S386 will IMPROVE DIVERSITY & Wages in tech
S386 is a fairness bill that will make all employment seeking immigrants go through the same process regardless of country birth. This means applying for work visas instead of Employment Based green card as the first step.
Right now the biggest work visa aka H1b is dominated by people from backlogged countries - India followed by China.
Once the fast track green card process disappears immigrants from all countries will be forced to compete for H1b visas which obviously will have the effect of improving diversity! When everyone competes equally economics 101 says wages go up!
Want proof? check out H1b visa stats or read the USCIS pdf link below..
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%2520and%2520Studies/H-1B/h-1b-petitions-by-gender-country-of-birth-fy2018.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwivnM27uuzqAhXEHzQIHTUUDV4QFjAAegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw11OT_aw7ub0GYoUMEWQLeJ
Now there are certain special interest groups, very active on blind which cannot stomach the truth because they lose their fast track path to us citizenship. Notable is the NIAC who cannot bring cheap workers quickly into US due to the US- Iran hostility.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.niacouncil.org/news/coalition-letter-to-u-s-senate-opposing-green-card-bill-that-exacerbates-the-problem/%3Flocale%3Den&ved=2ahUKEwjMybryiM7rAhXXCTQIHR3kDz8QFjABegQIDBAH&usg=AOvVaw2-RCAJ68yaBzojJgymbIn
This particular group has almost everything to lose, so they have tried everything in their power to suppress basic facts and spread lies in a last ditch effort to incite fear and hatred.
Coalition Letter to U.S. Senate Opposing Green Card Bill that Exacerbates the Problem
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Do you know it Only gets blocked by one or two racist or well funded by NIAC senators?!
Nice try downplaying the truth. Now care to state your affiliation?
Not all Indians, but the vast majority of them are just cheating the US immigration system and are incredibly bad at their job simply because a lot of Indians want to run away from they home country. The H1B HAS A FREAKIN LOTTERY to pass, it's totally random!!! If you have 80% of Indians they will steal the place to much better foreign workers just because of numbers!
The real problem with the GC backlog is there is no per-country cap to H1B
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people who will benefit are folks who are:
1. Legally present in US
2. Approved to receive green card by DHS, USCIS and Labor departments!
3. Have been paying taxes in US for decades!
4. Can renew their H1b visas forever!
Many have houses, American kids and have built their lives in USA
At this point their country of birth is as pointless as Obama's country of birth controversy!
Contract workers aren't all the same. Only a small percentage of those in consulting companies manage to make it past the labor stage. Rest are temporary guys who aren't scrutinized the same way as folks applying for permanent residency. If you are wondering who hired such folks look no further than Google home manual testing team or Apple maps. If you are looking to send those folks back home bills like S386 are infact the way to do it. You limit legal immigration and beat consulting companies at their own game with fair market competition.
Side note - I will concede my example was bad because folks with poor reading comprehension see islamophobia.
I should have asked do you fear taking domestic flights post 9/11? You probably don't because you trust DHS. And yet you can't trust them to do background checks right for tech workers?
"For nationals from large migrant-sending countriesโIndia and Chinaโthe numerical limit and per-country
ceiling have created inordinately long waits for employment-based green cards...
It can also disadvantage U.S.
employers, relative to other countriesโ employers, for attracting highly trained workers"
I can't tell if you are supporting S386 or opposing it at this point ๐ง