Posted on 07/08/2019 8:15:45 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
Democratic-run House will decide Tuesday whether to put at least 300,000 Indian contract workers on a fast track to valuable green cards, so incentivizing more low wage Indian graduates to take U.S. jobs from middle class American graduates.
Roughly 108 Republicans have co-sponsored the green card giveaway, called HR.1044, the “”Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019” — even though the Democrats’ legislation is backed by Silicon Valley investors who oppose GOP.
Democrats also have kept the legislation secret — the bill has had no hearing or committee votes — and it is being quarterbacked by the immigration lawyer who helped Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer write the disastrous “Gang of Eight” amnesty in 2013.
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These 1.2 million foreign workers are eager to take Americans’ jobs at low wages, in part, because the federal government also allows employers to nominate them for hugely valuable green cards. Companies save a fortune in salaries by offering this taxpayer-funded bonus to their foreign contract-workers.
Companies have also used this green card process to create an extra army of roughly 350,000 contract-workers in the United States. Under federal rules, the short-term contract-workers become long-term indentured workers once their employers file the green card application. This subservient work-and-wait legal status continues for years until the contract-workers get out of the backlog once they get green cards and become legal immigrants.
“Employers love [because] this is an astonishing subsidy for tech employers … this bill would extend that [backlog and indentured service] model … This will turn the entire employment-based immigration system into the indentured-service model,” a source told Breitbart.
These two armies of 1.5 million contract workers take prestigious jobs in healthcare, business, engineering, software, teaching, research, journalism, in Silicon Valley, in the fashion industry, in universities and even cutting edge, computer chip manufacturing companies.
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Yes,yes, bs
[ Democratic-run House will decide Tuesday whether to put at least 300,000 Indian contract workers on a fast track to valuable green cards, so incentivizing more low wage Indian graduates to take U.S. jobs from middle class American graduates. ]
Oh goody. It’s not difficult enough for American tech workers.
Traitors.
I’ve seen tech jobs posted for 4 years.
I’d tell your spouse to not bother with any offer from Apu. Most of Apu’s “urgent requirements” are nothing more than cut & paste job postings.
I’d suggest your spouse become a student of the local job market. Take notes. For a small amount of effort & a little time with Google, he’ll quickly figure out who the employers are & can apply directly.
Get a Google Voice account for the spouse’s resume. Let Apu talk to Google Voice. You’ll find the speech to text translations of Desi Recruiters to be entertaining. I got one voicemail from Donald Trump, looking to place someone at $30 per hour, 1,000+ miles from home. Trump didn’t call. Google’s servers can’t understand Apu either.
I’ve seen the $30 per hour offers. Waste of time.
I’ve had Desi Recruiters demand:
- my passport
- my driver’s license
- my visa
- my social security number
- word-formatted (modifiable) resume
Would I be shocked if this information was being used to place an H1-B? Not at all.
I’d say I get a call from a competent American recruiter about once in every 300 inquiries. Most American recruiters are dialing for dollars.
I’ve gotten so fed up with Desi Recruiters & guest workers, I just want the entire lot shipped out on the first tramp steamer that can return them to Prime Minister Modi.
San Jose, eh? Nothing more than Hyderabad west.
I wish someone would plot a graph of Intel’s current problems vs. their increasing addiction to H1-B workers.
San Jose, eh? Nothing more than Hyderabad west.
I wish someone would plot a graph of Intel’s current problems vs. their increasing addiction to H1-B workers.
Yup, works in “the belly of the beast” so to speak. He likes the people he works with, but it is interesting that he is the minority at work, and likely not only at work but in town as well...
He used to work for Intel BTW.
Indeed, where I work we can utilize the services of two Microsoft contractors who came here from San Francisco. One of them is French - as in from France. Silicon Valley seems to be chalk full of foreigners - no wonder they don’t care about American values.
Socially and fiscally conservative?
Completely false.
2012 - 80% of Asian-Indian Americans voted to reelect Obama.
2016 - 77% of Asian-Indian Americans voted for Hillary Clinton.
