When Biden took office, one of his first acts was the elimination of our border security. Like a power-hungry dictator, Biden simply decided to ignore our immigration laws. His catastrophic border policy resulted in untold millions of unidentified foreign citizens from around the world pouring into our country. Its impact is now being felt in cities across the country. The worst is yet to come. PETER LEMISKA - AND WE'RE ALREADY THERE!!!
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
THE PELOSI - GOP ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN WORKER TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED - THESE POLS NEVER STOP SUCKING OFF THE BRIBES FROM BILLIONAIRES!
Fact Check: Dan Crenshaw Echoes Big Business Talking Points on Green Card Giveaway Amid Backlash
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Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is echoing talking points from the big business lobby after voting for a green card giveaway plan to 300,000 Indian workers who were imported by Big Tech’s outsourcing business model.
The giveaway plan will allow Indian nationals to effectively monopolize the U.S. green card system for at least the next ten years, providing a constant, quicker stream of mostly Indian male nationals that American professionals will be forced to compete against for white-collar U.S. jobs in the labor market.
This week, 140 House Republicans, 224 House Democrats, and Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) — led by Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) voted for the plan.
Crenshaw posted on Instagram a defense of his support for the legislation, known as HR. 1044, writing that he was simply posting “just the facts.” His defense won praise from the architect behind 2013’s “Gang of Eight” mass amnesty plan, Leon Fresco.
“Legal immigration is good and this is actually a good bill,” Crenshaw said, with no reference to the impact of the nation’s record high levels of legal immigration on American communities and U.S. workers.
American workers have been displaced and suffer from wage depression due to the annual importation of more than 1.2 million mostly low-skilled foreign nationals to the U.S. — across white-collar industries like Information Technology (IT) fields and in working class, blue-collar industries like construction.
Crenshaw’s Claim: “This bill does NOT create new visas of ANY kind. It does NOT legally favor H1B visas for green card holders (this is a point of confusion because some would argue that a POTENTIAL outcome of this bill is that only current temporary visa holders will apply for green cards).”
Fact Check: The evidence strongly supports the concerns that HR. 1044 will legally favor H-1B foreign visa workers because other workers — such as nurses and athletes — will lose their fast-track routes to green cards and will have to wait behind masses of Indian H-1B workers hired by the information technology (IT) industries.
Tech corporations like Amazon, and Indian outsourcing firms such as Infosys and Cognizant, have packed a decade’s worth of tech workers and families into the waiting lines. So if a company wants to hire a nurse from the Philippines after this bill passes, the employers will have to wait seven to eight years before their sponsored foreign workers can obtain their green card and begin work.
Because employers are unlikely to wait seven to eight years to get their foreign worker, experts say employment-based green cards will be almost solely sought for temporary foreign visa workers already in the U.S., like those on H-1B visas that routinely displace American workers from their jobs.
The outsourcing lobby and Big Tech corporations — that have effectively monopolized the H-1B visa program — also have an advantage. They can nominate a temporary visa worker in the United States for an employment-based green card system, ensuring the workers do not have to leave the U.S. when their temporary visas expire.
Crenshaw’s Claim: “This bill does NOT create NEW green cards. It simply changes the line order, making it more fair for immigrants who applied first. Right now, an immigrant’s wait time depends on what country they’re from (smaller countries therefore benefit the most). With this new bill, its a ‘first-in-line’ basis, meaning your wait time depends on WHEN you applied, not from WHERE you applied.”
Fact Check: Under HR. 1044, any foreign national attempting to come to the U.S. from a country other than India on an employment-based green card will have to wait at least ten years to do so, analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies finds based on records from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
Currently, Indian nationals are obtaining roughly 25 percent of all white-collar employment-based green cards annually. Should HR. 1044 become law, Indian nationals will sweep away with about 90 percent of the white-collar employment-based green cards every year for at least the next decade. This means that green cards for nationals from countries other than India will have to wait a decade before they are able to enter obtain an employment-based green card.
The purpose of the current per-country caps, which puts an annual seven percent cap for employment-based green cards for nationals in every country, is to ensure that a handful of countries — in this case, India — do not soak up all the employment-based green cards every year.
