Posted on 10/05/2015 7:59:27 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
Paragons of American corporate citizenship are perverting an immigration program that was designed to boost the country’s high-tech economy.
The U.S. Department of Labor has let businesses as prominent as Walt Disney World and Toys R Us use a special category of work-related visas not only to cut costs but to send jobs overseas.
President Obama wants immigration reform? It’s never going to happen this way.
So-called H-1B visas are intended to admit into the U.S. highly educated, highly skilled workers whose talents are desperately needed. For example, a company may apply to bring computer engineers from abroad if it cannot find enough of them in America. That, at least. was the theory.
Now, it turns out that consultants that specialize in helping companies move operations overseas are securing most of the 85,000 H-1B visas issued annually — and are using them to help eliminate jobs wholesale.
With calculating cruelty, the consulting firms obtain visas and bring workers in to copycat the tasks of U.S. workers slated, whether they know it or not, for the unemployment line.
When the knowledge download is done, the visa workers fly back overseas, often to India, to train their countrymen to join the company payroll at a much cheaper rate.
At Toys R Us, The New York Times reported, 67 staffers, most in the accounting department, in the company’s New Jersey headquarters saw positions snatched from them in a matter of weeks by eight consultants who immediately returned to India.
Similar operations have been reported at New York Life, Cargill, Harley Davidson, Southern California Edison and Pfizer. All the more outrageous, companies that apply for H-1B visas must certify visa applications “will not adversely affect” U.S. jobs — an assertion that if false is punishable by up to five years in prison.
Treating employees like cards in a deck to be shuffled in and out damages the economy and the workers, their families and communities. It also toxically undermines efforts to win genuine immigration reform. Obama and American CEOs must end this travesty.
H-1B Is Designed to Allow Employers to Replace Americans with Cheap Foreign Workers
H-1B Is Designed to Allow Employers to Pay Foreign Workers Extremely Low Wages
I’ve always wondered if the typically Indian workers brought in on H1-B visas, were puzzled by that program’s labor- societal suicidal side effects?
Do the CEOs of tech companies really want to live in a country that has ever increasing unemployment, declining standard of living, and social unrest?
Look at what just happened to the Air France executives who were nearly lynched by employees after a big layoff.
People are getting fed up.
I think they think their wealth will protect and insulate them.
Yup. I think a lot of these people expect to live in castles up on the hill, while the serfs labor in the field below. Humanity did it before, we can do it again — and it will be awesome!!!! (If you’re in the castle.)
In a country chock full of long guns and scopes? Not so much.
>>they’ve in part bought the scam; the truth is:<<
Remember - doing the jobs Americans won’t do?
How bout - Americans want cheaper products?
NAFTA - will raise the standard of living for the average Mexican worker?
These are all catch phrases used when cronies begin pushing for policy to help the bottom line.
Americans are being sold down the river. Used to be with one paddle...now, totally adrift.
Interesting point - if CEOs don't wise up any sooner, they may receive the education of some of their peers getting Lead Layoffs (tm).
They have no real hope of success, but it’s obvious why “sensible gun control” is so important to them. They want to do things which they can never get away with — unless they somehow manage to de-arm the people.
Ever wondered why liberals always push for more gun control, despite the overwhelming evidence contrary to their stated gun control policies, even to the extent of damaging their political viability? It’s so they can create a country of serfs and not fear getting shot.
Because guerrilla warfare has never worked anywhere before right?
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Who said anything about taking on the military?
TexasGunLover has apparently abandoned his previous position that H-1B is hunky-dory and taken the new stand that there's not a damned thing we can do about it.
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