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Exclusive – Paul Gosar: Big Tech Getting 15 Percent Discount to Hire Foreign Workers over Americans
Breitbart ^ | 5 Mar 2021 | ASHLEY OLIVER and JOHN BINDER

Posted on 03/08/2021 7:26:23 AM PST by NobleFree

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) warned that big tech companies are incentivized to hire foreign workers over Americans as he discussed President Joe Biden’s immigration agenda during an exclusive interview with Breitbart News at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Gosar highlighted continuing visa programs he says “don’t work,” particularly the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program for crowding Americans out of tech jobs while tech corporations profit.

In 2019, Gosar introduced legislation titled the “Fairness for High Skilled Americans Act” to end the OPT program as Americans cannot be hired through the program.

“I’m one of the big people talking about OPT, which is the Optional Practical Training program, that Congress never authorized,” Gosar said in reference to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) running the program on its own accord instead of enacting the program through Congress.

“This is an unkept intrusion of foreign workers that gives benefits to people like big tech to bring in folks from China, and from Pakistan, and from India, and one of the problems that exists here is that you get a 15.5 percent discount to hire them over American citizens,” Gosar said. “That 15.5 percent discount is the FICA [Federal Insurance Contribution Act] withholding tax that puts money into Social Security and Medicare.” [...]

Corporations such as Amazon, Google, Deloitte, and Intel employ thousands of OPT foreign workers over American STEM graduates every year — reaping a more than 15 percent discount because the employers can evade at least $20 billion to $30 billion in FICA taxes over the years.

As Breitbart News has reported, there are nearly 500,000 Chinese students in the U.S. in any given year — more than any other nation — taking seats in university classrooms and looking to eventually obtain OPT authorization to take entry-level jobs in white-collar [...]

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corporatewelfare; hireamerican; immigration; workvisa

1 posted on 03/08/2021 7:26:23 AM PST by NobleFree
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To: NobleFree
Very likely big box store retail will be given $$$$ for hiring as well.
2 posted on 03/08/2021 7:30:39 AM PST by caww ("Politics is not a game, but a serious business" - Churchill)
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To: NobleFree

“Big Tech Getting 15 Percent Discount to Hire Foreign Workers over Americans”

Outrageous if true. Smacks of sedition or treason.


3 posted on 03/08/2021 7:45:03 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: NobleFree

Those Americans who couldn’t be hired are paying for foreigners to take their jobs.


4 posted on 03/08/2021 8:06:45 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, Covid-19 or Gates and Fauci's mRNA-1273 Moderna vax?)
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To: NobleFree

Americans are being raped by the illegal, criminal regime.
Trump won. Fifty eight thousand went to his rallies.
Less then 500 were interested in JoeBama.


5 posted on 03/08/2021 8:18:41 AM PST by doc maverick
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To: NobleFree

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6 posted on 03/08/2021 8:45:09 AM PST by jroehl
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To: doc maverick

Joebama

Good wordsmithing


7 posted on 03/08/2021 8:53:37 AM PST by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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To: NobleFree

Soon America will be partly ruled by Big Tech whose employees come from Europe.


8 posted on 03/08/2021 11:21:20 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Starcitizen

bump


9 posted on 03/08/2021 11:25:27 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Sam Gamgee

Soon America will be partly ruled by Big Tech whose employees come from Europe.
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Only if Europe has cities like Hyderabad, New Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai

Funny in another thread, there was a Freeper that was adamant that Americans were just too stupid to work in tech.

Was proud of the fact that companies were paying Pakis and Communist Chinese to come over here, with free houses.

I posted the whole scam how OPTs do not pay FICA tax (neither do companies that hire them (that’s 15% combined), ignored of course.

I posted that 74% of American STEM graduates could not find work after graduation, ignored of course (official US census stats must have been wrong) or Americans plain didn’t want to work.

I posted the average H1B makes a full 34% less than industry median wage (for a 100K position, that’s 66K), again USCiS stats must be wrong. Only his personal observations in Milwaukee were valid.

5 million qualified American software engineers underemployed or unemployed yet we bring in H1Bs

We have to start pulling together as Americans, or the only jobs left for us will be unskilled blue-collar work even the Mexicans avoid.


10 posted on 03/08/2021 12:36:38 PM PST by Starcitizen (To the filthy Indian trash snowflakes that cried my tagline, eff you and your filthy country. )
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To: NobleFree

bttt


11 posted on 03/08/2021 12:38:39 PM PST by I got the rope
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To: Starcitizen
I posted the average H1B makes a full 34% less than industry median wage (for a 100K position, that’s 66K), again USCiS stats must be wrong. Only his personal observations in Milwaukee were valid.

Small minds can't conceive that their own personal experiences don't constitute the whole of reality.

12 posted on 03/08/2021 12:54:19 PM PST 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: Starcitizen

I guess that was based my limited experience. The Microsoft expert we used was French.


13 posted on 03/08/2021 3:41:33 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee

I guess that was based my limited experience. The Microsoft expert we used was French.
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Including contractors, the vast majority of new Microsoft employees are Indian and Communist Chinese. You should see the Redmond campus at lunch. All Indians in the cafeteria.


14 posted on 03/08/2021 4:47:09 PM PST by Starcitizen (To the filthy Indian trash snowflakes that cried my tagline, eff you and your filthy country. )
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To: Starcitizen

I applaud your post my good man!


15 posted on 03/08/2021 5:47:38 PM PST by jroehl
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To: Starcitizen

I have to admit that is not as nauseating as using Europeans. You would think that demographic Indians would be more naturally socially conservative at least.


16 posted on 03/09/2021 1:56:45 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee

I have to admit that is not as nauseating as using Europeans. You would think that demographic Indians would be more naturally socially conservative at least.
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Guess you never dealt with severe and pervasive Indian racism. Any company they move into becomes quickly mostly Indian.

And Indians ONLY hire other Indians.

At least in the Trump era, the DOJ, DOL and EEOC has filed and won many cases against Indian companies in the US. The fines given to these Indian companies were mostly meaningless and they continue their racist ways.


17 posted on 03/09/2021 8:36:18 PM PST by Starcitizen (To the filthy Indian trash snowflakes that cried my tagline, eff you and your filthy country. )
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To: Starcitizen

How does that work with Walmart? In my uptown Walmart I noticed the manager and most of the workers are Indians.


18 posted on 03/10/2021 11:23:27 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee

How does that work with Walmart? In my uptown Walmart I noticed the manager and most of the workers are Indians.
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Don’t know about the retail side, but Walmart only hired H1B Indian scumbags directly or through contracting companies in Bentonville.

The Indian scumbags working retail most undoubtedly are H4EADs with the Indian manager a GC holder or an H1B.

You can go to the USCIS website, type in Walmart and your city to verify.


19 posted on 03/10/2021 9:27:58 PM PST by Starcitizen (To the filthy Indian trash snowflakes that cried my tagline, eff you and your filthy country. )
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