AMERICA: NO LEGAL (American) NEED APPLY!!!
“Joe Biden’s transition is absolutely stacked
with tech industry players,” noted Protocol, an online publication
that covers technology.
ALEXANDER NAZARYAN
Tech industry elites have endorsed Democrat presidential
candidate Joe Biden, citing their opposition to President Trump’s efforts to
prioritize Americans for high-paying tech jobs in the United States. JOHN
BINDER
“Today’s
ruling is great news for Americans, and for the ability of the U.S. to remain
the top destination for talented individuals,” said a statement from FWD.us, an
advocacy group created by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and other
West Coast investors.
Sen Kamala
Harris is a product of Silicon Valley's billionaires and will enforce their
agenda in DC.
Eg, she's an author of the S.386 bill that
allows the Fortune 500 to hire more white-collar workers from India for jobs
needed by America's college grads https://t.co/gKCuD9DH5z
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) August 12, 2020
NAFTA JOE HAS PART OF THE OBAMA-BIDEN-HOLDER TEAM THAT
SABOTAGED AMERICA’S BORDERS TO FLOOD OUR JOBS WITH ‘CHEAP’ LABOR ILLEGALS.
DURING THE SO-CALLED OBAMA ‘RECOVERY’ TWO-THIRDS OF ALL
JOBS WENT TO FOREIGNERS AND ILLEGALS. BIDEN HAS DECLARED THAT THESE NUMBERS ARE
NOT HIGH ENOUGH. NO WALL STREET COMPANY SHOULD HAVE TO HIRE AMERICAN!
REVEALED: Joe Biden's chief of staff Ron Klain worked on
behalf of Silicon Valley executives and their interests, which include
providing tech corporations with an endless supply of H-1B foreign visa workers
and more free trade. https://t.co/UCYg4U7lXK
Analysis conducted in 2018 discovered that 71 percent of tech
workers in Silicon Valley, California, are foreign-born, while the tech
industry in the San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward area is made up of 50
percent foreign-born tech workers. Up to 99 percent of H-1B visa workers imported by the top eight outsourcing
firms are from India. JOHN BINDER
Likewise, the Biden-Harris plan for national immigration policy
— which seeks to drive up legal and illegal immigration levels to their highest
levels in decades — offers a flooded labor market with low wages for U.S.
workers and increased bargaining power for big business that has long been
supported by Wall Street. JOHN BINDER
Judge Blocks Donald
Trump’s H-1B Reforms
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judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s reforms of the H-1B visa
worker program that allows Fortune 500 CEOs to sideline many American
professionals and new graduates.
“Breaking: Judge White, Northern District of
California, sets aside both the [Department of Labor] and [Department of
Homeland Security] H-1B regulations,” said a tweet by the business groups’ lawyer, Paul Hughes.
“These regulations sought to destroy the H-1B program.”
“Today’s ruling is great news for Americans, and
for the ability of the U.S. to remain the top destination for talented
individuals,” said a statement from FWD.us, an advocacy group created by
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and other
West Coast investors.
Judge Jeffrey White argued Trump’s rules were
illegal because officials had not spent enough time collecting and responding
to comments from companies and workers who would be impacted by the change:
“Defendants failed to show there was good cause to dispense with the rational
and thoughtful discourse that is provided by the [Administrative Procedure
Act’s] notice and comment requirements … the Court sets aside the Rules.”
Trump’s two rules raised the wages that would be
paid to 85,000 new H-1B visas by companies, tightened skill requirements for
foreigners seeking specialized jobs, and reduced the duration of visas given to
companies that import H-1Bs for lease to other companies.
The administration can appeal the decision by the San
Francisco judge — but likely won’t get a positive answer before January 20,
said John Miano, a lawyer with the Immigration Reform Law Institute.
REVEALED:
Joe Biden's chief of staff Ron Klain worked on behalf of Silicon Valley
executives and their interests, which include providing tech corporations with
an endless supply of H-1B foreign visa workers and more free trade. https://t.co/UCYg4U7lXK
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) November 15, 2020
Biden’s deputies are unlikely to appeal the
judge’s decision, said Miano. His campaign was heavily supported by the Silicon
Valley firms that use H-1B workforces to minimize the hiring of the ordinary
Americans who can learn and then quit to create innovative products.
The resident population of foreign H-1Bs in
the United States jobs is at least 580,000. But the resident total may reach one million partly because many H-1B are
allowed to stay and work for many years.
