Biden Tells Blue Collar Workers
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“Anybody who can go
down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well,"
Biden said. "Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to
program, for God's sake!"
Biden riffing on how Obama put him in charge of judging
the "jobs of the future" suggests re-training miners as coders.
"Anybody who can go down 3000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well."
This sort of "just transition" stuff was murder on Clinton in 2016...
"Anybody who can go down 3000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well."
This sort of "just transition" stuff was murder on Clinton in 2016...
But
Biden returns to the same point: "Anybody who can throw coal into a
furnace can learn how to program, for God's sake!"
Biden’s
comment to blue collar workers came one day after he said fossil fuel
executives should be thrown
in prison for polluting the environment.
"Put them in
jail," he said. "I'm not joking about this."
.@JoeBiden
on fossil fuel execs: “We should put them in jail” for pollution
Earlier
this month the former vice president made it clear he would have no problem
eliminating hundreds of thousands of blue collar jobs to attain a greener
economy.
“Vice President Biden,
I’d like to ask you, three consecutive American presidents have enjoyed stints
of explosive economic growth due to oil and gas production,” Tim Alberta said
during the Dec. 19 Democratic debate. “As president would you be willing to
sacrifice some of that growth, even knowing potentially that it could displace
thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of blue collar workers in the interest
transitioning to that greener economy?”
Dennis
Prager
“The answer is yes,”
Biden replied.
QUESTION:
"Would you be willing to sacrifice...hundreds of thousands of blue collar
workers in that transitioning to that greener economy?"
BIDEN: "The answers yes."
BIDEN: "The answers yes."
Hillary
Clinton also once vowed to
"put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” Perhaps
Biden should consider how that worked out for her.
MULTI-CULTURALISM and the creation of a
one-party globalist country to serve the rich in America’s open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, claim
illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support
such an assertion. As the CIS has documented, the vast majority of illegals are
poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal
aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit
California’s economy? If illegals were contributing to the economy in any
meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6 million illegals, would be booming.” STEVE
BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
Walmart
Outsources Almost 600 Accounting, Finance Jobs to Indian H-1Bs
Annie Spratt/Unsplash
Walmart is outsourcing 569 finance and accounting jobs in North Carolina
to Indian contract workers, spotlighting the expansion of the H-1B program from
software jobs to accounting, healthcare, and design.
Fairness
for High Skilled Immigrants Act exposes Silicon Valley's hollow diversity
slogans
Census:
Indian Visa Workers Driving Americans Out of Middle-Class Jobs
Census data shows that
one-in-seven software developers in Hudson County, New Jersey, were born in the
United States, down from a six-in-seven share in 1980.
Walmart Outsources
Accounting, Office Jobs to Indian H-1Bs
Federal
Investigation Warns DHS About Fraud in Work Visa Programs
Sen. Durbin Blocks
Indian Green-Card Giveaway: Wants Bigger Giveaway
GOP
Sen. Kennedy Blocks Democrat Bill to Import More Indian Workers
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Lousiana GOP
Sen. John Kennedy has blocked a bill drafted by a top Democratic Senator that
would accelerate the flow of Indian visa workers and immigrants into Americans’
office jobs.
Durbin, Leahy Introduce New Legislation To Increase Number
Of Green Cards Available, Eliminating...
Census: Indian Visa Workers Drive Americans Out of
Middle-Class Jobs
Lawsuit: Intel's Indian Managers Discriminated Against
American | Breitbart
Indian H-1B Visa Workers Protest Senator, Demand More
Green Cards
Trump's Lawyers Support Obama's DACA Work Permits for
Illegals
MULTI-CULTURALISM and the creation of a
one-party globalist country to serve the rich in America’s open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, claim
illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support
such an assertion. As the CIS has documented, the vast majority of illegals are
poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal
aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit
California’s economy? If illegals were contributing to the economy in any
meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6 million illegals, would be booming.” STEVE
BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
Walmart
Outsources Almost 600 Accounting, Finance Jobs to Indian H-1Bs
29 Aug 20190
11:15
Walmart is outsourcing 569 finance and accounting jobs in North Carolina
to Indian contract workers, spotlighting the expansion of the H-1B program from
software jobs to accounting, healthcare, and design.
“We
made this difficult decision following an extensive analysis that identified
areas where we could best maximize our finance and accounting operations,
further improve the speed and quality of our services,” said a Walmart
statement to Breitbart News. The company continued:
We’re
positioning our business to operate more effectively in the future and have
said that from time to time, you’ll see the company eliminate positions in an
effort to stay lean and fast as we manage costs. We invest in some areas and in
other cases, we’ll operate more efficiently and work to change our processes
and at times the work itself.
The layoffs will
run to January 2020, the employees will be allowed to seek other Walmart jobs,
and they can get a severance package, the statement said. The press release did
not say how many of the employees have degrees in financing or accounting.
The
work is being taken over by Genpact,
whose Indian H-1B
workers will join the army of roughly 900,000 resident H-1B
workers throughout the United States. The firm is a spin-off of
General Electric, and it uses cheap Indian graduates to transfer
may U.S. college-graduate jobs to cheaper Indian worksites. According to
the investor-owned firm:
Genpact
began in 1997 as a business unit within General Electric. In January 2005,
Genpact became an independent company to bring our process expertise and unique
DNA in Lean management to clients beyond GE, and then in August 2007, we became
a publicly-traded company. Bain Capital became Genpact’s largest shareholder in
November 2012, with the strategic objective to grow the company further. Since
December 31, 2005, we have expanded from 19,000+ employees and annual revenues
of US$491.90 million to 87,000+ employees and annual revenues of US$3.00
billion as of December 31, 2018.
