Well, forget what I said on Trump and H-1B. He now says, When foreigners attend our great colleges & want to stay in the U.S., they should not be thrown out of our country…I want talented people to come into this country—to work hard and to become citizens. Silicon Valley needs engineers, etc. In other … Continue reading ¡Ay, Caramba! It Took Only a Few Days for Trump to Reverse His Stance

In a post here more than a year ago, I lauded Donald Trump’s posted platform policy on the H-1B work visa and related issues. But two days later, Trump clarified his position, ruining the effect of his earlier policy completely, so I posted a followup, ending with the statement, “Trump’s a chump.” What did I object … Continue reading Trump Surprises Tech Leaders on H-1B (?)

What a remarkable, man-bites-dog article in The Hindu, a major Indian paper! Here we see Trump defending the H-1B visa program in 2015 to the man who would last week became his new campaign chief. Very interesting stuff, and it sheds a bit more light on what the press — and oddly, Trump himself — … Continue reading A Bit More Revealed of theTrump “Reversal” on H-1B

I’m getting e-mail messages from some absolutely furious supporters of Donald Trump — who are now FORMER supporters of Trump. They’re hopping mad, because they think he reversed himself on the H-1B issue in tonight’s GOP primary debate. But their anger is badly misplaced. They should have been angry LAST AUGUST 18, which is the … Continue reading Intels and Infosyses — and Donald Trump

Lots of comment in blogs and e-mail today about Trump’s seemingly reversing himself on the H-1B issue in last night’s Republican presidential primary debate. But he didn’t really reverse himself, because he had already done so back in August. After posting the best platform on H-1B I’d ever seen by a major presidential candidate, Trump … Continue reading Trump’s NON-Reversal in Last Night’s Debate (and Rubio’s)

An alert reader pointed me to an appearance by Professor Ron Hira on the Laura Ingraham radio show yesterday. Ingraham had asked him to respond to remarks presidential candidate and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina had made on the show on September 23, where Fiorina had said “Shame on them” when Ingraham brought up Disney … Continue reading Carly Fiorina, HP, Foreign Labor and All That

In a July 3 post, “California Legislature Discovers H-1B,” I wrote, There is no state that is politically more pro-immigration than my state of California, especially as we grow more and more Latino demographically. And yet our Assembly has now passed a resolution calling for an investigation of the H-1B work visa. Indeed, even the list of … Continue reading In the “Too Good to Be True” Department

On Sunday, I posted a piece here praising presidential candidate Donald Trump’s stance on the H-1B work visa. Since I am a liberal Democrat, my praise for Trump caused a bit of a stir, resulting in the conservative Web site Breitbart running an article, “Floodgates Open: Top Democrat Professor Says ‘I’ve Never Seen any Politician’ … Continue reading More on Trump and Foreign Students

Immigrants — or even would-be immigrants — are often portrayed these days as glorious, deserving of special treatment. This came up recently, for instance, in an NPR report on the City of Baltimore’s efforts to clamp down on the plethora of liquor stores in impoverished districts. The lawyer representing the store owners argued against the … Continue reading Welcome, Honored Guests

Presidential candidate Donald Trump stunned the H-1B visa watcher community today with his platform on immigration. which includes surprisingly detailed, helpful provisions regarding H-1B. Very interesting, coming on the heels of his outrageous comments on Mexican immigrants, which among other things inspired the creation of a Trump piñata. Meanwhile, a Bernie Sanders piñata may well … Continue reading Sanders and Trump on Immigration