back to article Make America Wait Again: Trump hasn't stopped H-1B visas

Applications for the United States' H-1B visas open tomorrow, as usual. Which isn't what many expected after president Donald Trump made reform of skilled workers visas one of his key campaign promises. H-1B visas allow those with a bachelor’s or higher degree in a specialty field, and an employer willing to take them on, to …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    WTF?

    I'm wondering if the Trump families potential investments in India impacted this...

    It looks like approvals for Trump Organization projects are flying through.

    1. Mark 85

      Re: I'm wondering if the Trump families potential investments in India impacted this...

      More likely... he's got bigger problems. As it turns out, Congress is not 100% behind him as he thought they would be.

      1. LaeMing
        Alert

        Re: I'm wondering if the Trump families potential investments in India impacted this...

        The POTUS doesn't have absolute power to do whatever he likes as Trump (and many TV/movie-influenced people) thought.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      It's because he did the opposite of draining the swamp

      If you appoint business tycoons to your administration and look for advice from billionaires like Peter Thiel, of course you're going to be told that importing cheap labor is good because it is good for their business interests to keep wages down.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The applications are open...

    ...but that doesn't mean Trump's lackeys will *approve* any of them.

    There might be teeth gnashing & whinging from all the different corporations, but it's hard to claim discrimination of any particular applicant if he blanket refuses to approve *any* applicant.

    No need for an Executive Order, no need to rewrite the law, just a blanket permanent choke hold on the approval process so *nobody* gets in.

    If nobody gets approved then the corporations will have to go back to hiring locals, something Trump will almost assuredly crow about as a "victory" on his record.

    Blargh. He makes me sick.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: The applications are open...

      A new administration only has about 4000 political appointee roles in the executive branch, versus 2-3 million employees. And Trump has filled only a couple percentage of those slots.

      It will be career bureaucrats making those decisions, unless a Trump appointee over them has given instructions to not approve any. But in that case you'd think someone would have heard about it, unless he wants to make a surprise tweet later this week.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    He's a liar and a fraud

    Of course nothing was going to change, except to erode your civil liberties and quality of life.

    1. phuzz Silver badge

      Re: He's a liar and a fraud

      I feel Hanlon's Razor isn't used enough with respect to trump.

      1. Swarthy

        Re: He's a liar and a fraud

        It got superseded by Clark's Law after about 10 minutes.

  4. JJKing
    Facepalm

    Um............

    The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  5. Roger B

    Donald thought he was signing off the paperwork for this, turned out his was his score card for the latest round of golf at Mar-a-Lago.

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    check this out guys

    https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/nativedocuments/PM-6002-0142-H-1BComputerRelatedPositionsRecission.pdf

  7. Hollerithevo

    H-2B visas...

    H-2B visas get your folks from Colombia ad Peru and Romania and Estonia into the USA to be busboys and chambermaids and waiters and cooks. Now...who has many hotels that employ folks on H-2B visas? Who employs them over Americans because he can pay them less, and who has been called on this for saying he will create jobs for Americans while not doing so n his own hotels? Who never brought this up in his campaign?

    Just sayin'

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: H-2B visas...

      Is this the same chain of hotels where nearly all the goods are NOT made in the USA?

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    With other plans stalled, this could have been good propaganda...

    .... but not while IBM and others are cutting and offshoring heavily, it would have put the lights square on those companies and US jobs flying offshore, even if visas are cut.

    Rometti isn't in Trump advisory board?

    1. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge

      Re: With other plans stalled, this could have been good propaganda...

      It would have been great news for IBM.

      With a ban on H1B they can bring in unlimited overseas workers from IBM India to work in IBM USA on L1 visas. With the advantage that they don't have to meet US wage or working conditions.

  9. redneck

    Trump H-1b flip flop

    According to the Washington Post, two of Trump's 282 campaign promises concern H-1b visas:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/i-will-give-you-everything-here-are-282-of-donald-trumps-campaign-promises/2016/11/24/01160678-b0f9-11e6-8616-52b15787add0_story.html?utm_term=.5bba5ca77c4c

    #87: **expand** the number of H-1b visas.

    #88: get rid of the H-1b visa program.

    I'm guessing that neither of these promises will be kept.

    1. 100113.1537

      Re: Trump H-1b flip flop

      And you use WaPo as a list of Trump election promises?

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    News flash

    Politician doesn't follow through on election promises, film at 11.

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