The H-1Bs are widely used to
fill lower-level, mid-skill jobs in many Silicon Valley and
Fortune 500 companies. They are also used to fill many
of the gig-worker contract jobs that are now outsourced by Fortune 500
companies — but which were once used to hire and train the nation’s workforce
of American professionals. Many foreign workers are eager to take these jobs
at low wages in the hope of winning the valuable green cards dangled by the
employers.
The judge’s decision is a big loss to every U.S.
skilled graduate who is stuck in their national labor market flooded with
unemployed American graduates and foreign visa workers, Miano said:
It basically impacts every college-educated
person. Any college-educated person is now in a job where they can be replaced
by foreign workers — or not even get hired. We have basically exported hiring
for the tech-industry to third parties. Now, U.S. graduates are going to
[online recruiters in] India to apply for jobs in the United States.
Trump’s deputies — and Trump himself — delayed
approval of the new rules for so long that pro-reform deputies did not have
time to complete the full notice and comment process before posting the rules,
Miano said.
Trump would have won reelection if he had made the
visa-worker issue into a campaign theme in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan,
Wisconsin, and other states, Miano said.
He would have won in a landslide. He didn’t. If I
was writing a Donald Trump [TV] ad, I’d sit there and say, “You know,
when the [Tennesee Valley Authority] was replacing American workers,
Donald Trump stepped in to stop it, and the only reason the TVA was trying to
replace Americans with foreign workers is because Joe Biden voted to make it
legal.” We didn’t see anything like that.
The speech and vehemence of the judge’s decision
show many judges are eager to join the establishment’s resistance to Trump, he
said.
“He went Maximum No,” said Miano, even though
he could have delayed a final decision until Trump’s deputies finished
considering the comments they sought and received after posting the emergency
rules. “He could have said ‘Okay, you know, it’s an emergency, but I don’t
think it had met the standards, so what we’ll do is let you go, remand it in
place to do the required notice and comment,” said Miano.
Disney’s
executives stopped advertising on Tucker Carlson’s television show as he
repeatedly urged President Donald Trump to shut down their pipeline of H-1B
visa workers into the white-collar jobs that would otherwise go to Americans. https://t.co/2XCb4R5Hqq
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) June 21, 2020
The judge’s decision to strike down Trump’s wages
rules preserves the prior wages that help CEOs hire cheaper foreign labor, said
Miano. But those older wage rules were set without any comments from American
employees who were and are hurt by the existing wage rules, he said.
Many judges bend over backward to quickly
help business groups preserve visa worker programs that have been created in
complete disregard of the regulation-writing rules or the lack of national
emergencies. he said. “Those cases are flying through the courts,” said Miano,
who has been shunted from one slow judge to another slow judge over the last
five years as he tries to end two business-backed regulations that flood the labor market
for U.S. college graduates.
“We’re approaching six years. Sue [President
Barack] Obama, you go through the hoops. Sue [President George W.] Bush, you go
through the hoops. Sue Trump, and they jump for you. Clearly, something has
been different,” he said.
Big Tech and Big Law
dominate Biden transition teams, tempering progressive hopes
Alexander Nazaryan administration
takes office in January.
WASHINGTON — For six years, Brandon Belford
worked as an economic policy adviser to President Barack Obama in the White
House and federal agencies. He moved to the Bay Area when Donald Trump became
president, part of a massive flight of Obama officials from Washington to
Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Hollywood. He took high-ranking positions with
Apple and then Lyft, where he is currently the ride-sharing company’s chief of
staff.
Now Belford is back, as part of one of the
“transition teams” named by President-elect Joe Biden to restock a federal
government that has been battered after four years of Trump by hiring new
officials and advising the incoming administration on what its first governing
steps should be.
Those steps could be timid, judging by the
composition of those teams, where Obama-era centrism prevails. That has some
progressives worried that Biden represents nothing more than a return to
normal, at a time when many of them believe the nation is ready to embrace
policy ideas well to the left of center.
“The status quo is killing us,” says former
Bernie Sanders press secretary Briahna Joy Gray, who now hosts a podcast called
“Bad Faith.”
Belford is joined by dozens of other Democratic
operatives who have spent the past four years working at prestigious law firms
and think tanks. On these “agency review teams” are high-ranking executives
from Amazon, partners at white-shoe law firms like Covington & Burling and
enough experts from D.C. center-left think tanks — including six from the
Brookings Institution alone — to fill a center-left think tank.
