Posted on 09/21/2015 9:00:26 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
Administration lawyers ‘reinterpret’ the law to greatly increase visas for technology firms.
Last week Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley hit back against Obama’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after the agency pushed through, during a previously aimed at bringing over highly sought-after “intracompany transferees” from American firms’non-immigrant worker visas) the Obama administration, at the behest of Big Tech lobbyists, has told its agency lawyers to think up a clever alternative. In a strongly worded letter to Obama’s immigration authorities, Grassley, a 35-year Senate veteran, closely outlines the legal and practical faults of the new policy and demands answers from the agency regarding its purported authority for the move. The L-1B visa, a cousin of the H-1B, applies to so-called “specialized knowledge” employees, usually in the IT industry, who may be transferred to the U.S. from their foreign affiliated employer to work here for up to five years. Often, as with H-1B holders, these “temporary” workers obtain sponsors and apply for permanent status. When President Obama announced his general plans to “reform” the program last spring, he stated that his goal was to allow more workers to move from foreign offices into the U.S. “in a faster, simpler way.” Americans should get behind the proposal, he stated, as it “could benefit hundreds of thousands of nonimmigrant workers and their employers,” which “in turn, will benefit [the] entire economy.” Setting aside concerns about whose “economy” will actually be benefited — the public’s or the special interests’ — the problem with this new “reform” is that the L-1B intracompany-transferee program was never meant to be a mass temporary-worker program. On the contrary, as Grassley’s letter states, Congress’s intent was to ensure that the class of persons eligible for such visas would be “narrowly drawn.” This would seem to comport a...
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so is insider trading
Grassley and Sessions seem to be the leaders of only a handful in House and Senate who care one iota about American worker displacement :(
I have called/written my elected “representatives,” and they do nothing ;(
Wonder if your Indian Tech Rep was one of these? From the article:
DHS’s move on the issue is rooted in the complaints Big Tech lobbyists and immigration attorneys have long made about their L-1B applications, specifically that the number of denials and “Requests for Evidence” they receive is simply too high, while adjudications of those applications are too restrictive. Ideally, of course, they want the number of rejected applications to be zero — that would bring industry wages collapsing down. But rejection rates aren’t a “real problem,” says Grassley’s letter. In 2013, the letter notes, a DHS inspector general’s report concluded that USCIS was “not unduly restrictive” in L-1B adjudications. The problem with decreasing standards and adopting a more “liberal definition of specialized knowledge,” the IG report noted, would be to “open the category to an unlimited number of foreign workers.” “Exactly,” a Big Tech lobbyist or immigration attorney might say. Regardless, says Grassley, the term “specialized knowledge” has already been expanded over the years to the point where it is almost rendered meaningless. He cites an earlier IG report criticizing “new interpretations” of the program that have defined the term so broadly that “adjudicators believe they have little choice but to approve almost all petitions.” As the report observed, “that so many foreign workers seem to qualify as possessing specialized knowledge appears to have led to the displacement of American workers.”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424326/immigration-deception-obama
so is insider trading
Anyone know who is heading up the H-1B Visa ping list?
What is Obama doing?
Why is he into the decimation of our country?
He seems to have zero love for our country or its people.
It's more people for the justice system, once it's reestablished, to indict, try, convict, sentence, and hang.
And tell your congressman the only vote for him you will support is the guilty verdict from his trial jury.
Fundamental transformation of our country.
Ruling elite government/crony/wealthy class and a socialist worker under class—perhaps similar to South America. Seems to be bent on eliminating the middle class...eliminating all the vehicles that get and keep people there...like JOBS.
Does not like the country as it was originally Constituted :(
The only thing that will stop that is informed voters
The people have become stupid
I have a hard time stomaching how bought the people who vote Democrat are.
Gone are the days of righteous pride and a sense of shame regarding our behaviors. Today it is unchecked egos and a sense being owed and that it is righteous to vote for or be given someone else’s earned wealth.
Punks in congress let him. That’s all I have to say about that.
H-1B Visa Ping?!
How many bitches @ NRO are objecting to Trump’s rhetoric?
this guy is getting more and more like andrew jackson, in a bad way...
(and just how does h1b help anyone in the usa? usa would be better off without dc politician-prostitutes for sale to highest overseas bidders)
this seems more like under the table bribery from foreign countries
That's what Ted Cruz claims about H-1B.
Go Trump, go!
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