TECH BILLIONAIRES DEMAND SPECIAL AMNESTY DEAL FOR NO LEGAL
NEED APPLY!
IF YOU’VE EVER BEEN IN SILICON VALLEY, YOU SEE THAT ALL JOBS
REQUIRING AN EDUCATION ARE HELD BY INDIANS AND CHINESE IMPORTED IN TO TAKE
THOSE JOBS, AND ALL LOW EDUCATION JOBS IN THE SERVICE/HOPITALITY AND
CONSTRUCTION SECTORS ARE HELD BY MEXICAN ILLEGALS.
ANYTHING TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED!
DURING BARACK OBAMA’S FIRST TERM, 2/3s OF ALL
JOBS WENT TO IMMIGRANTS, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL.
IT’S ALL ABOUT MAKING BILLIONAIRES BY KEEPING
WAGES DEPRESSED.
SHOULD WE KEEP IMPORTING FOREIGN BORN TECH
WORKERS YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR?
Silicon Valley Poverty Is Often Ignored By The Tech Hub's Elite
Tech firms fight hiring rules in
immigration bill
Americans
would "be shocked to know that most of the H-1B visas … are going to
outsourcing companies," Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said during a recent hearing.
Story Highlights
- Bill provision that would require
firms to post jobs for Americans is targeted
- Technology firms have spent millions
on lobbying on immigration
- Judiciary Committee set to start
working on bill
WASHINGTON
– Technology firms, exercising new political clout on Capitol Hill, are
lobbying against a measure in the leading Senate immigration bill that would
make it harder for them to recruit workers from abroad without first taking
steps to hire Americans for highly skilled jobs in programming, engineering and
other fields.
The
measure, part of a sweeping compromise bill drafted by a bipartisan group of
eight senators, would require job openings to be posted on a new government
website for 30 days and order companies to first extend job offers to
"equally or better qualified" U.S. workers. It would give the U.S.
Labor Department the power to review and challenge those hiring decisions.
Proponents
say the measures are needed to curb abuses by companies who they say use the
visa program to hire cheaper labor. Technology companies say the proposed rules
would cripple their ability to hire the best employees from a global workforce
and represent inappropriate government intrusion in internal hiring decisions.
The
fight over hiring practices is part of the massive lobbying campaign underway
on the immigration measure and will offer a fresh test of the technology
industry's growing influence in Washington. The companies involved in the
computer and Internet sectors spent nearly $140 million in lobbying last year
-- more than twice the $69 million the industry poured into influencing
Washington a decade earlier, according to data compiled by the Center for
Responsive Politics, which tracks political spending.
The Senate
Judiciary Committee is set to begin work on the bill Thursday.
The
hiring battle centers on the program that grants H-1B visas, which go mostly to
college-educated foreigners in science, technology, engineering and mathematics
fields. Technology companies say they face a chronic shortage of qualified
workers in these fields. The United States sets an annual limit of 85,000 visas
for these companies, and the competition for them is intense: This year, U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services opened up the application process April 1,
and the cap was reached within a week.
Industry
groups have made big gains in the Senate's immigration proposal. The bill, for
instance, Would increase the H-1B cap to 205,000 annually. However, tech
officials warn the new recruiting requirements could drive companies to move
their skilled jobs overseas, rather than comply. A commonly cited example:
Microsoft's decision to open a software center in Vancouver, British Columbia,
after Congress failed to pass immigration legislation in 2007 that would have
significantly increased the number of H-1B visas.
Under
the bill, "employers are going to have an arbitrary government standard
imposed on every hiring decision," said Robert Hoffman, the top lobbyist
for the Information Technology Industry Council, a trade group. The proposed
rule, he said, ignores subjective factors that influence hiring. "A
perfect example: How does one define whether or not someone has the personality
to fit into a corporate culture?" he said.
