President Joe Biden’s deputies quietly announced a work permit giveaway on Wednesday that would allow hundreds of thousands of white-collar temporary workers from India to permanently compete against American graduates for jobs and careers.
The giveaway comes as U.S. tech companies and universities are firing many American graduates while importing another annual wave of about 100,000 H-1B visa workers.
GOP politicians — including President Donald Trump — have ignored this massive damage to the U.S. middle-class since it began in 1990. But this GOP silence is self-defeating for GOP candidates because the victims are the swing-voting, white-collar professionals who have given Democrats their victory margins in suburbs around the nation.
The U.S. media will hide the Biden giveaway because establishment editors do not have the workplace authority to describe the damage to their white-collar peers and their own kids . Worse, many younger reporters prefer to tout the investor-magnified concerns of economic migrants.
The June 14 work-permit giveaway is included in agency instructions to officials telling them they can award renewable work permits to the temporary workers in “compelling circumstances.”
But Mayorkas expanded the definition of “compelling circumstances” to include the normal expiration of foreign workers’ visas and the scheduled expiration of the workers’ contract jobs.
“They’re setting it up really so anyone can qualify,” responded Jessica Vaughan, the policy studies director at the Center for Immigration Studies.
The giveaway was announced by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, which is part of Mayorkas’ Department of Homeland Security. The June 14 statement said:
The guidance covers compelling circumstances for principal applicants and their dependents and provides a non-exhaustive list of situations that could lead to a finding that compelling circumstances exist, including serious illness and disability, employer dispute or retaliation, other substantial harm to the applicant, or significant disruption to the employer.
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Compelling circumstances could include, if, due to job loss, the family may otherwise be forced to sell their home for a loss, pull their children out of school, and relocate to their home country.
The rule even says the workers should be given valuable renewable work permits because their temporary visas are expiring on schedule, said Vaughan.
The language says, “If the basis for something being here on a temporary work visa goes away and the person would have to move back to their home country, that’s a compelling circumstance for them to stay here,” she said, adding, “that’s absurd.”
It “looks like a huge change, ” said David Bier at the business-backed Cato Institute.
“This is just another attempt to get around the limits on immigration that Congress put into law,” Vaughan said.
Those limits include a cap of 140,000 green cards for foreign workers hired by U.S. companies. But for many years, U.S. agencies have allowed U.S. companies to annually recruit far more than 140,000 foreign workers for U.S. jobs by dangling promises of deferred payment in the form of hugely valuable U.S. green cards and citizenship.
The predictable result is the creation of a roughly 1 million-strong foreign white-collar workforce who are tied to lower-wage jobs by their employers’ dangled promises of an eventual green card.
The workforce is mostly Indian, partly because India’s government has worked closely with Fortune 500 investors to fill up subcontracted jobs with export Indian workers. These Indian workers move into Americans’ jobs via the uncapped H-1B and L-1 visa programs, and via the uncapped supply of OPT, CPT, and H4EAD work permits.
That huge Indian workforce has severely distorted the U.S. market for white-collar workers. It lowers white-collar wages nationwide, turbocharges the export of jobs to India, disastrously subordinates professionals under C-Suite executives, and reduces pressure on investors to raise productivity, innovation, and foreign investment outside India.
The giveaway is also an economic swap for India’s premier minister, Narendra Modi. He is expected to visit Biden on June 22 for a high-status state dinner when officials will announce high-tech sales to India . The pending swap is a boon for high-tech investors — but a disaster for U.S. college graduates.
Congress has repeatedly blocked lobbying campaigns to accelerate the inflow of foreign graduates into white-collar jobs. So Biden’s deputies have repeatedly used their bureaucratic power to expand the inflow.
The expansions have survived repeated lawsuits filed by Americans, said Vaughan. GOP legislators could use their spending power to block the giveaways, she said, but they face closed-door pressure from donors to not fight the giveaways.
