FOR THE LAWYER CLASS, WHICH INCLUDES LAWYER-JUDGES
IT IS ALL ABOUT GAMING THE LAW FOR THEIR SPECIAL INTERESTS.
THERE IS NO CLASS MORE LAWLESS THAN THE PACK OF
LAWYERS WHO HAVE DRIVEN THIS NATION INTO THE GROUND AS THEY PROTECTED THE
SPECIAL INTERESTS THAT ARE PLUNDERING
“Breaking: Judge Jeffrey 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.”
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.
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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A 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) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)More
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
Rich Polk/Getty Images for LACMA
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
2020 ElectionImmigrationPoliticsH-1B VisasJ-1L-1Mike PompeoOutsourcingU.S-India Outsourcing
Economyvisa workers
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
http://smile.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1501115944/centerforimmigra
Kindle, 10644 KB, ASIN: B00VBW3SYQ, $14.99
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
3:23
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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