The EAGLE Act: Will Congress Vote Against the American Worker and for Cheap Foreign Labor for Big Tech and Corporations?

Center for Immigration Studies ^ | December 6, 2022 | Jessica M. Vaughan

[jroehl]

In a January 7, 2021 blog, I wrote that “Yet another effort to discard the per-country cap for employment green cards fizzled in the waning days of the 116th Congress. But it's sure to come back in the new 117th Congress.” Every year since 2011, some members of Congress have attempted to discard the per-country cap for employment green cards, which was designed to provide temporary relief to employers when no American worker could be found to fill a position. The original bill designed to provide a never-ending flow of foreign workers to employers was titled the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act; this year, the House has re-introduced, without an open hearing or meaningful debate during the lame duck session, the 2021 bill, called the Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment (EAGLE) Act of 2022, H.R.3648.

The EAGLE Act was drafted to benefit and reward the tech companies that have relied on lower-paid (and usually lower-skilled) visa workers to replace U.S. workers over the last 10-15 years.

[jroehl]

We are only a few years away from people from India running the majority of our computer systems. Our country has not had a chance to have a national debate about this, because big tech has engineered a complete blackout of almost all information on this topic. The Indians have taken over the high tech recruitment process, in this country. So if you are an American tech worker, you have very little chance of being presented to an employer, in the last 3 years or so. This is creating a permanent underclass of Americans. This is also your homeless problem, among other things.

[escapefromboston]

If it hurts the American worker than the government is for it.

[linMcHlp]

bttt

[bankwalker]

So if you are an American tech worker, you have very little chance of being presented to an employer, in the last 3 years or so.

This is very true ... and they (the ferners) tend to write crap code ...

[qaz123]

Is this the thing Lee has been pushing for years?

I read that over 100k folks in the tech industry have already lost their jobs this year and that was before Facebook fired 11k.

And I doubt any of them voted for the one guy that was putting a stop to the H1B visa scam. And you could prove to them and it still wouldn’t change their feeble minds.

[KingofZion]

This is 100% true, though most of the homeless on the streets of SF are not ex-tech but mentally ill drug addicts.

There are now 140k workers that were just laid off by the tech industry. I would suggest US companies rehire these workers before they revive H1Bs

[Kaiser8408a]

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in DC (and northern Virginia) has many Indians on H1B visas. Norther Virginia is heavily populated with Indians, Muslims and Koreans. We are being “brown-out.”

[Kaiser8408a]

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in DC (and northern Virginia) has many Indians on H1B visas. Norther Virginia is heavily populated with Indians, Muslims and Koreans. We are being “brown-out.”

[xp38]

Is the pope communist?

[jroehl]

It is the biggest case of grand theft in the history of the world.

[DPMD]

Of course they will.

[cuz1961]

[bobcat62]

It’s dead, Jim.

The Eagle Act never made it out of the house. Unless someone tries to sneak the act into an omnibus spending bill, it’s over.