Wednesday, May 13, 2020

DEMOCRATS' 'HEROES ACT' TO KEEP THEMSELVES IN POWER AND FLOOD AMERICAN WITH DEM VOTING MEXICANS


"Never let a crisis go to waste" is the motto of the ghouls who populate the modern Democrat party, those eager exploiters of misery.  The party that supported slavery and welfare policies that lure and trap the poor into multigenerational poverty now wants to crash the economy and impoverish a majority that they think will install and keep them in power permanently.
Now the donkeys are congratulating themselves over what they call, without a trace of irony, the "Heroes Act" (as if illegal aliens and lobbyists, among the many of their special interests that rewarded in it, are heroes).
It's all about propaganda, for Mitch McConnell has announced that it has "no chance" of passing the Senate.  The Dems want to castigate Republicans for voting against help for heroes, which makes it crucial to point out all the stink bombs lurking in the 1,800+ pages of the $3-trillion bill.
Senate Republicans are compiling the outrageous provisions of the bill, and so are others.








Last night, Tucker Carlson took six minutes to explore these and other outrages:
RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
Tantamount to law and in fact, it has been. Just how wise is a man making these laws? Is he rooted in science? We will let you decide in just a minute. But first no matter how long these lock downs do go on we are starting to see the outlines of the damage they cause so far. A recent working paper released, and more than 40% will be gone forever and those Jobs will never come back even once all government restrictions are lifted. Now if that turns out to be true, and of course we hope it isn't, but if it is that would mean nearly 14 million Americans would be languishing in long-term unemployment. For perspective, during the Great Recession of 2008, whose effects we feel even now, job losses peaked at 10 million. So this is an unprecedented Disaster for American families. What we are living through. And it's compounding what was already there. Thanks to a series of ugly changes, many people were stuck in Jobs with lower pay and fewer benefits than the ones they lost a decade ago. Millions have no savings and are suffocating beneath the mountains of student debt and credit card debt. This was already a country with declining life expectancy and growing equality in the Coronavirus pandemic accelerated those trends. So our main job before anything else is to fix that damage. Everything depends on fixing it. So that is the sad backdrop to the House of Representatives and new 18 page Coronavirus relief bill which was released today. Anything our Congress does at the moment must first and foremost prevent ordinary people from slipping beneath the waves. In a statement today >> Nancy Pelosi assured voters that her bill come this bill, will do just that.
>> We can all agree that we can open air economy as quickly as we can but we must do so based on science and data. We must do so in a way that reaches all Americans in a way that addresses the disparities that we have seen, so that we can assess the full extent of the Coronavirus and defeat it. We all know that we must put more money in the pockets of the American people. But it is also a stimulus to the economy. Direct payments, unemployment insurance, mortgage help and food and student loan assistance among other things are essential to relieve the fear that many families are facing.
>> Tucker: Among other things, speaker Pelosi just said. What are those things? First thing to know about this bill is that it's big, maybe the biggest piece of legislation ever proposed in U.S. history. The estimated price tag for everything in this bill is $3 trillion which is close to 90% of the nation's entire annual tax revenue. Keep in mind that key comes close on the heels of the last Coronavirus relief bill which cost about $2 trillion. Of course our usual annual spending is there. Altogether that's an awful lot of expenses and everything will dollar will have to be borrowed because there aren't any left. When the smoke has cleared from all of the spending, only China will have bailed us out. China has the strongest balance sheet in the world. At that point, it will be there vessels. We spend all day reading Pelosi's bill to find out. Too few have done that, we did. Here's what we found. First and most glaringly relink the last thing we need is more illegal low-wage of what labor from abroad. But this goes out of the way to supply illegal immigrants with billions of taxpayer dollars. According to House Democrats, illegal immigrants must have a right to have the $1200 checks that American citizens received in the last bill. They also received the same direct payments as American citizens going forward. That's a group that's not even allowed to be here. And then the bill contains an amnesty provision for the duration of the Coronavirus crisis. That's something we would like to cease extended a very long time, all illegal immigrants employed in so-called essential services would be shifted from deportation. Their employer would be shielded, too. People