"We
are not trying to change any of the fundamental policy goals that they are
trying to achieve" in the Senate, Hoffman said. "We are just trying
to tweak it, so that these goals and other goals, like retaining the best and
brightest and growing in the United States, so that those types of goals are
advanced as well."
Ron
Hira, an associate professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of
Technology, has criticized the visa program, saying it allows firms to hire
"cheap indentured labor."
"The
technology industry is asking the government to come in and intervene in the
normal functioning of the U.S. labor market, specifically on their
behalf," Hira said.
Bruce
Morrison, a former Connecticut congressman who lobbies on behalf of a group
that represents American engineers, said the organization will object to any
effort to "dilute worker protections" as the measure moves through
the Senate. "The arguments from the companies is that there aren't any
Americans to take these jobs," he said, "so there shouldn't be any problem."
The
biggest users of H-1B visas are not brand-name companies, but little-known
staffing companies that provide foreign workers on a temporary basis to U.S.
companies — including banks, health insurance companies and big retailers.
Cognizant, a New Jersey-based company that employs 27,000 people in the USA, is
the top user of the temporary visas, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
records show. Most of its workers come from India.
In
addition, three India-based outsourcing companies rank among the top five
recipients of H-1Bs, according to the federal data.
Americans
would "be shocked to know that most of the H-1B visas … are going to
outsourcing companies," Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., one of eight senators
who drafted the immigration bill, said during a recent hearing. "They're
going to these firms, largely in India, who are finding workers, engineers, who
will work at low wages in the U.S."
Durbin
is a driving force behind the hiring requirements in the Senate proposal.
The
measure would make business harder for staffing companies dependent on foreign
workers. It would impose higher fees on firms that rely on overseas employees
for more than 30% of their workforce. Starting in 2016, the bill would bar
granting any new temporary visas for foreign workers at companies with more
than half their workers on the visas. Both measures apply to companies that
employ more than 50 people.
Cognizant
spokesman John Procter said he did not have a breakdown on the percentage of
the company's workers in the USA on H-1B visas. He said the bill imposes an
"arbitrary, detrimental restriction on the number of skilled
immigrants."
"It
would really change the way America does business," he said. "The
company is very focused on educating legislators and making sure this language
doesn't make its way into any final outcome."
Cognizant
hired its first federal lobbyist in 2010 andby last year, it had spent nearly
$1 million on federal lobbying, congressional records show. Its team includes
Democratic power broker Heather Podesta, who did not return a telephone call.
Other companies also have stepped up their political activity.
Last
month, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix's Reed Hastings, Google's Eric
Schmidt and other technology executives teamed up to underwrite an advocacy
group to promote their views on immigration. Two of its subsidiaries began a
seven-figure advertising campaign to shore up voter support for key senators in
the immigration debate.
The tech
industry "has clearly come of age," said Ellen Miller, executive
director of the Sunlight Foundation. "In the last decade, we've seen this
tremendous recognition from Silicon Valley of the need to play in the power
circles — to both protect their bottom line and to alter the political scene to
their advantage."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/05/06/tech-firms-lobbying-against-labor-immigration-measure/2137837/
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Fed projects
high US unemployment into 2015…so they keep the borders open for hordes more illegals, and continue to
import boatloads of Indians and Chinese for tech jobs!
By
CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
WASHINGTON
(AP) — The Federal Reserve foresees
unemployment remaining high into 2015, suggesting it will keep short-term
interest rates near record lows at least until then.
Obama and Justice
Sotomayor (A LA RAZA PARTY MEMBER) Vow to Illegals to SABOTAGE E-verify!
VIVA LA RAZA
SUPREMACY?
during Obama's first
term, 2/3s of all jobs went to immigrants... BOTH LEGAL and ILLEGAL... and
workplace enforcement of FED LAWS PROHIBTING THE EMPLOYMENT OF ILLEGALS
plummeted 70%!
given Obama was
reelected by LA RAZA, enforcement is expected to be nonexistent.
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