salary is the minimum. don’t want to pay 10x salary? Well America is a large place with lots of people that are unemployed and over-educated, so maybe try to give-back to the society that you rely on.
To this administration, that would be a feature not a bug.
Maybe the visas should be tailored to only that, then. Or come up with a specialist visa meant entirely for that.
As is, they are also used by IT bros…