who hire illegal aliens would not be prosecuted. They are critical to providing medical care for the rest of us. Current essential workers as they are defined in this bill is in fact an enormous category that spans almost every part of the American economy. It includes employees in food services, laundry, waste management, child care, agriculture and restaurants. As well as any retail worker in America who works at a location that sells food or beverages. This is a blanket amnesty for virtually every illegal alien who has already taken an American job and once the amnesty is granted it will never be taken away. That on that, no matter what they tell you. Anyone who lives in Washington can confirm that. Once past, it's not going away. At that point there will be no more debate about illegal immigration and the issue will be settled permanently. Democrats will win every presidential election for the rest of your life, the rest of your children's lives and that's the point of this. But the bill keeps going from there. The bill would extend current Visas and the Democrats could call this bill the heroes act. They are telling you it will help health care workers. As of tonight thousands of American health care workers are being furloughed from their Jobs or fired entirely. This bill remarkably orders DHS to expedite Visa processing for foreigners who want to come to the U.S. And W health care. Got that? American health care workers laid off and now they could be replaced by foreigners willing to work for less. We don't have to guess if that will happen, it's happened throughout American industries. Under this bill it would happen to our health care systems as well. Sorry unemployed Americans, better get used to drawing a government check. Then there is a long section in this legislation about drugs, the bill is strongly in favor of drugs probably because when you are high you are less likely to think or worry about what else is in the bill. The bill mentions cannabis 68 times. In order for the federal government to produce an annual report, expanding access to financial services for minority owned and cannabis owned majority businesses. People are calling you a racist and, it orders all federal agencies to the greatest extent possible to hold deposits in minority owned banks. Okay, fine. But what is the pandemic and our response to it have to do with race Politics? Stupid question. The Democratic Party will comic party, everything has to do with race Politics all the time. It's a primary way they get and keep power. Race Politics is the only program they have come up with more crime and increased censorship. That also contains prison break provision. This bill would order the release of every federal prisoner who has asthma, diabetes or is over 50 years of age, unless the bureau of prisons affirmatively proves inmate in question is proven to commit violence against a specific person. And here is the censorship part. It's part of a growing and ominous theme in that direction, the theme will prevent you from saying or believing what you like. This bill directs millions of dollars to the national science foundation to study the Coronavirus "Misinformation" we shouldn't be allowed. In other words shut up and stop disagree with our announcements. That's a message that it sends. But for the favored few, the Democratic Party's donor class, the bill is far more gentle. This bill would repeal the cap on state and local tax deductions. That would help almost exclusively high income neighborhoods in overtaxed blue states. Why is that significant? That's a beating heart of the democratic electorate. This is a payoff to them. Amazingly, you can't make this up. This is a very different kind of hero. He would make lobbying shops in Washington, D.C., and wrote this thing? Probably not scientists. Lobbyists and ideologues wrote it, the same people who control the Democratic Party. The same people who won't badly want to control this country. We are happy to have you here tonight. This is one of those documents that as she read through it your eyes widen and you think, this can't be real. Maybe your only advantages
Image credit: Grabien screen grab (cropped).
"Never let a crisis go to waste" is the motto of the ghouls who populate the modern Democrat party, those eager exploiters of misery.  The party that supported slavery and welfare policies that lure and trap the poor into multigenerational poverty now wants to crash the economy and impoverish a majority that they think will install and keep them in power permanently.
Now the donkeys are congratulating themselves over what they call, without a trace of irony, the "Heroes Act" (as if illegal aliens and lobbyists, among the many of their special interests that rewarded in it, are heroes).
It's all about propaganda, for Mitch McConnell has announced that it has "no chance" of passing the Senate.  The Dems want to castigate Republicans for voting against help for heroes, which makes it crucial to point out all the stink bombs lurking in the 1,800+ pages of the $3-trillion bill.
Senate Republicans are compiling the outrageous provisions of the bill, and so are others.








