Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

We need a tweet from Trump, 1dgm.

CVX should send the foreign employees to job locations outside the USA. This will increase the number of jobs available to the US employees and eventually increase wages for the American workers. I hope Trump's worker immigration plans support the American workers and reduce the number of foreign workers brought to the USA and given jobs. The USA needs to focus on building our economy and stop importing people to work in the USA. Employ the foreign workers outside the USA!

Izln,

Nobody questions that immigration policy should be in national intrerest, but what exactly is that policy that optimizes national interest is the big question.

-1zln: would require a constitutional amendment.... not likely even if it was a good idea.

“Our country’s immigration policies should be designed and implemented to serve, first and foremost, the U.S. national interest,” First thing that needs to go is automatic citizenship at birth to non-US nationals.

Oh also the number of h1b that chevron directly employs is in the 2 digits

Ok let me explain this.

Yes there has been some abuse of the H1 system by "manpower consultants" and Indian IT companies. The (mostly) Indians who have benefited are college graduates but not necessarily the "the brightest of the brightest" and US employers. Who have lost are usually fresh college grads or low experience people in IT.

Please note I am talking of people who have "gamed" the system. Through this route US has also obtained the best and brightest in the world. The IIT and Tsinghua grads on whom poor third world countries lavished their scarce resources.

The net effect of a Elimination or clampdown will be difficult to predict. US universities would loose grad students and research quality would drop. Indian IT industry will suffer for a few years, but will come out stronger.

-1mzi: Not hard for me to hear. I am an expert in my field and am not afraid of competition, indeed I look forward to new challenges. It is you who wants mommy to protect you from the competition of the big boogeyman foreigners. "Close the door so I can hold my own". Sorry, but that is not going to cut it, if we build a wall companies will not be locked in but rather will folllow the talent. The only way to keep America great is to step up to the plate...world class education and solid infrastructure. Otherwise step to the side because the "other" is getting smarter every year.

I agree with you, 1kdz. Those words are hard to hear for some people, but that is the truth. The H1B Visa immigrants are only cheap (non-manual) labor for the corporations that can't get enough of them. This abused government visa program, has run amuck and is harming the American labor market and rapidly changing our demographics and culture. I wouldn't have so much of a problem with the H1B visa program if it admitted only the foreign worker into the country and not their entire non-skilled, welfare grubbing, non-assimilating, scum family members.

@LGrLwjc-mzn , Do not drink the koolaid.. The average competence level of the H1B worker in the US is substantially lower than the equivalent US born citizen. The average IQ's of most immigrants are lower than those equivalents in the US and we are receiving, for the most part, the hardest cases from other countries, not their stars. If they were such stars they would not need to leave there in most cases. The main impetus for hiring immigrants is cost. They earn less on an average, for common jobs such as software coding and various IT work, then the American equivalent. There is no way that they can legally stay without that job. in an sense these immigrants are getting abused but the idea that H1B holders are the brightest and best of the tech workers from other countries is a myth and one of the biggest scams ever propagated on the American populace. I know you don't believe me, which is just a sign of how good the hoodwinking is. They do not take the best jobs, they mainly take the ones Americans do not want and are happy to. Think about it.

Sure @fft, we really believe all that (Not). Trump won the election. Seems like America knew who was the better choice for President. Love it!

I can't stand President Cheeto, but I like this idea. hope he starts by shipping all the Nigerians out first.

-wik. We are in a very bad place if we think protectionism and walls will make this country great. We need world class education of our people and a solid infrastructure to make the USA the best open playing field for world class innovation. If the USA is hostal to my workers, makes it different for me to put the best people in the right place at the right time, and does not have the facilities and quality of life to make this life enjoyable I am going to move operations elsewhere. Walls make the current status static, which is a recipe for disaster! We need to move forward faster than anyone else.

I am good with this, so are a lot of unemploed Americans with STEM degrees and training.

“Our country’s immigration policies should be designed and implemented to serve, first and foremost, the U.S. national interest,” the draft proposal reads, according to a copy reviewed by Bloomberg. “Visa programs for foreign workers … should be administered in a manner that protects the civil rights of American workers and current lawful residents, and that prioritizes the protection of American workers -- our forgotten working people -- and the jobs they hold.”

Trump best thing to happen in America in a very long time. Enjoying the view as generation snowflake, exemplified by many ETC early-career droids, has a meltdown as they begin to realize their PC world is a fantasy-land.

I see your point. He needs a green card or H-1B status in order to be deported like the rest of the Chevron workers currently taking jobs from US Citizens.

No doubt....Add this to your action item list:

1. God

2. Country

3. Family

Spoken like a person that has never had to fight for Americas freedom! "God" Bless America!