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Dobbs: Disgraceful GOP Sen. Mike Lee pushes job-stealing Green Card bill
Biz Pac Review ^ | 09.23.19 | Zachary Leeman

Posted on 09/23/2019 11:28:53 AM PDT by Freedom56v2

Fox Business host Lou Dobbs has gone after Utah Sen. Mike Lee for supporting a bill that would lift per-country gaps on permanent residency. The bill was ultimately blocked in the Senate.

Dobbs described the bill as an “absolute dream” for outsourcers on “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” The bill's called the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act.

“It would remove green card limits on workers from other countries,” said Dobbs, “but what that means is big countries like India and China principally would overwhelm the H1B visa list, and guess what? They would be taking American jobs at lower pay, historically 27 percent lower than prevailing wages in the United States for American labor.”

Though the bill was blocked, it still has support. Georgia Senator David PERDUE has said he wants to REINTRODUCE the bill after some of the language in it has been worked on. He claims the bill keeps in line with President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. Dobbs is not buying into the hype though.

“Ask yourself: why would a populist president who has worked so hard for the American worker, the middle class, the forgotten man and woman in this country, agree to such a bunch of nonsense?” said Dobbs.

SNIP

The new bill would increase wait times for foreign nurses. He wanted a provision added that would allow 5000 nurses to get temporary work visas in the United States annually. The original version of the bill would have increased wait times for foreign nurses, many of whom come from the Philippines. SNIP

The bill, co-introduced by Kamala Harris, is meant to take care of the backlog of green card candidates from places like China and India. On top of erasing a cap for employment green cards, it would also raise the cap for family-based green cards.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: 116th; china; congress; corruption; cronycapitalism; followthemoney; h1b; hightechjobs; hireamerican; immigration; india; indianamericans; jobs; kamalaharris; mikelee; mikeleecash; senate; workforce
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To: Freedom56v2; Nifster

From Lou Dobbs article:

Though the bill was blocked, it still has support. Georgia Senator David PERDUE has said he wants to REINTRODUCE the bill after some of the language in it has been worked on. He claims the bill keeps in line with President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. Dobbs is not buying into the hype


You said “We’ll see...”

Not looking good...

If you have not called Perdue, now would be a good time to consider it...


21 posted on 09/23/2019 11:57:18 AM PDT by Freedom56v2
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To: txrefugee

It should be called the American Worker Replacement Bill and should never be approved. That it should include letting the families of these foreign workers into the U.S. is nothing but more of the hated “chain migration.”

Shame on Sen. Lee and any other senators who are giving away our best jobs and expecting the poorer Americans to populate our military and work at Walmart.

Call your Senators!


SPOT ON!!

These bill names are so Orwellian! Yes it should be called the American Worker Replacement Bill!

and also SPOT ON:

CALL/EMAIL SENATORS AND PRESIDENT!


22 posted on 09/23/2019 12:01:13 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
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To: conservative98
increasing cap for high-tech temp worker visas

Thereby disincentivizing Americans from footing the bill for an education to obtain these skills.

23 posted on 09/23/2019 12:01:18 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Freedom56v2

“but what that means is big countries like India and China principally would overwhelm the H1B visa list...” happened a generation ago. That’s why engineers make the same now as they did 15 years ago...


24 posted on 09/23/2019 12:14:21 PM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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To: conservative98

“Buy Chinese - Hire Indian”


What a slogan!!

:( :/


25 posted on 09/23/2019 12:18:23 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
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To: txrefugee

“Shame on Lee”??? The better question is how much money he and his cohorts are receiving in campaign donation etc. from the Lobbyists. It is all about the Money which is the way Washington works. Damn shame, but that is the way it is.


26 posted on 09/23/2019 12:19:19 PM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Freedom56v2

Those are the words when he blocked it

I’ve called. Emailed and tweeted.

Right now there is not an indication of what has changed

You don’t need to lecture me about what I need to do. Take care of your own yard


27 posted on 09/23/2019 12:32:46 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the cloudsi)
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To: Freedom56v2

You part of the Jeb Bush crowd? A globalist RINO?

Bushwon in the house!!!

:)


28 posted on 09/23/2019 12:39:04 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

You part of the Jeb Bush crowd? A globalist RINO?

Bushwon in the house!!!


HaHaha

I figured you might say something along those lines ;)


29 posted on 09/23/2019 1:07:45 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
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To: Nifster

Those are the words when he blocked it

I’ve called. Emailed and tweeted.