The non-partisan Congressional Research Service admits that HR. 1044 will allow “a handful of countries” to “dominate employment-based immigration, possibly benefitting certain industries that employ foreign workers from those countries, at the expense of foreign workers from other countries and other industries that might employ them.”
Moreover, Crenshaw’s “first-in-line” claim suggests that the Indian visa workers have a right to be placed ahead of other visa workers and migrants because they signed their contract first.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pro-outsourcing lobby FWD.us and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, like Crenshaw, have claimed that the current green card system is unfair to Indian nationals who have been promised green cards by their employers and should not have to wait for those green cards “simply because of their country of origin.”
“In short, the quota for Iceland, which has a population of approximately 338,000 people, is the same as India, with a population of roughly 1.338 billion people,” the Chamber of Commerce’s Niel Bradley has said. “These quotas cause a significant amount of uncertainty for employers that hire highly-skilled, highly-educated immigrant workers that were born in India and China.”
But this claim to fairness hides the unfairness of a federal system which is designed to favor the mass importation of foreign visa workers for the hugely wealthy IT industry and Silicon Valley billionaires.
Is the “first-to-file” system fair to smaller companies which must wait eight years to import a unique specialist from abroad? Is the system fair to American graduates in the software business who are inundated by cheap Indian visa workers?
Is the “first-to-file” system fair to American communities who see corporations importing mostly Indian male nationals — with the promise of green cards — instead of hiring U.S. graduates?
Is the “first-to-file” plan fair for the workers and companies in midsized towns and cities throughout Crenshaw’s Texas district? The law he voted for allows big city investors and companies to import cheap foreign workers into their big city jobs — while ignoring the underemployed Americans and small subcontractors in the nearby towns.
Crenshaw’s Claim: “When someone says it doubles visas because it ‘increases the visas from 7% to 15%,’ this is WRONG. It is NOT increasing the number of visas or green cards. That percentage change is referring to a change in the maximum allowed PROPORTION of family-based immigrant visas from any specific country. It has nothing to do with the total number of visas. The total number stays the same.”
Fact Check: Last year, Crenshaw said he supported ending the process known as “chain migration,” wherein newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. HR. 1044, though, increases the chain migration visa caps from seven percent to 15 percent, a provision put into the legislation following a major lobbying effort by Filipino nurses who complained that their siblings have been unable to quickly obtain green cards.
Set to gain most from the provision are Filipino Americans and Mexican Americans who will be able to more quickly get green cards for their foreign relatives. HR. 1044 reinforces the chain migration visa categories that Crenshaw previously said he supported eliminating.
President Trump has routinely advocated for eliminating chain migration — five years of which adds more people to the U.S. population than one year of American births.
Crenshaw’s Claim: “It is pure speculation to say that this would cost American jobs or depress wages. There is no evidence for that. We should also recognize that we have more than 7 million job openings in America right now, and not enough workers to fill them. Wages are rising, 3.2% year over year, but especially for low-income jobs, at 4.4% wage growth.”
Fact Check: The H-1B visa program and Big Tech’s outsourcing business model, underscored by HR. 1044, has definitively led to the displacement of American workers and the depression of U.S. wages, research, analysis, and stories from the American workers, themselves.
Steven Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies, has found that every one-percent increase in the immigrant composition of American workers’ occupations reduces their weekly wages by about 0.5 percent. This means the average native-born American worker today has his weekly wages reduced by perhaps 8.5 percent because of current legal immigration levels.
Likewise, research by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine finds that legal immigration to the U.S. redistributes about $500 billion in wealth from working and middle class Americans every year to major employers and newly arrived immigrants.
Common sense also works against Crenshaw. HR. 1044 enormously expands the supply of Indian computer workers, yet somehow this increased supply has no impact on salaries? Crenshaw also seems to believe that Indian nationals are passive actors who are unable or unwilling to take advantage of the green card change.
The bill effectively quadruples the size of the green card magnet for Indians, who can expect to get 100,000 green cards by 2023, up from 23,000 in 2017.
Already, many thousands of Indian nationals use the “Optional Practical Training” loophole to get low wage U.S. jobs by simply enrolling in low grade U.S. universities. Indian nationals accept these OPT jobs at very low wages because they are trying to get jobs in the largely Indian run H-1B visa industry which is the gateway to green cards. There is no limit to the number of OPT work permits that can be snagged by Indian nationals, Chinese nationals or other foreign workers.