Political Anecdote:
I live in the heart of Microsoft country.
My Congressional District is 40% foreign born - mostly Asian-Indians.
2018 midterm election:
My Democrat Congressman won with 70% of the vote.
His opponent - from the Socialist Party - got 30% of the vote!
ping
Asians (Indian and Orientals) are filling financial sector jobs in the NYC metro area; they are our white-collar replacements. The county north of me in NJ (across from mid-town) recently added Korean to their county business (sample ballots, etc.).
Thanks!
Indeed, where I work we can utilize the services of two Microsoft contractors who came here from San Francisco. One of them is French - as in from France. Silicon Valley seems to be chalk full of foreigners - no wonder they don’t care about American values.
Sad state of affairs. Very little interest or concern.
Where have all the tech jobs gone? Long time passing...
A separate but similar problem is caused by the fact that our public high schools no longer provide much in the way of non-college technical education. Thus we are lacking plumbers, electricians, stone and tile worker, skilled construction workers, carpenters, etc. I see a lot of these jobs being filled by Latino immigrants or illegals, and blacks living in the same cities complaining they are unemployed.
A separate but similar problem is caused by the fact that our public high schools no longer provide much in the way of non-college technical education. Thus we are lacking plumbers, electricians, stone and tile worker, skilled construction workers, carpenters, etc. I see a lot of these jobs being filled by Latino immigrants or illegals, and blacks living in the same cities complaining they are unemployed.
I think Barry and Michoo pushed college...but there are other great careers that don’t require it—like plumbers, etc. I think they wanted to indebt the students to federal government for the student loans :(
Giving them our jobs, plus the equivalent of citizenship. And giving us the finger.
Our company loves to hire engineers out of “IIT” - the numerous state-run “Indian Institute of Technology” meat grinders. The workers know they must work dog hours for cheap or they will lose their visa upon termination of employment, so they really are serfs for the company. This in turn drives down our wages and the perception that we can be easily replaced. The quality of work, communication skills and social isolation they impose on themselves makes for dysfunctional teams and no one can say anything bad about it or HR will deem them racist. It’s a pox on the IT industry I’ve been in for over 22 years now, and I can’t wait to be done one day.
Our company loves to hire engineers out of “IIT” - the numerous state-run “Indian Institute of Technology” meat grinders. The workers know they must work dog hours for cheap or they will lose their visa upon termination of employment, so they really are serfs for the company. This in turn drives down our wages and the perception that we can be easily replaced. The quality of work, communication skills and social isolation they impose on themselves makes for dysfunctional teams and no one can say anything bad about it or HR will deem them racist. It’s a pox on the IT industry I’ve been in for over 22 years now, and I can’t wait to be done one day.
Another first hand account here on FR from a 22-year veteran in the IT industry that refutes the “gotta keep the talent” argument for H-1B and green card expansion—a view that is all too often extolled on news, by pols, and even here :(
Your account lines up with what 2 of my family members have experienced...One has over 22 years, the other has a little less than 10.
I have not checked, but sadly I am fairly certain the bill passed because THERE WAS NO OPPOSITION. No one seems to care, which they do at their own peril.
Thank you for sharing.
I have an Armenian Russian friend who is a brilliant nuclear physicist and mathematician, educated in the US, and experienced in high finance. Why should he be excluded in favor of Indians? Racism.
I have an Armenian Russian friend who is a brilliant nuclear physicist and mathematician, educated in the US, and experienced in high finance. Why should he be excluded in favor of Indians? Racism.
Problem is that he, being Armenian Russian, probably does not have a large enough social identity political group to lobby our greedy “representatives” to get their attention...just like most of us deplorables in flyover country...
Sitting in Boston & watching the Wayfair protests, I’d write-off the Millennial Tech Workers as a total loss.
This problem of not educating for non college type jobs in public schools started well before the Obama administration. Perhaps some who were in high school between the 1960s and Obama admin. can she some light. When I was in high school in the mid 1950’s our school had a good balanced approach.
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