Did you know Obama just took new executive action on immigration?
This week President Obama took unilateral executive action — again — to change the nation's immigration laws. Almost no one noticed.
Obama intends to make it easier to bring more foreign guest workers to the United States — likely at significant cost to workers already here — by loosening the rules governing something known as the L-1B visa program. Under the program, a multinational company with offices in the United States can move workers from abroad to live and work in the U.S. for as long as five years in what is known as an intra-company transfer. There are almost no rules concerning what those workers can be paid, so there is no barrier to a company firing American employees and bringing in workers from foreign facilities to replace them at much lower pay.
Companies who transfer workers to the U.S. through an L-1B visa have to show that those workers bring some sort of "specialized knowledge" to the job — that is, they have particular knowledge that would be hard, if not impossible, to find elsewhere in the United States. Obama plans to broaden the definition of "specialized knowledge" so much that it could conceivably used to cover just about any foreign worker a company wants to bring here.
Companies transferring foreign workers to the U.S. have to make the case to an "adjudicator" from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. It's not a terribly tough job; the definition of "specialized knowledge" was already pretty loose. In 2006, the Department of Homeland Security inspector general investigated L-1Bs and found that "the program allows for the transfer of workers with 'specialized knowledge,' but the term is so broadly defined that adjudicators believe they have little choice but to approve almost all petitions." Standards were tightened somewhat after the study, but now Obama wants to loosen them again.
Also, under Obama's new rules, Citizenship and Immigration Services adjudicators will not be able to consider whether or not there are American workers available to do the job when determining whether to grant an L-1B visa. "A petitioner is not required to demonstrate the lack of readily available workers to perform the relevant duties in the United States," according to Obama's proposal.
In addition, the president seeks to lower the bar by which Citizenship and Immigration Services adjudicators make an overall judgment on L-1B applications. An applicant, or petitioner, does not have to prove that there is a need for an L-1B worker. Instead, he just has to make a case that an adjudicator can decide is "probably" true. From the Obama rules: "Even if an officer has some doubt about a claim, the petitioner will have satisfied the standard of proof if it submits relevant, probative, and credible evidence…that leads to the conclusion that the claim is 'more likely than not' or 'probably' true."
Some experts believe the new Obama rules — promised when the president announced his unilateral immigration overhaul last November — will lead to more abuse of a program that is already being abused. The few Americans who follow such topics have probably heard of the H-1B visa program that brings foreign workers to the United States, but even fewer have heard of the L-1B. "The L-1B is much worse than the H-1B program in terms of its impacts on American workers and the American economy," says Ron Hira, a professor at Howard University who studies the immigration system. "There are no wage standards — foreign workers can be paid home country wages, which is $6,000 a year for an IT worker in India. American workers can be displaced by L-1B workers. There are no recruitment requirements and no educational requirements (the L-1B worker doesn't even need a degree)."
That's not hyperbole; terrible abuses have actually taken place. This is from the opening statement by
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, at a hearing last week on immigration reform:
Hira points out that Electronics for Imaging "isn't some obscure company. It is a Silicon Valley-based publicly traded firm with more than half a billion dollars in revenue."
L-1B enforcements are pretty rare, Hira says, because the visa program is "subject to virtually no federal scrutiny or oversight. We have no idea how many L-1 visa holders are here at any time. The only reason the L-1B hasn't received any scrutiny from the press is because the government collects virtually no data on who is awarded an L-1B and who they work for."
Now, the president proposes to make L-1Bs easier to obtain. "I'm pleased to announce a new action I'm also taking to make it easier for global companies who are present here today to launch and invest in the U.S.," Obama said Monday at a gathering called the "SelectUSA Investment Summit" near Washington. "My administration is going to reform the L-1B visa category, which allows corporations to temporarily move workers from a foreign office to a U.S. office in a faster, simpler way."
