So, in 1999, whilst working as an expat in the beautiful, but depressingly rainy German town named Düsseldorf, I was contacted by a Swiss headhunter regarding a System Administrator's job at a huge Swiss company.
The problem then, was the need for computer-related specialists had exploded due to the then Dotcom Boom. I hold a Master in Business Informatics which I had to produce. The Swiss administration had to verify there was no unemployed Swiss specialist who would then had the priority to the position I was offered.
I always had a really neat opinion about Switzerland. Being born in neighboring France, where just wearing a French flag is seen as being extreme right, I will always love how Swiss people are proud of their own flag. Of course, I did not always feel welcome wherever I went, that's the price of being a come-from-away with a family name sounding like refugees from the recent Yugoslavian war. But I followed the rule and always found my pleasure whenever I could, and eventually gladly shared it with locals.
In 2016, after 5 years of application, I obtained my most prized "diploma": the Red Pass. I once heard some younger colleague telling me how I really was not a Swiss. I just answered him I am just Swiss enough to willingly take a gun and shoot at French soldiers, should they decide to invade my home. Even the wokest youngsters cannot argue with this.
In 2024, it looks like the Swiss educational system adapted its cursus and there now are enough locals being able to occupy the positions such as mine. Having these young students learning beside us is really nice and gratifying.
So, now, when I hear about how Musk's stance about immigration is opposed to America first, I just pray it's a contingency measure and the American system is willing to improve itself until the need for foreign help is down. I also want people to understand that sometimes, people immigrate because they LOVE WHO you are and HOW GREAT your country is.
Let us not be too hasty with the strategy currently being discussed.
The problem with the H-1B visa according to Steve Bannon is that the Big Corporations are NOT checking to see (IF) there is an American Citizen qualified to take the job before hiring a foreign immigrant or foreign student who graduated from our universities. The H-1B visa is a scam for Big Corporation to save money by paying these foreign workers less money and less benefits while our American citizens who are qualified, sit back unemployed or have to take a job doing something they did NOT train for. The H-1B visa's are supposed to be Temporary, but (IF) a worker quits or goes back to his country, they are replaced NOT with an American, but with another foreign H-1B visa worker, thus once again Big Corporations are cheating the American Citizen taxpayers.
Steve Bannon says that he disagrees with President Trump on this topic BUT would agree (IF) President Trump would place an EXIT DATE on their visa for them to leave our country and go home with the skills they received to Make their Country Great. AND... to replace them with our own qualified workers. This is what the problem is. NOT a continual hiring of foreign people who we will once again have a 'flood' of to come in, take our jobs, apply for citizenship and then not comply with our way of life. AND another pet peeve of Steve Bannons is the amount of H-1B visas that are allowed. I think he said that at the moment there are about 85,000 of them waiting to be given out and that the lobbyists and Big Corp are scrambling to find the foreign workers they need to hire in order to save their companies Big Money.
Another problem, particularly with Indians, is that a HUGE amount of them have completely fake “qualifications”.
In Ireland they are brought in to replace the Irish nurses and doctors we train, who leave to get better paying jobs abroad.
Almost weekly some of these doctors and nurses from india are exposed as frauds.
Nobody asks the simple question, if they have the same qualifications as the Irish who leave, why are they not going after these high paying jobs?
Visas in most countries are a very profitable scam.
Yes. I understand. Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec and others are trying their best to get President Trump to see the Truth about this program. Once it is exposed, then hopefully, the rest of the world will Stop this Scam.
Do they really believe President Trump and a team of no more than 10 people, with 3 being civilians, don’t know the truth about the H1B program?
I suppose they do, but Steve Bannon is sure convincing about Trump wanting to keep the program. I suppose it could only be a way of exposing the corruption, but the MAGA supporters are sure unhappy about it.