{"id":1240,"date":"2012-04-03T09:48:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T13:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2017-08-10T13:26:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T17:26:58","slug":"vice-president-biden-clueless-on-h-1b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2012\/04\/03\/vice-president-biden-clueless-on-h-1b\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice-President Biden Clueless on H-1B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January, <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2012\/01\/31\/president-obama-is-%E2%80%9Cinterested%E2%80%9D-in-tech-industry-h-1b-abuses\/\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> said that there was a shortage of engineers in the U.S., or so he had been told. The President also seemed not to know the H-1B visa program does not require employers to seek to hire American workers before bringing in a foreign guest worker. Vice-President Biden has now made it clear that this administration either has no idea how the H-1B program works, or is intent on supplying false information to the American people about the program. Here is an exchange between the Vice-President and an interviewer at an Iowa television station. Emphasis added<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Question: Are two many H1B visas given out each year? Are too many highly skilled jobs going to people outside the United States?<br \/>\nVice-President Biden: <strong>No h1b visa can be granted to an employee to come to a company unless they can prove there is no American to fill the job.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This statement is unambiguous and it is absolutely untrue. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/docs\/H1B_2011_final.pdf?docID=6061\" target=\"_blank\">FAIR has pointed out<\/a>, H-1B employers do not have to make any effort to \u201ctest\u201d the market to see if there are available American workers. Vice-President Biden is usually portrayed as the White House\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalhumor.about.com\/od\/joebiden\/a\/bidenisms.htm\" target=\"_blank\">comic relief<\/a>, but there is nothing remotely funny about this gaffe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January, President Obama said that there was a shortage of engineers in the U.S., or so he had been told. The President also seemed not to know the H-1B visa program does not require employers to seek to hire American workers before bringing in a foreign guest worker. Vice-President Biden has now made it<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2012\/04\/03\/vice-president-biden-clueless-on-h-1b\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[11,6,4,10,7],"tags":[851,831,536],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14783,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/14783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}