Friday, March 13, 2020

THIS CLOWN CHARLIE KIRK - NO, BOZO, FLOODING AMERICAN WITH "CHEAP" LABOR PER THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WILL NOT MAKE THIS ONCE GREAT NATION ANY BETTER!


The Trouble with Charlie Kirk

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Few faces have become so identifiable with support for President Trump as Charlie Kirk's. Frequently found grinning like a Cheshire cat beneath the gilded wing of this or that member of the Trump family, Kirk brags in his new book that he was "MAGA before it was cool." Trump has even given Kirk’s book the presidential seal of approval on Twitter. There is, however, a small problem with Kirk’s latest claim to fame: it's a lie.
In an interview with Newsweek last April, Kirk asserted that "he's been a supporter of Trump's presidential ambitions since at least 2011." A few months later, he contradicted himself in an op-ed: "Yes, it's true, a year before the 2016 election," he wrote last November, "I was still skeptical that a billionaire from New York City with no real political record was going to be as conservative as some of the other candidates." The diehard pro-Trump Kirk of 2011 would like a word with the snarky anti-Trump Kirk of 2016. 
His go-to response, when called on his contradictions, is some variation of complaining he has been misunderstood, misinterpreted, or “falsely accused.” But can he blame his critics? Even as he beats his chest in the president’s name now, it seems like only yesterday that Kirk was on Fox News, calling Trump "laughable," mocking him for standing his ground on pro-life issues when pressed during a town hall meeting. Kirk scoffed at a representative of Student's for Trump who defended Trump on that and other points.  
Most importantly, however, is that Kirk's dishonesty goes beyond fabricating a "MAGA before it was cool" origin story. He is the political used car salesmen of the hour, selling a broken-down neoconservative ride with a new paint job as America First nationalism. Consider what he wants to sell as "traditional American values." 
During a speaking event on his "Culture War" tour, Kirk was asked, "how long do we have to wait until child drag shows are pushed as American traditional conservatism?" Indeed, amid the proliferation of LGBTQ ideology, Kirk doesn't seem to have a problem with warming up to Lady Maga, "America's conservative drag superstar." He deferred on that note to his cohost, Rob Smith, a gay man who recently came out as conservative.
Before prefacing that “what he’s saying is crap,” Smith belittled the questioner, calling him a “troll” and insisting conservatives “need” people like Smith. Later, Smith accused another man of being closeted for asking how the promotion of heteronormative sexuality helps win the culture war. “You seem to be really interested in gay sex,” said Smith, “I’m pretty sure if you’re into that you can go find somebody to do it with.” Smith reminded America First nationalists that their values -- which some might even call traditional America values -- are "behind the times" and, as such, "doesn't really have any place in the conservative movement." Kirk sat smiling beside Smith in apparent agreement.
It is on immigration, however, that the paint on Kirk's heap wears thinnest.
On another tour stop, Kirk smugly condemned a bronze-skinned, black-haired, brown-eyed student wearing an America First hat of harboring a “racist idea” for asking how we can maintain our conservative ideals when immigrants, and the attendant demographic changes, overwhelmingly favor the Democratic Party. It is a hallmark of the Left, which Kirk is ostensibly at “war” with, to accuse people of racism for asking tough questions.
Elsewhere, Kirk speculated that there are anywhere between 30 and 40 million people worldwide who "should be given a chance to come to America." The idea of importing enough people to populate a second California doesn’t faze Kirk. "Fly from Chicago to Reno and tell me that we're full," he said, chastising those of us reluctant to surrender our spacious skies and amber waves of grain for smog and urban sprawl. But just in case he didn’t sound inclusive enough, Kirk also declared his support for "unlimited merit visas."
America, he insisted, ought to hand out an "unlimited amount of 'genius' visas," and there "should be no limitations on EB-5 visas." 
The EB-5 Investor Program is a legalized bribe-for-green-card scam that is rife with fraud, with the added negative of importing a wealthy Chinese elite to America -- people who Kirk called “adversarial” at a recent Florida State University talk. From 2012-2018, around 80 percent of these visas went to people from China, according to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). "America can benefit from genuine 'Einstein immigration,'" writes Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of CIS, "the arrival of world-class talents who are at the top of their fields. But there's not that many people like that, and we currently pretend that many ordinary workers are best-and-brightest immigrants." An analysis of data from the Program for International Assessment of Adult Competencies by CIS found that “immigrants with foreign degrees perform substantially worse than U.S. degree holders on tests of literacy, numeracy, and computer operations.”
It’s not uncommon for immigrants with foreign college degrees to have skills that are in reality on par with those of Americans holding a high-school diploma. Nevertheless, this is Kirk's idea of "merit-based" immigration. To limit or eliminate fundamentally flawed programs like the EB-5 visa, said Kirk, is “one of the most backwards, stupid things we could possibly do.” The Chinese couldn’t agree more.
The pushback against unlimited visas for the “best and brightest,” and millions of more immigrants in general, has since come like a mighty river -- from Kirk himself. "I believe in less legal and illegal immigration," he told Ben Shapiro in an interview recently. But how to square that with his other recent declaration: “I don’t believe that the conservative movement, and some people believe this,” he said, “should become an anti-legal immigration posture.” Evidently, “some people” includes the most recent, anti-legal immigration iteration of Charlie Kirk, for however long that lasts. My guess is not very long.
In his new book, reviewed in Spectator USA, Kirk yearns for the "day when the entire apparatus of the modern welfare state has been turned into private and voluntary services, the United States can afford to let in everyone -- everyone who abides by the rules of the marketplace and pays their own way." Kirk does not envision a real place that is home to a real people with real culture, but an open-air multicultural bazaar in a territory formerly known as the United States of America.
The idea that America is or ought to be "an economy with a country, not a country with an economy,” is a Cato Institute talking point that would put a smile on the face of the Koch organization, which pays to keep their lights on. Unfortunately for Kirk, America is, as Teddy Roosevelt said, "a nation -- not a polyglot boarding house" or a mere marketplace. 
Dishonesty and inconsistency wouldn't be a problem for anyone but Kirk, were it not for the fact that he is a self-declared fixture of the "intellectual foundation" of the America First movement. The real trouble, then, is that Kirk and his associates effectively function as gatekeepers. They have co-opted a movement they, in fact, had no part building.
Now they’re restraining the America First anti-establishment direction by accommodating what is essentially the status quo on important issues such as immigration, while denouncing dissidents as racists and bigots -- the same slurs hurled by the Left. The policies favored by Kirk are fundamentally flawed, hurt American workers most of all, and fuel support for candidates like Bernie Sanders. It was, after all, the disaffected Middle American, working-class demographic feeling left behind by big business GOP policies that carried Trump to the White House. What Kirk is offering is the same bad deal against which they revolted in 2016.
If America First nationalists intend to put some real miles on this movement, it ought to send the junker Charlie Kirk is trying to sell them back to the scrapyard where it belongs.

WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO HANG JUDGES WHO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY!

That’s it. No other description matches what Congress enacted, yet the media persists that with that bullshit notion that it is designed to provide higher-skilled workers. This notion is a typical lobbyist tactic  — they take a turd and call it a rose, and most of the American media will call it a rose if the politicians — especially Democrats – say it is a rose.

The resident population of roughly one million Indian 

graduates has created a U.S.-India Outsourcing Economy 

throughout the U.S economy, which pushes many American 

graduates out of good jobs. The outsourcing economy has 

imposed Indian-style workplace rules on Americans’ 

professional workplaces, despite U.S. laws against 

discrimination, favoritism, and kickbacks.


Klobuchar’s support for middle class outsourcing is a 

fundamental economic threat to her own voting base of 

white-collar college graduates.



Judge Nukes Trump’s Promise to Protect American Graduates from H-1B Outsourcing

In this photograph taken on December 13, 2016, an employee of Indian IT security solutions company Innefu Labs works at their offices in New Delhi. In the darkened offices of a tech start-up, a handful of computer engineers sift through a mountain of intelligence data that would normally be the …
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A judge has gutted the Trump administration’s minimal curbs on the many Indian-run companies that import  Indian college graduates to take the jobs needed by young U.S. graduates.
“A recent federal policy for employers that place H-1B skilled guestworkers at third-party worksites can’t be enforced,” according to a March 11 report in Bloomberg Law.
Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Tuesday that a February policy memo from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services didn’t go through proper rulemaking procedure, and that the agency’s interpretation of the “employer-employee relationship” requirement is inconsistent with its regulation.
The lawsuit was brought by the ITServe Alliance, a Texas-based industry group. The group’s mostly Indian-born members import Indian visa workers who are rented out to ‘third party’ established U.S. firms, often in cooperation with bigger Indian companies, such as Infosys or Tata.
This outsourcing business has prospered despite great evidence that some Indian companies violate laws designed to protect Americans from discrimination.