Last night, Tucker Carlson took six minutes to explore these and other outrages:
RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
Tantamount to law and in fact, it has been. Just how wise is a man making these laws? Is he rooted in science? We will let you decide in just a minute. But first no matter how long these lock downs do go on we are starting to see the outlines of the damage they cause so far. A recent working paper released, and more than 40% will be gone forever and those Jobs will never come back even once all government restrictions are lifted. Now if that turns out to be true, and of course we hope it isn't, but if it is that would mean nearly 14 million Americans would be languishing in long-term unemployment. For perspective, during the Great Recession of 2008, whose effects we feel even now, job losses peaked at 10 million. So this is an unprecedented Disaster for American families. What we are living through. And it's compounding what was already there. Thanks to a series of ugly changes, many people were stuck in Jobs with lower pay and fewer benefits than the ones they lost a decade ago. Millions have no savings and are suffocating beneath the mountains of student debt and credit card debt. This was already a country with declining life expectancy and growing equality in the Coronavirus pandemic accelerated those trends. So our main job before anything else is to fix that damage. Everything depends on fixing it. So that is the sad backdrop to the House of Representatives and new 18 page Coronavirus relief bill which was released today. Anything our Congress does at the moment must first and foremost prevent ordinary people from slipping beneath the waves. In a statement today >> Nancy Pelosi assured voters that her bill come this bill, will do just that.
>> We can all agree that we can open air economy as quickly as we can but we must do so based on science and data. We must do so in a way that reaches all Americans in a way that addresses the disparities that we have seen, so that we can assess the full extent of the Coronavirus and defeat it. We all know that we must put more money in the pockets of the American people. But it is also a stimulus to the economy. Direct payments, unemployment insurance, mortgage help and food and student loan assistance among other things are essential to relieve the fear that many families are facing.
>> Tucker: Among other things, speaker Pelosi just said. What are those things? First thing to know about this bill is that it's big, maybe the biggest piece of legislation ever proposed in U.S. history. The estimated price tag for everything in this bill is $3 trillion which is close to 90% of the nation's entire annual tax revenue. Keep in mind that key comes close on the heels of the last Coronavirus relief bill which cost about $2 trillion. Of course our usual annual spending is there. Altogether that's an awful lot of expenses and everything will dollar will have to be borrowed because there aren't any left. When the smoke has cleared from all of the spending, only China will have bailed us out. China has the strongest balance sheet in the world. At that point, it will be there vessels. We spend all day reading Pelosi's bill to find out. Too few have done that, we did. Here's what we found. First and most glaringly relink the last thing we need is more illegal low-wage of what labor from abroad. But this goes out of the way to supply illegal immigrants with billions of taxpayer dollars. According to House Democrats, illegal immigrants must have a right to have the $1200 checks that American citizens received in the last bill. They also received the same direct payments as American citizens going forward. That's a group that's not even allowed to be here. And then the bill contains an amnesty provision for the duration of the Coronavirus crisis. That's something we would like to cease extended a very long time, all illegal immigrants employed in so-called essential services would be shifted from deportation. Their employer would be shielded, too. People who hire illegal aliens would not be prosecuted. They are critical to providing medical care for the rest of us. Current essential workers as they are defined in this bill is in fact an enormous category that spans almost every part of the American economy. It includes employees in food services, laundry, waste management, child care, agriculture and restaurants. As well as any retail worker in America who works at a location that sells food or beverages. This is a blanket amnesty for virtually every illegal alien who has already taken an American job and once the amnesty is granted it will never be taken away. That on that, no matter what they tell you. Anyone who lives in Washington can confirm that. Once past, it's not going away. At that point there will be no more debate about illegal immigration and the issue will be settled permanently. Democrats will win every presidential election for the rest of your life, the rest of your children's lives and that's the point of this. But the bill keeps going from there. The bill would extend current Visas and the Democrats could call this bill the heroes act. They are telling you it will help health care workers. As of tonight thousands of American health care workers are being furloughed from their Jobs or fired entirely. This bill remarkably orders DHS to expedite Visa processing for foreigners who want to come to the U.S. And W health care. Got that? American health care workers laid off and now they could be replaced by foreigners willing to work for less. We don't have to guess if that will happen, it's happened throughout American industries. Under this bill it would happen to our health care systems as well. Sorry unemployed Americans, better get used to drawing a government check. Then there is a long section in this legislation about drugs, the bill is strongly in favor of drugs probably because when you are high you are less likely to think or worry about what else is in the bill. The bill mentions cannabis 68 times. In order for the federal government to produce an annual report, expanding access to financial services for minority owned and cannabis owned majority businesses. People are calling you a racist and, it orders all federal agencies to the greatest extent possible to hold deposits in minority owned banks. Okay, fine. But what is the pandemic and our response to it have to do with race Politics? Stupid question. The Democratic Party will comic party, everything has to do with race Politics all the time. It's a primary way they get and keep power. Race Politics is the only program they have come up with more crime and increased censorship. That also contains prison break provision. This bill would order the release of every federal prisoner who has asthma, diabetes or is over 50 years of age, unless the bureau of prisons affirmatively proves inmate in question is proven to commit violence against a specific person. And here is the censorship part. It's part of a growing and ominous theme in that direction, the theme will prevent you from saying or believing what you like. This bill directs millions of dollars to the national science foundation to study the Coronavirus "Misinformation" we shouldn't be allowed. In other words shut up and stop disagree with our announcements. That's a message that it sends. But for the favored few, the Democratic Party's donor class, the bill is far more gentle. This bill would repeal the cap on state and local tax deductions. That would help almost exclusively high income neighborhoods in overtaxed blue states. Why is that significant? That's a beating heart of the democratic electorate. This is a payoff to them. Amazingly, you can't make this up. This is a very different kind of hero. He would make lobbying shops in Washington, D.C., and wrote this thing? Probably not scientists. Lobbyists and ideologues wrote it, the same people who control the Democratic Party. The same people who won't badly want to control this country. We are happy to have you here tonight. This is one of those documents that as she read through it your eyes widen and you think, this can't be real. Maybe your only advantages


