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Economy
Companies Say Trump Is Hurting Business by Limiting Legal Immigration
2018-09-05
Rent-seeking be hard! I had to clean the loo all by myself.
[NYT] The Trump administration is using the country’s vast and nearly opaque immigration bureaucracy to constrict the flow of foreign workers into the United States by throwing up new roadblocks to limit legal arrivals.

The government is denying more work visas, asking applicants to provide additional information and delaying approvals more frequently than just a year earlier. Hospitals, hotels, technology companies and other businesses say they are now struggling to fill jobs with the foreign workers they need.

With foreign hires missing, the employees who remain are being forced to pick cotton up the slack. Seasonal industries like hotels and landscaping are having to turn down customers or provide fewer services. Corporate executives worry about the long-term impact of losing talented engineers and programmers to countries like Canada that are laying out the welcome mat for skilled foreigners.
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At Northwell Health’s pathology lab on Long Island, a new doctor’s cubicle stands empty, her computer and microscope untouched. Other residents started on July 1, but she is stuck in India’s Punjab State, held up by unexplained delays in her visa.

"There have been delays in processing that we have not felt before," said Dr. Andrew C. Yacht, chief academic officer at Northwell, which includes Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan and North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y.
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Related: Mercer - Business Is Already Mounting Pressure To Import Cheap Labor.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  Companies Say Trump Is Hurting Business by Limiting Legal Immigration

And helping them by increasing the consumer base. I don't hear anything about this half of the equation.
Posted by: gorb   2018-09-05 17:32  

#7  >ability to support the immigrant at a level above the U.S. Poverty Guideline

Should be well above that level.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-09-05 16:04  

#6  Make them accountable just like importing foreign brides.

The immigration law of 1996 outlines specific financial requirements for U.S. citizens who marry non-US citizens who will apply for a green card. The U.S. citizen will need to fill out a Form I-864 Affidavit of Support, which proves the ability to support the immigrant at a level above the U.S. Poverty Guidelines. In fact, the citizen will need to promise the U.S. government to support the non-U.S. spouse for approximately ten years.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-09-05 11:33  

#5  Poor, poor, pitiful Microsoft. Maybe they should move to India. Gates could buy himself a palatial estate in exciting, exotic Bombay.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-09-05 11:32  

#4  Trump should limit migration to those above the average wage.

There should be a sponsor who pays their tax if they become unemployed or disappear.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-09-05 08:18  

#3  You've had since the 80's to grow your own. Instead you found it more profitable to bribe Congresscritters to join in the game of discouraging American workers from seeking skills that just lead to job replacement by foreigners. See - Disney.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-09-05 07:10  

#2  Yea, well, that's too bad - how about reforming US system of higher education?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-09-05 05:16  

#1  List of 1,320 monuments to the scourge of 'cheap labor' found here.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-09-05 05:06  

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