Posted on 09/14/2015 9:25:55 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
Regarding immigration, the selling out of the American public now has a first-person account attached to it. In a scathing column, a pseudonym-bearing “Displaced Disney Cast Member” describes the despicable efforts of a once-iconic company to replace American workers with foreigners willing to work for lower pay. The author of the column is hardly an anomaly. Americans are not only losing their jobs to foreign replacements, they are underwriting both legal and illegal immigrants accessing America’s safety net.
“I used to have a dream career at one of America’s most iconic and admired companies,” the former employee writes. “Twenty years of hard work, technical skill building, the fostering of relationships and a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology guided me to a coveted position as an Information Technology Engineer for Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.”
Those 20 years of hard work essentially meant nothing, however, and the day that employee learned his fate was only 10 days after “Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, had just announced that the company’s earnings were up well over 20 percent for the quarter and this was just one among a long series of record breaking financial results for the company.” When the employee arrived at work the message he got was both devastating and infuriating. A “grim faced Disney Executive” told everyone in the room they would be losing their jobs within the next 90 days, with a final termination date of Jan. 30, 2015.
Why? Because their jobs had been given to a “foreign workforce.” Then came the ultimate insult. The executive told them, “In the meantime you will be training your replacements until your jobs are 100 percent transferred over to them and if you don’t cooperate you will not receive any severance pay.”
Thus the soon-to-be ex-employee was forced to endure the “disgraceful and demoralizing” experience of training his replacement. Adding insult to injury, this worker and his fellow former employees were “informed by several large IT recruiting firms that Disney has a policy in place that states all displaced Disney IT Cast Members will not even be considered as contractor workers for 12 months. Thus we have been essentially shut out and black listed by the largest employer in this very small Orlando job market.”
Disney and countless other companies have brought in foreign workers courtesy of the H-1B visa program. In March, the Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings on the abuses of that program, including expert testimony from Howard University’s Ron Hira and Rutgers' Hal Salzman, who told lawmakers the current system “has become primarily a process for supplying lower-cost labor to the IT industry.”
What did the Senate do about the problem? Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), along with co-sponsors Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), proposed a reincarnation of the 2013 “I-Squared” bill called the “Immigration Innovation Act of 2015.” Like its predecessor, the new act would increase the number of H-1B visas from the current level of 65,000 a year, plus 20,000 for holders of U.S. graduate degrees, to a whopping 115,000, “with the possibility of the cap rising as high as 195,000 depending on economic conditions,” Hatch said in April. Like many of his GOP and Democrat colleagues, Hatch has sold his soul to tech industry giants such as Qualcomm and Microsoft, which have laid off thousands of American workers even as they demand an increase in the number of H-1B visas. IBM, Amazon, Intel, Google and Oracle have also told Congress such visas are necessary because there is a shortage of skilled American workers.
This writer did a previous report on the subject. Those allegations are abject lies.
Regardless, the onslaught continues. A report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) released in June 2014 revealed that over the last 15 years all net job gains in the nation have gone to legal and illegal immigrants. And lest anyone think the trend is changing or leveling out in some respect, think again: A jobs chart posted by the website Zero Hedge reveals a damming reality contained in latest jobs report covering the month of August. It shows that a sky-high 698,000 native-born Americans lost their jobs last month — even as 204,000 foreign-born Americans got one.
As bad as that is, at least those immigrants are working. In another damning report released this month, CIS reveals that 2012 data show a whopping “51 percent of households headed by an immigrant (legal or illegal) reported that they used at least one welfare program during the year, compared to 30 percent of native households.”
Welfare usage by immigrants is not uniform. The report states, “Households headed by immigrants from Central America and Mexico (73 percent), the Caribbean (51 percent), and Africa (48 percent) have the highest overall welfare use. Those from East Asia (32 percent), Europe (26 percent), and South Asia (17 percent) have the lowest.”
If the words “Central America” have a familiar ring, maybe it’s because the Obama administration is actively recruiting “refugees” from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras — officially known as Central American Minors (CAM). A program initiated by the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department is providing these illegal aliens “with a safe, legal, and orderly alternative to the dangerous journey that some children are undertaking to the United States,” according to a DHS memo obtained by Judicial Watch. Once here, those children will be united with family members who may also be illegal aliens, benefiting from Obama’s amnesty or deferred action programs. In other words, the administration is actively adding to the number of illegals already in the nation. Illegals who already have and will continue to compete with Americans for jobs — when they’re not accessing taxpayer-funded entitlement programs.