Progressives knew this was coming. “I am very
concerned about the role Uber executives would play in this administration,”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez D-N.Y., told Yahoo News. Even though she also
effusively praised the appointment of Ron Klain as the incoming White
House chief of staff, Ocasio-Cortez vowed that corporate America would not
“pull the wool over our eyes” when it came to crafting the Biden presidency.
Some have put it less bluntly. “Biden’s
transition team is full of wealthy corporate executives who are completely
disconnected from the struggles of the working class,” complains left-leaning
activist Ryan Knight, whose Twitter handle is @ProudSocialist.
App-based drivers from Uber and Lyft protest in a caravan
in front of City Hall in Los Angeles on October 22, 2020 where elected leaders
hold a conference urging voters to reject on the November 3 election,
Proposition 22, that would classify app-based drivers as independent
contractors and not employees or agents. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)
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He was presumably referring to the two dozen
agency review team officials who come from law firms like Arnold &
Porter. Or to the 40 or so members of the Biden transition who are current or recent
lobbyists.
The agency review teams are not exactly
settling into their cubicles just yet. For one, President Trump has not yet
conceded the election, and the transition has been hindered in part by
Republican operatives at the General Services Administration. And agency review is
an enormously complex process, one that actually began months ago. The
transition teams are supposed to ensure a “smooth transfer of power,” in large
part by making sure that capable officials are ready to get to work in their
respective agencies the moment Biden lifts his hand from the Lincoln Bible.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, one
member of the Biden campaign working on agency-related matters says teams were
primarily tasked with surveying the landscape of the federal bureaucracy. She
says that the transition teams would make some hiring recommendations, but only
as a secondary function.
With a single exception, the agency review team
members mentioned in this article did not respond to requests for comment.
One with a typically impressive biography is
that of Aneesh Chopra, who served as the U.S. chief technology officer for
Obama before starting his own medical data logistics company, CareJourney. Now
he is on the transition team for the U.S. Postal Service, where he will
presumably work to undo the alleged damage by another logistics maven: Trump appointee Louis
DeJoy.
Of course, most progressives are glad that
there’s a Biden transition to speak of, instead of a second Trump term. But
they also recognize their own role in the Democratic candidate’s victory.
“Everyone fell into line and did everything
they could to get Joe Biden elected,” says Max Berger, a progressive
activist who worked for Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign and Justice
Democrats, the group that helped elect Ocasio-Cortez to the House in
2018.
Berger recognizes that progressives will be a
“junior partner” to the establishment Democrats with whom Biden has been
ideologically and temperamentally aligned for a good half-century. They want to
be partners all the same, not just the loyal opposition.
Many are cheered by some of the agency review
teams. For one, they are notably more diverse, a stark contrast to Trump’s
reliance on white males for so much of his advice. On the transition team for
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is Jedidah Isler, the
Dartmouth professor who in 2014 became the first Black woman to earn a
doctorate in astrophysics from Yale. The transition team for the Small Business
Administration includes Jorge Silva Puras, a political leader in Puerto Rico
who also teaches entrepreneurship at a community college in the Bronx.
“The presence of labor officials throughout
many of the groups is notable,” says David Dayen, executive editor of the
American Prospect. In the Department of Education team, for example, are
several executives from the American Federation of Teachers.
He called the Federal Reserve and Treasury
teams “all-stars,” a sentiment shared by other progressives interviewed for
this article. On the Treasury team is Mehrsa Baradaran, a progressive
economist who has written on the
racial wealth gap. She is also on the Federal Reserve team, along with Reena Aggarwal, a corporate
governance expert.
Progressive strategist Elizabeth Spiers says the finance-related
teams are not “not quite Elizabeth Warren levels of aggressiveness but also not
stuffed with finance people.” Biden’s advisers appear to have learned the
lessons of his former boss. During Obama’s first year, he relied on banking
executives to help quell the financial crisis. They did so in ways
that steered the new president away from progressive proposals, such as nationalizing those
very same banks.
There is not a single current executive from
Citibank or Goldman Sachs on any of the transition teams. Bank of America has
also been shut out. JPMorgan can boast a single toehold in the agency review
process: Lisa Sawyer of the Pentagon team. A spokesman for JPMorgan told Yahoo
News that the bank was “following the appropriate election laws” and that
Sawyer was “not on an agency review team that will touch any banking issues.”