The OPT program is defended by universities, technology companies, and investors who benefit from the inflow of fee-paying students or cheap workers. In 2017, 291,635 foreigners were given one-year OPT work permits, and another 60,410 were given three-year OPT work permits. In the two prior years, 67,000 people were given three-year OPT permits. OPT workers are hired by brand name companies, including Amazon, Intel, and Microsoft. Many also transfer into the H-1B program and some are approved for green cards.
Overall, the OPT program keeps roughly 400,000 foreign graduates in U.S. jobs that do not need to be advertised to U.S. graduates. Overall, the various visa programs, including the OPT, CPT, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, and J-1 programs, allow U.S. employers to keep a cheap workforce of roughly 1.5 million, non-immigrant, cheap guest workers in white-collar jobs.
With four times as many Indian green cards on offer, it is reasonable to expect that at least twice as many Indian nationals will get into the green card line by seeking twice as many OPT jobs — and the extra supply of Indian nationals in the OPT program is likely to cost American jobs or depress wages.
There is no limit to the number of H-1B visas that can be granted to Indian nationals each year because the H-1B visas used by nonprofit companies are exempt from the apparent 85,000 annual inflow. If there are more green cards, companies will be able to recruit more foreign H-1B visa workers to replace Americans in nonprofit jobs at universities, hospitals, and research centers.
Crenshaw makes the same case as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in his statement that there are “not enough workers” to fill jobs in the country. In actuality, there are 12.3 million Americans who are either unemployed, forced to work part-time jobs, out of the workforce but wanted jobs, or who were unemployed because they were discouraged by their job prospects.
Wage growth for blue-collar, working class Americans has risen significantly and can be attributed to the Trump administration’s high-wage, low-immigration economic model that seeks to reduce foreign job competition in the labor market through increased immigration enforcement.
If there was a real shortage of American workers, wages would be rising faster as companies begin to poach workers from each other. So far, there is minimal evidence that Silicon Valley companies are trying to offer higher wages to pull American workers from other companies.
Crenshaw’s office did not respond to comment request in time for publication.
Neil Munro contributed to this report.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Despite tech corporations’ claims that there is a shortage of American workers to take coveted high-paying, white collar jobs in the STEM fields, about four million young Americans enter the workforce each year. Many American workers have spoken out about how they were fired, replaced, and forced to train their foreign replacements.
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 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. More than 85,000 Americans annually potentially lose their jobs to foreign labor through the H-1B visa program. The replacement of American workers through the H-1B visa program is set to be exacerbated by HR. 1044.JOHN BINDER
Tech Billionaires, Outsourcing Lobby Finance GOP/Dems Green Card Giveaway
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A handful of tech billionaires, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Indian outsourcing lobby are financing a green card giveaway plan that has already passed the House with support from 140 House Republicans and 224 House Democrats.
Last week, the majority of House Republicans and Democrats — led by Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) — voted to approve a green card giveaway for 300,000 Indian workers and allow India to effectively monopolize the U.S. green card system for at least the next ten years.
The legislation, known as HR. 1044, will ensure that outsourcing firms such as Cognizant, as well as Big Tech conglomerates like Amazon and Facebook, have a green card system where only temporary foreign workers on H-1B visas are able to obtain employment visas by creating a backlog of seven to eight years for all foreign nationals. This process would solidify that employment-based green cards only go to temporary foreign visa workers that have been imported to the U.S. by corporations to replace American workers.
Lobbyists across the big business lobby, multinational tech corporations, the Indian outsourcing lobby, and representing the billionaire Koch brothers are financing the passage of HR. 1044 as all are set to gain hugely.
The lobbying groups include:
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Microsoft Corporation
Facebook Inc.
IBM Corporation
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HP)
The Chamber of Commerce and billionaire Kochs have routinely advocated against President Trump’s “America First” immigration agenda, pushing for more immigration to the U.S. by claiming that businesses should have access to an unlimited pool of foreign workers and that the country does not have enough Americans to fill jobs.
Currently, there are 12.3 million Americans who are unemployed, underemployed, and working part-time jobs but who want full-time employment.
Cognizant, like Infosys, is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the H-1B visa system as it contracts with multinational corporations to outsource American jobs to imported foreign workers, almost all of whom come from India. Last year, alone, Cognizant attempted to outsource more than 13,000 American jobs to foreign H-1B visa workers.