Perhaps the only thing more maddening than the facts presented here is the contemptible notion pushed by the Obama administration, Democrats, establishment GOPers, pro-amnesty activists and a thoroughly corrupt media that any resistance to this agenda by native-born Americans is tantamount to bigotry, nativism and xenophobia. Don’t believe it for a second. There is nothing remotely wrong with the desire to preserve the nation’s borders, culture, language and traditions, better known as American exceptionalism. In fact, if anyone owes this nation an abject apology, it is those who would seek to undermine that exceptionalism for cheap labor and easy votes, even as they drape themselves in an aura of multicultural self-aggrandizement that is nothing less than an effort to marginalize our national identity. This is one American who will never apologize for desiring a nation that caters primarily — and overwhelmingly — to Americans. Neither should anyone else.
note to crony capitalist corporations, gope and chamber of commerce:
if you want to hire foreigners then do it...in their own countries as legal workers in their godless hellholes.
you’re absolutely free to go. we don’t want you or need you. your leaving will not only help us secure our borders, eliminate wage deflation in an inflationary economy and help restore free enterprise here in America. don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
btt
Profits regardless of consequences, is what those folks are all about. It’s the end and beginning for them. Nothing else matters.
yup.
VOTE TRUMP! Whats wrong with Americanism?
Trump: Patton and MacArthur are my heroes.
There are many aspects to that duty, but it is more & more ignored, as the Left has succeeded in undermining our senses both of ethnicity & community. (See, for example, Death Of Community.)
Happening at my corp (major IT company) and has been for a decade. H1B’s from India have accelerated over the last 3 years. Laying off Americans and replacing with Indians.
First hand experience over here.
And no shortage of CofC and club for growth “conservatives”, including a large contingent here on FR, are actively condoning and implementing it.
These people are THE reason why we have rampant illegal immigration, unchecked legal immigration, a burgeoning welfare system, subversive cronyism, and a complete gutting of the US economy.
I’ll expect them to come along shortly to shout down any dissent, using all of the usual bogeyman excuses: unions, taxes, tariffs, skills, regulations, etc. Where their arguments fall flat is where most of those excuses are of their own doing. And it is exactly that, create an excuse to loot and pillage, and get away with it by blaming everyone else.
So all of the exploiters or illegal and H1-B labor just need to drop the charade, pack up your shit and take you and your business offshore to whatever third world shithole you get your labor from.
I agree but would add that accumulated wealth is the goal.
Walt Disney might’ve made the mouseketeers give the finger to the camera and say, “Screw you America!” just before running a black & white episode of Spin and Marty.
accumulated wealth is the goal.
Obviously, regardless of consequences. While some are living like sultans and kings, most middle America has become assimilated to decline. Their "goal" has left America to waste.
A reliable source recently reported that each ILLEGAL family here imposes around a $700,000.00 per year total burden on the system (perfect for obozo’s Cloward-Piven strategy to bankrupt the nation).
Assume 7 members (direct and extended) per family. That comes in at 100 grand per individual.
While I suspect the number is far higher, let’s say there are only 11 million here now. If I’ve done the math correctly, 100 grand times 11 million comes to 1.1 trillion per year.
Dr. Carson and others have commented that sending these folks back to their homelands would be too costly.
I don’t know about you, but lessening of the annual burden by over a TRILLION BUCKS, would have us square with that up front cost in a couple years. Then maybe we could devote some time and resources to getting the LEGALS jobs and out of obozo’s comfy welfare HAMMOCK!
While any of this requires that we run off obozo and his merry band of malicious and mendacious miscreants, it sure sounds like a plan and a bargain to me!
(This assumes that in the meantime we’ve elected some SANE ADULTS who don’t piss those “savings” away buying perpetual reelection.)
He's FOS. There was never any intention of securing our borders nor deporting illegals. Never. It's because it was all intentional. They've been suggesting it's too hard, to expensive and impossible to do anything for decades now. Those who own the politicians and bankroll their political campaigns agree with Carson. These folks need to be buried under 10' of their politically corrupt ash.
Here is a FACTUAL REFUTATION of obozo’s UNRESTRAINED “REFUGEE” IMMIGRANT U.S. “RESETTLEMENT” PROGRAM.
https://www.youtube.comwatch?v=LPjzfGChGlE
The “progressive” left — which either ignores or cannot deal with facts — grasps this one quite well as it is integral to their plan to take complete control of the political system here. The vast proportion of these “immigrants” will immediately take advantage of the comfy welfare “hammock” the left has put in place, often AHEAD of indigenous citizens. These new welfare recipients will — once the left does away with voter ID — develop a warm/fuzzy feeling for and become supporters of the Democrats. When the system finally collapses under the burden (Cloward-Piven), the ensuing unrest and turmoil will soon have all of the poor, most of the now devastated middle class and much of the very wealthy leftists who created and will be orchestrating the mess demanding that someone RESTORE ORDER! And ORDER we shall have. But it will NOT be the sort most older citizens would recognize. The exceptions would be those from Germany, Soviet Russia under Stalin, Cuba under Castro...you get the idea!
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