By "reform," Obama means more L-1B visas, more easily obtained. To the scholars who have found that such visa programs lead to American workers being pushed out of their jobs in favor of cheaper foreign replacements, that's precisely the wrong thing to do. "The president has said explicitly that the goal of this policy is to make it easier for employers to get L-1Bs," says Ron Hira. "He should be tightening the standards, not loosening them."
Obama intends to make it easier to bring more foreign guest workers to the United States — likely at significant cost to workers already here — by loosening the rules governing something known as the L-1B visa program. Under the program, a multinational company with offices in the United States can move workers from abroad to live and work in the U.S. for as long as five years in what is known as an intra-company transfer. There are almost no rules concerning what those workers can be paid, so there is no barrier to a company firing American employees and bringing in workers from foreign facilities to replace them at much lower pay.
Companies who transfer workers to the U.S. through an L-1B visa have to show that those workers bring some sort of "specialized knowledge" to the job — that is, they have particular knowledge that would be hard, if not impossible, to find elsewhere in the United States. Obama plans to broaden the definition of "specialized knowledge" so much that it could conceivably used to cover just about any foreign worker a company wants to bring here.
Companies transferring foreign workers to the U.S. have to make the case to an "adjudicator" from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. It's not a terribly tough job; the definition of "specialized knowledge" was already pretty loose. In 2006, the Department of Homeland Security inspector general investigated L-1Bs and found that "the program allows for the transfer of workers with 'specialized knowledge,' but the term is so broadly defined that adjudicators believe they have little choice but to approve almost all petitions." Standards were tightened somewhat after the study, but now Obama wants to loosen them again.
Also, under Obama's new rules, Citizenship and Immigration Services adjudicators will not be able to consider whether or not there are American workers available to do the job when determining whether to grant an L-1B visa. "A petitioner is not required to demonstrate the lack of readily available workers to perform the relevant duties in the United States," according to Obama's proposal.
In addition, the president seeks to lower the bar by which Citizenship and Immigration Services adjudicators make an overall judgment on L-1B applications. An applicant, or petitioner, does not have to prove that there is a need for an L-1B worker. Instead, he just has to make a case that an adjudicator can decide is "probably" true. From the Obama rules: "Even if an officer has some doubt about a claim, the petitioner will have satisfied the standard of proof if it submits relevant, probative, and credible evidence…that leads to the conclusion that the claim is 'more likely than not' or 'probably' true."
Some experts believe the new Obama rules — promised when the president announced his unilateral immigration overhaul last November — will lead to more abuse of a program that is already being abused. The few Americans who follow such topics have probably heard of the H-1B visa program that brings foreign workers to the United States, but even fewer have heard of the L-1B. "The L-1B is much worse than the H-1B program in terms of its impacts on American workers and the American economy," says Ron Hira, a professor at Howard University who studies the immigration system. "There are no wage standards — foreign workers can be paid home country wages, which is $6,000 a year for an IT worker in India. American workers can be displaced by L-1B workers. There are no recruitment requirements and no educational requirements (the L-1B worker doesn't even need a degree)."
That's not hyperbole; terrible abuses have actually taken place. This is from the opening statement by
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, at a hearing last week on immigration reform:
Just last year, a Fremont, California tech company,Electronics for Imaging, Inc., was found by the Department
of Labor to have violated the Fair Labor Standards Act forhaving grossly underpaid a group of Indian nationals who the company had transferred on L-1 visas from its office in India to install a new computer system at the headquarters facility in Fremont. Specifically, the company flew eight L-1B workers from Bangalore, India to California and paid them only $1.21 per hour to work 120-hour weeks. The $1.21 hourly rate was equivalent to what the employees made in Indian rupees at their workplace in India. Importantly, though the company was found by the Department of Labor to have violated the Fair Labor Standards Act for paying the workers below [California's] minimum wage, it did not apparently violate any of the terms or conditions of the visa program because there is no prevailing wage requirement.
Hira points out that Electronics for Imaging "isn't some obscure company. It is a Silicon Valley-based publicly traded firm with more than half a billion dollars in revenue."
