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Google, Facebook, Apple, outsourcers fights legal move to strip jobs from H-1B spouses
San Jose Mercury ^ | April 11, 2019 | Ethan Baron

Posted on 04/13/2019 5:56:02 AM PDT by artichokegrower

A group representing major Silicon Valley technology companies and global outsourcing firms has filed a court brief arguing that employment authorization for spouses of H-1B workers — which the Trump administration has promised to revoke — leads to economic growth and creates about as many jobs as it takes away.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: apple; facebook; fascistbook; google; h1b; markzuckerberg; sundarpichai; youtube; zuckerberg
Spouses of H-1B workers who are on track for a green card have been able to work since 2015. The former IT workers claim in their lawsuit that these wives and husbands — the vast majority are Indian women — compete against Americans for jobs, and that the employment authorization fails to protect American workers from foreign labor.


High tech conspiring against the American worker. Hire American.

1 posted on 04/13/2019 5:56:02 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Yep, we had at least 2+ H4’s where I last worked.

These were not for heavy tech jobs, but SAP Functional Analyst jobs which are not really for H1-B either.

Corrupt system and trimming back H1-B/H4 was the main reason I voted for Trump.


2 posted on 04/13/2019 6:03:57 AM PDT by Sapwolf (Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -Sowell)
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To: artichokegrower

The spouses shouldn’t even be let to enter the country.


3 posted on 04/13/2019 6:21:59 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: artichokegrower

These companies are enemies of the American people.

As are the Congressional Scum that do their bidding.

After the SHTF there won’t be enough rope to hang all of them by the neck until dead.


4 posted on 04/13/2019 6:35:40 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: artichokegrower
Being married and having kids is the best way to civilize a man . If provides him ample incentive to provide for his family and to set the example for his children. Growing up without a farther is why some groups are over represented in prisons. If you are going to take away American jobs at least don't double down on the error by following a policy that is anti marriage
5 posted on 04/13/2019 6:40:35 AM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: thoughtomator

My brother in law spent a year and half in Singapore. My sister was not aloud to hold a job - Period.

I think we should have the same laws that other countries ENFORCE on the US.


6 posted on 04/13/2019 6:45:12 AM PDT by Dacula
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To: artichokegrower

Let’s say you go to China on a WORK visa.

You fall in love with a Chinese woman, get married:

You CANNOT work at all on a SPOUSE visa.

That’s because China takes jobs for Chinese people seriously.


7 posted on 04/13/2019 6:48:09 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: artichokegrower

Tax dodger corporations, plain and simple. Saving untold millions or billions in taxes they would have to pay to hire our children. Yet, no one in leadership calls them out. Why not.


8 posted on 04/13/2019 6:51:21 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Do you know anyone who isnÂ’t a socialist after 65? Freedom exchanged for cash and control.)
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To: artichokegrower

Yes, no jobs for spouses. Also, require the salaries for H1b visas to pay at 5 times the highest salary in the industry. In every instance, where one has to buy specialized or expedited services, there is a premium to be paid - think USPS vs FedEx. If the requirement is emergent and necessary, you cannot get a break on the price one would otherwise pay for a comparable US employee.


9 posted on 04/13/2019 6:57:05 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: artichokegrower

Burn these traitors to the ground. Period. No mercy. They are inherently anti-American as are their enablers.


10 posted on 04/13/2019 6:57:34 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: artichokegrower

Revoking authorization probably is legally problematical.

Refusing to give anymore is probably the way to go.


11 posted on 04/13/2019 7:22:31 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Sgt_Schultze

From my immigration reform proposal:

SEC. ???? Work Time-Keeping Requirement for Employer-Sponsored Deposit-Based Visa Workers.

(1) The hours of work of all Deposit-Based Visa workers not under contract to be paid a salary of at least $1,500/week must be recorded.

....

SEC. ???? Employer-Sponsored Deposit-Based Visa Worker Hourly Taxation

[This taxation is meant to replace the generally bogus system of pretending to be unable to find a qualified US worker.]

(a) A tax at a rate of 8 cents a minute of work, other than that of an agricultural nature or under the purview of the United States Department of Agriculture in a meat/poultry abattoir, of an Employer-Sponsored Deposit-Based Visa worker paid less than either $1,200/week or $30/hour, by pay period, is imposed upon the worker’s employer.


12 posted on 04/13/2019 7:33:23 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: artichokegrower

The EU and China will deal with these un-American corporations.

The EU doesn’t need British pounds when it can fine Facebook and Google.

China knows how to take the core out of an Apple.


13 posted on 04/13/2019 7:40:29 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Mariner

I’d have Trump bus the toughest looking Hondurans granted asylum by leftist judges to Chevy Chase, Maryland.


14 posted on 04/13/2019 7:45:33 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: momincombatboots

“Why not.”

Probably over 50% of the blind trusts have their stocks.

Blind trusts don’t work well.


15 posted on 04/13/2019 7:49:58 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Now We Know the Exact Lie Google CEO Told Congress (trunc)
Conservative Tribune by WJ | April 11, 2019 | Josh Manning
Posted on 04/13/2019 5:55:07 AM PDT by Twotone
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3741728/posts


16 posted on 04/13/2019 12:16:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Just shut H1B & H4 programs down. Here’s what US IT workers are up against:

https://www.brightworkresearch.com/enterprisesoftwarepolicy/2019/01/31/how-indian-it-workers-discriminate-against-non-indian-workers

If you know of a child considering the STEM fields, do everything you can to encourage them onto another career path.


17 posted on 04/15/2019 9:16:14 AM PDT by bobcat62
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