The firm’s outsourcing scheme includes contracting with U.S. multinational corporations, laying off American workers, and often forcing them to train their replacements who are foreign nationals that come to the country on the H-1B visa. Down the road, the job stripped from the American worker is often offshored to a foreign country altogether.
Likewise, Ginni Rometty’s IBM is one of the largest outsourcers of American jobs in the country. An investigation last year revealed that IBM had laid off about 20,000 older American employees over the last five years while attempting to import more than 32,000 foreign H-1B visa workers since 2016.
Today, IBM employs more workers in India than in the U.S.
Tech corporations like Facebook, Microsoft, and HP hide their H-1B foreign worker hires through outsourcing firms like Cognizant, Tata, and Infosys, as Breitbart News has reported. The practice allows the corporations to claim they are not undercutting or replacing American workers at extraordinary rates, as they simply contract the foreign workers through the outsourcing firms.
Microsoft, Facebook, and HP, over the last few years have attempted to outsource more than 21,400 U.S. jobs to imported H-1B visa workers.
The key sponsors of HR. 1044 have previously received donations from the corporations and outsourcing firms lobbying for the legislation. One of Rep. Lofgren’s largest donors, for instance, is Alphabet Inc. — Google’s parent company which poured more than $35,000 into the California Democrats’ coffers in 2017 and 2018.
Similarly, Rep. Buck has received thousands in campaign cash from Amazon, the Koch brothers, Microsoft, and Alphabet.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Peter Thiel: FBI, CIA Must Investigate ‘Treasonous’ Google
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Billionaire investor, Facebook board member, and Trump supporter Peter Thiel recently called on the FBI and CIA to investigate Google for the “seemingly treasonous” act of aiding the Chinese military.
Axios reports that Peter Thiel, the billionaire Silicon Valley investor, Facebook board member, and longtime supporter of President Donald Trump, called on the FBI and CIA to investigate Google for allegedly aiding the Chinese military during his speech at the recent National Conservatism Conference. During the speech, Thiel noted “three questions that should be asked” by the federal government of tech giant Google.
Number one, how many foreign intelligence agencies have infiltrated your Manhattan Project for AI?
Number two, does Google’s senior management consider itself to have been thoroughly infiltrated by Chinese intelligence?
Number three, is it because they consider themselves to be so thoroughly infiltrated that they have engaged in the seemingly treasonous decision to work with the Chinese military and not with the US military… because they are making the sort of bad, short-term rationalistic [decision] that if the technology doesn’t go out the front door, it gets stolen out the backdoor anyway?
Thiel added that these questions “need to be asked by the FBI, by the CIA, and I’m not sure quite how to put this, I would like them to be asked in a not excessively gentle manner.” Thiel has been a long time supporter of Artificial Intelligence, joining Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman in pledging to commit a total of $1 billion to the non-profit group OpenAI in 2015.
Google has come under fire previously for its relationship with China, particularly the development of a censored Chinese search engine codenamed Project Dragonfly. During a speech before the Hudson Institute in 2018, Vice President Mike Pence criticized what he believes is China’s theft of U.S. technology, urging Gooogle to take action on the issue. Pence said during the speech that other business leaders are hesitant to enter the Chinese market “if it means turning over their intellectual property or abetting Beijing’s oppression.”
Pence called on Google to listen to these other leaders and that “more must follow suit.” He also called on Google to end the development of its censored Chinese search engine project known as Dragonfly: “For example, Google should immediately end development of the ‘Dragonfly’ app that will strengthen Communist Party censorship and compromise the privacy of Chinese customers,” said Pence.
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Chinese policy expert Dr. Michael Pillsbury noted that eight years ago, Google co-founder Sergey brin received praise for refusing to do business with the Chinese government, a decision which now appears to have been completely reversed. “Fast forward eight years and Google has reversed itself, but done so secretly.”
Recently, e-commerce giant Amazon faced pressure from employees to cut ties with Peter Thiel’s Palantir, a data mining firm that is employed by ICE in its efforts to carry out deportations. Amazon employees are now circulating a letter from June 2018 in which they called for executives to ban Palantir from Amazon Web Services; Palantir’s software utilizes Amazon’s cloud computing unit.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolanor email him at lnolan@breitbart.com
AMNESTY AND WIDE OPEN BORDERS IN THE AGE OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM: It's all about keeping wages depressed!