L-1B enforcements are pretty rare, Hira says, because the visa program is "subject to virtually no federal scrutiny or oversight. We have no idea how many L-1 visa holders are here at any time. The only reason the L-1B hasn't received any scrutiny from the press is because the government collects virtually no data on who is awarded an L-1B and who they work for."
Now, the president proposes to make L-1Bs easier to obtain. "I'm pleased to announce a new action I'm also taking to make it easier for global companies who are present here today to launch and invest in the U.S.," Obama said Monday at a gathering called the "SelectUSA Investment Summit" near Washington. "My administration is going to reform the L-1B visa category, which allows corporations to temporarily move workers from a foreign office to a U.S. office in a faster, simpler way."
By "reform," Obama means more L-1B visas, more easily obtained. To the scholars who have found that such visa programs lead to American workers being pushed out of their jobs in favor of cheaper foreign replacements, that's precisely the wrong thing to do. "The president has said explicitly that the goal of this policy is to make it easier for employers to get L-1Bs," says Ron Hira. "He should be tightening the standards, not loosening them."
VISAS – OPEN BORDERS FOR DEPRESSED WAGES…
It’s working!
The work that the 400 SCE IT employees do isn't disappearing,
instead it and their jobs are being taken over by foreign guestworkers here on
H-1B visas.
MICHELLE
MALKIN: THE LIES ABOUT
HIRING AMERICAN… not in America!!!
THE STAGGERING COST OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S AGENDA OF BUILDING THE LA RAZA MEXICAN WELFARE STATE on the BACKS OF AMERICA’S LOOTED MIDDLE-CLASS:
“The lifetime costs of Social Security
and Medicare benefits of illegal immigrant beneficiaries of President Obama’s
executive amnesty would be well over a trillion dollars, according to Heritage
Foundation expert Robert Rector’s prepared testimony for a House panel obtained
in advance by Breitbart News.”
THE CONS
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS, WHILE THE GOP
WATCHED, TURNED AMERICAN INTO MEXICO’S JOBS, WELFARE AND DRUG MARKET.
“The percentage of foreign-born
workers in the U.S. labor force has more than tripled over the last four
decades and while the U.S. represents just 5 percent of the world’s population
it attracts 20 percent of the world’s immigrants, according to a new report.”
THE REALITY OF OPEN BORDERS: The La Raza
Crime Tidal Wave!
That total includes 476 illegal aliens (23%) who had re-entered the United
States after previously being deported, federal officials said Monday at a joint press conference by ICE and the Department of Homeland
Security.
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Of the 2,059 criminals arrested, 1,013 -- almost half -- had been convicted
of more than one crime; and 1,036 had been convicted of a felony, including
voluntary manslaughter, child pornography, robbery and kidnapping.
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Of the total 2,059 criminals arrested, 58 are known gang members or
affiliates, and 89 are convicted sex offenders.
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An additional 912 illegal aliens were arrested for multiple
"significant misdemeanors," mostly repeated convictions for driving
under the influence.
THE LA RAZA MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE half the prison
population in CA and half the murders are by MEXICANS
40% of Federal Criminal Cases in 2013 Were in Districts
on Mexican Border
OBAMA’S CATCH and RELEASE TO GO VOTE DEM FOR
MORE GRINGO WEFLARE….
Emmanuel Jesus Rangel-Hernandez, 19, was
charged in February with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths
of three people in Charlotte, N.C, including a 19-year-old former America’s
Next Top Model contestant, Mirjana Puhar, the Associated
Press reported.
(CNSNews.com) -- An illegal alien and known gang member who has been charged with
first-degree murder in North Carolina was granted deferred deportation under
President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA),
despite having been placed in removal proceedings for drug charges in 2012,
according to a
press release from Senate Judiciary
Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.).
“Until lawmakers end the catch-and-release
policies of the Obama administration,” said Jessica Vaughan of the Center for
Immigration Studies, “any infrastructure improvements, new strategies, and
better metrics are pointless.”
The fraud of Obama’s “Student Aid Bill of Rights”
By Nancy Hanover
23 March 2015
Last week President Obama announced a series of
executive actions that he dubbed a “Student Aid Bill of Rights.”
