New law makes it easier for employers to favor immigrants over US citizens

This
article is about HR 3012, a bill to make it much easier for Indian and
Chinese temporary guest workers to get green cards and stay here in jobs
they were given in preference to American workers. 
If this doesn’t sound good to you, better contact your representatives
fast, as this bill is the outcome of 6 years of stealth lobbying and is
being fast-tracked right now.

Is it time for the U.S. to make it easier for
highly skilled foreign nationals — high-level engineers, medical
specialists, research scientists, specialized academics — to enter the
United States for employment? Rep. Jason Chaffetz thinks so. He is a
co-sponsor of the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act (HR 3012),
which would eliminate the current numerical limitation by country
(different countries have different limits) and adjust the limits on
family visas without increasing the total number of available visas.

The numerical caps by country mean that an American business that needs a particular worker may not be able to make the hire.

“The current percentage cap has created a backlog of qualified workers,”
Chaffetz said. “American companies view all highly skilled immigrants
as the same regardless of where they are from, and our immigration
policy should do the same.”

This is a good idea, and long overdue. The per-nation caps on
immigration are relics of a bygone era when most people worked on farms
or in assembly-line factories. High-level skills were of less importance
because it was mainly the Americans who had them.

That is no longer the case. The assumption of the technical superiority
of the American worker is long gone. To continue to thrive, American
businesses need to tap an outside pool. Government needs to get out of
their way.

Subjects:  Immigration, HR 3012, Jason Chaffetz, work visas, skilled workers.

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