So far, there is no evidence whatsoever that the federal government — or the establishment media — has recognized the obvious and massive costs of this white-collar outsourcing to India.
For example, the GOP’s June 14 report usefully described the huge impact of illegal migration on crime, migrant deaths, government spending, and drug smuggling. The report, subtitled, “The Massive Financial Costs of Mayorkas’ Open Borders,” said:
The human cost, both to American citizens and those journeying to the border, has been incalculable.
Increasingly, Americans are also suffering from the strain of the financial costs imposed by this mass illegal immigration.
The border crisis has had an unprecedented and devastating effect on American states, cities, and small towns, particularly the schools, businesses, hospitals, law enforcement agencies, and other public service providers who have limited resources to deal with this massive influx of illegal aliens.
Simultaneously, as cities and states shoulder more costs required to handle this historic burden, many of the illegal aliens released into American communities are consuming far more in taxpayer funded benefits than they are ever giving back.
But the report entirely ignores the role of migration in the government’s economic policies , and it ignores the huge pocketbook damage of migration on Americans. That pocketbook damage, however, inflates investors ‘ profits and stock values.
House GOP legislators are under intense pressure to ignore the economics and pocketbook cost of migration.
The pressure comes from influential businesses in their districts, as well as from their GOP leaders, who rely on major business donors to keep pace with the Demoacrats’ income from major business donors. Most of the GOP’s donations come via Congressional Leadership Fund, which includes many manufacturing, retail, and real estate investors.
GOP leaders in the Senate — such as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) — are somewhat freer to talk about the pocketbook impact of migration. For example, Rubio wrote:
Wall Street simply figured out how to import cheap labor, much of it [clarification, not all ] coming from illegal immigrants. This was a slower, more subtle process. Sure, some politicians made a big deal about “jobs Americans wouldn’t do,” but otherwise the only outcry came from workers who found their wages stalled, benefits cut, and hours slashed until they could be replaced by someone willing to work more hours for less.
So far, only Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has criticized the investors’ H-1B program in the 2024 campaign. On May 10, for example, he said:
We determine as Americans what type of immigration system benefits our country, but when you’re doing immigration, it’s not for their benefit as foreigners, it’s for your benefit as Americans.
So if there’s legal immigration that’s harming Americans, we shouldn’t do that either. For example, some of these H-1B visas, they would fire American tech workers and hire foreigners at lower wages. I don’t agree with that. I think that’s wrong.
Meanwhile, Biden’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, is trying to import more foreigners to take the blue-collar and white-collar wages and salaries that would otherwise go to the ordinary Americans who have seen their wages drop since President Donald Trump left office.
“There are businesses around this country that are desperate for workers [and] there are … desperate workers in foreign countries that are looking for jobs in the United States, ” Mayorkas said on May 11.
“We currently have at least ten million job vacancies right now in the United States,” including jobs in the government-funded computer-chip sector, White House official Katie Tobin claimed during a May speech at the American Enterprise Insitute, adding:
But this does create a demand for increased high-skilled labor from other parts of the world, and so that is something that we’re working with the State Department on and DHS [Department of Homeland Security] … to make it easier for [migrants] that have these skill sets that we think can really contribute to implementing these new policies, that we can bring them in faster (emphasis added) .
Biden’s deputies “are distorting our legal immigration system … to launder the status of virtually any foreign citizen who makes it into the country,” said Vaughan.
Once the new work-permit giveaway is in operation, “I can’t imagine any circumstance in which they’d say no on the application,” she added.
Extraction Migration
The federal government has long operated an unpopular economic policy of Extraction Migration . This colonialism-like policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries, reduces beneficial trade , and uses the imported workers, renters, and consumers to grow Wall Street and the economy.
The migrant inflow has successfully forced down Americans’ wages and also boosted rents and housing prices . The inflow has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors and contributed to the rising death rate of poor Americans.
The lethal policy also sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.
