Action Plan for your "National Day of Reckoning" protest against Obama's Illegal Amnesty - (Internet Link)
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Posted on 12/02/2014 3:39:10 PM PST by T Ruth
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a ruling that could short-circuit one of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, a federal court has allowed U.S. tech workers to challenge extensions of foreign laborers’ status here.
The case of Washington Alliance of Technology Workers v. the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has “major implications” for the president’s ability to expand the number of work visas and the terms or durations of those visas, said Dale Wilcox, executive director of the Immigration Reform Law Institute.
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Gene Nelson, a longtime activist for U.S. tech workers’ rights, estimates that downward wage pressures by OPT extensions already cost American STEM employees $175.5 billion in lost earnings.
Nelson said the tech-visa programs “have morphed into de-facto government-sanctioned foreign hiring preferences.”
U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle’s decision came one day after Obama announced plans to expand and extend the OPT program.
Foreign students or recent graduates can use student F-1 visas to take jobs through OPT. Employers don’t have to pay them a prevailing wage, and they are exempt from Medicare and Social Security taxes, making OPT workers “inherently cheaper” than U.S. workers, the lawsuit argues.
Huvelle ruled that the IT plaintiffs with degrees in computer programming “were in direct and current competition with OPT students on a STEM extension. This competition resulted in concrete and particularized injury.”
(Excerpt) Read more at watchdog.org ...
Well well well.
“Washington Alliance of Technology Workers” is a union. I love it. I don’t think that this particular union is one of those that sends Bamm-Bamm money.
Everybody bitches about unions, until they need one.
What’s funny is she is allowing them to challenge a Bush executive action.
Sounds like they’ll win too.
I totally agree with this article. I’ve seen the change over the past decade. Foreign tech labor is one of the reasons many tech schools went belly up. Its not that we don’t have enough people to fill tech jobs nor is it a lack of smarts to the work. What it is a lack of is desire to develop tech workers when one can harvest those workers already educated in foreign nations at a fraction of what it costs to educate a person here. The tech sector was one of the areas during the 90s that offered a very affordable path to good salaries and upward mobility now many of those jobs either go directly offshore or to foreign workers with work permits.
Im not anti work permits but I believe that US citizens should come first and that such work permits should not be used to replace US workers and that such a misuse of the permits should be very costly for businesses in litigation. Some of these companies that claim to be good corporate citizens and “green” are pathetic building their products in environmental wasteland countries for slave wages while American citizens lose jobs and opportunities to people brought here from third world countries and then of course this feeds the cycle where real US citizens have less children because they make less money and both damn parents have to work to provide the same wages that single wage families could once provide and that’s before you talk about the cost of education now up 700% and medical up 400%.
Eventually we have say ENOUGH is ENOUGH. Americans elect their leaders its about time their leaders start acting like Americans are their #1 priority. I’m personally tired of feeling like a second class citizen in my own damn country while fuckups, deviants and illegal aliens get treated like they are crapping golden eggs.
Pathetic.
If anyone is surprised, they haven't been paying attention. Or they've been wearing their GOP Rose-colored glasses too long.
The underlining truth is Federal taxes and regulations disadvantage American workers not only in competition around the world but now thanks to Obama here at home too.
I suppose on the bright side at least we don’t have to wait until our company goes out of business or overseas to lose our jobs more legally competitive foreign competition now.
“The tech sector was one of the areas during the 90s that offered a very affordable path to good salaries and upward mobility...”
Well, that wasn’t right - it had to be stopped!
Furthermore, there exists an evil cabal of Dems and GOPe’s who are more than willing to help in this effort. It’s one area where the two sides of the same steaming dog turd can work together - to screw Middle America.
“Huvelle ruled that the IT plaintiffs with degrees in computer programming “were in direct and current competition with OPT students on a STEM extension. This competition resulted in concrete and particularized injury.”
OMG, an official of the judiciary has actually STATED this. No politician will actually ADMIT THIS. Meanwhile, they will give some lip service and a lot of your money to STEM programs so that your incredibly brilliant kids can become VERY overqualified and very indebted retail salespeople.
“Looks like the unions and the courts are brave enough to do the work the Republican Elites won’t do”
Why challenge it? They got paid a great deal of money from businesses for this, and at least they have the ethics to give a good value for the money.
Lets see, who are the ones pushing the amnesty crap? The Democrats.