“I think the Biden administration is going to
be surprising to progressives in some ways and disappointing in others, and the
agency review teams reflect that,” Dayen says. During the summer, the
American Prospect published a lengthy exposé about Biden’s foreign policy
advisers’ lucrative foray
into corporate America. Many are set to return to the highest
echelons of official Washington.
“I have to be cautiously optimistic,” says
Waleed Shahid, communications director for the Justice Democrats.
Relatively young progressives like Shahid are
less likely to wax romantic about the way things were in Washington. They are
less interested in experience than conviction. But for many in Biden’s camp, a
lack of experience was among the several fatal flaws of the Trump years.
“Everyone — right or left — has made the
mistaken assumption for years that governing is easy,” says “The Death of
Expertise” author Tom Nichols, who teaches at the Naval War College
and is an ardently anti-Trump
Republican.
“After having a bunch of nitwits and cronies
loose in the government,” Nichols wrote in an email, “I think a lot of people
on the left are really giving in to the assumption that as long as you’re not
Trump, or not a complete idiot, anyone can do it.”
Given the title and theme of his book, Nicholas
cautioned against that approach. “It’s a childish and silly approach to
government, but it’s a bipartisan problem,” he told Yahoo News.
While progressive may not see their stars like
Sens. Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren occupying the Treasury Department,
they do very much hope that a Biden presidency amounts to more than a third
Obama term. It was unaddressed economic inequality, they believe, that bred the
populist resentment that gave Trump an opening in 2016. The coronavirus has
only made that inequality worse. That will only increase populist resentment,
they worry, to be exploited by a Trump acolyte — or perhaps Trump himself,
again — in 2024.
Addressing that inequality, for now, falls to
transition team officials like Mark Schwartz of Amazon and Ted Dean of Dropbox,
as well as Arun Venkataraman of Visa and David Holmes of defense contractor
Rebellion Defense, in which Eric Schmidt of Google is an investor. Many of these
officials are veterans of the Obama administration or Democratic offices on the
Hill.
“There is a lot of corporate
influence there,” says Maurice Weeks, co-founder of the Action Center on
Race and the Economy. “And that is troubling.” But he is encouraged by the
presence of “hard-core progressives” like Sarah Miller, a former Treasury
deputy who is both an anti-Facebook activist and the executive of the American
Economic Liberties Project, which seeks to curb corporate power. She is now on
the Treasury transition team.
In some ways, the difference is between former
Obama officials who, like Miller, went on to become activists and those who
moved on to become rich. The latter did only what many government officials had
done before them. But at a time of mass unemployment, a stint at the corporate
law firm Latham & Watkins (three transition team members) may not seem as
impressive as it may have when Obama was president.
“We don’t just want to rewind the clock by four
years,” Weeks says.
For many progressives, Trump was a singular
threat to important institutions of the federal government, but rebuilding
those institutions is simply not as important as rebuilding entire communities
shattered by economic, social and racial inequalities.
It doesn’t help matters that, today, tech
giants are distrusted by conservatives and progressives alike. Firms that were
run out of Palo Alto garages now chafe at antitrust laws like the railroad
companies of a century ago.
And like those companies, they know how to use
their influence. In 2019 alone, two of the biggest and most influential
technology firms — Amazon and Facebook — each spent $17 million on “government
affairs,” better known as
lobbying.
Ocasio-Cortez’s reference to Uber may have been
a subtle warning to the incoming administration: The brother-in-law of Vice
President-elect Kamala Harris is Tony West, who worked for the Department of
Justice under President Bill Clinton and is now the chief counsel at Uber. Jake
Sullivan, another top Biden adviser, also worked for Uber.
The company recently won a major victory in
California with Proposition 22, a successful response
to legal efforts to make Uber drivers and other “gig workers” employees, not
contractors. That’s exactly the kind of labor policy, Ocasio-Cortez says, the
Biden administration must avoid.
Many top Obama staffers went to Silicon Valley
in 2017. They could be returning to Washington with a new appreciation for free
market capitalism at a time when “socialism” is no longer a dirty word.
“Joe Biden’s transition is absolutely stacked
with tech industry players,” noted Protocol, an online publication
that covers technology.
That’s exactly what worries Jeff Hauser,
executive director of the Revolving Door Project, which tracks what Trump has
called, without much affection, “the swamp.” He notes that the transition team
for the Office of Management and Budget appears to have borrowed rather avidly
from Silicon Valley, with team members hailing from Lyft, Airbnb and
Amazon.