If
the outsourcing saves $25,000 per person in payroll costs, the
company’s myriad
stockholders will gain $350 million in
stock value because Walmart’s price-to-earning ratio is 25:1.
Many
other U.S. software jobs have already been moved to India, usually by using the
H-1Bs as the U.S. face of a larger workforce based in India. This job transfer
offshore has dramatically expanded the U.S-India Outsourcing Economy and
is freeing up temporary H-1B visas to expand the offshoring process to many other
careers, including in the financial and healthcare sectors.
For
example, in 2018, Goldman Sachs asked the government for 227 visas, JPMorgan
Chase & Co., asked for 207 visas, Blackrock
Financial Management asked for 129 visas, and
Citibank asked for 59 visas, Overall,
the financial sector asked to H-1B visas to import 1,604 accountants and almost
2,000 financial analysts.
Investors
are also using the H-1B program to bring in cheaper healthcare professionals
into the United States. In 2018, companies
and universities filed 7,783 valid petitions for H-1B
visas for healthcare jobs in 2018. That number included jobs for 1,894
physicians and surgeons, 1,681 biology scientists, 476 dentists, and 440
therapists and 112 pharmacists. The companies importing contract worker
doctors, dentists, and therapists include Aspen Dental, A Caring
Doctor, Ability
Works Rehab Services, Access
Therapies, and Apogee
Medical Group.
Many
of these companies are lobbying politicians to help them import more foreign
workers. For example, the Sanford medical group is importing H-1Bs for
clinics throughout the Dakotas, and is
supported by North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer’s S.386
outsourcing legislation. The draft bill would provide more green cards
to Indian H-1Bs and significantly increase the incentive for young Indians to
take low-wage contract-worker jobs in the United States.
In
2018, companies also asked for 5,153 people for “design” jobs, including 911
graphic designers, 283 architects, 243 interior designers, 110 fashion
designers, and 386 commercial and industrial
designers. The hiring companies include Abercrombie
& Fitch, and 2.7 August
Apparel, an L.A.-based company which asked to import seven fashion
designers who would be paid less than $59.000.
These
visa numbers comprise a large share of future growth in many professions. For
example, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is projecting 11,000 new jobs for
graphic designers in the ten years up to 2016. But the requests to import
roughly 5,000 H-1B graphic designers over that period would fill almost 40
percent of those new jobs, so flattening any chances of pay raises
for American-born graphic designers.
The
H-1B program is the largest visa-worker program, but it is complemented by the
other white-collar programs, including the OPT, CPT, L-1, E-2, TN, H4EAD, and
J-1 programs. Overall, these programs keep roughly 1.5 million foreign
graduates in U.S. jobs. These workers are not immigrants but are contract
workers, often hired in foreign countries under contract terms set by foreign
laws.
Walmart
employs several thousand H-1B workers, mostly in software jobs. A leaked video
from inside a Walmart software center in Bentonville, Ark, shows many of the
contract worker graduates at work.
This is just one floor of Walmart out 3 floors where 1000
and 1000 opt(bentonville, AR)students(mostly fake) are working under 20 to
30$/h and killing white color jobs.
TCS, COGNOZANT, INFOSYS,only hire Indians. How many more
proof do we need. ?
In response
to a question about the tweeted video, Walmart responded:
Walmart is
proud to employ 1.5 million associates in the U.S. We have large global
technology and shared service organizations that employ thousands of associates
to support operations in 27 countries, including the U.S. and India. We are
currently recruiting for hundreds of technology and shared service jobs in the
United States across multiple locations. Like many companies, our
in-house teams are also supported by outside contractors, and we expect those
firms to comply with all relevant U.S. laws.
It is
misleading to look at one video within a Tweet and draw conclusions about the
makeup of someone’s workforce.
Walmart
asked for H-1B visas for
1,408 foreign workers in 2018, 893 visas in 2017, and 760 visas in 2016.
Federal data about the award process suggest that the company received about
1,000 H-1B visas in those years.
The
company also asked for 199 green cards for its foreign employees in 2018.
Nearly all of those requests are approved, allowing the temporary workers to
stay in the United States.
Almost
85 percent of Walmart’s green cards were sought for Indian workers.
But
Walmart and many other companies also employ many imported H-1B workers who are
hired from Indian-run and U.S.-run subcontracting firms, such as Infosys and
Cognizant.
For
example, subcontractors asked for 704 H-1B visas for foreign workers to
take jobs at Walmart during 2019, according to a search of
2019 federal data.
The
search software was produced by Virgil Bierschwale, a Texas-based
programmer and founder of Keep America At Work. Bierschwale
is using the 2020 election to run against Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn to
protest his support for companies’ use of foreign contract-workers.
Each
H-1B worker can stay for up to six years, or longer if they are nominated for a
green card.
The
data suggests that Walmart employs directly and indirectly at least 5,000
foreign H-1B college-graduates, plus additional foreign graduates with OPT and
L-1 work permits.
