Engineers make more dough on the road, anyhow. I'm biased, but, although I don't use my degree, engineering is the best foundation one can have. It's a way of thinking that I wish our political class used.
Currently an engineering job pays well, if you can get one despite the 500k plus H1-Bs that are either allowed in or renewed and then compete with youat much lower salaries.
After the TPP is passed, L1 visas will be unlimited and at their back-home pay scales, as I said already.
How are American engineers supposed to compete with that, make enough for retirement, etc? It is a sure fire prescription for a socialist revolution.
I know so little about this TPP or these visas. My last knowledge of the engineering field was that there weren't enough Americans getting involved. So many of my classmates were foreign in the first place.
The redeeming factor is naturalization and an open mind about what an American accent sounds like, I guess.
I evangelize engineering when I can; I might be strapping these kids to the Titanic deck.
TPP Trade Deal Hits U.S. Immigration law in 'A Massive Way'
"She explained that b
oth of those visa categories (L1) are unlimited numerically, so technically TPP is not changing U.S. immigration law by increasing the number of visas issued because it doesn’t have to, since there is no quota on those particular visas. However, she said because of the TPP, she believes the U.S. will be issuing more L1 and tourist visas.
Jenks pointed to
Chapter 10, which says that any service provider – for example, a telephone service or a contract security service or engineers, or legal services or architects or any company that is providing a service as opposed to a product – can enter into a country that is part of the TPP and provide that service.
With TPP, service providing companies from Australia, Canada, Mexico, Malaysia…all of the other partner countries, can come into the United States and perform the service that they perform in their own country and essentially compete with and undermine the people in the United States and the companies in the United States that are already providing that service here.
Additionally, Chapter 10 specifically states that no country in the TPP can set a limit to the number of service providers for any particular service. For example, the U.S. or Japan can’t say that there may only be 25 telephone service providers in the United States under this agreement. Jenks adds:
The United States did not agree to specifically modify our immigration laws under Chapter 12 of TPP. There are some impacts in Chapter 12, but we did not make any specific changes to our immigration laws;
however, Chapter 10 is a massive impact on our economy through immigration because it means that not only foreign companies will be coming to the United States to compete with American companies, but those foreign companies can send in their foreign employees – they don’t have to hire Americans. They don’t have to pay American wages. They are sending their own employees to the United States to provide a service and compete with American workers and American companies that are already providing that service, so you’re going to displace American workers from jobs and you’re going to undercut wages by increasing the supply of services.
However, Jenks said there is one area of dispute that subjects U.S. immigration law to ridicule, questioning and interpretation by an outside tribunal.
She explained that
if one country in the TPP believes the U.S. isn’t admitting enough of that country’s workers or corporate workers, then that country can go to a committee set out in the agreement and say “hey, the U.S. isn’t giving us our full benefit under TPP, so we want to bring them into a dispute resolution.”
Jenks said there is “no obligation on the United States to change its immigration laws except for what is decided under this chapter under the committee and under the dispute resolution.”
Under U.S. immigration law, if someone applies and is denied a visa, there is no appeal or dispute resolution process – that is different under the TPP, as there is an appeal process if a partner country under the TPP believes it has been denied two or more visas inappropriately. Hypothetically, in that situation, that country could challenge U.S. immigration law under the dispute resolution, Chapter 28 in the TPP.
“The tribunals that are set up are going to determine how it interprets the language of this TPP and how it should be applied,” Jenks told Breitbart News after reviewing the dispute resolution chapter. “So, whatever the U.S. thinks it signed on to may or may not be the case” because of this process."
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American workers are about to get totally screwed and it is being done by a Democrat President with an Open Borders fanatic GOP Congress.