With Americans Out of Work, Dem House Bill Protects Illegal Aliens From Deportation

 
Daniel Greenfield

As mentioned in the previous post, Pelosi and the House Dem 'HEROES' bill is a toxic stew of lefty political priorities. That includes a predictable bit of protection for illegal aliens.
(a) PROTECTIONS FOR ESSENTIAL CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE WORKERS.—During the period described in subsection (e), an alien described in subsection (d) shall be deemed to be in a period of deferred action and authorized for employment for purposes of section 274A of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324a).
(b) EMPLOYER PROTECTIONS.—During the period described in subsection (e), the hiring, employment, or continued employment of an alien described in subsection (d) is not a violation of section 274A(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324a(a)). 
And the aliens in question are "inadmissible to, or deportable from the United States".
Unlike the aliens mentioned in other sections of the bill, these aren't medical workers. And the definition of "critical infrastructure" covers a whole lot of territory. Using the Federal standard, that covers anyone working for the government, working in agriculture, in manufacturing and commercial or financial facilities.
Potentially, the illegal alien busboy, call center employee, cafeteria worker, or warehouse employee are all covered.
Workers supporting groceries, pharmacies, convenience stores, and other retail (including unattended and vending) that sells human food, animal/pet food and pet supply, and beverage products, including retail customer support service and information technology support staff necessary for online orders, pickup and delivery
Restaurant carry-out and quick serve food operations, including dark kitchen and food prep centers, and carryout and delivery food employees
Employees and firms supporting the distribution of food, feed, and beverage and ingredients used in these products, including warehouse workers, vendor- managed inventory controllers and blockchain managers.
Workers supporting the sanitation and pest control of all food manufacturing processes and operations from wholesale to retail. •
Employees in cafeterias used to feed employees...
It's pretty much endless.
Huge numbers of Americans are out of work and going to food banks, but House Democrats want to make sure illegal aliens keep American jobs instead.

State and Local Politicians Move to Grant Coronavirus Relief to Illegal Aliens

By Matthew Tragesser

 

Study: More than 7-in-10 California Immigrant

Welfare




More than 7-in-10 households headed by immigrants in the state of California are on taxpayer-funded welfare, a new study reveals.

The latest Census Bureau data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that about 72 percent of households headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California — the number one immigrant-receiving state in the U.S.
Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of households headed by native-born Americans use welfare in California.
All four states with the largest foreign-born populations, including California, have extremely high use of welfare by immigrant households. In Texas, for example, nearly 70 percent of households headed by immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare. Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of native-born households in Texas are on welfare.
In New York and Florida, a majority of households headed by immigrants and noncitizens are on welfare. Overall, about 63 percent of immigrant households use welfare while only 35 percent of native-born households use welfare.
President Trump’s administration is looking to soon implement a policy that protects American taxpayers’ dollars from funding the mass importation of welfare-dependent foreign nationals by enforcing a “public charge” rule whereby legal immigrants would be less likely to secure a permanent residency in the U.S. if they have used any forms of welfare in the past, including using Obamacare, food stamps, and public housing.
The immigration controls would be a boon for American taxpayers in the form of an annual $57.4 billion tax cut — the amount taxpayers spend every year on paying for the welfare, crime, and schooling costs of the country’s mass importation of 1.5 million new, mostly low-skilled legal immigrants.
As Breitbart News reported, the majority of the more than 1.5 million foreign nationals entering the country every year use about 57 percent more food stamps than the average native-born American household. Overall, immigrant households consume 33 percent more cash welfare than American citizen households and 44 percent more in Medicaid dollars. This straining of public services by a booming 44 million foreign-born population translates to the average immigrant household costing American taxpayers $6,234 in federal welfare.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder. 






