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It would seem pretty simple, but it isn't always. Immigration is a mess.

If you need workers now it can take 5 years or better to get them vetted and their paperwork. So, do you just keep your factory closed until everyone has their proper paperwork? That would be the right thing to do, but could make building factories here in the USA not worth the hassle.

 

On that account, due to the expense and monetary costs and time involved, a lot of less competent workers are hired as an expedient domestically.

The worst are those hired for who they know in spite of their incompetence.

 

I wonder how the thousands of Taiwanese skilled workers will fair in Arizona Delays in TSMC’s Arizona plant spark supply chain worries | CIO

The fact they couldn't even get construction workers with enough skill to build the extremely delicate plant, so they had to bring them in from Taiwan, shows just how bad the American skill level has dropped.
In another more in-depth article that I can't find the link to just at the moment, explains just how bad the skill level really is, even trying to get US citizens that are skilled enough to train up to the required level is proving difficult and putting strain on the company back in Taiwan where those skilled workers were relocated from ..... The article claimed that any skilled enough people, and even those still finishing degree courses, have already been signed up by overseas companies ........

It seems, no one is actually being made aware of the "brain drain" the latest political turmoil has caused ..... if you are rich enough and/or smart enough, you have already or have plans in place, to get out while you can ........

No highly skilled workers would be entering the US illegally, they are highly skilled because they are smart in the head as well as in knowledge required to do the job required ..... something required world wide ..... the US would be the last place someone would decide looked like a good place to enter illegally ........

"Revenge is a dish best served cold" as the saying goes, the rest of the world is not very happy with the way the recently elected US political power is treating them, it seems that the same US political powers are assisting with the cold treatment .... they are adding the ICE treatment

T1 Terry

 

They actually brought them in from Texas where they have experience with Samsung. This caused delays and higher costs because who wants to really go to Arizona for a prolonged period without a lot of extra money. Americans do have the expertise, but with so many new semiconductor jobs they need training and that takes time and money. I remember being in Taiwan and the clean room not being right and they brought in German construction workers (those were the least expensive skilled) and they trained up some Taiwanese.

The thing is given the ice blunder some of those experts that do the training won't want to come here. The tariffs are making construction cost more, many materials and equipment will be imported while supply chains are ramped up.

I understand cruela de noem wants to spread fear, but that is not a useful strategy if you are trying to grow the exonomy.

 

Many of those screaming "due process" have ALREADY had due process and deportation orders issued. They just want to delay things further. Case in point is the "Maryland Man". He had already been ordered deported years ago.

 

I suppose. But that also seems a bit prejudice. If it takes however many years for a foreigner to be approved for a job, shouldn't it take the same amount for a domestic worker? Otherwise, you end up with a lot of less competent domestic workers. Which, if the company was hirering foreigners because they're more qualified in the first place, now it makes even less sense to build a factory here.

To me it would make the most sense to just set a skills and education requirement that every needs to meet in order to qualify for the job. I really don't see making a process take way longer being a precise way to guarantee the workers will be more skilled. It might actually turn out to cause the opposite, that those who, by the time they get approved by immigration, still hadn't found a job elsewhere, are more likely to be those that were more desperate because they lacked the skills to get them a job elsewhere.

 

The problem with the current administration goes far beyond immigration issues. They have dismantled the government and democracy for their personal benefit, with the pretense of freedom. There are countries that have recently suffered the same faith, and they are doing really bad. So, I know this firsthand from other real examples. Don't expect Trump to work for anyone other than himself and his associates. That is what he has done all his life as a spoiled, bad, rich child. Sadly, I thought the US would never end up like these other countries, but with Trump, it succumbed to that. Now, we know how fragile the democracy was in the US.

 

Everything he says is "unbelievable. "

Exactly! The lies are NOT believable.

The way he talks, he is driving a Rambler.

There's obviously dementia there.

 

That would make three in a row.....

 

Did you have this same unbiased evaluation a year or two ago for the previous president?

 

Yeah, he should have realized that it was time to go.

 

That's something that is difficult to do not matter which party party a person belongs to.

 

I believe education level of available workforce was a reason Toyota had for choosing Canada for a factory location verse one in the States. The other reason was not having to pay for health insurance.

 

My how times have changed.
I'm old enough to remember when auto workers were highly paid but not necessarily highly skilled.
When they started installing the robots, UAW workers were told the SAME THING by "experts" in HR as out of work Coal Miners and other factory workers:
'learn to code.....'
Has AI made “learn to code” obsolete?

NOW we're learning that Auto workers are as skilled as doctors and as hard to find?