2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: On what issue is Hillary better than Bernie? [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)The immigration bills of recent years have always been cluttered with CRAP like H-1B program expansion, which Hillary Clinton likes that helps keep the bottom lower for employees in the tech industry along with the trade bills that Hillary Clinton loves both of.
Even those coming here to work on H-1B visas don't like having to use this program to come to the U.S. to work instead of having a better pathway more streamlined and cleared for them to REALLY immigrate here, rather than just be "used for a while" by these programs for cheap labor and sent back home.
Watch this interview of a "body shop" (and this isn't about repairing one's car) victim and ask whether he liked much how his experience was with H-1B visa program.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Silicon-Valleys-Body-Shop-Secret-280567322.html
It is this kind of program and helping corporations exploit cheap labor that this allows and other trade agreements like TPP that she also didn't have the time to take a position on when it counted earlier either, that makes it harder for people to do legitimate immigration here, as companies are less inclined to help people get green cards to come here legitimately with a better path to citizenship, when they have CRAP like H-1B NON-immigration programs to use instead.
There are many here that try to characterize him as weak on immigration by INCORRECTLY confusing his stances against these programs as being "against immigration" when being against them in immigration bills in my book is MORE pro-immigration, as it would help get more public support for immigration bills in my mind, and also have such bills only have immigration components in it, and not programs for just "temporary residents" (NOT immigrants)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/25/this-is-a-massive-effort-to-attract-cheap-labor-why-sen-bernie-sanders-is-skeptical-of-guest-workers/
Note how in that article he says he's a VERY STRONG supporter of the DREAM act.