Perhaps the most radical idea in Trump's proposals to limit legal immigration is something he calls "immigration moderation" — a moratorium on giving any green cards to "foreign workers abroad" for a period of time, to force American employers to hire unemployed Americans in the US. Trump doesn't specify if he would put a moratorium on all green cards, or just those issued for employment. If Trump just wants to stop giving people green cards for the purpose of working in the US, that wouldn't be radical at all. It'd just be another minor tweak aimed at high-skilled workers. Very few people living abroad get employment-based green cards right off the bat, and they tend to be exceptionally skilled workers and rich investors.
l*d
3 楼
明显要从严检查 Job Qualification, for AOS-485 process. 大家要小心了。。
上一段: “Rhetorically, Trump's platform focuses on "low-wage workers" being brought to the US by greedy employers. But his specific proposals are squarely aimed at the program Sessions has made his committee's biggest target: the H1-B visa for "high-skilled" immigrant workers. Trump would raise the "prevailing wage" that H1-B workers must be paid, to make it less appealing for employers to hire them. And he would require all employers to "hire American workers first" before seeking visas for immigrant labor. (Some employers seeking visas have to attest that they've jumped through certain hoops to recruit Americans before petitioning for the visa; it's not clear if Trump wants to make this requirement universal, or implement something stricter.)”
I don't think he will actually pause green card process, but it will be hard for him to increase number of greencard, and the OPT extension from Obama might be reversed. H1B and new green card applications will be harder.
【在 d***d 的大作中提到】 : 现在也没变吧。 : 如果绿卡停办,那交了485的也没戏了?
y*i
18 楼
Relax everyone. This is D. Trump we are talking about. He is very unpredictable, and who knows what he will do in the end. There is no use to speculate.
【在 l*********d 的大作中提到】 : 上一段: : “Rhetorically, Trump's platform focuses on "low-wage workers" being brought : to the US by greedy employers. But his specific proposals are squarely : aimed at the program Sessions has made his committee's biggest target: the : H1-B visa for "high-skilled" immigrant workers. : Trump would raise the "prevailing wage" that H1-B workers must be paid, to : make it less appealing for employers to hire them. And he would require all : employers to "hire American workers first" before seeking visas for : immigrant labor. (Some employers seeking visas have to attest that they've : jumped through certain hoops to recruit Americans before petitioning for the
f*s
21 楼
搜到的其中Jeff投票的记录, 对中国移民群体很可怕吗? Voted YES on allowing more foreign workers into the US for farm work. Voted YES on visas for skilled workers. Voted YES on limit welfare for immigrants. This amendment would have restored food stamp benefits to the children of legal immigrants 他否定全面移改,否定给非移social security. 觉得他就是典型支持合法移民反对非 法移民的思路?
【在 f**s 的大作中提到】 : 搜到的其中Jeff投票的记录, 对中国移民群体很可怕吗? : Voted YES on allowing more foreign workers into the US for farm work. : Voted YES on visas for skilled workers. : Voted YES on limit welfare for immigrants. : This amendment would have restored food stamp benefits to the children of : legal immigrants : 他否定全面移改,否定给非移social security. 觉得他就是典型支持合法移民反对非 : 法移民的思路?
d*d
25 楼
拿要是他那么反对移民,还要uscis干吗?那他也就没工作了
【在 x**8 的大作中提到】 : 好像要当department of homeland security的头, : 移民uscis都归他管,
F*n
26 楼
呵呵,你要是仔细看看历史 就不难理解了。这些红脖反对的是亚非拉移民 他们secretly是希望 increase the number of white Christian immigrants from Northern and Western Europe
You sure it's Jeff Session not Jeff Flake? Both are republicans, but Jeff Flake is way more friendlier to immigration than Session.
【在 f**s 的大作中提到】 : 搜到的其中Jeff投票的记录, 对中国移民群体很可怕吗? : Voted YES on allowing more foreign workers into the US for farm work. : Voted YES on visas for skilled workers. : Voted YES on limit welfare for immigrants. : This amendment would have restored food stamp benefits to the children of : legal immigrants : 他否定全面移改,否定给非移social security. 觉得他就是典型支持合法移民反对非 : 法移民的思路?
