Posted on 05/19/2015 11:42:06 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
.....Disney, Southern California Edison and most recently Fossil Group have together fired hundreds of American tech workers and forced them to train their foreign replacements, many of whom were flown in specifically to take their job.
....On their last day of employment, he and the other replaced workers were asked to turn over their badges, their Disney season passes, and their laptops and then asked to leave.... “It was just a complete shock that you could do that in this country,” he said.
....... “It’s just so humiliating and so anti-American. It’s just, it’s just terrible. It’s just awful.”
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is the only top GOP 2016 contender even talking about limiting the flow of guest workers into the country. (RELATED: Where Cruz Stands With Rubio Against Walker On Immigration)
Rubio’s “I-squared” bill would triple the number of temporary guest workers businesses could bring into the country every year, and allow for a virtually unlimited number of university-based green cards.
The big businesses backing this bill and clamoring for more guest workers insist they can’t find enough Americans willing or able to fill certain “high-skilled” jobs. Rubio obviously agrees, and has argued more guest workers and immigration generally will result in more jobs for Americans.....
“It’s basically a quest for cheap labor,” Norm Matloff, a computer science professor at the University of California Davis, told TheDCNF. “The abuse of H-1B pervades the entire industry. They all could find american workers if they wanted to, but they want cheap labor and they want immobile labor.”
“Its only purpose is to please the corporate interests that are very heavy campaign contributors,” he added. “That is literally the bottom line.”
The ex-Disney employee concurred, calling the notion of a shortage “completely insane,” given his experience. “There’s not a shortage of IT workers but all the jobs are vanishing,"........
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
"A bipartisan group of senators urged the Obama administration Thursday to investigate reports that businesses are using a visa program to replace American workers with cheap foreign labor.
The unlikely coalition, led by Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions and Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Labor and Department of Justice, asking them to investigate businesses, such as Southern California Edison, suspected of abusing work visa programs to avoid paying relatively high wages to American workers.
SCE has reportedly been laying off hundreds of American workers and replacing them with foreign workers who hold an H-1B visa and are willing to work for lower wages. Some American employees are basically forced to train their foreign replacements.
“Though such reports of H-1B-driven layoffs have been circulating for years, their frequency seems to have increased dramatically in the past year alone,” the senators wrote in the letter."....
Cruz also support increasing the H1B numbers?
Bm
"...The GOP presidential hopeful opposes citizenship for undocumented immigrants, but he stressed Wednesday the need to celebrate and encourage legal immigration. And he noted his support for dramatically increasing the available number of high-tech visas. His remarks drew an implicit contrast with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a likely rival for the GOP nomination, who recently took a protectionist stance on legal immigration levels.
Cruz declined to directly answer a question from TIME about whether he would support a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants currently in the U.S., indicating a legislative fix should first focus on shoring up border security.
The freshman Senator said he believed there was significant bipartisan agreement around securing the borders and streamlining the legal immigration system. He criticized Democrats for crippling the recent reform plan in Congress by insisting on the “poison pill” of citizenship.
“They are treating immigration as a political cudgel,” Cruz said, “where they want to use it to scare the Hispanic community. And their objective is to have the Hispanic community vote monolithically Democrat.”...........
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I wonder where Walker stands on illegals?
I like his position on the H1B. But what about other legal immigration?
People having to wait 6 years in many cases.
I got denied trying to bring a niece here to Disneyland, yet they won’t do anything about illegals. They denied her because her biological Mother is in Canada. Stupid things like this.
Marco Rubio: lackey for un-American corporate scum.
March 2009: The Debate Over H-1B Visa Numbers "......To be sure, nearly all players in the global economy have grappled with the question of how open borders should be. In Europe, several countries with steep unemployment rates are paying migrants to return home.
The U.S. government's attitude marks a stark turnaround. During the boom years, Congress actually raised the number of H-1B visas, reserved for highly skilled immigrants. Now, some economists have suggested that allowing more foreigners into the U.S. -- say, an immigrant who buys a house in exchange for a green card -- would actually help jump-start the economy.
