More stupid fake news...except this time it's by the conservatives. No, hard-working Americans are NOT being sent home every day, replaced by immigrants. It's simply not true. It's an attempt by some moron to try to get people upset at immigrants, etc.
Reminds me of how Howard Zinn claimed that the rich would try to get the lower classes upset at each other...to keep the attention off of the rich who exploited them.
I happen to know that no qualified American applied for my job, despite it being advertised publicly for many months.
What many American simply do not want to accept it that there a whole sectors in the economy that are growing faster than Americans with the right degree coming out of school. Think agriculture and tech.
In fact, the Pentagon has gone to Congress a few years ago with the note that they can see from school enrollment that it will be impossible for them to replace a lot of jobs of people who will retire in the coming decade or two, because American kids are simply not enrolling in those programs in high enough numbers. This will pose a security risk, as the Pentagon will have to start choosing between filling those jobs with foreigners (tricky in the case of National defense) or letting them go empty (also tricky).
Many Americans also don't know that before you can hire a foreigner for a job in the US, you need to show that you have advertised publicly and looked for an American to fill the job. Only when you can show you can't find one, you can hire a foreigner. This requirement is one of the major slow-downs in hiring foreigners. It takes months and a stack of paperwork to get that approval. This is a hinder for many businesses, especially small businesses who have a hard time navigating the paperwork. Large businesses tend to just set up a pipeline of immigrants, knowing that by the time someone has finally passed all the paperwork, they'll have a job for them.
It should be noted that the current administration is doing everything it can to frustrate this process, by slowing down the process as much as it can. It is quite tragic that they're treating every immigrant as a potential terrorist.
Especially now during COVID, they've simply closed the embassies so foreigners can not go pick up their visa anymore. This is hurting American businesses and profits because jobs simply go unfilled.
It's having an effect. More and more foreigners are just giving up the process and going elsewhere.
The company made that decision, not the people who accepted the outsourced jobs. Immigrants weren't involved. No worker "stole" your job.
Those new employees agreed to work for lower pay than you would have because the cost of living in their region is lower than that of yours. Why is that? Probably not least because developed countries took exploited their country and effectively kept that country in poverty. Now, you, presumably living in the developed world, have a higher cost of living and point out the discrepancy. The discrepancy has nothing to do with the individual workers themselves - not "immigrants," not "brown people," and not "foreigners," - but rather with the leaders of those corporations who made the decision to outsource your job to take advantage of lower wages that people like those leaders effectively enforced.
You don't hear 'capitalist tycoon' very often anymore.
ReplyDeleteMore stupid fake news...except this time it's by the conservatives. No, hard-working Americans are NOT being sent home every day, replaced by immigrants. It's simply not true. It's an attempt by some moron to try to get people upset at immigrants, etc.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of how Howard Zinn claimed that the rich would try to get the lower classes upset at each other...to keep the attention off of the rich who exploited them.
I happen to know that no qualified American applied for my job, despite it being advertised publicly for many months.
ReplyDeleteWhat many American simply do not want to accept it that there a whole sectors in the economy that are growing faster than Americans with the right degree coming out of school. Think agriculture and tech.
In fact, the Pentagon has gone to Congress a few years ago with the note that they can see from school enrollment that it will be impossible for them to replace a lot of jobs of people who will retire in the coming decade or two, because American kids are simply not enrolling in those programs in high enough numbers. This will pose a security risk, as the Pentagon will have to start choosing between filling those jobs with foreigners (tricky in the case of National defense) or letting them go empty (also tricky).
Many Americans also don't know that before you can hire a foreigner for a job in the US, you need to show that you have advertised publicly and looked for an American to fill the job. Only when you can show you can't find one, you can hire a foreigner. This requirement is one of the major slow-downs in hiring foreigners. It takes months and a stack of paperwork to get that approval. This is a hinder for many businesses, especially small businesses who have a hard time navigating the paperwork. Large businesses tend to just set up a pipeline of immigrants, knowing that by the time someone has finally passed all the paperwork, they'll have a job for them.
It should be noted that the current administration is doing everything it can to frustrate this process, by slowing down the process as much as it can. It is quite tragic that they're treating every immigrant as a potential terrorist.
Especially now during COVID, they've simply closed the embassies so foreigners can not go pick up their visa anymore. This is hurting American businesses and profits because jobs simply go unfilled.
It's having an effect. More and more foreigners are just giving up the process and going elsewhere.
I experienced this personally. It does happen.
ReplyDeleteThe Healthcare System I worked for laid off the IT Dept in Dec 2019 and outsourced to India.
The company made that decision, not the people who accepted the outsourced jobs. Immigrants weren't involved. No worker "stole" your job.
DeleteThose new employees agreed to work for lower pay than you would have because the cost of living in their region is lower than that of yours. Why is that? Probably not least because developed countries took exploited their country and effectively kept that country in poverty. Now, you, presumably living in the developed world, have a higher cost of living and point out the discrepancy. The discrepancy has nothing to do with the individual workers themselves - not "immigrants," not "brown people," and not "foreigners," - but rather with the leaders of those corporations who made the decision to outsource your job to take advantage of lower wages that people like those leaders effectively enforced.
Outsourcing doesn't involve immigrants.
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