Indian
workers are moving into management at many U.S. companies. For example,
Walmart’s chief technology officer is Suresh Kumar, an Indian
graduate who formerly worked at Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Elsewhere, the
CEOs of Microsoft and Google are former visa workers.
Several
advocacy groups oppose this white-collar outsourcing, including the Center for
Immigration Studies, the American Workers Coalition, Doctorswithoutjobs.com,
alongside ProUSworkers, No on H.R. 1044, and The Multinational Coalition Against
H.R. 1044/S. 386.
In
turn, these groups are backed up by a few sites that are tracking the scale and locationof the
outsourcing industry in federal legislators’ districts. The sites include
SAITJ.org and H1BFacts.com. “The scope of this thing is really unbelievable,”
said one researcher.
Other
sites document the
conflicts created by diverse foreign business practices in the
United States. The non-political MyVisaJobs.com site also provides much
information about H-1B outsourcing and
green card rewards in
multiple industries. The federal USCIS agency provides some
data, including some data about the uncapped OPT program.
In
2015, the AFL-CIO released a report slamming
Walmart for its use of foreign contract-workers. The report, titled “After
Decimating U.S. Manufacturing, Wal-Mart Takes Aim at the Information Technology
Sector,” said:
Walmart
is lobbying for a massive increase in the number of H-1B visas. Walmart or
Walmart principals back FWD.us and Compete America, the major lobbying groups
working to triple the availability of H-1B work visas.
Walmart
filed 1,800 petitions (certified LCAs) for H-1B visas in IT-related occupations
between 2007 and 2014. These H-1B visa holders work for Walmart in areas like
software development, collaborative applications, data management, system
maintenance, and other IT fields.
Between
2007 and 2014, IT contractors have filed almost 15,000 petitions (certified
LCAs) for H1B visas for work placed in Bentonville, Arkansas, home to Walmart’s
headquarters and information technology center. Walmart is a known client of
these controversial outsourcing contractors, including Infosys, Cognizant and
Wipro.
…
Walmart
and its IT contractors are clearly availing themselves of high quantities of
H-1B visas for tech workers in Bentonville, suggesting that Arkansian STEM
graduates, and STEM students generally, are likely overlooked in favor of IT
guest workers from abroad that are paid less and have less rights. In Arkansas
in 2012, over 2,000 students graduated with STEM degrees, and about 800
students graduated with IT-related degrees from four-year public universities
every year.
Greg
Penner, the chairman of Walmart, has donated to Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.usadvocacy group, which seeks
to maintain the nation’s economic policy of growth via mass-immigration.
Zuckerberg and other West Coast investors founded the group.
Walmart
is also expanding its software
hiring in India as it competes with Amazon for a growing share of
India’s undeveloped retail market.
Amazon is
also investing in India:
Amazon opens its largest campus yet,
thousands of miles from Seattle, in Hyderabad, India.
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Fairness
for High Skilled Immigrants Act exposes Silicon Valley's hollow diversity
slogans
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Silicon Valley says it loves diversity, but the industry only
wants workers from one country — and it’s not America.
An estimated
71 percent of the workforce in Silicon Valley
is foreign-born. The majority are Indian nationals; nearly
70 percent of those who come on H-1B visas — a
favorite of Big Tech — hail from India. Additionally, many tech firms have a
sizable presence in India itself.
And the reason
tech giants love Indian-born workers? They tend to work for far less than American workers.
Unfortunately,
Congress wants to advance Silicon Valley’s lack of diversity. The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act would eliminate country caps on immigration and allow
Indians to monopolize the share of green cards. It’s estimated that Indians
would take at least 75 percent of all employment-based visas if the bill passes.
The bill’s
supporters, including Utah Sen. Mike Lee, said the bill would make
our immigration system more fair. But letting one or two nationalities
monopolize employment visas is fair to no one.
Fortunately,
the bill was blocked last week
by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paulwhen Lee tried to force a vote with no debate or hearings. But
there’s a huge danger it will be resurrected.
This bill is
great for Silicon Valley, but bad for high-skilled American workers. As
OpenSecrets reported, “a
significant portion of the lobbying done in favor of” the bill “was bankrolled
by tech companies.” With this act, foreign-born workers would make up an even
greater share of the tech workforce, for haf the pay, and Americans with STEM
degrees would get the short end of the stick.
Big Tech frames
their support for the bill as opposition to discrimination.
“Eliminating
the discriminatory per-country caps is a crucial first step to keeping highly
skilled individuals contributing here instead of taking their talents to our
global competitors, while also providing relief for them and their families,” a
major Silicon Valley funded lobbying group said in support of the bill.
The real
discrimination comes from Silicon Valley’s hiring, not America’s sensible
country caps. Unlike Big Tech’s workforce, the country caps strive for
diversity and prevent one nationality from dominating our immigration
system.
Silicon Valley
giants frequently preach empty platitudes about the value of diversity for
employees and customers. However, seeking primarily foreign-born Indian
tech workers is not diverse. A truly diverse workforce would be one made up of
American citizens from many different backgrounds. Silicon Valley's workforce
does not promote America’s best interests, and exposes the hypocrisy of its
platitudes.
Congress should
encourage Big Tech to change its ways. We should insist these companies hire
Americans before recruiting cheap labor from one part of the world. What’s the
point in an American getting a STEM degree if our tech corporations won’t hire
Americans?
Virgil Goode represented Virginia's 5th Congressional District
from 1997 to 2009. He was the first
former member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump for
president. Follow him on Twitter @VirgilGoode.
