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Trump’s EEOC Chief Threatens Civil Rights Lawsuits Amid H-1B Hiring
Breitbart ^ | 1/22/25 | Neil Munro

Posted on 02/23/2025 10:31:54 AM PST by CFW

Companies that prefer migrants and H-1B visa workers over Americans will face federal investigations and discrimination lawsuits, says Andrea Lucas, who President Donald Trump picked to serve as acting chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

“The EEOC is putting employers and other covered entities on notice: if you are part of the pipeline contributing to our immigration crisis or abusing our legal immigration system via illegal preferences against American workers, you must stop,” Lucas said in a February 20 notice.

“The law applies to you, and you are not above the law. The EEOC is here to protect all workers from unlawful national origin discrimination, including American workers,” she added.

“Guardedly optimistic,” civil rights lawyer John Miano responded after Breitbart News asked for his assessment.

If the EEOC follows through, it could force companies to curb their hiring of migrants over Americans, said Miano, who is now suing more than 30 Chicago companies for advertising jobs to foreign H-1B workers, but not to Americans.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: americafirst; americans; eeoc; foreign; h1b; hiring; labor; visa; workers
It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

When we have restaurants advertising for H-1B workers to fill server or cook positions, then you know they are scamming the system to pay lower wages.

1 posted on 02/23/2025 10:31:54 AM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

@VBierschwale & @amandalouise416 on X have plenty of information on the #h1b / #opt / #perm scam.


2 posted on 02/23/2025 10:36:28 AM PST by bobcat62
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To: CFW

Why wasn’t this done in the 90s?


3 posted on 02/23/2025 10:43:37 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: CFW

One of the first revisions needed for ALL “Temporary worker/Student” visas is that they do NOT get to bring in wives, girlfriends/boyfriends or family of any kind.

Temporary work is not to be an end run for permanent residency!


4 posted on 02/23/2025 10:44:42 AM PST by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV group-think!)
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To: DownInFlames

“Why wasn’t this done in the 90s?”

Because Trump wasn’t President.

L


5 posted on 02/23/2025 10:47:14 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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Andrea Lucas, acting chair of the EEOC. “The EEOC is putting employers and other covered entities on notice: if you are part of the pipeline contributing to our immigration crisis or abusing our legal immigration system via hiring preferences——migrants and H-1B visa workers——against American workers, you must stop. The law applies to you; you are not above the law.”


6 posted on 02/23/2025 10:47:54 AM PST by Liz
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To: DownInFlames
Why wasn’t this done in the 90s?

Because we have the best government money can buy.

I actually read the H1-B legislation. Do you know that even if a determination is made that the visa was obtained fraudulently, it cannot be revoked?

The text was clearly written by tech industry lawyers and some sock-puppet members of Congress put it up for a vote.

7 posted on 02/23/2025 10:52:37 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: CFW

Raleigh and suburbs are like being in India. Is this because Americans can’t c ode?


8 posted on 02/23/2025 10:53:46 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than saving to WORK like the rest of !US:-))
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To: pierrem15

The H1B visa program should be cancelled.


9 posted on 02/23/2025 11:01:09 AM PST by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: CFW
Number one on the list should be American Express, or, as I refer to them as India Express.

10 posted on 02/23/2025 11:16:48 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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Raleigh and suburbs are like being in India. Is this because Americans can’t code?

No, it's because foreigners will do it cheaper.
11 posted on 02/23/2025 11:18:47 AM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: DownInFlames
Why wasn’t this done in the 90s?

Because it was only hurting American tech type workers.

12 posted on 02/23/2025 12:04:20 PM PST by fso301
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To: CFW

This is music to my ears. I never thought I would see the day.


13 posted on 02/23/2025 12:49:24 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: Harpotoo

No the scam is they put restrictions on the job posting that anyone being honest can’t meet. A new language becomes popular and they request 5 years experience in it. The language has only been out 3 but the H1B miraculously have the 5 years. The employer claimed there were no locals meeting the request.


14 posted on 02/23/2025 1:19:58 PM PST by pas
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To: CFW

A good initial statement - now follow through, focusing on the semiconductor industry and the Silicon Valley in particular!


15 posted on 02/23/2025 2:33:04 PM PST by Yossarian
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To: Tommy Revolts

The individual responsible for AmEx IT Indianization did the same at Disney. He’s now at CVS. So, CVS is next to turn to shit.


16 posted on 02/24/2025 6:21:35 AM PST by bobcat62
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To: CFW

We can stop all this tomorrow, just make E-Verify mandatory for all commercial business and NGOs.


17 posted on 02/24/2025 8:15:12 AM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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One of the easiest fixes for this is to move to an auction instead of a lottery. Only the highest paid positions get the slots, forcing companies to actually need foreign labor to fill it, instead of paying less for an equally or more competent American worker.


18 posted on 02/24/2025 8:43:35 AM PST by Svartalfiar (-)
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great! Now do Age discrimination, where companies (they know who they are) routinely call a group of experienced workers who have achieved enough over the years to enrich the business and earn more for themselves are told that some “business restructuring” will be making their positions unnecessary while they hire in foreign nationals at a 3:1 ratio with 1/2 the pay to dismissed professionals with few thinking skills, scant real-world experience, zero intuition or people sense and work ethic. Oh yeah, their families and relatives all come.

Was told by insiders that they expected lower health costs with the changes but how can that happen once the whole village joins them. Also was told it was not “ageism” since they hired dozens of short-term, young interns then when they laid off legacy staff, the numbers were similar so VoiLa! no fault, no penalty. (epilog - will never go back to greedy tech/business jungle anyway. Turned out to be a Gift to me and family with a much smaller, leaner, appreciative mix of working opportunities, happy story)


19 posted on 02/24/2025 3:55:24 PM PST by epluribus_2
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