Monday, May 11, 2020

THE TRUMP DEPRESSION - THEY CAN'T GIVE OUR JOBS AWAY FAST ENOUGH!

As Breitbart has reported, existing U.S. legal immigration law greatly benefits China. Visa programs such as the EB-5 visa for wealthy foreign investors, the F-1 student visa, and J-1 visas allow about 180,000 Chinese nationals to enter the country every year in addition to the 60,000 to 70,000 Chinese nationals who secure green cards annually.
There are nearly 500,000 Chinese students in the U.S. in any given year — more than any other nation — taking seats in university classrooms and looking to eventually obtain Optional Practical Training (OPT) authorization to take entry-level jobs in white-collar professions.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.


Straws in the Wind: How Many Foreign Students Will We Have This Fall?

By David North

It is too early to tell, as so much depends on how long the virus lasts, and how students and universities react to it. But we do have some pre-virus information on the numbers coming from the four largest senders of foreign students to the United States: China, India, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia.


WaPo/UMD Poll Shows Strong Support for Restricting Immigration During Pandemic:The president has room for stricter measures

By Andrew R. Arthur


Last week, the Washington Post and the University of Maryland published a poll that showed a large number of Americans support a temporary restriction on "nearly all immigration" into the United States during the ongoing Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. 



“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by its  elite.”                                      Karen McQuillan 

“Trump has broken most of his key campaign promises … here once again he promises his audiences he will end all immigration for 60 days, but then guts the actual order to where it will have little impact for American workers.”

“I think it is great that he did it,” said Hilarie 
Gamm, the pseudonymous software 
professional who helped create the American 
Workers Coalition. Many American 
graduates have been pushed out of good 
careers by federal immigration policy, she 
said, adding, “we’ve been pushing a long time
to get it in the news.”


Exclusive–Jeff Sessions: Why Bring Foreign Workers to U.S. When 30,000,000 Americans Are Jobless?


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United States Senate candidate Jeff Sessions says there is no shortage of American labor, calling out lawmakers and their “corporate friends” for supporting a continued flow of foreign workers to the U.S. to take jobs in the midst of mass unemployment.
In an exclusive interview with Alexander Marlow on SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Daily, Sessions said it is critical that lawmakers defend the interests of unemployed Americans who have been laid off due to forced business closures spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
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“We have 30 million unemployed … We don’t have jobs in the United States,” Sessions said. “There are no jobs now. We’ll lay off more people this week then we did last week.”
“Why would we bring in foreign workers to take jobs when we don’t have jobs for the American people,” Sessions asked. “What theory is it that they’re operating under when they try to justify such a policy position? It’s certainly not in the interest of the American people. It’s in the interest of their corporate friends and some ideology that they adhere to … so I do think that it’s time for this Congress to deliver on its promises that the president made in the campaign.”
Sessions said more Republican lawmakers must be stepping up to the plate to take on China, holding the communist regime accountable for wrecking the U.S. economy. A select committee in the House and Senate, Sessions said, ought to be formed to determine the truth behind China’s role in spreading the coronavirus to the world.
“Where are the rest of the Republicans? Where are they? I mean this is a big issue,” Sessions said. “This party owes it to the American people to defend our interests — American interests. And I don’t think there’s been near enough action.”
“I would think the first thing we need to do is to rally the people who understand the significance of this and have what I call for, is a select committee to study this pandemic and how it started,” Sessions continued. “We did that after the attack on Pearl Harbor … where House and Senate appoint select members of congress … and the charge is what did China know and what did they do, when did they act on it or not, and did they lie about it? The world needs to know.”
As Breitbart has reported, existing U.S. legal immigration law greatly benefits China. Visa programs such as the EB-5 visa for wealthy foreign investors, the F-1 student visa, and J-1 visas allow about 180,000 Chinese nationals to enter the country every year in addition to the 60,000 to 70,000 Chinese nationals who secure green cards annually.
There are nearly 500,000 Chinese students in the U.S. in any given year — more than any other nation — taking seats in university classrooms and looking to eventually obtain Optional Practical Training (OPT) authorization to take entry-level jobs in white-collar professions.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.