Census:
Indian Visa Workers Driving Americans Out of Middle-Class Jobs
2 Oct 201932
11:05
Census data shows that
one-in-seven software developers in Hudson County, New Jersey, were born in the
United States, down from a six-in-seven share in 1980.
This wholescale
replacement of American software experts by foreigners — mostly by Indian visa
workers — is repeated in many counties across the United States, according to
2017 federal census data analyzed by R. Davis, a
software developer in Silicon Valley.
The trend is spreading
into other sectors, including accounting, health care, and design because U.S.
investors and Indian firms are cooperating to transfer many professional-grade
jobs to India and the payroll savings to Wall Street.
In 2017, American-born
programmers were just one-in-four software employees in Santa Clara,
California, down from four-in-five in 1980.
Just one-in-three software
developers in Richmond County, NY, were born in the United
States. One-third of the workers in Forsyth County, GA; McLean County, IL;
and in San Bernardino County, CA, in 2017 were American-born.
Americans comprise only
four-in-ten programmers in Bergen County, TN; in Loudoun County, VA; in Broward
County, FL; and in Denton County, TX.
American-born software
experts are only half the workforce in Snohomish County,
WA; in Cleveland County, OK; in Douglas County, NE; in Montgomery County, MD;
in Suffolk County, MA; and in Benton County, AR, the home of Walmart.
“It should be concerning
that some very key areas, like Silicon Valley and New York City, have the
largest swings in the
demographics,” Davis told Breitbart News. He continued:
I think that these
areas have reached the point that there is a real risk that tech workers from
certain countries (mostly India) are being favored in the hiring process.
One item that I haven’t
really heard covered is the fact that the majority of recruiters now seem to be
India-born … I have had 4 on-site interviews since being laid off and
interviews with 18 people during those interviews. A full 13 of them appeared
to have been born in India and only one seemed to be likely U.S. born.
That may have been
partially bad luck and much of the problem that I had getting hired may have
been from ageism, being in my early 60s. Still, it seems to point out a risk of
one nationality getting too high a representation in the hiring process.
Moreover, the huge inflow
of foreign visa workers — and expanding loss of young American graduates — is
gradually filling middle-management and leadership teams with foreign-born
executives.
There is a growing volume of
anecdotal reports and courtroom evidence that Indian
managers at U.S. companies and subcontractors prefer to hire Indians, usually
by covertly discriminating against better-qualified American applicants.
Much of the evidence comes from Indian
immigrants to the United States who are appalled by the predatory Indian business
practices that have pushed American graduates out of their jobs and careers.
These Indian “ex-immigrants” tell Breitbart News that they identify with their
fellow Americans.
They also say they strongly favor
Americans’ emphasis on individual competence and open competition over many
Indians’ traditional reliance on family nepotism, caste solidarity,
and ethnic chauvinism.
The hiring bias towards fellow Indians is
made possible by the federal government, which has created and defended various
visa worker programs.
These visa programs allow U.S. companies to
keep an army of roughly 1.5 million foreign graduates — including roughly 800,000
Indian graduates — for a wide variety of jobs across the United States. Most
visa workers will work for low wages in the hopes that their employers will
provide them with the hugely valuable prize of green cards.
The work visas include the H-1B, B1, TN, and L-1 visas, plus the H4EAD work permit, and the Optional Practical Training (OPT) and Curricular Practical
Training (CPT) work permits that are issued via U.S. universities and colleges.
These roughly 1.5 million visa workers are slotted into good jobs in design,
fashion, health care, engineering, accounting, management, recruiting, and
especially in software — partly because top executives and investors
think they are cheaper than indebted American graduates.
The bias is spotlighted by online ads
offering to hire and train Indian graduates in the United States for jobs at
Indian-run software firms:
Visit "H1b community" on FB and message few of
these Indian recruiters (operating from offshore).Corporations are unwilling to
take US grads as Interns for an on the job training and instead find OPTs
@$20-40/hr no obligations. https://twitter.com/realmedridd/status/1178916736088842241 …
The result is that many U.S. companies —
either directly or via their many subcontractors — hire Indians and other
foreign workers instead of American graduates. For example, on September
9, Kotchen & Low filed a lawsuit in San Jose on behalf of an American who
was allegedly belittled and sidelined by Indian managers at a U.S.-based Indian
company, named Happiest Minds. The lawsuit says:
On information and belief, both Happiest
Minds’ internal recruiters and its third-party recruiters give preference to
locating and recruiting South Asian and Indian candidates, who are then given
preference throughout the hiring process
…
Happiest Minds’ U.S. workforce reflects the
result of its discriminatory scheme. While only about 12% of the U.S. IT
industry and only 1-2% of the U.S. population as a whole is South Asian,
approximately 90% (or more) of Happiest Minds’ United States-based workforce is
South Asian and Indian, as is the vast majority of its managerial and
supervisory-level staff.
Foreign workers — especially Indians — have
rational, self-serving reasons to pull each other into U.S. jobs and to
discriminate against Americans.
Americans and Indian visa workers tell
Breitbart News that Indians expect jobs will be bought from Indian recruiters
and hiring managers, usually via kickback to Indian recruiters and managers.
This cash-for-jobs practice is rational because even low-wage sweat-shop jobs
in third-tier subcontractor companies in the United States are better than
office jobs in India — partly because any job in the United States is one step
closer to the jackpot of getting a U.S. green card.
