They will be hard pressed to extract them from our underfunded, poorly managed education system.

https://www.yahoo.com/newsroom/vibes...6-682177e43412

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A couple of points. These openings can be filled with H-1B visas to provide temporary residency for those people qualified for the positions and long as the temporary visa program allows that many foreigners into the country.

This also rings the bell with something the CEO of American Apparel discussed last year when discussion about revising the tax codes were underway. American Apparel has gone against the apparel industry by producing clothing in the United States as opposed to importing clothing and the CEO had a very pointed argument for what he thought Congress should do to help American enterprises.

He wasn't interested in lowering the corporate tax rate. What he wanted was a tax credit for on-the-job training of new employees. All enterprises require skilled labor to do the work of the enterprise and often that skill labor just isn't out there. They need to take people and literally train them to do what the enterprise needs. I dealt with this in aerospace because even highly qualified people with college degrees still had to learn the specific requirements for the corporations I worked for. There isn't an "industry standard" when it come down to the specific job role.

Many or most of these tech industry jobs will fall into that category. These jobs can be filled with Americans with good computer skills if the corporation is willing to provide the additional training they need to perform the work. The problem is that it would cost the corporations a lot of money to provide the on-the-job training and they are reluctant to spend the money. A "training" tax credit instead of the corporate tax cuts would have made this a viable option.

Next is that this argues against the "merit based immigration plans" that are being proposed. If the job is filled by temporary foreign labor under the H-1B visa program that job still remains open to Americans willing to train for the work. If we allow permanent immigration based upon the "merit" system to fill the position then the job is lost to American workers because it's permanently filled by the foreign worker. These are typically high paying jobs and for Americans to lose out in the long run when it comes to filling these positions it's not a good thing for us.

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"I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it's dirty on the inside." Donald Trump

"I always had a rule, if the White House is dirty on the inside, it's dirty on the outside." ShivaTD

Based upon the corruption, brutality, inhumanity, immorality, dishonesty, and incompetence of the Trump administration the White House is the dirtiest house in America and there's no known cleanser that with remove the stains of the Trump Administration.

Temporary workers when we needed them who left when no longer needed has long been the norm. Those who we needed long term had a chance to stay. Unfortunately, under the guidance of our past couple Presidents, temporary has become all too permanent.

All immigration should be based on our needs, not the needs of our guests.

Read the top two comments on the page you linked. They are DEAD on.

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I work in the industry as well. I've lost my job in the past this way and I have had friends who have lost theirs as well. To add insult to injury they usually require these people to TRAIN their replacements. And they are DEFINITELY not as good at it as their american educated counterparts. So to put it bluntly. You are wrong.

Edit: Another comment that makes a very very very good point

Wages are definitely not going up. If anything, they are coming down. So yeah, bogus.

Past couple? . Try since Ronnie raygun

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How old are you? Going people are not being trained. And yes they should not give those jobs to underdeveloped and third worlds, but look at the bright side, son they will give em to robots. And there will be an even, greater divide between the haves and the have nots. They are getting us used to that gradually.

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Young people (not going people).

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Well it's a good thing tRUmp is ending the fake war on clean coal then.