AMERICANS (Legals) LAST IN LINE FOR JOBS AFTER MEXICANS AND CHEAP LABOR FOREIGNERS

The current annual flood of foreign labor spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families. This policy of flooding the market with cheap foreign white-collar graduates and blue-collar labor shifts enormous wealth from young employees towards older investors even as it also widens wealth gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, and hurts children’s schools and college educations. It also pushes Americans away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions. The labor policy also moves business investment from the heartland to the coasts, explodes rents,  shrivelsreal estate values in the Midwest, and rewards investors for creating low-tech, labor-intensive workplaces. U.S. Workers Replaced by H-1B Program Speak Out Eleven Americans explain how Big Tech’s cheap foreign labor cost them their livelihoods

Washington, D.C. (May 6, 2019) – As the White House reportedly prepares to push for increases in employment green cards and temporary visas, a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies highlights the stories of displaced US tech workers who have begged for lawmakers to listen to their disheartening stories of discrimination, wage suppression, and displacement from careers. Matt Sussis, the Center's Assistant Director of Communications and author of the report, said, "Big Tech lobbyists claim that there is a labor shortage of qualified American STEM workers. Our analysis finds that this is completely false and is backed up by American tech workers who have been fired from their careers, humiliated by their employers, and forced to train their unqualified H-1B guest-worker replacements." View the full report: https://cis.org/Report/Untold-Stories-American-Workers-Replaced-H1B-Visa-Program Key takeaways: There is no shortage of qualified American STEM workers – most Americans with STEM degrees work in other industries, and American graduates outperform foreign-educated immigrants when tested on a range of skills. The H-1B program has transformed over time from a means to supplement the American tech workforce to a means of cheaply replacing it. Americans who are replaced by H-1B guestworkers are often forced to train their replacements or risk losing their severance payments. Foreign STEM workers often have far fewer specialized skills than they claim. President Trump and members of Congress ought to meet with laid off American STEM workers in order to hear their stories. The report highlights stories from eleven tech workers who have been replaced by the H-1B visa program. Below are several notable quotes from these workers' stories: "I'm the mother of two beautiful girls, and I don't want them going into technology because there is no future for them. We have been taken over and sold out for cheap foreign labor." "I was trying to find medical insurance for my handicapped daughter while being forced to train my replacement." "The notion that these visa holders are specialized is a complete sham. They come out of sham universities in Bangalore with no specializations whatsoever." "99% of people with H-visas are totally under-qualified...There are millions of Americans who could do this work." "At first, foreign labor was used to complement U.S. workers. They performed on the off-hours. Then they brought in the next wave of workers, but this time it was to replace us." "We need to meet with Trump so he can tell us the truth. He meets with everybody else, so why not with STEM workers?" Americans Replaced by Foreign H-1Bs: ‘There’s No Shortage’ of U.S. Workers https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/05/americans-replaced-by-foreign-h-1bs-theres-no-shortage-of-u-s-workers/ Pixabay JOHN BINDER 5 May 2019772 4:38 Americans who have been laid off and forced to train their foreign H-1B visa replacements say there is “no shortage” of qualified U.S. workers for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) jobs. Center for Immigration Studies’ Matthew Sussis published a series of statements from Americans who have been replaced by foreign H-1B visa workers that were made during a conference call with Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Sara Blackwell’s Protect U.S. Workers. Every year, more than 100,000 foreign workers are brought to the U.S. on the H-1B visa and are allowed to stay for up to six years. There are about 650,000 H-1B visa foreignworkers 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. First and foremost, Americans replaced by foreign H-1B visa workers said that despite claims by the big business lobby and corporate interests, there is no labor shortage of highly skilled, qualified U.S. workers. “I’m a mom to two beautiful girls, and I told them not to go into technology because there is no future for them,” a New Jersey mother who worked in the IT industry for 30 years said. “We have been taken over and sold out to cheap foreign labor from India.” “It’s all a lie. There’s no shortage,” she said. I watched my friends and colleagues get pushed out of this industry. We’re always scared.” An American father to a disabled child said the H-1B visa program is all about replacing hard-working Americans with cheaper, less efficient foreign workers to save multinational