This routine cheating is spotlighted by Indian-born
technology experts, including a person who tweets under the pseudonym
“American_desi- blocked by IV.”
Really Bharat? being an Indian you KNOW how many people
lie and fake their resumes. You also know about proxy interviews, job support,
bribing the hiring manager and other 3 rd world practices that some H1B's
bring.. Join our cause so that the genuinely skilled are rewarded
A “desi” is an Indian term for an Indian. “Blocked
by IV” refers to Immigration Voice, which is the leading business-backed lobbying group that is pushing to win more
green cards for Indian visa workers.
The cheating is simplified by the myriad
fake resumes that are offered by a resume-forging industry and by an Indian industry of
test-takers and “proxies” who will pretend to be the job-seeker during
online interviews.
@SenThomTillis @SenatorBurr Dear Senators, Plz say NO to UC for #s3086.
This will be detrimental for American Graduates. Fake resumes, cheating by
giving proxy interviews don't deserve this.
#NoS386 Video is an example of a meritorious Indian giving proxy interview. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5eubys
Indians hired for jobs in the United States
can hide their shortcomings by hiring Indians in India to do
their U.S. work via a backdoor software link to their desktop computer. This
informal subcontracting os called “job support” or “program support.” Often,
the new Indian workers are trained by skilled Americans who are being replaced.
The result is that many Americans are
shoved aside by the Indian visa worker industry. Davis’s census data shows the
trend in Silicon Valley’s Alameda County:
Hiring Manager Instructions: an Infosys
hiring manager admitted “There does exist an element of discrimination. We are
advised to hire Indians … because they will work off the clock without murmur
and they can always be transferred across the nation without hesitation unlike
[a] local workforce.”
Talent Acquisition Unit Observations:
Recruiters in Talent Acquisition observed that Indians were highly favored, and
it was extremely difficult to move non-South Asians ahead in the hiring
process. Non-Indians were regularly rejected as being “not a good fit,” – an
Infosys euphemism for “non-Indian.” This discrimination is on-going. In 2016
for example, an Infosys manager in their Talent Acquisition Unit observed
that of Infosys’ 2,900 hires in the United States, 2,200 (76%) were Indian. She
observed a similar hiring disparity in prior years.
Applicant Data Manipulation: Infosys
manipulates applicant tracking data in such a way that consideration of
non-South Asians and non-Indians is minimized, and the hiring of South Asians
is maximized. For example, recruiters have observed that non-South Asian
applicants were repeatedly deleted from Infosys’ applicant tracking system,
forcing one recruiter to keep a separate spreadsheet of applicants on his
computer. Recruiters have also observed South Asian applicants, located by
Infosys’ “sourcers” in India, manually entered into the applicant tracking
system despite those individuals not having formally applied, thus streamlining
the hiring process. Individuals sourced in this way were moved “to the front of
the line” ahead of applicants in the U.S. A recruiter also observed that
applications for United States positions were regularly not reviewed, and in
2016, approximately 11,000 to 12,000 were rejected en masse.
U.S. employers tolerate the growing
evidence of corruption because the inflow of Indian workers helps to lower the
marketplace wages for all software workers, including skilled Americans.
Early-stage investors are especially eager to shortchange their employees
because they need to display good profit-and-loss numbers to their targeted
stock-sale customers on Wall Street.
U.S. companies also use the Indian workers
to help shift U.S. jobs to lower-wage Indians in
India via the U.S-India Outsourcing Economy. The outsourcing economy
allows investors to import cheap Indian visa workers to take U.S. jobs — and
also to help transfer other white-collar jobs back to Indian worksites. Indian
officials claim their outsourcing industry has created four million jobs in
India because of outsourcing contracts from U.S. and European companies.
Yes, this is Walmart. See http://bit.ly/2ZoVQJB https://twitter.com/S1S1B1/status/1109459333023174656 …
Walmart Outsources
Accounting, Office Jobs to Indian H-1Bs
The Indian outsourcing economy is similar
to China’s free-trade manufacturing economy because it is creating huge wealth
on Wall Street by moving U.S. office-park jobs to India, just as the free-trade
deals moved factory jobs to China and the payroll savings to Wall Street.
Many Chinese are also hired as visa workers
for jobs in the United States. However, they are usually slotted into high-end
jobs at U.S. banks, major software firms, and research centers. The inflow of
Chinese is so large, say Americans, that it has created networks of Chinese
managers who also disfavor Americans.
GAO warns DHS to do more to prevent the smuggling of
Indian and Chinese graduates into U.S. white-collar careers, such as software,
healthcare, accounting, etc. Most smuggling takes place via the universities'
'OPT' work-permit giveaway to foreign grads. http://bit.ly/2ZlrlEc
Federal
Investigation Warns DHS About Fraud in Work Visa Programs
Investors and CEOs have used visa workers
for three decades and have also provided many of the visa workers with green
cards. So the Indians’ share of the skilled workforce is rising, and Indians
are moving up the management ranks. For example, former Indian visa workers are
now the top executives at Microsoft and Google, and they reportedly fill many
senior management slots at many famous companies, including Cisco Systems.