Administration officials adopted the H-1B protection rules in a simple “policy memo,” but refused to convert them into formal regulations. The officials work in President Donald Trump’s administration at the White House’s Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency.
“USCIS is currently reviewing the court’s decision, and we have no additional comment to provide at this time,” an official told Breitbart News.
“It is heartbreaking to know the impact to American workers, and President and his adminis[tration] aren’t even trying,” said a graduate in the tech sector. “It’s a big joke and has been all along. They have done NOTHING to stop any of this stuff, not even the low hanging fruit.”
The decision is a threat to Trump because it torpedoes his 2016 election promise to millions of Americans college graduates that would end the use of H-1B as a cheap labor program. “I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first,” he said in March 2016.
 “They may appeal –otherwise, nothing is going to happen,” said John Miano, at the Immigration Reform law Insitute.  He continued:
I don’t think they will go to the effort of writing [formal] regulations. If they had wanted to, they would have done it already.
You have to get guys a the top to push down — and the people who got Trump elected, don’t have access to Trump anymore. He’s getting input from the people who were fighting to defeat him. We can’t expect President Trump to know this stuff.
The judge’s decision allows the “human resources” and purchasing departments at many U.S. companies, banks, and insurance firms to freely delegate hiring decisions to an array of Indian-run companies, despite the extensive evidence of Indian discrimination against Americans graduates.
The Indian-run companies are hired by the American companies to import foreign contract-workers via the H-1B, H4EAD, Curricular Practical Training (CPT), and Optional Practical Training (OPT) programs. The imported workers are willing to accept low wages, poor treatment by managers, and even the need to pay kickbacks to their managers, American and Indian graduates tell Breitbart News.
Many Indian graduates accept the Indian-style workplace rules because the Indian managers dangle the prize of hugely valuable green cards for the Indian employees, their spouses and children, and for their elderly parents.
Nationwide, roughly one million imported Indian graduates hold the jobs — full-time or contract jobs — needed by U.S. graduates who are trying to raise their wages, buy homes, and grow families.

Govt data shows 1 million Indian contract-workers get white-collar jobs in tech, banking, health etc.
The Indian hiring ignores many EEOC laws & is expanding amid gov't & media silence.
It is a huge economic & career loss for US college grads. http://bit.ly/2Sy3uw6 




There are no caps on the number of foreign graduates allowed to take jobs in the United States, mostly because there are no caps on the award of work permits via the CPT and OPT program. In 2018, for example, roughly 350,000 foreigners got work permits via the OPT program.
House Democrats and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) are pushing a law — S.386 — that would offer citizenship to many more Indians if they take jobs from U.S. graduates.
The judge cited Congress’s language when she struck down the token USCIS protections set for American graduates, said Miano.
The protections curbed the widespread business of importing H-1Bs and renting them out for any jobs which appeared in the computer-related business. This means that Indian-run staffing companies can recruit cheap workers in India, and then rent them to established companies at cheap rates, he said. This outsourcing means that U.S companies have sharply reduced their direct hires of American graduates, largely cutting them out of the labor market.
The protections denied H-1B workers to outsourcing companies unless those companies showed the H-1Bs needed for specific full-time, described jobs — not for renting the into the overall labor market whenever a job comes open, said Miano. That protection was a problem for the outsourcing companies because many of their H-1Bs sit “on the bench,” as they unproductively wait between contract jobs, he said.
But the judge is “basically saying [USCIS] can’t count ‘unproductive time’ as being unemployed,” said Miano. “She’s saying that Congress required people to pay [H-1B wages] when they are unproductive and that mans Congres is recognizing that H-1Bs can be unproductive, so USCIS has to allow that” business model of renting H-1Bs to other companies. 
“The impact is huge in the computer and engineering fields … in some years, we’re importing more H-1B workers for engineering than we’re creating engineering jobs,” he said. 
“The purpose of the H-1B program is to replace Americans with cheaper foreign workers,” said Miano, adding:
That’s it. No other description matches what Congress enacted, yet the media persists that with that bullshit notion that it is designed to provide higher-skilled workers. This notion is a typical lobbyist tactic  — they take a turd and call it a rose, and most of the American media will call it a rose if the politicians — especially Democrats – say it is a rose.