Unemployment Chaos in Four States Tied to H-1B Program

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The huge economic impact of the coronavirus crash is being worsened by the growing role of Indian H-1B visa workers in the nation’s software industry.
Americans in many states — including Florida — were left without unemployment payments for weeks when the software programs supplied to state governments by a company, which relies on Indian H-1Bs, could not handle the crush of new applicants.
The failures in Ohio, Maryland, D.C., and South Carolina were all connected to one Minnesota company, Sagitec Solutions, which uses an imported workforce of H-1B workers.
“Marylanders have spent hours — and days — trying to access new jobless claim portal,” said a May 2 Washington Post headline. The article reported:
It took Shelly Bell 32½ hours to update her unemployment status.
She logged on to Maryland’s new online jobless benefits claim portal at 7 p.m. last Sunday but didn’t reach the front of the virtual line until 3:30 a.m. Tuesday.
“It was beyond frustrating,” said Bell, a school bus driver in Baltimore who has been out of work since schools closed in late March.
Sagitec’s failure allowed Democrats to jab at the state’s GOP governor, Larry Hogan.
“The consequences of these delays are all too real for families across our state who are getting closer to financial disaster,” said a May 2 letter from Maryland Democrat Rep. Anthony Brown to Hogan. The letter continued:
I understand that the State partnered with an existing vendor – Sagitec – to implement the expanded unemployment programs provided for in federal legislation. When the system failed, you pointed your finger at the vendor’s shortcoming for not meeting the promises you made to the public. This is of little comfort to many Marylanders. While you may be shirking responsibility and accountability now, when the state had a troubling launch of the Health Benefits Exchange website in 2014, you declared “the people ultimately responsible for this … are the Governor and the Lt. Governor.”
Sagitec’s reliance on H-1B workers is exposed by MyVisa.com.
The government data displayed by MyVisaJobs site suggests the company has been allowed to import more than 150 well-paid H-1B workers, which exceeds one estimate that the company has a workforce of 146 employees.
Since March 1, the company has also asked to renew work visas for ten H-1B workers. Four of those requests came after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on March 13.
Most of Sagitec’s H-1B workers come from India, according to the MyVisaJobs site. The site notes that Sagitec nominates some imported H-1B workers for green cards, and apparently, the nominated workers got degrees in Indian universities.
Sagitec has four co-founders, including Ranjith Kotcherlakota. He graduated from an Indian college in 1988 and moved to the U.S. as a visa worker with Tata and Mastech Digital, which are Indian-run staffing companies. The other founders — Bala VenkatDeepak Ahuja — also worked for staffing companies before teaming up with American Rick Deshler to open the firm in 2004. The current CEO is another Indian, Piyush Jain.
There is no federal rule requiring companies to hire Americans before H-1Bs and no procedure to reliably verify the claimed university qualifications of the H-1B workers. So the Indian H-1B workers arrive with titles such as “software engineer,” “delivery manager,” “technical lead,” and “senior business analyst” — even though many young black, Latino, and white Americans graduate each year ready for such jobs.
The MyVisaJobs website does not reveal how many of the H-1Bs work at Sagitec every day. Many H-1B employers subcontract their imported H-1B workers to other staffing companies or to Fortune 500 companies. The major staffing companies include Infosys, Genpact, and Deloitte, which developed Florida’s inadequate software for helping people get unemployment benefits.

Trump gets 2:1 public support for his Americans-first shift on immigration.
Even 62% support from Dems who 'somewhat disapprove' of Trump.
Is strong evidence for a strategy of incrementalism vs. a big rush for a total victory.
But deadline is Nov 3https://bit.ly/3aDkl6B 