The initiative is partially an exercise in damage
control. It follows a series of lawsuits and scandals involving the Department
of Education (DOE). The government agency has become the target of growing
anger for protection of predatory student loan collection agencies, its bailout
of the for-profit career college chain Corinthian
and its overall profit-taking from student loans.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/03/barack-obama-and-his-crony.html
The
43 million Americans who owe some $1.3 trillion in student loan debt were
offered zero forgiveness. In fact, Obama does not propose even one measure to
actually lessen the ever-escalating cost of college or encroach on the
lucrative business of student loan debt. All the “rights” remain in the hands
of the government, the banks and hedge funds.
Far
from a “Bill of Rights” Obama continues to deliver a fraudulent bill of goods.
At every point, his administration has protected the financial industry in
looting an entire generation of students, preventing millions of young people
from either attaining the education they desire or making them pay through the
nose for the rest of their lives.
POVERTY – HALF OF
AMERICA HITS BOTTOM!
OBAMANOMICS: HALF or NEARLY HALF OF AMERICA TEETERS ON THE
EDGE OF POVERTY… and yet the Democrat party is determined to legalize Mexico’s
looting and hand millions more jobs to Mexicans… simply to keep wages depressed
for their campaign contributing paymasters!
OBAMANOMICS and OPEN BORDERS:
The report found that the growth of global inequality has
accelerated sharply since the 2008 financial crisis, as the values of financial
assets have soared while wages have stagnated and declined.
Richest one percent controls nearly half of global wealth
The richest one percent of the world’s population now controls 48.2 percent of global wealth, up from 46 percent last year.
The report found that the growth of global inequality has accelerated sharply since the 2008 financial crisis, as the values of financial assets have soared while wages have stagnated and declined.
IS
OBAMA BUSH’S THIRD AND FOURTH TERMS ON STEROIDS?
Obama replaced George W. Bush, who left office the most
reviled president in US history. The election campaign was accompanied by an
enormous amount of media marketing, with a candidate who had no significant
political history packaged as the agent of “hope” and “change.”
Upon coming to office, however, Obama pursued the most
right-wing agenda in US history. It quickly emerged that whatever vague
promises he made were insincere, and that his administration was committed to
an acceleration of the policies of the Bush administration—overseeing a
historic transfer of wealth to the rich, escalating military violence abroad,
and deepening the attacks on democratic rights within the United States.
AMNESTY: The solution to keep wages
depressed
“A more recent national survey by the
Federal Reserve, based on 2013 data, suggests the problem has not only
persisted as the economy recovered but may even have worsened. More than 30
percent of Americans reported spikes and dips in their incomes. Among that
group, 42 percent cited an irregular work schedule; an additional 27 percent
blamed a span of joblessness or seasonal work.”
“In the two advanced countries with the greatest income
inequality, Spain and the United States, job losses and wage cuts accounted for nearly all the
increase in inequality.”
CRONY CAPITALISM…
predicated on keeping wages depressed to third world levels for his billionaire
donors!
Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and
Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses…and
Muslim Dictators
more at this link – post on your Facebook and email broadcast
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IMF PREDICTS THAT OBAMANOMICS and the GLOBAL LOOTING BY OBAMA’S
CRIMINAL CRONY BANKSTERS WILL SOON DESTROY THE AMERICAN ECONOMY.
The International Monetary Fund
warned Wednesday that the world economy would remain locked in a pattern of
slow growth, high unemployment and high debt for a prolonged period. The
forecast, contained in the organization’s updated World Economic Outlook (WEO),
marks a shift from previous economic projections in acknowledging that there is
little prospect of a return to the growth levels that prevailed prior to the
2008 Wall Street crash.
The document’s grim analysis
amounts to a tacit acknowledgement that the crisis ushered in nearly seven
years ago by the financial meltdown is of a historical and fundamental
character, and that the underlying problems in the global capitalist system
have not been resolved.
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