The population inflow also reduces the political clout of native-born Americans, because the population replacement allows elites to divorce themselves from the needs and interests of ordinary Americans.
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In many speeches, Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity ” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elite opinion about “the values of our country ” Mayorkas claims.
Migration — and especially, labor migration — is unpopular among swing voters . A 54 percent majority of Americans say Biden is allowing a southern border invasion, according to an August 2022 poll commissioned by the left-of-center National Public Radio (NPR). The 54 percent “Invasion” majority included 76 percent of Republicans, 46 percent of independents, and even 40 percent of Democrats.
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Biden Admin To Renew Deportation Exemption for More Than 300K Illegal Immigrants A U.S. border patrol agent talks to immigrants at the Texas-Mexico border / Getty Images The United States will extend deportation relief and work permits through 2025 for more than 300,000 immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal but will not expand the program to cover additional people, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Tuesday.
The move by President Joe Biden's administration maintains the status quo and stops short of a broader expansion of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program supported by some Democrats and immigrant advocates who say more pathways are needed for people to live and work legally in the United States.
Former president Donald Trump, a Republican and immigration hardliner seeking his party's nomination in 2024, sought to end TPS for the four countries and others during his tenure, but his effort was rebuffed by U.S. courts. Biden's Democratic administration is rescinding Trump's earlier decisions as part of the process of extending the relief for immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal.
TPS allows people who cannot return to their home countries due to natural disasters, armed conflict or other extraordinary measures to remain in the United States and obtain work permits. Designations typically last six to 18 months but can be renewed indefinitely. Some TPS designations have been in place for decades, but they do not lead to permanent U.S. status.
DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement that the extensions would offer "continued safety and protection" to people from those countries already eligible for the program.
The latest decision by the Biden administration will allow TPS renewals for 239,000 Salvadorans who have resided in the U.S. since 2001. Some 76,000 Hondurans and 4,000 Nicaraguans in the U.S. since 1998 are eligible, along with 14,500 Nepalese in the country since 2015.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua living in the U.S. illegally will not be covered by the TPS extension since they arrived after the cutoff dates.
Some Democrats, including New York City mayor Eric Adams, have pressed the Biden administration to expand access to work permits for newly arrived migrants, saying it will reduce the strain on local governments receiving people who have recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.
(Reporting by Ted Hesson in Washington; Editing by Mica Rosenberg, Aurora Ellis, Alexandra Hudson)
WATCH: Hawley Slams HHS Over Migrant Child Labor Scandals VIDEO Republican senator Josh Hawley (Mo.) slammed the Biden administration for its failure to stop the widespread crisis of migrant children being forced into labor after crossing the border.
"This administration has let tens of thousands of children be sold into slavery," Hawley said Wednesday. "They are doing nothing about it."
Hawley referred to the scandal over the Health and Human Services Department's controversial policies for dispersing migrant children after they cross the border and are processed. An April report by the New York Times showed documents proving the administration was quickly releasing unaccompanied migrant children into the country by the thousands. Many of those children ended up working grueling jobs, often for long hours and in dangerous conditions where they worked with chemicals and industrial equipment.
"It's a conveyor belt of children being forced through the system, and what's the priority of HHS? Just get 'em out as fast as we can," Hawley said.
Hawley called out HHS secretary Xavier Becerra, who was named in the report and allegedly ignored warnings from employees. Five former HHS employees said they were even pushed out of the agency after they raised concerns about children's safety.
"Again and again, veteran government staffers and outside contractors told the Health and Human Services Department, including in reports that reached Secretary Xavier Becerra, that children appeared to be at risk," the Times reported in April.
Hawley said the administration's refusal to come before the Senate and answer questions about the crisis is "cowardice."
The Times report also implicated former domestic policy adviser Susan Rice. Rice and her team reportedly failed to act, even as administration staffers called for stricter vetting of the sponsors migrant children were placed with to prevent human trafficking. A week after the Times report, the White House announced that Rice would step down.