The problem for state officials is that H-1B workers face workplace pressures that are fundamentally different from the incentives that shape American professionals.
American professionals need to provide quality services to customers if they want to maintain their peer status and income. They are expected to openly argue the merits of technical proposals with their customers, their fellow professionals, and their own executives. If they disagree with their customer and employers, they are expected to quit and find another employer, perhaps at a higher salary.
In contrast, the H-1Bs have almost no workplace rights during their temporary stays in the United States.
Even when the H-1Bs are skilled, they are bound to the hiring managers who have the legal power to cast them out of the United States and send them home to India to live in relative poverty. They cannot easily change jobs, partly because they want their employer to nominate them for the green card that will let them stay in the United States. These circumstances ensure that visa workers — European, Indian, or Chinese — must go along with their hiring managers, especially if the hiring manager wants them to drag out contracts, minimize quality checks, and demand more billable hours from the customer.
Moreover, most H-1Bs get very basic training, say U.S. managers. Most of the H-1B’s technical and language skills are so weak that a recent American graduate from a state college can do four times as much as a typical recent Indian graduate, said an American project director. For example, most Indian graduates “don’t know how to troubleshoot” problems, he said.
The Indians also work under the hard-to-see hierarchy of the Indian caste system, not by the rules of American professionalism, said U.S. project directors. Under the caste system, high-caste Brahmins have more authority than a low-born, “backward” or “untouchable” low-caste person, even if the lower-caste person is more technically skilled.
But the caste system also operates on a regional basis. Telegu people from the Telangana province or the neighboring province of Andhra Pradesh may provide reciprocal trades with favored low-born Telegus, regardless of their U.S. contractors’ priorities. For example, a network of higher-ranking Telegu managers may choose to hire low-ranking Telegus in exchange for cash and gifts, multiple Indians and Americans tell Breitbart News. These trades are widely expected and are often conducted via third parties, often in India. “There are very few honest Indian managers — maybe one in a million,” one H-B Indian told Breitbart News.
“Americans are culturally oblivious to this idea that something so Third World would be in the United States,” said Jay Palmer, a former technology worker. He now helps India’s mistreated visa workers to sue U.S.-based corporations. “I’ve had so many Indians tell me it is an Indian Mafia — they use those words.” He continued:
I have hundreds of Indian workers coming to me to complain that they have to give part of their salary to Indian hiring managers out of gratitude [for getting their jobs], whether $5 to $10 an hour.
There are some Indian managers — I can prove this — making upwards up to $15,000 to $20,000 a month in kickbacks.
In early 2020, there were roughly one million Indians visa workers holding jobs in the United States.
The fortunate H-1Bs work directly for American hiring managers, including many in Fortune 500 companies, usually at American wages.
Most H-1Bs at the Fortune 500 H-1Bs are hired by other Indians to work as technicians. They work long hours, often up to 60 hours a week, compliantly adjusting, retuning, and maintaining software. Their Indian managers are long-term H-1Bs who are waiting for green cards or Indian immigrants with green cards or citizenship.
The Fortune 500 Indian managers prefer to hire Indian H-1Bs because Americans do not want to work repetitive tasks for long hours for many years, one former H-1B worker told Breitbart News. He continued:
As a manager, you want Indian guys because you are able to produce more. You have a [workforce of] complaint, amenable, never-complaining Indian guys with an H-1B. And you are basically getting the big bonuses as a vice-president because you’re able to produce more because you’re able to meet more deadlines. Of course, you don’t care about the quality of life for the employees — that’s a different game.
But life can be “hell” for the many other Indians H-1Bs who are imported by the lower-prestige, Indian-run staffing companies, said the former H-1B worker.
The staffing companies range from huge companies — Infosys, Wipro, and Tata, for example — to medium-sized companies and down to small-scale Indian-immigrant entrepreneurs. These staffing companies import many H-1Bs and work them hard as gig workers, often moving them from city to city for short-term gig contracts. “They do go through hell in many ways, yeah,” said the former H-1B worker. 
The nationwide army of roughly 700,000 Indian H-1Bs works under multiple hierarchies — the hiring managers, the caste rules, and regional hierarchies. Those hierarchies have the unconstrained power to destroy their U.S. careers — and their hopes for a valuable green card.
The same hierarchies apply to more than 100,000 Indian workers who are imported via the L-1, TN, CPT and OPT visa worker programs.
The result is that India’s visa workers will do whatever their Indian managers tell them to do, regardless of American-style professional obligations and regardless of what American customers want, according to H-1Bs and U.S. professionals who have spoken to Breitbart News.
One H-1B in Deleware told a local newspaper:
“The U.S. is the dreamland,” said a Wilmington-based H-1B worker who requested anonymity out of fear that speaking publicly could cost him his job.” “On H-1B, although you are near to the dream, there is always the fear factor,” the man said. “You can’t say tomorrow, ‘I will quit this job and move to another job.’ That is impossible.”