The budget office wields an “enormous amount of
power,” says Hauser, including in both how congressionally appropriated money
is doled out and how certain rules are implemented. Though it had a supporting role
in Trump’s impeachment drama over foreign aid, OMB is otherwise
obscure, making it a perfect site for covert exercises of federal power.
Hauser also didn’t like the prevalence of Big
Law talent on the Department of Justice team, which signaled to him that the
Biden administration could go soft on corporate malefactors.
Watching the transition, Gray, the former
Sanders adviser, recalled an old saying: “The fish rots from the head.” The
head, in this case, is Joe Biden, of whom Gray has long
been a skeptic.
“He’s a fundamentally conservative man,” Gray
says. She reasons that if Biden was “unmoved by the largest protest movement in
American history” to endorse Medicare for All, he can’t be trusted to do much
for conservative causes like a $15 minimum wage and the Green New Deal.
Still, she believes that Biden can be made to
hear the voices of progressives — if, Gray says, they are loud enough. She
points out that there is widespread support for progressive legislation
like the $15 minimum wage in
Florida, even though Trump won the state.
Biden easily won Oregon, but a push to
legalize small amounts of drugs, known as Measure 110, was even more popular
than he was.
She sees that as evidence that progressive
ideas are more popular than Biden himself. “Progressives should never stop
screaming that reality from the rooftops,” Gray told Yahoo News. And she vowed
to keep fighting, even with Trump gone and a Democratic president in the Oval
Office once again.
“I don’t accept resignation,” she said.
Cover thumbnail photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Sen Kamala Harris is a product of Silicon
Valley's billionaires and will enforce their agenda in DC.
Eg, she's an author of the S.386 bill that allows the Fortune 500 to hire
more white-collar workers from India for jobs needed by America's college
grads https://t.co/gKCuD9DH5z
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) August 12, 2020
Kamala Harris Raked in Cash from Big Tech During Democrat
Primary
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13 Aug 2020180
1:58
During the 2020 Democrat
presidential primary, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) was bestowed with the most
billionaire donations of the nearly 30 candidates who ran for the nomination.
In the primary, Harris secured
more donations from billionaires than any other Democrat running, according to
a November 2019 analysis by Forbes. Before dropping out in
early December 2019, Harris raked in donations from at least 46 billionaires.
A number of Harris’s donations
came from executives and employees of big tech corporations, as Breitbart
News reported at the time.
By August 2019, seven Facebook
executives and employees had donated $1,000 or more to Harris’s campaign,
nearly 20 Google executives and employees had donated more than $1,000, four
Twitter executives and employees had donated more than $1,000, and 71 Amazon
executives and employees had donated anywhere from $5 to $2,000.
Notably, Harris took donations from Impossible Foods
president Dennis Woodside, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Ripple
CEO Brad Garlinghouse, and Salesforce chairman Marc Benioff.
Despite a lack of enthusiasm
and support among primary voters, Harris’s campaign was propped up by a base of elite
coastal donors, with less than 40 percent of her funding coming from
small-dollar donors giving $200 or less as of October 2019.
On Tuesday, Democrat
presidential nominee Joe Biden confirmed Harris as his vice presidential pick.
In a statement, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called Harris a “champion for
hardworking families everywhere.”
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on
Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
AP
writer Kelli Kennedy in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, contributed to this report.
Sen
Kamala Harris is a product of Silicon Valley's billionaires and will enforce
their agenda in DC.
Eg, she's an
author of the S.386 bill that allows the Fortune 500 to hire more white-collar
workers from India for jobs needed by America's college grads https://t.co/gKCuD9DH5z
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) August 12, 2020
2020 ElectionImmigrationPoliticsH-1B VisasJ-1L-1Mike PompeoOutsourcingU.S-India Outsourcing
Economyvisa workers
State Dept. ‘Guts’ Donald Trump’s Curbs on Fortune
500’s Visa Workers
The state department is allowing
Fortune 500 companies to freely import H-1B visa workers for jobs needed by
American voters, despite President Donald Trump’s June 22 Executive Order
barring nearly all visa workers.
“They have totally eviscerated the
requirements” of Trump’s E.O., said John Miano, a lawyer with the Immigration
Reform Law Institute. “There is no doubt about it — whoever created this
is thumbing their noses at President Trump,” he said, adding, “you can bet that
the guys who did this are voting for [Joe] Biden.”
‘This is an insult to the
President of the United States, it is an insult to working men and women of the
United States,” said Kevin Lynn, the founder of U.S. Tech Workers.
