Analysis conducted last year reveal that 71 percent of tech workers in Silicon Valley 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.
For years, Breitbart News has chronicled the abuses against American workers as a result of the H-1B visa program.
There are about 650,000 H-1B visa foreign 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.
Exclusive–Mo Brooks: ‘Masters of the Universe’ Want More Immigration to ‘Decrease Incomes of Americans’
Executives for the largest multinational tech corporations are lobbying President Joe Biden to expand legal immigration levels so they can outsource more American jobs as a fix to the so-called “talent shortage” in the United States.
Silicon Valley, California, executives with the group TechNet issued a report this month in which they call on the Biden administration to “increase high-skilled immigration across the country,” which means increasing the number of foreign workers available to corporations.
The executives claim there are not enough “high-skilled” Americans to take jobs in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields even as hundreds of thousands of American graduates enter the workforce every year while American professionals hunt for high-paying STEM jobs.
Rather than pulling Americans off the sidelines of the labor market, the executives write that Biden ought to open more foreign worker pipelines to corporations, specifically with the often abused H-1B visa program:
Immigration reform is crucial to America’s greater economy, especially as it pertains to the technology sector, an industry that employs a vast plurality of high-skilled immigrants. However, H-1B visa guidelines have not changed in 14 years, despite an exponential increase in the size and scope of the tech industry. [Emphasis added]
For years, Breitbart News has chronicled the abuses against American workers as a result of the H-1B visa program.
There are about 650,000 H-1B visa foreign 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.
The executives note their support for a massive green card giveaway scheme, passed in the House in 2019 by 140 Republicans and 224 House Democrats, which would have rewarded the biggest tech corporations for decades of outsourcing American jobs to foreign H-1B visa workers.
The green card giveaway, executives write, should be a “starting point” for Congress to expand legal immigration levels overall:
The bill aimed to increase the per-country cap for family-based immigrant visas and eliminate the per-country cap on employment-based visas, but it ultimately failed as there were issues with reconciling multiple versions of the bill. President Biden’s U.S. Citizenship Actof 2021 includes similar provisions in the larger bill. While the entirety of his immigration agenda may lack bipartisan appeal, eliminating the cap on employment-based visas remains a realistic, important goal and represents a starting point from which bipartisan efforts can work to encourage increased high-skilled immigration. [Emphasis added]
Rep. John Curtis (R-UT) issued a statement in support of TechNet’s wishes to increase legal immigration levels for the benefit of tech corporations, also claiming that there are not enough Americans with high-skilled talents.
“We must work to fix our broken immigration system and connect workers with industries most in need across the country,” Curtis said. “Fixing the talent shortage that exists will help businesses expand and compete globally.”
Curtis was one of the House Republicans who voted for the green card giveaway in 2019.
The push by executives with TechNet comes as Biden and Democrats are hoping to provide Silicon Valley with an unlimited stream of foreign workers, with whom American professionals would be forced to compete, as part of their “Build Back Better Act.”
The plan would allow corporations to utilize an expanded foreign worker pipeline through the employment-based green card system even as hundreds of thousands of American professionals and graduates seek out STEM jobs.
Breitbart News has reviewed lobbying records that detail the lobbying campaign on the part of corporate giants like Amazon, Facebook, Intuit Inc, AT&T, Verizon, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Alphabet, Deloitte, the Microsoft Corporation, IBM, Accenture, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and the Intel Corporation — all of whom would benefit significantly from the expanded foreign worker pipeline.
The corporations, as listed, file thousands of petitions to the federal government every year to secure employment-based green cards for their foreign visa workers who, more often than not, arrive in the U.S. through the H-1B visa program.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Biden’s Chief of Staff Worked on Behalf of Big Tech for Endless H-1B Visas
Democrat Joe Biden has chosen Ronald Klain to be his chief of staff should he enter the White House in January. 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.
Klain, who was made Biden’s incoming chief of staff this week, served on the executive council of TechNet — a firm that promotes the interests of Silicon Valley’s tech corporations in Washington, D.C. Klain served on the council alongside executives from the Oracle Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Google, Visa, Apple, and Microsoft.
TechNet, most recently, joined a lawsuit against President Trump’s reforms to the H-1B visa program that sought to prioritize unemployed Americans for jobs rather than allowing businesses to continue importing foreign workers.
TechNet is one of the groups that has filed an amicus brief to oppose the new regulations on H-1B visas. https://t.co/ofY4GJ2sVR
— U.S. Tech Workers (@USTechWorkers) November 12, 2020
Trump’s seeking to force businesses to hire Americans over importing foreign visa workers is an affront to Silicon Valley’s tech corporations, those represented by TechNet, who advocate for an endless flow of H-1B foreign visa workers.
There are about 650,000 H-1B visa workers in the U.S. at any given moment. Americans are often laid off 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.
TechNet’s listed immigration goals include allowing corporations to dictate the annual level of legal immigration to the United States and the elimination of per-country caps that would effectively let India and China monopolize the U.S. green card system.
The group’s goals on trade are in direct opposition to President Trump’s economic nationalist agenda that has imposed tariffs on foreign imports from China, Canada, Europe, and other parts of the globe.
TechNet’s trade goals include reducing “tariff and non-tariff barriers to information, communications, and advanced energy technology products, services, and investments” as well as “protections for the free flow of data across borders…”
While Biden has vowed to flood the U.S. labor market with more foreign workers to compete against Americans for jobs, he has shied away from questions on whether he will eliminate tariffs on foreign imports that were imposed by Trump. Such elimination of tariffs would be a boon to multinational corporations that offshore their production and jobs overseas only to import their products back into the U.S. market, often with no penalties for doing so.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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