Wednesday, January 22, 2020

US Immigration


The US has at least 45 million legal immigrants and 20 million illegal immigrants and needs to reform immigration policies to address skilled labor needs and limit low skilled migration. We need to increase US Citizen Labor Force Participation from 63.3 to 67.3 and restore 6 million manufacturing jobs and 1 million engineering jobs. We need to end all immigration policies that attract low skilled welfare migrants. We need to cut US government spending in half and privatize all services.

Year   Immigrants    Visas 
2018   44,728,721    9,028,026
2017   44,525,855    9,681,913
2016   43,739,345  10,381,491
2015   43,290,372  10,891,745
2014   42,391,794    9,932,480


There are 13.2 million green card holders in the US.
 In 2018, 756,000 green card holders became US citizens.

I assume half of the US Visas or 4.5 million are Work Visas. I have accounted for 1.5 million H1b, H2b and H2a Visas.  The rest are a myriad of Visas used by US corporations. Permanent Work Visas totaled 93,865 and Work Visas for Refugees admitted from 2013 to 2016 remain in effect.

I also assume that the US has 20 million more illegal welfare migrants working in minimum wage jobs in the US and receiving US welfare, healthcare and schooling that costs $800 billion a year.

Immigrant Work Visas 2019 - Getting data from USCIS requires some time converting the data given to data wanted.  It looks like Work Visa Estimates for H1b, H2b and H2a Visas total 1.5 million.

H1b 1,005,325
H2b    160,000
H2a    270,000
Total 1,435,325. I arrived at these estimates by totaling the “Top 10” data and dividing it by the total percentages.

H1b Engineers 2019

H1b Top 10 Totals
Occupation  737,909 / 73.4%  =1.005,325.6
State            689,487 /  72.2%  =955,315.8
Employer     252,317 / 25.1%   =1,005,247.0
Total H1b est. 1,005,325

Top 10 Occupations
Software Applications Developers    333,507   33.2%
Computer System Analysts                88,274    8.8%
Computer Occupations, All Other      84,556     8.4%
Software Systems Developers           82,851    8.2%
Electronic Engineers                          41,298    4.1%
Operation Research Analysts            29,351    2.9%
Computer Programmers                    24,551    2.4%
Management Analysts                       21,517    2.1%
Mechanical Engineers                       16,458    1.6%
CIS Managers                                   15,546    1.5%
Total                                                 737,909   73.4%

Top 10 States
California           274,618   27.3%
Texas                101,402   10.1%
New York            71,999     7.2%
Washington        47,056      4.7%
New Jersey        46,927     4.7%
Illinois                 43,886     4.4%
Florida                37,517     3.7%
Massachusetts   35,485     3.5%
Pennsylvania     35,271     3.5%
Georgia              30,843     3.1%
Total                 689,487    72.2%

Top 10 Employers
Deloitte Consulting, LLP        84,649   8.4%
Cognizant Technology           28,229   2.8%
Apple, Inc.                             26,236   2.6%
Infosys Limited                      21,434   2.1%
Qualcomm Technologies       21,238   2.1%
Tata Consultancy Services   15,794   1.6%
KForce, Inc.                          15,225   1.5%
Cisco Systems, Inc.             14,130    1.4%
Amazon.com Services         12,695   1.3%
Wipro Limited                       12,687   1.3%
Total                                   252,317  25.1%


H2b Non-Agricultural Workers 2019

H2b Top 10 Totals
Occupation  119,075 / 79.1%   =150,537.3
State              61,490  / 41.0%  =149975.6
Employer       14,115  / 8.4%    =168,035
Total H2b est. 160,000

Top 10 Occupations H2b
Groundskeeping Workers                   66,151   44.0%
Forest and Conservation Workers      11,283    7.5%
Maids & Housekeeping Cleaners         9,869    6.6%
Meat, Poultry, & Fish Cutters                8,486    5.6%
Amusement & Recreation Workers      8,014    5.3%
Waiters and Waitresses                       4,104     2.7%
Construction Laborers                         3,369     2.2%
Cooks, Restaurant                               3,299     2.2%
Laborers & Material Movers                 2,274    1.5%
Nonfarm Animal Caretaker                  2,226     1.5%
Total                                                  119,075   79.1%

Top 10 States H2b
Texas                16,106    10.7%
Colorado            6,943      4.6%
Florida               5,768      3.8%
N Carolina         5,074      3.4%
Pennsylvania    5,006      3.3%
Louisiana          4,924      3.3%
Alaska               4,892      3.3%
New York          4,590      3.1%
Virginia             4,165       2.8%
Maryland          4,022       2.7%
Total               61,490     41.0%

Top 10 Employers H2b
BrightView Landscape Services      3,485    2.3%
Imperial Pacific International, LLC   2,648    1.8%
Silver Bay Seafoods                        1,793    1.2%
Progressive Solutions, LLC             1,567    1.0%
Triple H Services, LLC                       939     0.6%
ABC Professional Tree Services        909    0.6%
Trident Seafoods                                793    0.5%
Rotolo Consultants, Inc.                     692    0.5%
Icicle Seafoods, Inc.                           654    0.4%
American Pool Enterprises                635     0.4%
Total     14,115   8.4%


H2a Visa Farm Workers 2019

H2a Top 10 Totals
Occupation  147,012 /  56.9%   = 258,369
State            176,643  /  65.4%  = 270096.3
Employer       37,853  / 14.6%   = 259267.1
Total H2a est. 270,000

Top 10 Crops/ Occupation
General Farm Workers      31,967  12.4%
Berries                               24,661   9.6%
Tobacco                             16,252   6.3%
Fruits and Vegetables       13,995    5.4%
Apples                              12,479    4.8%
Melons                              11,876    4.6%
Greenhouse Workers         9,885    3.8%
Ag Equipment Operators   9,869    3.8%
Corn                                   9,776    3.8%
Tomatoes                           6,252    2.4%
Total                               147,012   56.9%

Top 10 States
Florida           33,598   13.0%
Georgia         29,480   11.4%
Washington   26,226   10.2%
California       23,321    9.1%
N Carolina     21,605    8.4%
Louisiana      10,816    4.2%
Michigan        9,096     3.5%
Kentucky        8,315     3.2%
New York       8,104     3.1%
S Carolina      6,082     2.4%
Total            176,643    65.4%

Top 10 Employers
North Carolina Growers     11,223    4.4%
Fresh Harvest, Inc.              4,812   1.9%
WAFLA                                4,369   1.7%
Zirkle Fruit Company           3,400   1.3%
Farm-Op Kuzzens H2A,      2,658   1.0%
Ag Labor, LLC                     2,409   0.9%
Foothill Packing, Inc.           2,398   0.9%
Overlook Harvesting Co.     2,396   0.9%
R & R Harvesting, Inc.        2,094   0.8%
Rancho Nuevo Harvesting  2,024   0.8%
Total                                 37,853  14.6%



Comments

US Youth unemployment is 12%. Teenagers need to work for pay as soon as possible. 430,000 Welfare Immigrants are performing minimum wage jobs using H2b and H2a visas. Teenagers used to perform the jobs now being done by low wage Welfare Migrants. Employers need to establish 4 hour shifts for students who maintain a B average.

USCIS needs to report the number of Illegals working in the US and the middle-class technician jobs hiding in the H1b group that need to be given their own classification.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

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