Further reports found that children were sent to the homes of unscreened adults, some of whom could have been registered sex offenders or had a history of child neglect.
Biden’s DHS Rewards Sanctuary Cities, NGOs with $290M for Resettling Illegal Aliens in U.S. Ting Shen/Bloomberg/GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images 3:17
President Joe Biden is rewarding sanctuary cities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with more than $290 million in taxpayer money for resettling border crossers and illegal aliens across the United States.
Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is taking the millions in taxpayer money from the Shelter and Services Program (SSP) — a federal initiative launched by the administration and funded by Congress.
This week, DHS officials announced that more than $290 million from SSP had been rewarded to various towns and cities, many of which are sanctuary jurisdictions, along with NGOs like Catholic Charities and United Way for helping resettle hundreds of thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens across American communities after their release into the nation’s interior.
In total, 34 cities, towns, and NGOs are getting the millions in federal funds.
Many of the cities are sanctuary jurisdictions. For example, San Diego County, California, a sanctuary jurisdiction, is set to secure more than $15 million in SSP funds, while the sanctuary city of Denver, Colorado, will receive more than $8.6 million.
The sanctuary city of New York City is securing the largest amount of SSP funds, more than $104 million, to aid border crossers and illegal aliens, while the sanctuary city of Chicago has scored more than $10.5 million and the sanctuary state of Illinois will get nearly $19.4 million.
The World Hunger Ecumenical Arizona Task Force (WHEAT), an NGO based in Arizona, is set to get $15.5 million to help border crossers and illegal aliens across the state and Catholic Charities, across California and Texas, will rake in more than $24 million in SSP funds.
Last month, Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Lance Gooden (R-TX) requested a full accounting by the Biden administration in regard to federal funds being rewarded to cities and NGOs that are aiding illegal immigration in the U.S.
“The surge of illegal immigration, fueled in part by NGOs like those on the [Emergency Food and Shelter Program] National Board is unsustainable and unfair to law-abiding citizens and immigrants alike,” Gooden said.
Illegal immigration imposes an enormous burden on American taxpayers.
Annually, the 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the U.S. costs taxpayers more than $143 billion . That amount, though, does not include any of the social and economic costs — such as higher housing prices, depleted wages, lost jobs, increased crime, and strained public resources at hospitals and schools — associated with illegal immigration.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here .
Report: Chicago Operating ‘Secretive’ Network of Taxpayer-Funded Migrant Shelters ‘Shrouded in Mystery’ Scott Olson/Getty Images 3:13
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) is running a “secretive” network of taxpayer-funded migrant shelters that are “shrouded in mystery and quietness,” according to the Chicago Tribune and those familiar with the operation.
Since August of last year, more than 10,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in the sanctuary city of Chicago — many arriving on buses sent from Texas.
To deal with the waves of illegal immigration, rather than urging President Joe Biden’s administration to halt the influx, Johnson has said Chicago is open to migrants and vowed that the city will house, feed, and care for new arrivals.
Those promises have been realized by the city’s migrant shelter network, funded entirely by local, state, and federal taxpayers. A report from the Chicago Tribune , and those familiar with the operation, suggests that the shelter network operated by Johnson’s office is “secretive” and ensures that the public is not allowed inside shelters.
The Chicago Tribune reports :
The condition of the city’s 12 shelters cannot be assessed fully because the city has repeatedly denied a request from the Tribune and others for access to them. According to a letter in May from Chicago’s congressional delegation, the city has spent more than $75 million in the past nine months on over 10,000 new arrivals who have come to Chicago since August, and Chicago aldermen recently voted to spend an additional $51 million on migrant care through June. [Emphasis added]
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Footage sent to the Tribune by migrants over WhatsApp confirms descriptions from those willing to speak about dirty bathrooms and hotel rooms crammed with as many as three to four families. Footage shows asylum-seekers at a shelter in Leone Beach Park in Rogers Park sleeping on the gymnasium floor. [Emphasis added]
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Bawany described the city shelters as being “shrouded in mystery and quietness.” The lack of information extends not just to the public, but to the migrants themselves. No one seems to know what is going on, he said. [Emphasis added]
One particular shelter, with signs on doors keeping the public out, is the Inn of Chicago. Reporters at the Chicago Tribune said they were told they could not view the inside of the shelter.
