Posted on 10/18/2019 11:38:05 AM PDT by NobleFree
Lousiana GOP Sen. John Kennedy has blocked a bill drafted by a top Democratic Senator that would accelerate the flow of Indian visa workers and immigrants into Americans’ office jobs.
“The American people deserve an immigration system that looks like somebody designed it on purpose,” Kennedy told Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin during a polite conversation on the Senate floor. He said:
I am rising to object [to Durbin’s bill] because a number of my colleagues … would like a little additional time to study this bill. But equally important, if not more important, many of my colleagues’ sentiment is that we should take this bill up first in the judiciary committee.
Kennedy’s October 16 objection blocked Durbin’s effort to pass his “RELIEF Act” via the Senate’s fast-track “Unanimous Consent” process.
Durbin’s RELIEF Act would double the annual award of green cards given to the cheap foreign workers who are hired by American companies for jobs in the United States. It would double the annual inflow to 120,000 workers by exempting their immediate families from the annual cap. The bill would also lift the annual “country caps” and so allow companies to annually reward roughly 100,000 Indian visa-workers with valuable, government-provided green-cards, up from 10,000 Indian workers a year under the current rules.
The touted virtue of the Durbin bill is that it would reduce the population of 300,000 Indian visa-workers who mostly work for below-market wages while waiting for years to get their promised “Employer-Based” green cards.
This so-called “backlog” population of 300,000 workers and 300,000 family members gets much sympathetic coverage from American progressives. But the backlog was created by the crush of Indians who accepted green-card nominations from companies in a barter payment for taking jobs, salaries, and careers that would otherwise have gone to American graduates. [...]
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Reading between the lines on this it seems that the bill is dead.
They will only pass it via unanimous consent so that none of the weasels have to go on record with a yea or nay vote.
I can’t say this enough. ITS NOT JUST TECH! The big banks are swarming with H1b Indians. I know. I work with them every day. They are the majority of the people I work with and I’m in finance.
I have nothing against them. I have nothing against India. If I were in their place,I would absolutely do the same thing. But I’m not. I’m an American. It’s good for them and for large corporations, but it’s terrible for America and terrible for Americans. We need to radically slash H1b visas and put a fee on them high enough to ensure a foreigner will be MORE EXPENSIVE to hire than an American.
We really do have to do our part of the swamp draining and vote these weasels out in the primary.
Why bring them here?
Imagine you were in upper management in a large corporation. Do you want to be able to walk down a row of cubes and look at what your employee is doing and have a quick 5 minute chat with him if you want the task done differently or if he’s doing it the wrong way......or do you want him sitting in an office in Bangalore such that with time differences you may be able to look at what he’s doing at most once per day?
Are you cool with giving up the direct control you have by having your employee right down the hall? At this point they will all scream “Hell no!!!!!!” This is one of the big problems with outsourcing. They tried that in the 90s. It didn’t work so well but they sure did love that cheap labor. So they started importing the cheap labor so they could have that and the direct control they lost by outsourcing.
It’s just Americans who get screwed here. Everybody else wins!
While turning their backs on U.S. tech workers, the senators worship their false gods and campaign donors, namely Google, Alphabet Inc. and Amazon that, among other tech giants, benefit from lower cost Indian labor. According to Open Secrets.org that monitors federal campaign contributions, S. 386’s lead sponsor Mike Lee (R-UT) has been rewarded by his Silicon Valley supporters: Microsoft, $33,000; Google, $18,400; Amazon, $12,500; Oracle, $11,000; Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook, $11,000 and the Koch-owned Koch Agronomic Services, $11,000. All lobbied intensively on behalf of S. 386.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/386
S.386 - Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019
116th Congress (2019-2020)
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT] (Introduced 02/07/2019)
Committees: Senate - Judiciary
Latest Action: Senate - 07/09/2019 Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
Cosponsor Date Cosponsored
Sen. Harris, Kamala D. [D-CA]* 02/07/2019
Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND]* 02/07/2019
Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO]* 02/07/2019
Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]* 02/07/2019
Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]* 02/07/2019
Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]* 02/07/2019
Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]* 02/07/2019
Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]* 02/07/2019
Sen. Gardner, Cory [R-CO]* 02/07/2019
Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]* 02/07/2019
Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]* 02/07/2019
Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]* 02/07/2019
Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]* 02/07/2019
Sen. Sinema, Kyrsten [D-AZ]* 02/07/2019
Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH] 02/25/2019
Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS] 02/25/2019
Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK] 02/25/2019
Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL] 02/25/2019
Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] 02/25/2019
Sen. McSally, Martha [R-AZ] 02/25/2019
Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN] 03/14/2019
Sen. Hoeven, John [R-ND] 03/25/2019
Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] 03/26/2019
Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE] 03/28/2019
Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] 03/28/2019
Sen. Jones, Doug [D-AL] 04/02/2019
Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA] 04/11/2019
Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN] 05/07/2019
Sen. Romney, Mitt [R-UT] 05/09/2019
Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX] 05/13/2019
Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] 05/14/2019
Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK] 06/12/2019
Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] 06/19/2019
Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV] 06/26/2019
Thanks. Good list. That said, I don’t see anyone I (we?)can flip. What a pile of dung.
I can raise my hand to that one. I make myself feel better by telling myself they did me a favor. It forced me to examine what was ahead and put me in a job that was vertical and less populated with the brain-dead, imported "smart hands".
Ultimately I'm better off. The constant flood of immigrants in tech will destroy that industry as is collapses under its own weight of stupidity.
They have them in India.
Where do you think all the jobs went back in 2000-2002.
Whole cities sprang up with jobs stolen from HP, Intel and Cisco.
India wants the entire High Tech industry.
What?? Pat Toomey is NOT a co-sponsor??
He’s never met a destructive job-killing Chamber of Commerce proposal he wouldn’t vote for.
My my my my....we Deplorables must finally be getting to him.
Such a disconnect. With a name like Kennedy, I’m not expecting a Southern accent.
"Lapdog" is too kind by half - "whore" better describes the relationship.
G.D. Democrats don’t give a damn about Americans, or the country other than for profit, and power for the Democrat party, which means profit, and power for them individually.
Ditto for the GOPe.
Let India hire them
Their country, their jobs
GTHO
Durbin is and has been unfit for office.
What Demonrat IS fit for office today ?
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