Posted on 10/06/2025 5:36:18 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Cognizant and eight other major corporations have been questioned by U.S. Senators for filing thousands of H-1B skilled labour visa petitions after conducting "mass layoffs" of American employees.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley and ranking member Richard Durbin have also questioned Amazon, Apple, Deloitte, Google, JPMorgan Chase, Meta, Microsoft, and Walmart, asking them for details on their hiring and recruitment practices as well as any variation in salary and benefits between H-1B visa holders and American employees.
The Senators said their "inquiry" comes at a time when the unemployment rate in America’s tech sector is "well above" the overall jobless rate. According to the Federal Reserve, recent American graduates with STEM degrees now face higher unemployment rates than the general population, they stated.
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"In evaluating the high unemployment rate for American tech workers, we cannot ignore the massive, ongoing layoffs ordered by you and your peers in Big Tech C-suites over the past few years...At the same time you have been laying off your employees, you have been filing H-1B visa petitions for (thousands of) foreign workers,” the Senators wrote in letters to 10 major employers in the U.S. on September 25, 2025.
They added: "With all of the homegrown American talent relegated to the sidelines, we find it hard to believe that (you) cannot find qualified American tech workers to fill these positions."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehindu.com ...
“The Senate hearings will not be pleasant for the H1B CEO job killers.”
why ? it is all theater and the CEOs are only there to help with the entertainment
I want to see consequences for the big American countries who have done this. And changes in the law to prevent this from happening again when the spotlight is turned off.
“the big American countries”
Make that “the big American companies”
Where have these Senate bozos been on this issue for the past 20 years? They’ve been looking the other way, with their hands out, that’s where.
The H1B CEO job killers’s responses are due to the Senate Judiciary Committee by FRIDAY OCTOBER 10TH.
The H1B CEO job killers’s responses are due to the Senate Judiciary Committee by FRIDAY OCTOBER 10TH.
We have too many indians in this country so i’d love to see this problem dealt with but these are pretty rich companies and they live to hire people that they can’t treat like garbage and can’t leave.
There have been dozens of new stories about American workers being laid off, and forced to train their H1B replacements.
This should have been done 10, 15 or 20 years ago. Bastards in Congress sit on their butts until a force of nature like Donald Trump comes along and kicks them out of their stupor.
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/members
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Ted Cruz (R-TX)
Mike Lee (R-UT)
Josh Hawley (R-MO)
Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
Thom Tillis (R-NC)
Eric Schmitt (R-MO)
John Kennedy (R-LA)
Katie Britt (R-AL)
Ashley Moody (R-FL)
not like any CEO will write the responses themselves
Besides no congress critter will risk losing campaign donations by pissing off CEOs
only 4 Rinos on the Committee ? I wonder how that happened
Mike Lee of Utah had been the biggest advocate of the various H1-B, PERM, OPT, etc hiring schemes.
Amen, brother!
Sens. Lee and Harris Introduce Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act
February 7, 2019
WASHINGTON – Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) introduced the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act Wednesday, a bill that would remove per-country caps for employment-based green cards.
“Immigrants should not be penalized due to their country of origin,” Sen. Lee said. “Treating people fairly and equally is part of our founding creed and the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act reflects that belief. Immigration is often a contentious issue, but we should not delay progress in areas where there is bipartisan consensus just because we have differences in a other areas.”
“Ours is a nation of immigrants, and our strength has always come from our diversity and our unity,” Sen. Harris said. “We must do more to eliminate discriminatory backlogs and facilitate family unity so that high-skilled immigrants are not vulnerable to exploitation and can stay in the U.S. and continue to contribute to the economy. I’m proud to join with Senator Lee on this bipartisan legislation to ensure that our country remains vibrant and dynamic.”
The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act also increases the per-country caps for family-sponsored green cards from 7 percent to 15 percent. Without adding any new green cards, S. 386 creates a “first-come, first-served” system that alleviates the backlogs and allows green cards to be awarded more efficiently.
The bill has broad bipartisan support and is additionally cosponsored by Sens. Roy Blunt (R-MO), Susan Collins (R-ME), Jim Moran (R-KS), Tom Carper (D-DE), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Maria Cantwell D-WA), Cory Gardner (R-CO), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), and Krysten Sinema (D-AZ).
The bill has also been endorsed by Immigration Voice, Compete America Coalition, the Information Technology Industry Council, Google, Microsoft, The Heritage Foundation, La Raza, and many others.
Add Cisco, Adobe, Fidelity to that list. They are some of the worst offenders and need fined and blacklisted asap!
Lee has his head up his ass and his hand out for donor $.
Either he modifies his past stupidity, or he needs to be replaced as a Senator from Utah.
Send these to Sen Grassley using the contact form. There are others as well.
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