However, the dominant force in American politics for the last two decades has been economic warfare against American citizens.
This economic warfare has two primary components; the use of government to economically favor one group over another; and the collusion of immigrant groups to economically inhibit Americans who oppose replacement migration.
JOSHUA FOXWORTH – AMERICAN THINKER
IMMIGRATION AS ECONOMIC WAR ON THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS.
However, the dominant force in American politics for the last two decades has been economic warfare against American citizens.
This economic warfare has two primary components; the use of government to economically favor one group over another; and the collusion of immigrant groups to economically inhibit Americans who oppose replacement migration.
JOSHUA FOXWORTH – AMERICAN THINKER
"This is country belongs to Mexico" is said by the Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN, belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and California through a LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
The “mother of all caravans” is forming in Central America, and our border-enforcement system is at “the breaking point” — all because Democrats in Congress rejects any effort to plug the legal loopholes that drive the accelerating flood at the border. In effect, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are doing just what Cesar Chavez complained about 40 years ago: placating employers by allowing the unhindered importation of cheap labor to undermine the efforts of American workers to negotiate higher wages. MARK KRIKORIAN
BUILDING THE LA RAZA WELFARE STATE ON LEGALS’ BACKS!
Nolte: Dems Promise to Take Away Our Health Insurance and Give It to Illegal Aliens
However, the dominant force in American politics for the last two decades has been economic warfare against American citizens.
This economic warfare has two primary components; the use of government to economically favor one group over another; and the collusion of immigrant groups to economically inhibit Americans who oppose replacement migration.
JOSHUA FOXWORTH – AMERICAN THINKER
‘Gang of Eight’ Amnesty Architect Declares Victory as GOP/Dems Pass Green Card Giveaway
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The architect of the infamous “Gang of Eight” amnesty plan in 2013 is declaring victory as 140 House Republicans helped House Democrats pass an overhaul that allows India to monopolize the United States’ green card system for at least a decade.
Immigration attorney Leon Fresco is praising House Republicans and House Democrats for advancing HR. 1044, legislation that allows thousands of Indian nationals who have taken American jobs through programs like the H-1B visa at the behest of tech conglomerates and Indian outsourcing firms to more quickly obtain green cards to eventually get American citizenship.
The legislation allows Indian nationals to effectively monopolize the U.S. green card system for at least the next ten years, providing a constant stream of foreign workers to the outsourcing lobby and tech giants like Amazon, Facebook, and Google that American professionals will be forced to compete against for white-collar U.S. jobs.
Fresco, who boasts about being the “primary drafter” of 2013’s Gang of Eight amnestyscheme — the legislation that would have provided amnesty to the majority of illegal aliens in the U.S. and would have helped add 32 million eligible foreign-born voters to the U.S. electorate by 2036 — praised the passage of the green card giveaway online:
Great vote on HR1044!! 365 total yes votes and 140 Republicans!! Congrats to @immivoice and all of your members for all of your hard work!! On to the Senate and then to final passage!!
great day today! 365 votes for HR1044 is massive given turbulent times where anyone can come up with an excuse to vote no on any bill! Congrats again to @immivoice—it is their victory!! If you have ?’s ask them and join them! They need your help!
Tweet of the day on per country limits—having a 7 percent per country limit on an National Hockey League team would mean that only 1 Canadian could be on each team!! Think about that!
Fresco applauded Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s (R-TX) explanation of why he voted in support of the green card giveaway plan, calling it “the most cogent explanation” of the legislation:
This year, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kevin McAleenan approvedFresco to join the DHS Advisory Council despite his staunch opposition to President Trump’s “America First” immigration agenda.
Despite tech corporations’ claims that there is a shortage of American workers to take coveted high-paying, white collar jobs in the STEM fields, about four million young Americans enter the workforce each year. Many American workers have spoken out about how they were fired, replaced, and forced to train their foreign replacements.
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 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. More than 85,000 Americans annually potentially lose their jobs to foreign labor through the H-1B visa program. The replacement of American workers through the H-1B visa program is set to be exacerbated by HR. 1044.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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