Hillary Urged Increase in H1B Visas:

[amborin]

The New Zealand Herald

June 1, 2007 Friday

Hillary Clinton's hi-tech sales pitch

Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton has been in Silicon Valley trying to cosy up to America's hi-tech sector (), which she believes needs to "hit the restart button on the 21st century".

Lame slogans aside, Hillary is making a clever move. The US IT industry grew rapidly during the presidency of tech-friendly Bill Clinton and like Hollywood the IT sector has a more liberal bent, especially with the latest boom in user-generated internet services.
The last few years have been characterised by a lot of valuable IT work being outsourced to cheaper countries like India and the IT skills shortage has hit the US reasonably hard.

Hillary dangled a fairly big carrot in front of Silicon Valley executives today in the form of increased R&D funding, more IT training and a relaxation of Visa conditions designed to make it easier for foreign software engineers to work in the Valley for longer. Already, over half of Silicon Valley software engineers are foreign born.

Her bag of tech goodies includes:


- Increase the number "H1B" visas to attract more highly skilled workers from overseas.

[antigop]

1. Hillary Clinton reaffirms support for more H-1B visas

[antigop]

2. April, 2014...Hillary pushes for an increase in the H-1b visa limit

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2014/04/08/hillary-clinton-comes-to-san-francisco-talks-tech-immigration-and-whether-shell-run-for-office/

Hillary Clinton came to San Francisco Tuesday and filled the house at a marketing conference, where she was the keynote speaker. Clinton discussed topics ranging from immigration reform and Vladimir Putin’s misdeeds to incorporating social media in the State Department and instilling a willingness at the Department to take risks.
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Asked by Marketo’s Fernandez about how she would deal with the shortage of H-1B visas, which tech companies rely in to bring in non-U.S. workers such as computer engineers, she suggested thinking longer term and working with colleges –using cash from Silicon Valley – to train people in the U.S. to fill those jobs, while in the shorter term pressing for more H-1B visas.

[bigwillq]

3. Kick (nt)

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. It's nice that people are standing with Hillary, despite her refusal to reciprocate.

She's clearly not working for us.

[Mufaddal]

7. Given that roughly half of the country's working class stands with the Republicans

despite their refusal to reciprocate, this can't be terribly surprising either.

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. I used "nice" because "gullible" arguably isn't civil. n/t

[djean111]

5. This affected me, and my friends, directly.

Not ever voting for that. And the "more skilled" thing is total bullshit. Totally bullshit.
But maybe that is the objective for keeping college costs high, eh?

[Faux pas]

6. And the hits just keep on comin'.

She is not one of us, she is not for any of us, we are soooo beneath her.

[AzDar]

9. Ayup. Hillary is part of the problem, not part of the solution...

[hollysmom]

10. yep I was laid off to be replaced wth an H-1B visa person.

as was my most of my staff. They kept a few people to continue the work.

[libtodeath]

11. Where are her defenders on this thread?

[amborin]

12. Fury & Fear Over this in Ohio:

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Fury and fear in Ohio as IT jobs go to India

IT workers are training their replacements

Patrick Thibodeau By Patrick Thibodeau Follow

Computerworld | Nov 9, 2015 3:03 AM PT

IT Outsourcing


The IT workers at Cengage Learning in the company's Mason, Ohio offices learned of their fates game-show style. First, they were told to gather in a large conference room. There were vague remarks from an IT executive about a "transition." Slides were shown that listed employee names, directing them to one of three rooms where they would be told specifically what was happening to them. Some employees were cold with worry.

The biggest group, those getting pink slips, were told to remain in the large conference room. Workers directed to go through what we'll call Door No. 2, were offered employment with IT offshore outsourcing firm Cognizant. That was the smallest group. And those....

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Offshore outsourcing is having "a fairly strong impact" on IT employment, said Janulaitis. Students coming out of college are facing trouble starting a career "and a lot of that is driven by jobs that are taken by non-U.S. nationals in our economy, and a lot of that is H-1B [visa holders]," he said.

"Why are we talking about more H-1B visas for people when we have people who are unemployed?" said Janulaitis.

The IT offshore industry relies heavily on H-1B workers to deliver services, and large offshore firms, both in the U.S. and in India, are the largest users of this temporary, non-immigrant, work visa. The issue is getting a little more attention in the unfolding 2016 presidential contest, but it remains to be seen whether this attention will have any impact. ....

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http://www.computerworld.com/article/3002681/it-outsourcing/fury-and-fear-in-ohio-as-it-jobs-go-to-india.html