There are less than 90 days to go in
the election. How can he persuade Americans he’s keeping any of this 2016
promises if he allows the State Department to nullify and gut the E.O. he
signed to protect Americans from [outsourcing by Fortune 500 companies]? More
than that — I think it is beginning to make Trump look stupid in front of the
voters. He needs to call in Pompeo and talk to him about his job prospects
because [Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo does not seem to give a hoot
about Americans’ job prospects.
The exemptions are “expansive,” admitted Greg Siskind, a lawyer
who is working to widen the pipelines of foreign doctors into U.S. hospital
chains. “They are backing off … that could be good news for thousands of you guys,” he told his clients.
On August 3, Trump met with Lynn and several employees of the
Tennesee Valley Authority to announce he would block the outsourcing of their
jobs to H-1B workers imported by three staffing companies. Trump said:
It doesn’t work that way. As we speak, we’re
finalizing H1-B regulations so that no
American worker is replaced ever again. H1-Bs
should be used for top, highly paid talent to
create American jobs, not as inexpensive labor
program to destroy American jobs.
On June 22, Trump signed another Executive Order to close down the
pipeline of white-collar H-1B, J-1, and L-1 workers, as well as the pipeline of
H-2B manual laborers. The E.O. is expected to temporarily bar the arrival of
perhaps 80,000 H-1Bs, plus thousands of J-1s and L-1s, while hundreds of
thousands of new graduates and fired professionals look for jobs. Trump also
directed his agency deputies to write new regulations that would reduce
the Fortune 500’s widespread use of visa workers as cheap labor replacements
for American voters.
Trump’s intervention to save U.S.
white collar jobs is very popular among millions of American voters
whose futures are threatened by the Fortune 500’s preference for docile and
cheap visa workers. The CEO’s workforce policy keeps at least 1.3 million
foreign graduates in U.S. jobs, even amid the dramatic economic crash caused by
China’s coronavirus.
The official unemployment rate for
U.S. tech grads has jumped to 4.4 percent, according to an industry association. But the calculation
does not count the many U.S. tech grads who were forced into lesser careers by the many
visa workers in the U.S.-India Outsourcing Economy.
But the State Department’s June
12 bulletin provides a long list of many
easy exemptions for Fortune 500 companies and their Indian staffing
subcontractor. The document says Trump’s directions:
… include exceptions, including
an exception for individuals whose travel would be in the national interest, as
determined by the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Homeland Security, or
their respective designees. The list below is a non-exclusive list of the
types of travel that may be considered to be in the national interest, based on
determinations made by the Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs,
exercising the authority delegated to him by the Secretary of State.
Pompeo is the Secretary of
State. Carl Risch is the Assistant
Secretary of State for Consular Affairs.
The list of exemptions is very wide:
Travel by technical specialists,
senior level managers, and other workers whose travel is necessary to
facilitate the immediate and continued economic recovery of the United States
… The petitioning employer has a continued need for the services or labor
to be performed by the H-1B nonimmigrant in the United States.
Miano is an expert on visa worker
laws and studied the long list of exemptions:
The first one on the list is what
they needed to do to get the visas in the first place … Number 2, any of
them can do that, no problem … Number 3 is totally meaningless — anyone can do
that … ‘Financial Hardship’ for an employer is so loosey goosy that anyone
can meet that … ‘Critical Infrastructure’ is basically anything.
Lynn was less formal;
This is effing b….. Who the f…
came up with these exceptions? … You can drive a Mack truck through this ….
The exemptions basically cover anyone on an H-IB or a J-1 or an L-1 …. Boom!
They’re in … with all the exemptions, there is no EO — they’ve eliminated
the EO through the exemptions.”
One of the most notable exemptions are for visa workers who
have jobs at government agencies, usually via Indian-run staffing companies:
… individuals, identified by the Department of Defense or
another U.S. government agency, performing research, providing IT
support/services, or engaging other similar projects essential to a U.S.
government agency.
The document also provides exemptions to foreign workers who
have taken jobs from Americans in “critical infrastructure,” such as the TVA
jobs blocked by Trump:
The applicant’s proposed job duties or position within the
petitioning company indicate the individual will provide significant and unique
contributions to an employer meeting a critical infrastructure need. Critical
infrastructure sectors are chemical, communications, dams, defense industrial
base, emergency services, energy, financial services, food and agriculture,
government facilities, healthcare and public health, information technology,
nuclear reactors, transportation, and water systems.