corporations in labor costs. “The truth is that it’s just cheap labor for corporations who line the pockets of Congress,” he said. Multiple Americans on the conference call explained that their foreign replacements are more than often times not qualified for their jobs: The notion that these H-1B visa holders are specialized is a complete sham. They come out of sham universities in Bangalore with no specializations whatsoever … I was told that I’d only get my severance if I agreed to train my replacement, who was far less qualified than I was, and if I promised not to sue. It’s an insult. [Emphasis added] … Ninety-nine percent of people with H visas are totally underqualified. No skills. I worked with so many of them from Infosys. There are millions of Americans who could do this work. [Emphasis added] … [The foreign H-1B visa workers’] work was such a mess that they had to hire me back to fix it after laying me off, only to then outsource me again. IT overhead was 2-3 percent when it was all Americans, and is 4-5 percent now. They’re not even saving money because the guestworkers make so many mistakes. [Emphasis added] The Americans replaced by foreign H-1B visa workers said they need a voice in Washington, DC, to hit back against corporate tech lobbyists and asked that they be able to meet with President Donald Trump, who has long denounced the outsourcing and offshoring of Americans’ jobs through the H-1B visa program. “We have no voice in Washington,” one American said. “There are 500 lobbyists for Big Tech, for cheap labor via the H-1B, L-1, OPT, and H4 EAD programs. Who wants to hear from us?” “There is structural nation-of-origins discrimination in tech,” another worker said. “We need to meet with Trump so we can tell him the truth. He meets with everybody else — why not with STEM workers?” Last year, U.S. businesses and corporations attempted to outsource nearly 420,000 American jobs to foreigners through the H-1B visa program — a number that outpaces the population of Tampa, Florida. As Breitbart News previously reported, more than 2.7 million H-1B foreign workers have been approved to come to the U.S. to take American jobs between 2007 and 2017. During that same period, businesses tried to outsource almost 3.5 million American jobs to foreign workers instead of hiring Americans. About four million young Americans enter the workforce each year, many looking for white-collar jobs in the STEM fields. Those Americans’ prospects of finding work are crippled by the country’s legal immigration process, which admits more than 1.5 million immigrants and hundreds of thousands of foreign visa workers annually. Already, the wage-cutting business scheme has led to foreign-born workers overwhelmingly outnumbering Americans in the tech industry in Silicon Valley, California. John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.  About 40% of H-1B Jobs Give Employers a Tidy $40,000/Year Discount https://www.cis.org/Huennekens/Identifying-SuperSanctuaries?utm_source=E-mail+Updates&utm_campaign=8049280b33- By David North on January 18, 2019 A recently released report on the H-1B program (for skilled nonimmigrant workers) indicates that in at least 40 percent of the jobs the employer gets a full-time (alien) worker for a $40,000 a year discount from actual prevailing wages. No wonder many employers use this program and shoulder aside citizen and green-card workers! My sense is that between half a million and a full million resident college grads have lost decent jobs to alien workers as a result of H-1B. The comprehensive and damning report, "Reforming US' High-Skilled Guestworker Program", is by one of America's leading experts on the H-1B program, Professor Ron Hira of Howard University, and Bharath Gopalaswamy, director of the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center. It was published by the Atlantic Council, a distinguished Washington think tank whose chairman is Jon Huntsman Jr., the former GOP governor of Utah, and currently our ambassador to Russia. The 14-page document carefully describes the complex inner workings of the H-1B program and its impact on U.S. workers. The best of many such articles I have read on the subject over the years, it highlights these points: ·         Most H-1B employers do not have to make any effort to recruit U.S. workers before they are eligible to use the program; ·         Most of the H-1 B workers have, at best, average credentials and most are doing run-of-the mill work; ·         The program design itself is deeply flawed, and it is important to address that issue rather than overemphasizing the behavior of certain "bad actors" within the program; and ·         The program needs an assertive, well-designed enforcement program rather than just responding to individual complaints. Perhaps the strongest part of the article is its analysis of the weak, complex, and (to many) the easy-to-misunderstand wage regulations set by the U.S. Department of Labor. In a context of actual wages paid in the industry in question, the Department sets four wage levels for H-1B hiring purposes: Wage Level Wage Percentile 1 17th 2 33rd 3 Median (i.e., 50th) 4 66th The employer then chooses which level to pay the specific alien worker. Level One is for entry workers, while Level Four is for