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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This WH is unreal as BAD as the Bush WH .
This idiot did not check anyone coming home from Europe.
We dont need any Frickin Indian job stealers. now .
We have a recession coning on .
Great. Just what we need.
More aliens coming here bringing more pestilence in order to take more jobs from Americans.
That tree of liberty is in great need of watering.
India First, unfortunately.
Is this DHS head a paid whore for NASSCOM?
Mave the companies.
“Is this DHS head a paid whore for NASSCOM?”
Yes: ‘The current head of DHS, Chad Wolf, formerly served as a lobbyist for the Indian-based outsourcing industry.’
Praying that Trump doesn’t know about this yet and will fire this asshole when he does.
He does what the President tells him to.
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