The huge use of imported Indians also
leaves roughly 300,000 Indian workers in the United States in a lengthy legal
limbo between the status of visa worker and the hoped-for status of green card
holder. In turn, many of those 300,000 workers have joined with business
lobbies to push for GOP Sen. Mike Lee’s S.386 bill, which would expand the
inflow of Indians into the U.S. college jobs.
The S.386 outsourcing bill is also backed
by Georgia GOP Sen. David Perdue, Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul, and by about 30
other GOP and Democratic Senators.
So far, the S.386 bill has been stopped by
Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin. His decision is applauded by a loose array of
pro-American activists, led by American female technology graduates and by
Indian and Chinese graduates, visa workers, and legal immigrants.
Credit to Sen. Durbin; He delays Sen. Lee's @S386 green-card giveaway to the US-India
Outsourcing Economy. But he wants even larger #s of foreign grads! I assume he knows a
larger inflow will cut US grads' salaries & so pressure them to vote
Democratic. http://bit.ly/2lUkMGw
Sen. Durbin Blocks
Indian Green-Card Giveaway: Wants Bigger Giveaway
Activists expect Sen. Lee will try to
include the outsourcing bill in the must-pass appropriations bills for 2020,
and they worry that Durbin will submit to pressure from investors and the
Indian visa workers.
The rising Indian share of the industry and
the amazing decline of Americans is the most prominent trend in these charts,
which show the national origins of software workers in U.S. countries. Decade
by decade, the Americans’ blue columns shrink as the Indian’s green columns —
and the Chinese red columns — rise:
EconomyImmigrationPoliticsB-1H-1BImmigrantIndianL-1MigrantmigrationOutsourcingU.S-India
Outsourcing Economyvisa worker
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GOP
Sen. Kennedy Blocks Democrat Bill to Import More Indian Workers
17 Oct 2019279
13:29
Lousiana GOP
Sen. John Kennedy has blocked a bill drafted by a top Democratic Senator that
would accelerate the flow of Indian visa workers and immigrants into Americans’
office jobs.
“The American people deserve an immigration system
that looks like somebody designed it on purpose,”
Kennedy told Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin during a polite conversation on the
Senate floor. He said:
I am rising to object [to Durbin’s bill] because
a number of my colleagues … would like a little
additional time to study this bill. But equally important, if
not more important, many of my colleagues’
sentiment is that we should take this bill up first in the judiciary committee.
Kennedy’s October 16 objection blocked Durbin’s effort to pass
his “RELIEF Act” via the Senate’s fast-track “Unanimous Consent” process.
Durbin’s RELIEF Act would double the annual award of green cards
given to the cheap foreign workers who are hired by American companies for jobs
in the United States. It would double the annual inflow to 120,000 workers by
exempting their immediate families from the annual cap. The bill would also
lift the annual “country caps” and so allow companies to annually reward
roughly 100,000 Indian visa-workers with valuable, government-provided
green-cards, up from 10,000 Indian workers a year under the current rules.
The touted virtue of the Durbin bill is that it would reduce the
population of 300,000 Indian visa-workers who mostly work for below-market
wages while waiting for years to get their promised “Employer-Based” green
cards.
This so-called “backlog” population of 300,000 workers and
300,000 family members gets much sympathetic coverage from American
progressives. But the backlog was created by the crush of Indians who accepted
green-card nominations from companies in a barter payment for taking jobs,
salaries, and careers that would otherwise have gone to American graduates.
Durbin’s description of his bill suggests that it would
dramatically worsen Americans’ vulnerability to Indian outsourcing. By
allowing U.S. investors to pay 100,000 green cards to 200,000 Indian workers,
spouses, and children each year, it will dramatically expand the citizenship
incentives for Indian graduates and their spouses to take good U.S. jobs at
sweatshop wages via the uncapped, open, and little-understood B1, OPT, L-1, and
H-1B programs.
Those visa programs have already enabled and encouraged U.S. and
Indian companies to export millions of white-collar jobs to India and to
discriminate against millions of job-seeking American graduates.
Kennedy’s block will require Durbin to gradually build support
for his outsourcing bill, via hearings, outside alliances, and public debates
where Americans graduates can defend their pocketbook interests.
One of the most
serious problems in our broken immigration system is the lack of green cards,
leaving immigrants in a crippling backlog. The solution is clear: increase the
number of green cards.
Proud to introduce the RELIEF Act with @SenatorLeahy to eliminate the backlog.
Proud to introduce the RELIEF Act with @SenatorLeahy to eliminate the backlog.
Read more about the RELIEF Act here: https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-leahy-introduce-new-legislation-to-increase-number-of-green-cards-available-eliminating-the-backlog …
Durbin, Leahy Introduce New Legislation To Increase Number
Of Green Cards Available, Eliminating...
But Durbin’s push for his RELIEF Act also shows his continued
opposition to the GOP Sen. Mike Lee’s green-card giveaway for Indian visa-workers.
U.S.
investors are quietly pushing Lee’s S.386 giveaway bill. In July, the business
groups persuaded nearly all House Democrats and 140 Republicans to pass a
matching job-outsourcing bill, titled HR.1044. The bill was endorsed
by India’s government, whose national economic strategy seeks to export workers so
that more jobs and businesses are sent back to India.
If passed, Lee’s bill would supercharge the growing U.S.-India
Outsourcing Economy, which has already sent at least 2 million white-collar
jobs into the Indian economy. Lee’s bill would aid this outsourcing by allowing
companies to pay roughly 60,000 green cards each year to Indian workers who
take white-collar jobs from Americans.