supervisors, with gradations in between. Were the system to be fair to both aliens and competing U.S. workers, the pay choices of the employers would be about 25 percent in each of the levels. This does not happen. Instead, in 2017 employers used wage Level One for 41 percent of the jobs, and Level Two for 37 percent, leaving only 12 percent of the jobs at the average wage or above. It is in wage Level One that employers are getting the $40,000 a year discount mentioned earlier. The discount for wage Level Two is about $20,000 a year. Hira comes to these comparisons (on page 10 of his article) by quoting the Labor Department’s own statistics (from the Office of Foreign Labor Certification) which show, for 2017, that the Level One wage for computer systems analysts in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA was $76,918, while the mean wage in the same occupation was $116,522 per year, a difference of $39,604 per year. Employers and their lobbyists talk about the program as being designed to bring America the "best and the brightest" of the foreign workers, and then pay 88 percent of these workers at substandard wages. This article is a must-read for anyone worried about the fact that our immigration system is tilted so heavily in favor of employers. Topics: H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Progam DHS Will Probably Take a Dive on H-4 Visa Work Permits, Just Like It Did on DACA FacebookTwitterRedditLinkedInEmailCopy LinkPrint By John Miano on May 2, 2019 The U.S. Department of Homeland security submitted a proposed rule to rescind the H-4 (spouses and minor children of H-1B visa holders) work authorizations to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review back in February. Such a review can take a few months. I do not expect OMB will approve the regulation because the Deep State that President Trump has allowed to remain at DHS has sabotaged every attempt the administration has made to rescind Obama's unlawful work authorizations. In spite of President Trump's campaign promises, every one of these still remains in place. When the DACA rescission gets challenged in court, the Deep State takes a dive defending the administration. They do not raise the best arguments in favor of rescission and then they lose in court. For example, in one of the DACA cases, NAACP v. Trump, the district court's opinion points out the constitutional arguments DHS could have made against DACA. The court also points out that, because DHS did not make those arguments, it would not consider them. The text of the proposed regulation to rescind H-4 work authorization has not been released. However, I believe that the text has been drafted in such a way that it is unlikely to survive a legal challenge. I also suspect that OMB has come to realize that as well. As soon as it became clear that DHS was taking a dive in courts on the DACA, it also became clear to me that the courts would decide the fate of H-4 employment. The briefing in the Save Jobs USA v. DHS case, challenging whether the H-4 is lawful, is now done. We await the schedule from the D.C. Circuit. Donald Trump Revives National Program to Exclude Illegals from Jobs https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/04/donald-trump-revives-national-program-to-exclude-illegals-from-jobs/ MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images NEIL MUNRO 4 May 20193,426 5:09 President Donald Trump’s administration has quietly reactivated a computer check that warns employers when their new employees are likely to be illegal immigrants. Democrats, however, are protesting the new push to protect American families from illegal immigrants in the nation’s job market. The so-called “no-match” letter warns employers that their employees’ claimed Social Security Numbers are suspect — and so allows the employers to minimize their legal risks by quietly firing the employees who do not have a right to work. The program was stopped by President Barack Obama mainly because it was so effective at warning employers. “It is a very good thing,” said Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies. She continued: Our government knows the name, address, and place of employment of millions of illegal workers … These jobs should be for Americans and legal workers … the market would bring wages up to $15 an hour for more workers if we didn’t have so much illegal employment. The policy should also identify the Social Security Numbers that have been stolen by illegals from Americans, she said. The government, she said: knows that millions of Americans have had their identity stolen by these workers … They know the scale of Social Security Number misuse is massive — but they certainly don’t want to have to deal with the millions of irate Americans who have to resolve misuse of their SSN. Many — but not all — employers will cooperate and fire the illegals, she predicted. “A lot of employers want to do the right thing, and they have been duped by false documents, and they want to get into compliance with the law.” However, the new policy will not deter the many employers who pay their illegal immigrants under the table, she said. But pro-migration Democrats are denouncing Trump’s pro-employee reform. On May 2, a group of more than 40 Democrats touted likely flaws in the wage-boosting