Typically, before border crossers and illegal aliens are moved to the migrant shelters, they stay for days on end in police stations across the city — sleeping on the floor.
Most recently, Johnson cheered as the Chicago City Council ignored objections from local taxpayers over a plan to throw $51 million at the migrant shelter operation. Native Chicagoans, for months now, have said the city is singularly focused on aiding border crossers and illegal aliens as their communities remain underfunded and largely abandoned.
“We need to take care of our community, we need to take care of our black community,” one resident said during the city council meeting.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here .
The Chicago Sun-Tines pointed out 248 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2023, through June 10, 2023.
On May 9, 2023, the NRA noted that 2,767 people had been killed in Chicago on Lightfoot’s watch.
The most violent year of Lightfoot’s tenure was 2021, which was the deadliest year Chicago has witnessed in a quarter of a century. The Hill reported that Chicago police confirmed 797 homicides during the course of 2021.
The Chicago Tribune indicates at least 170 people have been killed in Chicago so far this year.
8. CRIME: Because of the Democrat rule in blue cities, crime is not being prosecuted in the name of some weird kind of reparations. What the Democrats don't get is that they hurt their own innocent population by allowing criminals a get-out-jail-free card, and by not prosecuting at all. Their racist policies hurt the very people they claim to want to help. Why are they doing this? To deliberately create chaos in the execution of anti-white racism. The one solution to the rising crime rate, the prosecution and incarceration of criminals, is the one thing blue cities under Democrat rule will not do. Mayor Lightfoot makes weird and demonic home videos of herself dancing around in what appears to be a drugged stupor. Rather than be a responsible mayor, she has totally ignored the death-by-violence rate in Chicago . This is another very clear example of Democrats doing what they do best; destroying things.
President Joe Biden congratulated Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su after a deal was reached to end a crippling labor dispute at West Coast ports — but Biden did not mention Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg.
As Breitbart News reported last week, dockworkers in Long Beach, Los Angeles, and other ports had slowed down cargo loading up and down the West Coast as they continued to negotiate with the Pacific Maritime Association over a collective bargaining agreement.
A deal was reached Wednesday evening, as the Seattle Times reported :
The Pacific Maritime Association, which represents shipping lines and terminal operators in negotiations with the International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union, said Wednesday evening that the agreement covers workers at all 29 West Coast ports, which would include Seattle and Tacoma.
“We are pleased to have reached an agreement that recognizes the heroic efforts and personal sacrifices of the ILWU workforce in keeping our ports operating,” PMA President James McKenna and ILWU President Willie Adams said in a joint statement. “We are also pleased to turn our full attention back to the operation of the West Coast Ports.”
Parties declined to release details of the agreement Wednesday evening.
Biden issued a statement:
As I have always said, collective bargaining works, and I congratulate both parties at the ports for reaching an agreement. I want to thank Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su who used her deep experience and judgment to keep the parties talking, working with them to reach an agreement after a long and sometimes acrimonious negotiation. Above all I congratulate the port workers, who have served heroically through the pandemic and the countless challenges it brought, and will finally get the pay, benefits, and quality of life they deserve.
Julie Su has proven herself time and time again, both as Deputy Secretary working closely with Secretary Marty Walsh – and now as a leader who helped assure that our supply chains remain strong for America’s businesses, farmers, and working families.
The statement did not mention Buttigieg, who has previously been quick to claim credit for progress at the ports, though he himself was away for two months during the 2021 cargo crisis on unannounced paternity leave. He left no one to run the department in his absence.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’ . He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election . He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak .
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