Lee has tried and failed three times to pass his bill by
unanimous consent, and may try again on October 17.
This
Kennedy-Durbin-Lee political standoff is a temporary win for groups of U.S.
professionals who have lobbied against Lee’s giveaway bill. The American
professionals who oppose the Indian giveaway have organized several groups,
such as U.S.
Tech Workers, White-Collar Workers of
America, Protect US Workers, and Progressives for Immigration
Reform.
But Durbin’s RELIEF Act shows the huge political problem facing
U.S. graduates as influential investors and progressives quietly ally to import
millions of Indian college-graduate workers into the U.S. economy.
The existing population of roughly 1.5 million visa workers —
mostly from India — raise the supply of graduates and so reduce salary levels
for Americans.
The visa workers take U.S. jobs by using the uncapped OPT, B1,
L-1, H4EAD, and H-1B visas, and the EB green-card application process. Many
Indians workers stay in sweatshop jobs for a decade or more until they get the
hugely valuable prize of green cards and citizenship at a rate of roughly
10,000 a year.
Only about 10,000 Indians workers — plus about 10,000 family
members — can get green cards because of the long-standing “country caps” that
are intended to promote diversity. Durbin’s bill would end the diversity rule,
so allowing roughly 100,000 Indians workers — and approximately 100,000 family
members — to get green cards each year.
Durbin’s bigger citizenship incentive will likely help U.S.
companies recruit more Indians to take more U.S. jobs from American graduates.
Census data shows how huge numbers of
American software graduates have been replaced by Indian & Chinese
visa-workers in N.J., California, N.C., Georgia, N.Y., Texas, Virginia,
Florida, and other states. Next: Healthcare professionals. @S386 http://bit.ly/2o0X4cp
Census: Indian Visa Workers Drive Americans Out of
Middle-Class Jobs
But these Indian workers also export at least one million other
U.S. white-collar jobs to teams of college graduates in India. This
onshore/offshore process is described in a new discrimination lawsuit against
one of the Indian-owned outsourcing firms, Larson & Toubro Infotech.
The firm won a technology-support contract from Iconix
Brand Group Inc. in New York. The support was managed by one American employee
of Larson & Toubro, according to the lawsuit filed by the D.C. firm
of Kotchen & Low. The single American ran a New York team, which consisted
of roughly eight Indians who likely arrived with H-1B visas, the lawsuit says.
But the single American also ran a team of 20 Indians in India, and he reported
to two Indian managers in India. So the visa programs allowed the Indian
company to take roughly 30 good jobs from U.S. white-collar workers with just
eight visas, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit noted that “from 2013 to 2018, LTI received 9,785
new H-1B visas (or visa amendments) and almost 200 new L-1 visas (or visa
amendments) – far more positions than could actually exist given that LTI only
employs about 7,500 employees in the U.S.” The surplus of visa workers allows
the company to sideline American job-seekers and instead hire lower-wage Indian
visa-workers.
The use of
cheaper Indian labor created payroll savings for Iconix and profits for Larson.
In turn, those profits boosted the company’s stock values for U.S. investors, including the Vanguard
International Stock Index. This Iconix/Larson example is just one tiny corner
of the vast U.S.-India Outsourcing Economy, which has received minimal coverage
in the U.S. media, despite its huge impact on college-graduate Americans.
The Kotchen lawsuit also says Larson used the visas to
discriminate against American job-seekers, including the American manager at
the Iconix contract, Andrew Ragland, who was fired when the Iconix contract
ended:
While Mr. Ragland’s Indian manager, Mr. Joseph, and the offshore
Indian team were quickly allocated to other client projects, Mr. Ragland
remained [unused] for three weeks.
During this time, he received no contact from [Larson] LTI, and
was not invited to interview for a single position within the company. On March
8, 2019, LTI terminated Mr. Ragland’s employment. LTI terminated Mr. Ragland
pursuant to the discriminatory employment practices described above.
Many Americans echo these reports of anti-American
discrimination.
Another lawsuit alleging discrimination by
Indian managers in the US, this time at Intel Corp. One Indian manager rejects
a US graduate, says "It would be easier to hire a younger, unmarried
Indian man."
Many US grads have similar stories, so share yours. http://bit.ly/2ocutR4
Many US grads have similar stories, so share yours. http://bit.ly/2ocutR4
Lawsuit: Intel's Indian Managers Discriminated Against
American | Breitbart
Americans say the visa-worker programs encourage Indian managers
and recruiters to minimize their costs by hiring unemployed Indian visa-workers
— not Americans — for short-term contracts at many American companies, such as
Aetna, Bank of America, or Harley-Davidson.
“I have had four on-site interviews since being laid off and
interviews with 18 people during those interviews,” a U.S. graduate told
Breitbart News September 30. “A full 13 of them appeared to have been born in
India, and only one seemed to be likely U.S.-born. That may have been partially
bad luck … Still, it seems to point out a risk of one nationality getting too
high a representation in the hiring process,” he added.
The huge influx of Indian workers– and the huge export of jobs
to India — have combined to change the demographics of Americans’ high-tech
careers, nationwide and in Illinois.
