Coronavirus: Companies Lobby Trump’s DHS to Preserve Huge Foreign Workforce

Breitbart ^ | 25 Mar 2020 | NEIL MUNRO

[NobleFree]

The immigration lawyers who import H-1B visa workers for U.S. companies are urging President Donald Trump’s deputies to extend the expiring work permits for hundreds of thousands of foreign contract workers during the nation’s unprecedented economic meltdown.

The pleas come after the GOP-majority Senate shut down a push by the Democrat-run House to extend the deadline for many types of expiring visas and work permits. The permits are used by employers to replace Americans in U.S. jobs with hundreds of thousands of foreign contract workers, including H-1B graduates.

If Trump’s administration agrees to extend the deadlines, it would prevent Americans from filling the visa workers’ jobs during the economic recovery.

If the administration does not change the deadline, it would implement Trump’s Inauguration Day promise to enforce a “Hire American” policy and would steer hundreds of thousands of American graduates and blue-collar workers into jobs just before the 2020 election. […]

The final package, announced March 25, apparently excluded House language that would have extended the visa deadlines.

The House language was backed by the business groups who have hired the visa workers in place of Americans. But the visa worker programs are deeply unpopular among at least two vital voting blocs — Trump’s voters and swing-vote college graduates. […]

College-trained reporters at the WashingtonPost rarely mention the huge visa worker economy, which includes roughly 900,000 H-1B workers. The newspaper is owned by Jeff Bezons, whose Amazon companies import many college-trained foreign workers via the H-1B and Occupational Practical Training programs.

But the U.S.-India outsourcing economy has lowered American white-collar salaries nationwide and muffled American high-tech innovation by replacing at least 1.5 million American graduates with imported blocs of compliant, legally powerless,Indian and Chinese workers. […]

[Buckeye McFrog]

If you have a better explanation as to why Trump hasn’t done it yet I’m all ears.

[central_va]

If you have a better explanation as to why Trump hasn’t done it yet I’m all ears.

He is surrounded by WH Free Traitors™ in R jerseys.

[jimmygrace]

There will be a LOT of AMERICANS who will need work in the very near future.

[RideForever]

Credit the President for addressing illegal aliens by correct legal nomenclature. He should hit the illegal aliens, HARD, to get them moving back to their countries of origin before they vote in the coming election.

This should be part of a Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement bill, missing since 1986 ONE TIME amnesty. The List of Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement, missing since 1986 goes like this -

1) southern barrier;
2) require eVerify to hire;
3) end all chain migration;
4) birthright per Minor v. Happersett (plural parents);
5) end work visas;
6) 10-year moratorium on all new applications for citizenship (40 years to allow workplace automation effects on downsizing population);
7) Set up an illegal aliens’ victim restitution fund.

Enactment of these provisions will motivate illegal aliens to SELF-deport, and remove colonizadors from our welfare rolls.

[zeugma]

1) southern barrier; 2) require eVerify to hire; 3) end all chain migration; 4) birthright per Minor v. Happersett (plural parents); 5) end work visas; 6) 10-year moratorium on all new applications for citizenship (40 years to allow workplace automation effects on downsizing population); 7) Set up an illegal aliens’ victim restitution fund. Good list. I support all of the above. Unfortunately, The republican party is infested with globalists, so it would be hard to push through. Also, this is really an area that Trump is pretty weak in. He simply doesn't seem to see the danger that these H1Bs and similar programs pose to honest Americans.