process. In a letter to the Social Security Administration, they wrote: We are writing to strongly oppose the directive to impose Employer Correction Request Notices also referred [to] as “No-Match Letters.” This action will cause numerous problems by diverting resources away from frontline workers whose primary mission is administering benefits. Additionally, this rule can result in increased discrimination and abuses against U.S. workers, particularly women. The estimated cost of roughly $1.3 million would be better spent delivering government benefits to people and hiring more government workers, said the letter. The Hill reported: “This is one more tool in their arsenal, I think, to drive the community into the shadows of society, to create more anti-immigrant sentiment in the country and just to create fear and instability in communities with large immigrant populations,” said Rep. Jesús García (D-Ill.), the lead signatory of the Democratic letter. Garcia’s mention of the “community” likely includes the population of illegal immigrants in his Chicago district and the districts of other cosigners of the letter. The other cosigners include Somali immigrant Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Indian immigrant Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), and Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), who represents a Los Angeles district that is almost entirely Latino and likely includes many illegals. Neil Munro ✔@NeilMunroDC FBI busts company which allegedly helped get 'Optional Practical Training' work permits via fraud for roughly 1,900 Chinese grads, to steal jobs & salaries from American grads. More to come, despite media silence on white-collar job theft #HR1044 http://bit.ly/2Zdr42t  120 10:16 AM - Apr 15, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy FBI: Company Faked White-Collar Jobs for 1,900 Chinese Migrants The government awarded hundreds of work permits to a company that apparently trafficked almost 2,000 Chinese grads into white-collar jobs. breitbart.com 108 people are talking about this The Democrats’ top leadership did not sign the letter. The letter was also endorsed by a large group of pro-migration groups, including the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the NAACP, the Service Employees International Union, and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Immigration lawyers also objected to the American protection program: National Immigration Law Center ✔@NILC No-Match letters are nothing more than a pernicious scare tactic that confuse employers and make workers less secure in their employment. The administration risks severe disruption to the economy with this action.https://chuygarcia.house.gov/media/press-releases/representatives-garc-grijalva-costa-schakowsky-and-43-more-call-social-security … 7:37 AM - May 3, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy Representatives García, Grijalva, Costa, Schakowsky and 43 More Call on Social Security to Suspend... Washington, D.C.- Today Representatives Jesús “Chuy” García (IL-04), Raúl Grijalva (AZ-03), Jim Costa (CA-16) and Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) joined Latinos for Secure Retirement, Social Security Works... chuygarcia.house.gov 20 people are talking about this Each year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after graduating from high school or university. But the federal government then imports about 1.1 million legal immigrants and refreshes a resident population of roughly 1.5 million white-collar visa workers — including approximately 1 million H-1B workers — and approximately 500,000 blue-collar visa workers. The government also prints out more than 1 million work permits for foreigners and rarely punishes companies for employing the population of at least 8 million illegal migrants who sneak across the border or overstay their legal visas. This policy of inflating the labor supply boosts economic growth for investors because it ensures that employers do not have to compete for American workers by offering higher wages and better working conditions. This policy of flooding the market with cheap foreign white-collar graduates and blue-collar labor shifts enormous wealth from young employees towards older investors even as it also widens wealth gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, and hurts children’s schools and college educations. It also pushes Americans away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions. The labor policy also moves business investment from the heartland to the coasts, explodes rents,  shrivelsreal estate values in the Midwest, and rewards investors for creating low-tech, labor-intensive workplaces. Neil Munro ✔@NeilMunroDC Democrats urge more aid and spending for the Central American migrants who are flooding into the US labor market & cutting wages for Americans. This is what the party's progressive base wants, but it seems a risky strategy before the 2020 elections. http://bit.ly/2LiglkI  26 7:48 AM - May 2, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy Democrats on Border Crisis: Help Migrants, Not American Wage-Earners Border agencies should give more aid to Central American migrants, Democrats said in response to the White House's emergency funding request. breitbart.com