Indian contract-workers in the US launch
political protests at Dem. Sen. Dick Durbin who is blocking their #S386 bill for fast-track green cards. So US graduates rallied vs. the Indian
march, to show how good US jobs are outsourced by US investors to India http://bit.ly/2oL0ZdJ
Indian H-1B Visa Workers Protest Senator, Demand More
Green Cards
Before he was
stopped by Kennedy, Durbin used his
speech on
the Senate floor to tout his immigration-expansion act.
Durbin described his support for migration as an ideological and
inspirational cause, and he pushed the 1960s claim that Americans live in a
utopian “Nation of Immigrants” — not a coherent culture of settlers, their
descendants, and integrated immigrants:
We’ve just celebrated in this past week
a day dedicated to Christopher Columbus, who
supposedly discovered America. Of course, we know better.
Native Americans were here and had discovered it before him. But
he was the first European to discover America and really
triggered an immigration to this part of the world
that has really changed America and the world
forever. This immigration from all over the world has created
one of the most diverse nations on Earth. I am a
beneficiary of that immigration. My mother was an immigrant
to America in 1911, coming here from Lithuania
to east St. Louis, Illinois, where she was raised and where I
had a chance to grow up as well. Today her
son, this immigrant mother’s son, has been serving as the
United States senator from Illinois with humility
and pride. It’s an indication of our family story, but
it’s also America’s story, how immigrants
came from foreign lands to America and built
families that continue to serve this nation to this day.
In a nod to the 2016 election, Durbin admitted that immigration
is deeply controversial:
You would think since immigration is such a central
part of who we are as Americans, there
would be a general consensus about the issue. But it turns
out to be one of the most hotly contested and
debated issues almost since the arrival of the Mayflower.
How many people should be allowed to come into this country?
Where are they going to come from? What will they do when
they come here? What impact will they have on those of us
who are already here? All of these questions have led us
into an ongoing debate about immigration.
I serve as the ranking member of the
subcommittee on immigration for the Senate judiciary committee. As I
said, my own personal family and life experience has really
made my warm to the subject and try to learn as much as I
can in a complex field. Make no mistake, the
immigration system of the United States of
America is badly, badly broken. How to fix it is hotly
debated here in the Senate, in the House, and across the nation.
Last night when I was watching the presidential debates,
groups were running ads on the issue of immigration. Many
believe that it is going to be a hot topic in
the 2020 election.
Durbin
explained his opposition to Lee’s S.386 bill. But instead of describing the
economic damage it would inflict on Americans and his own Illinois
constituents, he described it as unfair to would-be immigrants from countries
other than India. He quoted one expert saying:
“From
2023 until well into the 2030’s, there will be zero
EB-2 [green cards] for the rest of the world. None for China,
South Korea, Philippines, Britain, Canada, any country in the
European Union, and all of Africa. Zero. It will choke off
green cards for every important profession that isn’t in the
information technology field.”
Durbin continued:
more than 20 national organizations have now rallied
against the Lee legislation and have said things such as
the bill offers a zero-sum approach pitting one group of
immigrants against another to fight a broken immigration
system. The RELIEF Act, which I’m introducing today, is
a solution.
In the polite language favored by Senators, Kennedy blocked
Durbin’s legislation. He then repeated Durbin’s claim about a “Nation of
Immigrants,” and also suggested he would be open to alternative immigration
bills. Kennedy said:
No-one in this chamber has more respect for the senior senator
from Illinois and the democratic whip than I do, and I share much
of his frustration. I also share, and I
believe the senator also believes, that
immigration is an extraordinarily important subject that this body
should be addressing. We are a nation of immigrants. The
American people support legal immigration. I know the senior
senator from Illinois supports it.
I certainly support it.
I am rising to object because a number of my
[GOP] colleagues — and I don’t want to put it on them, I
join with them in this — would like a little
additional time to study this bill. But equally important, if
not more important, many of my colleagues’ sentiment is
that we should take this bill up first in
the judiciary committee. I commit to the minority whip that
I will join with him in trying to get our esteemed chairman
[Sen. Lindsay Graham] to take this bill up.
I don’t think we ought to be afraid of this issue. I
don’t think we ought to be reluctant to take difficult
votes. That’s why we are here in the United States senate. And I can’t think of
a subject that’s more important for this body to address
than the subject of immigration, including but not limited to
legal and illegal immigration. The fact of the matter is the
American people deserve an immigration system that looks like
somebody designed it on purpose.
But for the reasons I just expressed, Madam
President, I respectfully object [to Durbin’s Unanimous Consent request].
Durbin responded to Kennedy with the Senate’s polite style:
I thank
my colleague from Louisiana. We’ve worked on things together,
and I hope we can continue to in the future. This is
controversial, but it’s so timely and important. The hundreds of [Indian
visa workers] who demonstrated against this
Senator last Sunday are people I welcome into this country and
will be an important part of its future. I want to find a
solution to their problem, and I’m willing to work on
a bipartisan basis to do it. Your help will be invaluable.
Durbin called for the Senate to work with various outside groups
to write a new version of the Gang of Eight’s 2013 cheap-labor-and-amnesty
bill. But that pro-business bill proved catastrophic for Democrats, partly
because it helped Donald Trump win the 2016 election.
Estb. media touts the migrants' side of the
DACA debate. So Breitbart follows the $$$ to show how investors & gov't are
asking SCOTUS to rescue the huge & hidden "work-permit economy" -
and to quietly prevent wage raises for many millions of Americans. http://bit.ly/2oKu1KG
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