Follow Neil Munro on Twitter @NeilMunroDC, or email the author at NMunro@Breitbart.com



Amy Klobuchar Hides Her Support for Exporting College Graduate Jobs to India

14 Feb 20201
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Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar is touting her support for amnesty and easy migration of blue-collar workers — but she is hiding her support for laws that allow employers to hire foreign graduates for the white-collar jobs needed by Klobuchar’s college graduate progressive voters.
“We know that immigrants don’t diminish America, they are America,” she told a February 13 event in Nevada organized by the League of United Latin American Citizens. She continued:
We also know that we need workers in our fields, in our factories, to start more small businesses, in our nursing homes, working as doctors, and [in] our hospitals and [as] nurses. So I think that economic case … is the case I’ve been making in every state. …. In nearly every town hall meeting, I would bring up immigration, because I just think it’s so important for people, even in states that don’t have big Hispanic communities, to start thinking of it as an economic imperative.
Klobuchar has a long history of support for white-collar migration, despite the impact on college voters in her home state.
In 2015, for example, Klobuchar backed a bill by then GOP Utah Sen. Orin Hatch that would allow universities and companies to cooperatively import an unlimited number of foreign graduates for the jobs sought by American graduates. ComputerWorld reported:
Technically, the bill is a reintroduction of the earlier “I-Square” bill, but it includes enough revisions to be considered new. It increases the H-1B visa cap to 195,000 (instead of an earlier 300,000 cap), and eliminates the cap on people who earn an advanced degree in a STEM (science, technology, education and math) field.
Hatch, who is the No. 2 ranking senator in the GOP-controlled chamber, was joined by co-sponsors Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in backing the legislation.
“This bill is basically a wish list for the tech industry,” said [EPI’s Daniel] Costa.
In 2020, Klobuchar is also sponsoring the updated version of the Hatch bill. The bill, titled S.386, is being championed by Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee. His bill would not change the overall number of green cards for foreign employees, but it would roughly quintuple the award of green cards to the unlimited number of temporary status Indians graduates who can take jobs from American graduates via the Optional Practical Training, L-1,  and the H-1B programs.


The #S386 green-card giveaway bill pushed by #SenMikeLee is driven by Utah's unified estb., which wants to build a new Silicon Valley: "Silicon Slopes"
Romney's impeachment dump on Trump taints the push by Lee & Utah for a GOP OK of Utah's business plan.
http://bit.ly/38aHMnw 

Mitt Romney's Impeachment Vote Backfires on Utah's Push for S.386 Green Card Giveaway



The resident population of roughly one million Indian 

graduates has created a U.S.-India Outsourcing Economy 

throughout the U.S economy, which pushes many American 

graduates out of good jobs. The outsourcing economy has 

imposed Indian-style workplace rules on Americans’ 

professional workplaces, despite U.S. laws against 

discrimination, favoritism, and kickbacks.
Klobuchar’s support for middle class outsourcing is a 