“The people who are doing this are
ignoring the president,” said Miano. “I can only guess at their motivations,
but we can say it is Deep State acting independently.”
“In a close election, with time
running out, with [2016] expectations not met … Trump needs things to go
smoothly from now till November, and this list clearly he has people in
the State Department sabotaging him,” said Miano.
“When word of this gets out to the
public that every E.O. he writes is not worth the paper it is written on,” said
Lynn. “Because through exceptions, they become get nullified by the Deep
State, he loses the voters’ trust and confidence.”
He added: “What good is a State
Department that becomes the tool of corporations that want to displace
Americans, when tens of millions of Americans are under extreme financial
duress?”
The State Department did not respond
to emails from Breitbart News requesting comment.
Sen Kamala Harris is a
product of Silicon Valley's billionaires and will enforce their agenda in DC.
Eg, she's an author of the S.386 bill that allows the Fortune 500 to hire more
white-collar workers from India for jobs needed by America's college
grads https://t.co/gKCuD9DH5z
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) August 12, 2020
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Wall Street Praises Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s VP:
‘What’s Not to Like?’
Wall Street executives are
praising Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden’s choosing Sen. Kamala Harris
(D-CA) as his running mate against President Trump, feeling they dodged a
bullet from a progressive insurgency.
In interviews with the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and Bloomberg, executives on Wall Street
expressed relief that Biden picked Harris for vice president on the Democrat
ticket, calling her a “normal Democrat” who is a “safe” choice for the
financial industry.
Morgan Stanley Vice Chairman
Tom Nides told Bloomberg that across Wall Street, Harris joining Biden “was
exceptionally well-received.”
“How damn cool is it that a
Black woman is considered the safe and conventional candidate,” Nides said.
Peter Soloman, the founder of a
multinational investment banking firm, told Bloomberg he believes Harris is “a
great pick” because she is “safe, balanced, a woman, diverse, what’s not to
like?”
As the Journal notes, many on
Wall Street see Harris is another conscious decision by the Democrat
establishment to stave off populist priorities to reform Wall Street:
To some Wall Street
executives, Ms. Harris’s selection signals a more moderate shift for the Democratic Party,
which its progressive flank has pushed to the left in recent years. [Emphasis
added]
“While Kamala is a forceful,
passionate and eloquent standard-bearer for the aspirations of all Americans,
regardless of their race, gender or age, she is not doctrinaire or rigid,” said Brad Karp, chairman of
law firm Paul Weiss, who co-led a committee of lawyers across
the country who supported Ms. Harris during the primary. [Emphasis added]
Marc Lasry, CEO of Avenue
Capital Group, called Harris a “great” pick for Biden. “She’s going to help Joe
immensely. He picked the perfect partner,” Lasry told CNBC.
Executives at Citigroup and
Centerview Partners made similar comments about Harris to CNBC and the Journal, calling her a “great
choice” and “direct but constructive.”
Founder of financial consulting
firm Kynikos Associates Jim Chanos was elated in an interview with Bloomberg
over Harris joining Biden on the Democrat ticket:
“She’s terrific,”
said Chanos, founder of Kynikos Associates. “She’s got force of personality
in a good way. She takes over a room. She certainly has a charisma and a presence which will be an
asset on the campaign.” [Emphasis added]
Harris is no stranger to praise
from Wall Street executives. In the 2019 Democrat presidential primary, Harris
won over a number of financial industry donors, even holding a fundraiser in
Iowa that was backed by Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
While criticizing “the people who have the
most” in Democrat primary debates, Harris raked in thousands in campaign
cash from financial executives from firms such as the Blackstone Group, Morgan
Stanley, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Wells Fargo.
This month, the New York Times admitted the “wallets of Wall
Street are with Joe Biden” in a gushing headline about the financial industry’s
opposition to Trump:
Financial industry cash flowing
to Mr. Biden and outside groups supporting him shows him dramatically
out-raising the president, with $44 million compared with Mr. Trump’s $9
million.
Harris’s views on trade and
immigration, two of the most consequential issues to Wall Street, are in
lockstep with financial executives’ objective to grow profit margins and add
consumers to the market.
On trade, Harris has balked at
Trump’s imposition of tariffs on foreign imports from China, Mexico, Canada,
and Europe — using the neoliberal
argument that tariffs should not be used to pressure foreign
countries to buy more American-made goods and serve as only a tax on taxpayers.
