Tuesday, December 31, 2019

BIDEN TELLS BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS TO LEARN HOW TO PROGRAM - BIDEN'S HIGH-TECH BILLIONAIRE PAYMASTERS TELLS AMERICA WE DON'T HIRE AMERICAN! - ONLY CHINESE AND INDIAN!

Biden Tells Blue Collar Workers to 'Learn How to Program'

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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden told miners they need to look for “jobs of the future” when he spoke about moving away from the use of fossil fuels during a campaign event in New Hampshire on Monday.
“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!"

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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...

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."


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

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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 DoctorAbility Works Rehab ServicesAccess 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 ProUSworkersNo 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.



 

 

 

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 Leesaid 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

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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 

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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
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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 
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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:
In a 2016 lawsuit against a giant Indian software firm, Infosys, American witnesses alleged:
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.


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:
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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.

“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.

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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.

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 WorkersWhite-Collar Workers of AmericaProtect 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 

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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 

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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.
Watch the speech here.
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.


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