fundamental economic threat to her own voting base of 

white-collar college graduates.
She came in third in the New Hampshire primary race partly because she won the biggest share of college voters, according to the exit polls. She won 25 percent of the votes from college grad Democrats, narrowly beating the shares won by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Mayor Pete Buttigieg. But she only won 14 percent of blue-collar votes, far behind Sanders’ share of 31 percent and Buttigieg’s share of 24 percent.
But the victims of this Indian outsourcing include many young, mid-career and older graduates in her home state of Minnesota.
Numerous Indian-run, Indian-staffed outsourcing firms have set up satellite offices in Minnesota. They include Infosys, Cognizant, Tata, Larsen & Toubro Wipro, IBM India, and IBM, which recently appointed an Indian CEO to run the firm.
The federal data showing the H-1B job losses are presented MyVisaJObs.com. The site shows the number of H-1B visa workers requested by Minnesota employers to take jobs that would otherwise go to Americans.
In 2019, Minnesota-based Best Buy asked for visas to import 59 foreign graduates, at expected annual pay of $113,000. Minnesota-based Target sought 288 visas for jobs paying an average of $124,000. Cargill Inc. asked for 23 visa workers for jobs paying $117,000, the University of Minnesota asked for 245 graduates at an average pay of  $80,000 and Medtronic asked for 263 graduates at an average pay of $99,000.
SAITJ.org displays the same data from 2017, and it shows that half of the requested workers would earn less than $70,000 a year, while 14 percent would earn more than $100,000.
The outsourcing economy also hits older workers. In 2007, for example, Minnesota’s Best Buy retail company settled a lawsuit by American workers who were replaced by H-1B workers from the Accenture consulting company, according to ComputerWorld’s report:
Best Buy Co. this month quietly settled an age discrimination lawsuit filed in 2004 by 44 former IT [Information Technology] workers who had been laid off, most of them after the electronics retailer outsourced its IT operations to Accenture Ltd. earlier that year.
“The matter has been resolved on a mutual basis,” said Stephen Snyder, a Minneapolis attorney who represented the former Best Buy employees. Neither Snyder nor officials at the retailer would comment on the details of the settlement deal approved by a U.S. District Court judge in Minnesota.
When the outsourcing deal was announced, Best Buy told its 820 IT workers that only about 40 of them would remain with the retailer. About 650 others were expected to be shifted to Accenture and continue working at Best Buy’s offices, while the remaining 130 or so workers were told their jobs would be eliminated.
Mid-career professionals also lose out.
“She’s the ‘Minnesota nice’ version of [Democrat Rep.] Zoe Lofgren … [who is] the congresswoman from Silicon who is a complete foreign-labor dumping shill,” said a Minnesota-born software professional who has lost jobs to Indian outsourcing. He continued:
In 2004, I’m in Chicago, on the near-north side, near one of the restaurant districts, and this Indian guy comes up to me and asks me for directions. It turns out I end up talking to him for two hours or so, him and his sister. He told me he is working at the Best Buy headquarters in Richview, Minneapolis … He explained how he was told by a manager to lie to an American programmer, tell him there was no more work — but to [secretly] shift work overseas [to India]. The American looked at him and said, ‘What am I supposed to do? I have a mortgage and I have a baby on the way.”
If [the Indan] did not play ball, he was going to be on the first plane back to India.
“Klobuchar knows about this [outsourcing[… she is complicit,’ he said.
The Indian outsourcing has accelerated in the last decade, partly because Klobuchar and other politicians protect the business — and even used the 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill to expand the flow of visa workers and foreign graduates. Klobuchar reiterated her support of the 2013 bill at the Nevada event:
I have been a long supporter of comprehensive immigration reform. I think that is the best answer and in 2013, we did, and as I mentioned, when President [George W.] Bush was in and he really wanted to get it done. And we got close, but we had a lot of pushback actually from right-wing talk radio and other things.
Then it got to President [Barack] Obama’s time, and he wanted to get it done too. And in 2013, we put together a bill that was supported both by the Chamber of Commerce and the AFL CIO, by the migrant groups as well as the Farm Bureau and the farmers union. And we got that through [the Senate] with bipartisan support. I was on the judiciary committee, am on that committee and worked on that bill hard, and then it died somewhere over in the House, next to the frozen peas in [House Speaker] John Boehner’s freezer, I don’t know. It never got through, and it was a very sad thing because we had such bipartisan support.
Klobuchar’s opponent, Sen. Sanders, opposed the 2013 bill:


In 2013, @SenSanders gave a powerful speech condemning the Gang of Eight bill written by corporate lobbyists. He then he voted for the bill despite being on record acknowledging that it would hurt American workers. https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1228310760582873088 



Klobuchar promises to push for a similar bill if she is elected President:

I am convinced that we can get this done. I 

think a lot of the Republicans do not want to 

cross Donald Trump right now. But there are 

a lot of them that know that we need to get it 

done. I am committed to getting it done in my

first year. I’m not gonna wait because that 

would have a path to citizenship, as well as do

something of course with the ‘dreamers’ and 

give them citizenship, as well as dealing with 

temporary status workers.


New Infosys lawsuit helps explain how the huge H-1B/OPT outsourcing economy pressures & rewards Indian managers to discriminate against American graduates, including Indian legal immigrants.
Follow the money, all the way to India.
And to Utah's 
#S386http://bit.ly/31qzs0g 

Lawsuit Alleges Anti-American Bias by Indian Managers in U.S.



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