Trump misses the point with Immigration rationale

[Possum577]

http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/17/news/companies/donald-trump-mark-zuckerberg-immigration/index.html?iid=surge-toplead-dom

Trump released his immigration plan today, calling out Tech Sector CEOs that have lobbied for more H-1B visas (so they can hire more foreign works as engineers and such.) Trump wants to require the Tech companies to pay these workers MORE money, with his rationale being that the companies won't pony up the required high salary and higher cheaper domestic labor instead.

Trump says that there are plenty of graduates with degrees in science, technology, engineering and math, known as STEM, to fill tech jobs. That means that employers don't need H-1B visas to fill jobs, and are using them instead to keep wages low.

The tech sector keeping salaries low for H-1B visa employees? Uhhh, the exact opposite is happening! Every tech worker in Silicon Valley is making loads of money, much more than the average. H-1B visas aren't keeping wages low, they're keeping competitive advantage high for American technology companies!

[saddampbuh]

think its this sort of thing he's trying to avoid from happening:

While families rode the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and searched for Nemo on clamobiles in the theme parks, these workers monitored computers in industrial buildings nearby, making sure millions of Walt Disney World ticket sales, store purchases and hotel reservations went through without a hitch. Some were performing so well that they thought they had been called in for bonuses.

Instead, about 250 Disney employees were told in late October that they would be laid off. Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers, who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India. Over the next three months, some Disney employees were required to train their replacements to do the jobs they had lost.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html