Likewise, the Biden-Harris plan
for national immigration policy — which seeks to drive up legal and illegal
immigration levels to their highest levels in decades — offers a flooded labor
market with low wages for U.S. workers and increased bargaining power for big
business that has long been supported by Wall Street.
John Binder is a
reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway
Crapweasels Are ScrewingAmerica's Best & Brightest
By Michelle Malkin and John
Miano
Mercury Ink, 480 pp.
Hardcover, ISBN: 1501115944, $16.80
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Book Description: The #1 New York Times bestselling
author and firebrand syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin sets her sights on
the corrupt businessmen, politicians, and lobbyists flooding our borders and
selling out America’s best and brightest workers.
In Sold Out, Michelle Malkin and John Miano reveal the worst
perpetrators screwing America’s high-skilled workers, how and why they’re doing
it—and what we must do to stop them. In this book, they will name names and
expose the lies of those who pretend to champion the middle class, while aiding
and abetting massive layoffs of highly skilled American workers in favor of
cheap foreign labor. Malkin and Miano will explode some of the most commonly
told myths spread in the media like these:
Lie #1: America is suffering
from an apocalyptic “shortage” of science, technology, engineering, and math
workers.
Lie #2: US companies cannot
function without an unlimited injection of the most “highly skilled” and
“highly educated” foreign workers, who offer intellectual capital and entrepreneurial
energy that American workers can’t match.
Lie #3: America’s best and
brightest talents are protected because employers are required to demonstrate
that they’ve made every effort to hire American citizens before resorting to
foreign labor.
For too long,
open-borders tech billionaires and their political
enablers have
escaped tough public scrutiny of their means and
motives. Sold
Out is an indictment of not only political corruption in Washington, but
also the journalistic malpractice that enables it.
It’s time to
trade the whitewash for solvent. American workers
deserve
better and the public deserves the unvarnished truth.
Tech
Elites Endorse Joe Biden to Secure More Foreign Workers for U.S. Jobs
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20 Sep
202021
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Tech industry elites have endorsed Democrat presidential
candidate Joe Biden, citing their opposition to President Trump’s efforts to
prioritize Americans for high-paying tech jobs in the United States.
Twenty-four winners of the Turing Award, considered the Nobel
Peace Prize for computer science, have endorsed Biden on the premise that the
former vice president will allow the tech industry to import more foreign
workers, specifically those on H-1B visas, to fill coveted U.S. jobs.
The list includes
Google executive Vinton Cerf, Pixar executive Ed Catmull, Facebook
executive Yann LeCun, and Alphabet executive John Hennessy.
“Information technology is thoroughly globalized. Academic
computer science departments attract talented students, many of whom immigrate
and become American inventors and captains of industry,” the executives and
industry insiders wrote in their endorsement of Biden:
We celebrate open source projects, the lifeblood of our field,
as exemplars of international collaboration. Computer Science is at its best
when its learnings and discoveries are shared freely in the spirit of
progress. These core
values helped make America a leader in information technology, so vital in this
Information Age. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris listen to
experts before setting public policy, essential when science and technology may
help with many problems facing our nation today. As American computer
scientists and as US citizens, we enthusiastically endorse Joe Biden for
President and Kamala Harris for Vice President. [Emphasis added]
Since mass unemployment hit the U.S., spurred by the Chinese
coronavirus crisis, Trump signed an executive order halting a number of visa
programs including the H-1B visa. Likewise, the Trump administration is eyeing
H-1B visa reforms that would more effectively weed out the business model of
outsourcing that has allowed American workers to be replaced by foreign H-1B
visa workers.
In August, billion dollar tech corporations such as Amazon,
Apple, Facebook, and Twitter signed onto a U.S.
Chamber of Commerce lawsuit against Trump’s executive order — arguing that they
have a right to import foreign workers to fill U.S. jobs.
Unlike Trump, Biden has promised to increase
the number of foreign H-1B visa workers that tech corporations will be able to
import every year. The practice is a boon to tech
executives.
There are about 650,000 H-1B
visa workers in the U.S. at any given moment. Americans
are often laid off in the
process and forced to train
their foreign replacements, as highlighted by Breitbart
News. More than 85,000 Americans annually potentially lose their jobs to
foreign labor through the H-1B visa program.
Analysis conducted in 2018 discovered that 71 percent of tech
workers in Silicon Valley, California, are foreign-born, while the tech
industry in the San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward area is made up of 50
percent foreign-born tech workers. Up to 99 percent of H-1B visa workers imported by the top eight outsourcing
firms are from India.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on
Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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