Who are some of their most loyal constituents? Blacks, college kids and urban-white folks that tend to gravitate to the tech field.
Who will be hurt the most by amnesty?
Blacks...when Juan takes John’s job for much less(see the construction field)
College grads w/ tech degrees and programmers, etc....when the field is inundated with kids from India, Pakistan, etc that are willing to work for peanuts.
Not just IT people; foreign grads are flooding science and engineering too. Walk down the corridors at Chrysler HQ in Auburn Hills, a white American is a rarity indeed.
Joe Biden: Good-Paying Tech Jobs Important for Black Women ‘from the ‘Hood’
I agree. I hate to believe it but its hard not to look at the forest and not see that most Democrats and Republicans are not the least bit interested facilitating upward mobility in a way that doesn’t break the bank of the common man and or enslave them to debt for most of their adult lives. The GOP do have some redeeming value where Energy is concerned but their push for more foreign work permits without any protections for those US workers who will be replaced or just not hired is a travesty. The GOP could dominate the working class vote especially with how the union leadership in most places have abandoned the working class citizen in favor of hope for implementing a socialist agenda through the literal importing of Venezula/Mexico.
Combine to that the fact we’ve been cutting two of the best ‘tech schools’ we have (the Navy & Air Force) and it almost seems as if the policy is deliberately designed to undermine native citizens.
Spanish-Language Democrat Party Campaign Ad Calls Tea Party "Radical Terrorists"
Breitbart ^ | Nov. 2, 2014 | Sarah Rumpf / FR Posted by River Hawk
AUSTIN, Texas -- The Bexar County Democratic Party launched a controversial Spanish-language ad during the final week before the November 4 elections, calling tea party Republicans "radical terrorists."
The Democrat campaign ad begins showing the American and Mexican flags, with a male narrator saying in Spanish that the flags represent "friendship, liberty, opportunity, and justice," then showing a Gadsden flag with its famous "Don't Tread on Me" motto. The Gadsden flag, which the ad calls "muy peligrosa," or "very dangerous," was designed in 1775 during the American Revolution and has since been adopted as a symbol by various libertarian and tea party groups.
The Democrat campaign ad then proceeds to call tea party Republicans "radical terrorists" while showing images of militia members holding guns and wearing camouflage, threatening "our children and families with violence and firearms," urging viewers to "¡Voto Demócrata!"
The full text of the ad, in English: "These two flags represent friendship, liberty, opportunity and justice. This flag is very dangerous. It is the flag of the Republicans of the Tea Party. They are radical terrorists who want to take matters into their own hands, affecting our children and families with violence and firearms on the border and in our cities.
This Tuesday, November 4th, is the day of the election and it’s the only time we can make our voice count. For our common good, Vote Democrat!"
Bexar County Democratic Party Chairman Manuel Medina admitted his organization was responsible for the ad, and claimed credit himself for creating it.
Medina went even further in an interview with the San Antonio Express-News, saying, "The tea party is not a political party. They're a terrorist organization."
The Express-News also reported that the ad was running on Univision, paid for by a $25,000 donation from personal injury attorney Thonas J. Henry. (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
ACTION NOW---The Express-News reported that the Democrat campaign ad was running on Univision, paid for by a $25,000 donation from personal injury attorney Thonas J. Henry.
All of this compels criminal investigations penalties for assorted crimes of grand larceny, schemes to defraud, govt fraud, and possibly falsifying official records.
YOU MAY REMAIN ANONYMOUS---https://tips.fbi.gov
<><> Taxpayers demand L/E subpoena Bexar County Democratic Party and party chairman Manuel Medina's official filings, phone records, emails, snail mail copies, hard drives, bank accounts, checking accounts, credit cards, debit cards, wire transfers, social media contacts, and the like...be subpoeaned.
<><> TAXPAYERS demand to know who Bexar County Democratic Party and party chairman Manuel Medina are communicating with, and who is directing their activities.
<><> Taxpayers demand to know if Bexar County Democratic Party and party chairman Manuel Medina are consorting with violent organizations advocating the overthrow of the US govt.
Taxpayers demand to know if the Bexar County Democratic Party and party chairman Manuel Medina are complicit in illegal activities involving the facilitation of:
Multiple identities,
illegal voting registrations,
multiple SS nos, multiple drivers' licenses,
multiple EBT cards,
multiple EITC applications.
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