Posted on 07/10/2019 7:07:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Amazon, the multinational corporation run by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is thanking the 140 House Republicans and 224 House Democrats for passing legislation that will reinforce Silicon Valley’s cheap labor, outsourcing business model. On Wednesday, 140 House Republicans, 224 House Democrats, and Rep. Justin Amash (R-KY) — led by Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) — voted to allow Indian nationals to effectively monopolize the U.S. green card system for at least ten years, providing a constant stream of foreign workers that American professionals will be forced to compete against for white-collar jobs.
In response, Amazon executives released a statement thanking Republicans and Democrats for their support:
The Indian outsourcing lobby, including Cognizant Technology Solutions, which has to import tens of thousands of foreign workers through the H-1B visa to replace Americans, and tech conglomerates like Microsoft Corp lobbied Republicans and Democrats hard to pass the legislation, known as HR. 1044.
The bill changes existing immigration law that prevents one country from monopolizing the U.S. green card system by placing a per-country cap on the number of green cards that each country is allotted every year.
Indian outsourcers and tech billionaires, who rely prominently on importing foreign workers from India instead of hiring Americans, have complained that their imported temporary foreign workers wait too long for green cards and that they need these workers to obtain green cards quicker so that they can continue importing additional foreign workers.
Last year, Amazon sought to outsource thousands of American jobs by importing more than 4,000 H-1B foreign visa workers to take positions at the corporation, offering an average salary of less than $130,000.
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Ok, that doesn’t really go along with Trump’s merit-based immigration solution. Instead it just undercuts American citizens. This is bull.
It’s treason
I’m told by some freepers that they have better skills and don’t depress wages. 20 years of shit in this industry and I and my coworker each beg to differ. And job discrimination for those over 40, 50, 60
When did Justin Amash move to Kentucky? And didn't he just announce last week that he's leaving the GOP?
The Chamber of Commerce, the “Masters of the Universe” and Globalists everywhere REJOICE. American patriots grieve for their nation and the American people. Traitors indeed!!
I’m afraid our country is SOOOO FREAKIN LOST!!! Not enough patriots to kick all their asses out of our house!!!!! Stick a EFFIN fork in her..she’s done!!! So goes the US the way of the Roman Empire!
Big time. Destroys lives.
The real problemo is the educational compromises America seems to desire vs foreign education systems that hold the students accountable.
Yep,FUK Americans is all by design. I am so sorry for the younger Americans. I was born in 1969. I guess I saw enough but did serve and fight to save America to no avail.
“...4: “And job discrimination for those over 40, 50, 60”
Decades ago I figured out that electricity wasn’t going away in my lifetime and went there educationally. Homegrown Carpentry workers fell off, homegrown bricklayers are in the minority.
The trades can still support a lifestyle. But for some odd reason, everybody undertrained themselves into office grunts. Is hard work a scary thought in the minds of the up and coming American workforce?
Once again, we’re sold out by our government. Sadly, it is always entirely predictable.
I’m in the tech industry and it’s bs - they do NOT have better skills and they do undercut wages which is why every company goes out of their way to setup offices in India now that the H1Bs have been cracked down on.
I had to go in and fix a system design, by myself, in 5 months that had been 2 years in development by 5 Indian programmers and they wanted to put me in charge of the H1Bs (which I sternly declined).
It’s not that Indian programmers are uniformally bad - they’ve got roughly the same good to bad ratio as anywhere else but because they’re cheap enough you can hire 5 at the cost of 1.5 and with a little luck still make your deadline.
This was nothing but a paid for vote.
We pay for foreign infrastructure.
And the lie about skill was exposed a decade ago when the IBM VP told laid off US workers to go move to India where they would be paid less but their paychecks would go farther.
Big Tech despises Republicans - not all of the rank and file, but the management of these companies are controlled by SJWs. They will work assiduously to remove Republicans from office - and yet the GOP dimwits in Congress will go against the interests of their own constituents to bring in cheap labor for these companies.
As we approach the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing and watch the TV shows commemorating it, notice all those young American engineers who made the impossible happen.
Today, you are stupid if you go into engineering. You will be spending years in the most difficult of college curricula while your peers are doing gender studies and drinking and drugging their lives away, only to find that the jobs you thought were waiting for you are filled by tech school level Indians and Chinese who are imported to work for half what the market would require for your better skills.
American engineers and techs need to learn the fine art of savatoge !
well it’s a hail mary against the uniparty’s favorite punching bag, i.e., We the American People, but gonna email the President anyway and tell him he should veto this cheap labor subsidy for chamber crony capitalists.
Correction: Justin Amash (?) MI
He quit the Republican party and he is from Michigan, not KY, fwiw.
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