While I have no doubt that a lot of them are unskilled, I see a lot of scare quotes in, e.g., wiki, that have no obvious rationale. If anything, it's the word "onerous" that should have been in scare quotes. Certainly if there really were a shortage of skilled personnel then requiring a minimum salary of $100K would not be onerous.
As to the bill itself, I'd be happier if the president just enforced existing health, labor and safety laws, but I won't hold my breathe. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2018 12:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Hot off the press "India may be looking at upwards of 500,000 of its "skilled" work force returning home..." To me personally, the guy who wrote this article is kind of corroborating the US admin's view that people coming in aren't as skilled as they're portrayed. Really? 'Skilled' in quotes? https://secure-web.cisco.com/1dW43_PbsHe4bcZlLCAay_B1P10yB6TYHvtPEZsgpbHWe1NBcNazONUYtp0LtzR_azHJ4B0JFSxNAJVrUhD3Whjrfle7OtxItxwkXGXWs01lSfXWmPupkUlZelVQkqzuOoTGEb4y4qMafSEnVytkUOi2hF_Tm1smNxEbrGppV0nEzbI2cOK4Ml7l2Jb7KmsdyUPL4gdfRKGg7INYT86feGQLbxDZIDZm5PjLJT4yhwr6EtpqcEkhMBA-E6THa6XGA2_iCQdReEq7aqxWQZSKm0S9dHnol_oBx-jWjPIUngkYidcXD78BKcyY6IYllsjP6cUKxEKeEw44r2FIMSdvZZXTA2YAYo6mF8DkV7TtxFmrEjm23pfsPmsBLwP7fPdlefsAUvTnU1B6J2V5pK7r9itk0sAaOo5N5EkDgHLm69DlaksbM6iyBiBbwoTM3Sn6x/https%3A%2F%2Ftimesofindia.indiatimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Findia-business%2Ftrump-admin-considers-proposal-that-may-send-back-more-than-500000-indian-tech-workers%2Farticleshow%2F62341416.cms Am I reading into it too much? - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure MARKSANDSPENCER.COM ________________________________ Unless otherwise stated above: Marks and Spencer plc Registered Office: Waterside House 35 North Wharf Road London W2 1NW Registered No. 214436 in England and Wales. Telephone (020) 7935 4422 Facsimile (020) 7487 2670 http://secure-web.cisco.com/15gvqPpCEuLEoBJQUravXhOfo9pfifxIKX67r7KJG8AqciQmxtydLB9coBME91WqhLd9f16wyEFtFRFN85YcmRZMLiK3AGfNy1lsJdSZPT3BUoE8vGRvNp72Tf1SK5Dn-L3TMCTakmkgmIE3ytUHB_O0IAg-htAHTsFTNngt7xO5eUOnVUN5xpcPqHZIpUX2ZWZuutJbaoUlRsR5-lWofvT88RAx0zq03pSag7ICOn6ExH5pUe1nTy6vcHTyMd5N03-uE5qmWx-ET56XYiKGe3L_qYCYsmivScFOstq9tsjBD0PpVF4FvlWQsJBAu9-2vbLup6e7w5p-Bw7Zae5A1zf44YQp-MAY7Lc5hniG2K99B5pMCzBRYIRvf1gWD-nWSMnSIcgyjz7Km1CNK6yYa0x3YgJjweY_wZyh0-8xjbQLXGc8qPdGH5_hf5t5aCk9s/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marksandspencer.com Please note that electronic mail may be monitored. This e-mail is confidential. If you received it by mistake, please let us know and then delete it from your system; you should not copy, disclose, or distribute its contents to anyone nor act in reliance on this e-mail, as this is prohibited and may be unlawful. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