Those hidden hierarchies also make it difficult for U.S. employers to get much value from the gig-worker H-1Bs, despite their lower salaries, say U.S. managers.
For example, the hidden hierarchies pressure Indian H-1B workers to hide problems that would make them or their Indian managers look bad, say Americans. “What I saw from the Indian contractors is they never wanted to admit a lack of understanding or knowledge,” said Ed from Pittsburgh, who served as a project leader in a team of U.S. and India vis workers. He continued:
They would always imply that they understood something, but they really didn’t. They didn’t want to look as if they were lacking in something for fear that they would be, you know, removed [back to India]. I never really had a confidence level that they understood what you were explaining to them.
This hidden pressure is softened when the gig-worker H-1Bs are treated by American project managers as if they are professionals, say American managers. For example, one American project director who worked with a team of roughly 200 Indians in the United States and in India said his Indian H-1Bs “never had a relationship with a manager that spoke openly to them … [Normally,] they still operate under a caste system.”
These pressures are largely invisible to most Americans, who rarely recognize the complex patterns of India’s rich cultural diversity and its many regional languages.
But U.S. project directors see these problems face-to-face, directors tell Breitbart News. “You speak quietly about it,” said Ed from Pittsburgh, adding:
There clearly was an [ethnic and regional] favoritism problem, but it just goes unstated. I can’t do anything about it. I just, yeah, see it … You’ve got to be careful about what you say there or, you know, you’ll be sidetracked.
American executives disregard these many problems and hire gig-worker H-1B workers because they seem cheap, said U.S. managers. “It was about money,” said Rachel from Richmond, who helped implement H-1B outsourcing at a major U.S. bank. “It was not about skill, it was not about anything else — it was about money.”

EPI report shows how the Labor Dept. acts as a labor broker for 53,000 companies who import cheaper contract-worker graduates via the H-1B program.
The losers are US grads & families who see their salaries & careers converted into big Wall St gainshttps://bit.ly/3c6juwT 




Good executives can ameliorate many problems, said Ed from Pittsburgh. But, he added, “they don’t seem to understand that this model that they have of bringing in these [H-1B] contractors and doing this work, is in some cases counterproductive to productivity.”
Sagitec executives did not respond to numerous emails and calls from Breitbart News, so Breitbart News cannot assess the company’s policies towards their imported Indian workforce.
But Maryland’s governor and his deputies blamed the company for the failure of Maryland’s unemployment site, dubbed BEACON.
“We were hopeful that our partnership with the vendor would provide rapid solutions. Instead, it has caused a series of challenges for applicants,” said an email from Secretary of Labor Tiffany Robinson. “The vendor’s platform could not sustain the volume of visitors to the site. This was not acceptable, and we are taking immediate actions to fix these problems.”
The department said on April 30 that Sagitec worked to fix some of the problems.

Our vendor has implemented numerous technical changes during nightly maintenance. As a result, Marylanders have begun to experience significantly lower wait times when accessing the new BEACON One-Stop application today.





In response to the feedback we have received from Maryland's unemployment insurance claimants, the BEACON One-Stop's weekly claim certification questions have been streamlined and clarified.