The Internal Workings of Anti-Citizen Discrimination in the H-1B Setting

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By David North on May 2, 2020
A new insight has emerged that helps explain why so many high-tech jobs have been taken from citizen and green card workers through the H-1B program.
You might say that many U.S. employers are engaged in a 6-D maneuver; they are using H-1B for double-dip discrimination in order to secure a docile, deeply discounted, alien workforce. Wordplay aside, H-1B is the nonimmigrant program for skilled workers, usually college graduates, that has close to one million aliens in it at any given time.
I have long wondered how the employers have gotten away with two levels of discrimination; first there is the bias against U.S. workers, when the employers (with Homeland Security accepting it) hire H-1B workers from overseas; then, in the second step, the big Indian outsourcing firms — with the whole world to hire from — decide that some 97 percent to 99 percent of the work force should be recruited from among young, South Indian males, a largely Hindu population. These biased practices within the H-1B program have been thoroughly documented.
I keep hearing, from various sources (including a highly skilled IT worker who is neither an Indian nor in his twenties) that virtually all of the personnel people in high-tech are also Indian nationals or of Indian descent — the accent is always there, he says of his phone conversations with human resources.
It was within this setting that I learned of another bias-enabling wrinkle in the system. Again, an over-50 citizen high-tech worker, a different one, did not get a job he felt he was fully qualified to fill; he was not hired because — I would say brazenly — the hiring entity's advertisement called for: "Immediate need of Indian OPT/H 1/CPT candidates for our W-2 for multiple locations for Contract roles".
That sounds like two acts of discrimination in two consecutive words. Stipulating "Indian" is bias on grounds of ethnicity or national origin, and calling for "OPT" is bias on the grounds of citizen status. OPT stands for Optional Practical Training status, something that only an alien graduate of a U.S. university can secure.
The citizen, whom I know to be highly skilled with complex datasets, then filed a complaint against a small recruiting firm, filing it with the Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER) of the U.S. Justice Department.
He was then told by IER that the firm was exempt from the anti-discrimination rules because it had three or fewer employees. He has appealed this decision to a very obscure federal agency, again within DOJ, the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer (OCAHO). We will publish the names of those involved once a decision has been made. One pronounces the name of the appeals body "O Kay O", he told me.
The citizen's argument is that the recruiting agency, no matter how small, was acting on behalf of a larger organization
I have three comments. First, the story of the big employer shedding complaints of discrimination or worker abuse because somebody else is, allegedly, doing the abusing, somebody who is beyond legal reach, rings too many bells. When I was working with the U.S. Labor Department on farm labor matters, decades ago, the pattern was that when the workers complained of illegal treatment, the mega corporations in agri-business would always say "but we do not employ the farm workers, the crew leader does." The crew leaders were both minnows with no assets, and thus could not be sued, and could be easily replaced by the corporations.
Second, this citizen has uncovered yet another stratagem used by the outsourcers and other employers to perpetuate their discriminatory schemes: Turn over the task of hiring to entities too small to be sued by the feds. This, plus the existence of the massive H-1B program and the ability of the big outsourcing firms using it to avoid discrimination charges when using that program means that U.S. workers never have a chance.
Third, while I hope OCAHO will do the right thing in this instance, the past performance of this tiny agency (the last time I looked it had exactly two hearing officers) is not that of a staunch supporter of the American worker.
When I last wrote about it, its primary role in life seemed to be to reduce the fines that Immigration and Customs Enforcement laid on employers of illegal aliens. Another thing OCAHO was doing at the time was fining employers who, while seeking to obey the ban on hiring illegal alien workers, asked the alien workers for too many documents.

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