【在 y******i 的大作中提到】 : You sure it's Jeff Session not Jeff Flake? : Both are republicans, but Jeff Flake is way more friendlier to immigration : than Session.
从赛老的文章摘要几句: Legal immigration is the primary source of low-wage immigration into the United States. What we need now is immigration moderation: slowing the pace of new arrivals so that wages can rise, welfare rolls can shrink and the forces of assimilation can knit us all more closely together. 以下是赛老的全文: Jeff Sessions, a Republican from Alabama, is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s immigration subcommittee. It is time for an honest discussion of immigration. The first “great wave” of U.S. immigration took place from roughly 1880 to 1930. During this time, according to the Census Bureau, the foreign-born population doubled from about 6.7 million to 14.2 million people. Changes were then made to immigration law to reduce admissions, decreasing the foreign-born population until it fell to about 9.6 million by 1970. Meanwhile, during this low-immigration period, real median compensation for U.S. workers surged, increasing more than 90 percent from 1948 to 1973, according to the Economic Policy Institute. In the 1960s, Congress lifted immigration caps and ushered in a “second great wave.” The foreign-born population more than quadrupled, to more than 40 million today. This ongoing wave coincides with a period of middle-class contraction. The Pew Research Center reports: “The share of adults who live in middle-income households has eroded over time, from 61% in 1970 to 51% in 2013.” Harvard economist George Borjas has estimated that high immigration from 1980 to 2000 reduced the wages of lower-skilled U.S. workers by 7.4 percent — a stunning drop — with particularly painful reductions for African American workers. Weekly earnings today are lower than they were in 1973. Yet each year, the United States adds another million mostly low-wage permanent legal immigrants who can work, draw benefits and become voting citizens. Legal immigration is the primary source of low-wage immigration into the United States. In other words, as a matter of federal policy — which can be adjusted at any time — millions of low-wage foreign workers are legally made available to substitute for higher-paid Americans. This federal policy continues at a time when robotics and computerization are slashing demand for workers. One Oxford University professor estimates that as many as half of all jobs will be automated in 20 years. We don ’t have enough jobs for our lower-skilled workers now. What sense does it make to bring in millions more? If no immigration curbs are enacted, the Census Bureau estimates that another 14 million immigrants will come to the United States between now and 2025. That means we will introduce a new population almost four times larger than that of Los Angeles in just 10 years time. The percentage of the country that is foreign-born is on track to rapidly eclipse any previous historical peak and to continue rising. Imagine the pressure this will put on wages, as well as schools, hospitals and many other community resources. It is not mainstream, but extreme, to continue surging immigration beyond any historical precedent and to do so at a time when almost 1 in 4 Americans age 25 to 54 does not have a job. What we need now is immigration moderation: slowing the pace of new arrivals so that wages can rise, welfare rolls can shrink and the forces of assimilation can knit us all more closely together. But high immigration rates help the financial elite (and the political elite who receive their contributions) by keeping wages down and profits up. For them, what’s not to like? That is why they have tried to enforce silence in the face of public desire for immigration reductions. They have sought to intimidate good and decent Americans into avoiding honest discussion of how uncontrolled immigration impacts their lives. But that dam is breaking. The elite consensus is crumbling — and the enforced silence on this critical issue will end.
【在 f**s 的大作中提到】 : 搜到的其中Jeff投票的记录, 对中国移民群体很可怕吗? : Voted YES on allowing more foreign workers into the US for farm work. : Voted YES on visas for skilled workers. : Voted YES on limit welfare for immigrants. : This amendment would have restored food stamp benefits to the children of : legal immigrants : 他否定全面移改,否定给非移social security. 觉得他就是典型支持合法移民反对非 : 法移民的思路?
【在 f**s 的大作中提到】 : 搜到的其中Jeff投票的记录, 对中国移民群体很可怕吗? : Voted YES on allowing more foreign workers into the US for farm work. : Voted YES on visas for skilled workers. : Voted YES on limit welfare for immigrants. : This amendment would have restored food stamp benefits to the children of : legal immigrants : 他否定全面移改,否定给非移social security. 觉得他就是典型支持合法移民反对非 : 法移民的思路?