Posted on 03/20/2020 11:11:26 AM PDT by NobleFree
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is trying to accelerate the delivery of H-1B foreign workers to U.S. and Indian companies — despite the crashing economy and abundant evidence that many American graduates are facing discrimination and exclusion from software jobs.
The acceleration was announced March 16 when DHS’s immigration services agency announced it would limit the use of “premium processing” to “help us to reduce overall H-1B processing times.”
Under premium processing, companies can pay a premium to jump the line for roughly 100,000 H-1B work visas each year. But the line-jumping slows the routine award of H-1B visas to the corporate managers who prefer to hire blocs of compliant foreign workers instead of interviewing innovative American professionals and graduates.
Each April, 85,000 H-1B visas are awarded to U.S. companies via a rushed application and lottery process by DHS’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency. Another “cap-exempt” 15,000 H-1Bs are awarded throughout the year […] The cap-exempt employers are allowed to hire as many H-1Bs as they wish.
The current head of DHS, Chad Wolf, formerly served as a lobbyist for the Indian-based outsourcing industry. The group’s mix of Indian and U.S. companies use the H-1B program to hire Indians graduates for jobs in the United States, and they split the economic gains among both countries’ companies, executives, and investors.
Breitbart News asked DHS if the agency is considering curbs on the 2020 award of H-1B visas. “No changes at this time,” a spokesman responded March 19.
Meanwhile, business groups are trying to expand the H-1B program. For example, activists are citing the coronavirus disease as an excuse for Congress to allow investors to hire an unlimited number of foreign graduates for jobs in the healthcare sector. […]
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Well, my goodness. Let’s not hire any Americans.
That would just be crazy.
Thanks, Booshes and Barack Obama! Thanks a lot!
Egad. It appears as if they are seeking out any alternate vector to get this panic to balloon.
This is absolutely nuts in light of projected workforce reductions for 2020.
2021 is another ballgame but there will be a huge glut of unemployed American IT workers looking to get back in.
this is not winning!
And certain Trump appointees.
Golly - why would we increase immigration during a world pandemic?
Didn’t somebody get the memo?
It's Making America GOPe Again.
The monster created by GWB will never die until Americans demand it.
Didn’t somebody get the memo?
The only memos Chad Wolf reads are from his corporate globalist johns.
would love to see someone hold the bill up, rip it up while saying “Are you people idiots or something?”
And a special Senatorial thanks to Linda Grahamnesty and the ghost of John McCain.
A serious error of which they will be held accountable. POTUS needs to nip this at the bud.
Doesn’t really matter since there is a full travel ban.
Seems this “let some American workers starve to death” has infected all levels of our society.
Treason. Not one damn H1-b, L1 or any other visa holding loser needs to be let in for years to come. Boot the ones already here. We are facing massive layoffs.
Treason. Firing Squad. Some assembly required, I hear.
Exact wrong move.
Everyone’s pushin gtheir nefarious agendas.
Who’s objecting?
I thought it dated back to GHB?
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