{"id":181377,"date":"2016-07-15T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/15\/and-the-former-walmart-board-member-goes-back-to-fing-the-american-worker\/"},"modified":"2016-07-15T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T22:10:00","slug":"and-the-former-walmart-board-member-goes-back-to-fing-the-american-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/15\/and-the-former-walmart-board-member-goes-back-to-fing-the-american-worker\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Former Walmart Board Member Goes Back to F%$#ing the American Worker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary just promised to <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/immigration\/2016\/07\/14\/3798330\/clinton-h1b-visa-plan\/\">preserve the H1B Visa in all its corrupt wage depressing glory<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton vowed on Thursday to uphold the high-skill visas prized by the tech industry as part of comprehensive immigration reform, clarifying media reports that suggested her position on immigration policy would make it harder for Silicon Valley companies to hire talented workers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cPart of what we have to be strong in standing for is a credible path forward for reform that is truly comprehensive, addressing all aspects of the system. Including immigrants living here today, those who wish to come in the days ahead. From highly skilled workers to family members. To those seeking refuge from violence wherever that might occur,\u201d Clinton said, speaking to a room full of Latino activists during a speech at the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) conference luncheon.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cTo families this is an issue that matters more than we can measure. There\u2019s nothing I take more seriously.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The tech industry has been a major supporter of immigration reform in general, but particularly favors the high-skill or H-1B visa program, which allows companies to hire immigrants to fill technical positions. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The H-1B system is supposed to allow companies to employ foreigners who have unique skills not available in the us.<\/p>\n<p>In truth, it allows the importation of cheap slave labor.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t ECop at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary just promised to preserve the H1B Visa in all its corrupt wage depressing glory: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton vowed on Thursday to uphold the high-skill visas prized by the tech industry as part of comprehensive immigration reform, clarifying media reports that suggested her position on immigration policy would make it harder for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,975,969,965,1053,1023,977,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-employment","category-evil","category-hillary-clinton","category-immigration","category-labor","category-presidential-campaign","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}