But a public beleaguered by lost jobs seems loath to embrace such an idea. The federal economic-stimulus package restricts H-1B hires among companies that receive funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program. They must prove they have tried to recruit American workers at prevailing wages and that foreigners aren't replacing U.S. citizens."
These corporate honchos should go live in China, where there demoralization of workers will be more than welcome.
PING!
there = their
“Expected 2016 GOP candidate Scott Walker is making a concerted effort to clarify his stance on the country’s immigration policy.
Wisconsin Gov. Walker, who’s expected to run for president in 2016, has said candidly that he’s changed his mind on immigration reform after saying in 2013 that he could see a plan in which illegal immigrants could eventually become citizens. On Wednesday night with Fox’s Sean Hannity, Walker tried to strengthen his position on securing the border and preventing illegal immigration in the first place.
“In Texas in particular, [Texas Gov.] Greg Abbott showed me with the men and women on the ground from the local level to the state level to even some of the fine men and women who work for the federal government, and they show that we’re just being overrun, that this is an issue of safety, of security, national security, it’s ultimately an issue of sovereignty,” Walker began.
“If the United States was being attacked in one of our water ports on the East or West Coast, we’d be sending in our military forces, and yet we’re facing some of the same challenges with international criminal organizations, the cartels that are trafficking not only drugs but weapons and humans, and we need to step up and be aggressive,” Walker continued. “that means securing the border with infrastructure, with technology, with personnel and the federal government’s got to lead the way. We can’t expect the border states to do this alone.”
“You can’t be talking about anything else until you do that,” Walker concluded. “Once you do that, then we can talk about enforcing the laws — by using an effective E-verify system for all employers…and making sure that any legal immigration system — no amnesty — any legal immigration system we go forward with is one that ultimately has to protect American workers and make sure American wages are going up.”
http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/09/scott-walker-solidifying-position-on-illegal-immigration/
“.....Likely candidate and former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who has also had a complicated history on immigration policy, says he is open to providing citizenship for some undocumented immigrants. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who announced his candidacy this month, co-sponsored a Senate immigration bill providing a path to citizenship that he has since disavowed.
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has said undocumented workers already in the United States are not likely to leave, so they should be turned into taxpayers. Aides to Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas say he hasn’t ruled out the idea of a pathway to citizenship for some.
In an interview Monday on Glenn Beck’s radio show, Walker said illegal immigrants “have to go back to their country of origin” to be considered for citizenship and suggested placing limits on that legal system.
“The next president and the next Congress need to make decisions about a legal immigration system that’s based on, first and foremost, protecting American workers and American wages,” Walker said in the interview. “We need to have that be at the forefront of our discussion going forward.”....
so anti-American.
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and therefore so anti-Walt Disney..
Walt must be rolling in his grave...
Ted Cruz needs to abandon his schemes to massively increase the flow of alien workers into our homeland and follow the lead of Governor Walker on this issue.
Some American employees are basically forced to train their foreign replacements.
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I’ve heard, and read, that before. That just doesn’t make sense. How do you force an employee who is going to be let go to train his foreign replacement?
You get to stay employed a bit longer, possibly with a small monetary "sweetner" versus being shown the door (also described in the main article at source).
I guess I’m one of those people who bites his nose off to spite his face but, they would have one helluva time making me do that. I’d do my job and tell Pedro to take a freakin’ hike. When they let me go, I’d draw my Unemployment which pays almost as much as one’s wages these days. (BTW, I’ve never had an Unemployment check in my hand in my life.)
Many of these replacements were/are from India.
By dangling a severance package (often based on years of service); financial institutions were doing this as they prepared to abandon NYC (leading to the unemployed American workers known as Occupy Wall Street). The NYC metro area lost a lot of good jobs, and they’re never coming back (the foreign workers weren’t staying here, but going back to Asia with the jobs).
“Now, some economists have suggested that allowing more foreigners into the U.S. — say, an immigrant who buys a house in exchange for a green card — would actually help jump-start the economy.”
How? The immigrants are just buying the foreclosed homes of the former American workers...
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