Right now there is not an indication of what has changed

You don’t need to lecture me about what I need to do. Take care of your own yard


With all due respect, Article is saying he NOW WILL REINTRODUCE IT...I believe last week articles stated he said he would support it...To me that is a change in level of support. A change in the wrong direction, hence the suggestion you consider contacting him now as he is your senator...

and I merely suggested you consider contacting him...That is not a lecture.

And I have and am taking care of my yard as well as a bunch of others...neighbors, friends, etc.

We are all supposed to be on same page here...if not same page, at least same chapter of same book. Sorry if I offended you, but frankly this is important, so if you find me offensive, so be it.


30 posted on 09/23/2019 1:15:47 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
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To: Freedom56v2

Mike Lee was, until recent times, a political conservative...a political conservative Mormon that you could count on.

Has anybody noticed the sea change that is happening in Mormonism? It seems to have taken hold of Mike Lee also.

The sea change seems to coincide with the election of Mitt Romney in Mormon Utah.


31 posted on 09/23/2019 1:48:57 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: sasportas

Something has certainly changed...You may be on to something...

He is getting big “rewards” for supporting the surveillance state...Google and FB are putting in data centers in UT, and he is getting very generous campaign donations for suppporting Tech titan initiatives like surveillance and H-1B Visa expansion :(


32 posted on 09/23/2019 1:56:33 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
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To: Freedom56v2
They would be taking American jobs at lower pay, historically 27 percent lower than prevailing wages in the United States

Allowing this is treason.

33 posted on 09/23/2019 2:26:32 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Freedom56v2

Worker Visas violate the 13th and 14th Amendments.

Green Card bill, H1B visas deny work rights to those in the United States. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is running slave trading.

Amendment XIII Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.


34 posted on 09/23/2019 2:35:28 PM PDT by TheNext (Leader of the Happy People of the World)
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To: Freedom56v2

I don’t need lectures from people who have communists as senators

Perdue did something no other senator did. One can say not enough. Fine but they’re senators did nothing. I’m doing my part. I don’t need lectures from people who threaten not to vote and do nothing to improve their state


35 posted on 09/23/2019 3:24:34 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the cloudsi)
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To: Freedom56v2

But there are just a few threads just yesterday calling for Indians replacing Americans as it was thought Americans were too stupid and Indians somehow superior to us Crack and Marijuana smoking Americans, and somehow Indians are superior to every other 193 countries in the world.

Short memory here?


36 posted on 09/23/2019 4:44:27 PM PDT by Starcitizen (American. No hypenation necessary. Send the H1B and H4EAD slime home. American jobs for Americans)
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To: Nifster

Give me a break...

1. The nerve of me...How dare I ask, suggest, or even more obnoxiously exhort people to call their senators—Yeah, I am guilty of doing that...instead of just posting my outrage at the news, I am advocating that Freepers go beyond just being keyboard warriors...Guilty as charged...

BTW, according to the homepage, FR is a news and ACTIVISM forum...What is the point of knowing and posting if no one takes the next step to make a simple phone call?!?!?!

2. I did not lecture you, This is a forum where people challenge ideas. Perdue’s position and/or your blind loyalty to Perdue is fair game.

3. Fact that I live in IL and, therefore have Dem Senators has no bearing...I did not vote for them and I don’t support them even, tho they likely have the SAME POSITION AS YOUR Senator, Perdue, on this issue...

Weak reasoning that people who live in blue states do so because they like socialism or support it...people live in blue states for many reasons, but that is not one of them...People like the founder of FR.

4. For goodness sake, YOU almost had Stacey Abrams as Governor...Sheesh.

Fine, support Perdue as he sells out US workers.

Dobbs is talking aout Perdue right now on his program, so I am done with this. And I am not sorry.


37 posted on 09/23/2019 4:49:05 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
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To: Freedom56v2

I figured out before Donald Trump entered the picture that he is another globalist RINO; he just works harder to maintain his image as a conservative.


38 posted on 09/23/2019 4:50:32 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: YogicCowboy

I figured out before Donald Trump entered the picture that he is another globalist RINO; he just works harder to maintain his image as a conservative.

____________________________________

To clarify, I am assuming you are talking about Lousy Low Down Lee...


39 posted on 09/23/2019 4:52:55 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
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To: Pelham

Treason Lobby bump


Well put!


40 posted on 09/23/2019 5:22:41 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
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