Breitbart News -- Tony Lee
None other than Jesse Jackson is speaking out against foreign guest-workers in the technology industry.
“We need to get rid of H1B workers. There are Americans who can do that work, and H1B workers are cheaper and undercut wages,” Jackson, who still supports massive amnesty legislation that would lower the wages of working-class Americans, said in an interview with Fortune in which he blasted Silicon Valley companies for not having enough black and Hispanic employees. “We need more computer science scholarships. When I was a kid, I remember being mortified by Sputnik, but in a few months everything was STEM [science, technology engineering and math]. You took STEM classes and you got a scholarship. We trained people, we gave them jobs, we became the best in the world.”
As Howard University public policy professor Ron Hira has repeatedly emphasized, tech jobs had been a gateway to the middle class for Americans before companies started importing massive numbers of foreign workers with H-1b visas.
“This is really important because the STEM degrees, information technology and engineering in particular, have been real pathways to the middle class,” he said on The Laura Ingraham Show this summer. “It’s been a traditional path for working class kids to study. It’s a very meritocratic set of occupations, unlike some other areas. By cutting this off, we are cutting off that upward mobility to the middle class for so many of the working class kids.”
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