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The claimed repairs came three weeks after the Baltimore Sun reported April 8:
Marylanders are reporting website slowdowns, busy signals and long waits on hold to submit applications for emergency cash to live on as the number of applications for unemployment in recent weeks approaches the state’s total for all of 2019.
And state officials said there is meanwhile no clear timeline for when residents will be able to receive an extra $600 in weekly unemployment benefits as part of the federal COVID-19 stimulus package approved by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump.
All of that comes on top of an unemployment claims process that can take three weeks even in normal times.
“It’ll be a month, probably, before I see money from the time I’ve been furloughed,” said Lisa Moyer, a dental assistant on the Delmarva peninsula who said she called the state unemployment more than 500 times Tuesday before getting through. “There’s got to be a better way.”
Americans in several other states also suffered when they could not quickly register for unemployment via Sagitec’s H-1B software. The company boasts of selling its unemployment insurance software to South Carolina, Washington, DC, and Ohio, which signed a contract with Sagitec in January 2019.
In South Carolina, “Glitches, delays plague S.C.’s overloaded unemployment system during COVID-19 pandemic,” the Greenville News reported April 8:
Ashley Strickland, a recently hired medical assistant with AnMed Health, sought unemployment benefits last month after her hours were cut.
Strickland said she filed her claim two weeks ago and she’s been checking back a couple of times each day. It remains listed as pending, she said.
She is not alone. Countless workers who have been laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic are complaining on social media that South Carolina’s unemployment system is bedeviled by glitches and delays.
In Ohio, Cleveland.com reported April 13:
As of Friday, more than 696,000 people had applied for unemployment compensation in the state of Ohio in the three weeks since state officials ordered businesses to close to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.
For many people seeking unemployment checks, the process has been frustrating. Many have had to deal with misunderstandings with the unemployment office, long waits on the phone and, once they are finally approved, inconsistent or low payouts.
In Washington, DC, WUSA9 reported April 14, “Laid-off workers wait weeks to get unemployment benefits in D.C.,” adding:
The overload caused many problems with the city trying to get benefits to the workers. Many workers said between the obsolete website and call centers, they’ve spent weeks trying to get benefits, but have had no luck.
Aretha Yates worked at a restaurant downtown before the pandemic hit. When she got laid-off, she immediately applied for benefits. Her claims were processed, but she got no money. She started calling.
“Within a week, I called four times, stayed on hold about four hours each call, and then the phone hung up,” Yates said.
The company posted a blog defending its record in Maryland:
We know many Marylanders experienced slowness and technical issues during the first several days of using BEACON One-Stop. We also understand that user experience is extremely important. This is why we have worked without ceasing to continuously improve that experience for Marylanders over the last week. Sagitec and the Maryland Department of Labor have worked tirelessly to address reported issues, comments, and support emails.
Our work has proved fruitful. Wait times for claimants have reduced to zero and we expect it to remain that way. In addition, over 201,000 Marylanders have filed their weekly claim certifications this week. On Sunday alone, the new system processed over 141,000 weekly claim certifications, with claimants filing an average of 5,800 weekly certifications every hour. This is more than double the 65,000 weekly claim certifications that were processed last Sunday, April 26.
But Sagitec’s problems are just one more example of the quality problems that beset companies whose executives build their business around the H-1B visa workers.
For example, the underperforming and overbudget Obamacare website was a political disaster for President Barack Obama, and it came after the main contractor — CGI — hired H-1Bs. Klick.com reported:
There is some evidence that this project was, at least in part, off-shored and that H-1B (temporary foreign worker) visas were used extensively. This seems to have led to decisions such as the code supporting the obscure Indian Gujarati language and comments being written in a style consistent with offshore programmers.
The Obamacare websites for other states also got entangled in H-1B problems.
Also, MillerCoors sued HCL Tech for $100 million in 2017. Tata Consulting was hit with a $940 million fine after it was sued by Wisconsin-based Epic Systems. British Airways outsourced its operations to India before the airline’s network crashed.
Most importantly, Boeing’s top management reportedly emphasized cost savings above engineering and also outsourced critical software to an Indian company (which then reportedly hired Indian graduates straight out of college) before the not-fully-explained Boeing 737 Max disasters.
Moreover, numerous lawsuits have been filed against Indian H-1B companies in the United States for national discrimination, visa fraud, sexual discrimination, and securities fraud.
The Indian press keeps a close track of H-1B fraud indictments in the United States and also covers domestic corruption in India.
H-1B workers also drain funding from the local economy. For example, each H-1B spends just 25 percent of their wages in local rents, consumption, and taxes, according to 2017 interview of one Indian recruit based in California. Moreover, each H-1B hire can work with five additional people back in India, said the lawyer, Navneet Chugh, founder of the Chugh law firm. U.S. “companies are looking to change it to 10:90 …. [to] reduce the reliance on US-based onsite employees and work will slowly shift offshore,” he said.
Software failures are so common they are regarded as routine by companies — but not by voters who may blame politicians for the software failures.
“While we have been able to handle this volume better than many other states in the country, it is simply not good enough,” Gov. Hogan told a press conference on April 29. He continued:
The IT contractor who developed this site and the Department of Labor have fallen short of the high standard that we have set, and the people of Maryland deserve better and the buck stops with me.  So I am going to make sure that they do and that we do whatever it takes to get this straight so that every single Marylander gets every single penny of financial assistance that they deserve.

Another lawsuit alleges systematic, massive & damaging discrimination vs. American graduates by a Fortune 500 contractor.
DoJ & EEOC are passive, and the estb. media is mute, b/c the discrimination occurs via H-1B visa-worker 'immigration' program.https://bit.ly/35lRe6K 








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