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  • LA raids rattle California homebuilding industry, where 41% of workforce are immigrants

    06/12/2025 1:00:17 PM PDT · by TheDon · 86 replies
    The Orange County Register ^ | June 12, 2025 | Pat Maio
    California’s homebuilding industry is growing jittery over Southern California’s immigration raids and what they might mean to an industry already facing labor shortages. The state is home to 1.8 million undocumented workers, the highest concentration in the U.S. Roughly 41% of the construction workforce is foreign-born and employed in homebuilding.
  • Meta sued for allegedly favouring foreign workers over US citizens; case could impact H-1B visa hiring

    03/01/2025 1:15:33 PM PST · by NobleFree · 24 replies
    Business Today ^ | Feb 26, 2025 | Danny D'Cruze
    Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is facing a lawsuit in the United States for allegedly favouring foreign workers over American citizens in its hiring practices. A U.S. federal judge has ruled that the lawsuit, which claims Meta prefers H-1B visa holders because they can be paid less, must proceed. The lawsuit was filed by three U.S. citizens—Purushothaman Rajaram, an IT worker; Ekta Bhatia, a software engineer; and Qun Wang, a data scientist. They allege that they applied for multiple positions at Meta between 2020 and 2024 but were not hired despite being qualified. They argue that Meta...
  • TSMC Arizona chip plant still has 50% Taiwanese workers in the run-up to production

    01/01/2025 9:07:58 PM PST · by anthropocene_x · 17 replies
    9to5Mac ^ | 12/30/24 | Ben Lovejoy
    A full half of the jobs created by the first TSMC Arizona chip plant have been filled by workers from Taiwan, despite the company receiving up to $11.6B worth of grants intended in large part to generate US jobs. TSMC’s announcement that it was building a chip fabrication plant in Arizona was hailed as a major success for the US CHIPS Act – intended to free the US from dependence on China for advanced chip supplies, and to generate jobs for US workers. Apple proudly announced that it would be buying American-made chips for some of its devices. The gloss...
  • Increasing skilled immigration is a mistake

    01/01/2025 3:13:03 PM PST · by River Hawk · 64 replies
    Aphoria ^ | October 30, 2024 | Arctotherium
    Among rich countries without large resource rents or a history of Communism, the United States stands out as being much wealthier than IQ alone would predict. Meanwhile, the non-US Anglosphere (United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada) underperforms, being poorer than both the United States and north west Europe. The comparison with the non-US Anglosphere is particularly instructive because these countries are very similar to the United States culturally, genetically and institutionally. American speech is the freest in the world, a fact recognized by much of the tech-right. A comparison to our Anglosphere cousins is instructive. We can be proud...
  • Newt Gingrich Set To Make The Case For More Legal Immigration

    12/28/2024 5:10:57 PM PST · by chickenlips · 96 replies
    Daily Wire ^ | Dec. 28, 2024 | Virginia Kruta
    The former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich says that “all the anger about illegal immigration” pushed him to publicly make the case for the importance of legal immigration, he told The Daily Wire. Gingrich, along with his wife Callista Gingrich, is set to release a documentary on the value of legal immigration to the United States next month. He says the idea is to highlight immigrant stories that made the country a better place. “Callista and I wanted to make the case for legal immigration with all of the anger about illegal immigration. We wanted a diverse range...
  • Turns out the H-1B ‘lotto system’ is totally and completely rigged…

    12/28/2024 2:32:10 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 15 replies
    Revolver News ^ | December 27, 2024 | Revolver
    The H-1B “war” of 2024 is destined to go down in social media history. It’s equal parts productive and chaotic, with pro-foreign worker advocates like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy squaring off against America First MAGA forces. Ultimately, this debate is a healthy exercise for the America First movement, airing its internal conflicts—especially before Trump’s anticipated return to the White House. Honestly, we’re dealing with a system so broken it’s beyond repair—especially the so-called “lotto” system at the heart of the entire H-1B scheme. Calling it “rigged” would actually be a compliment.Yes, it’s really that bad.Eric Fan:Every year, a lottery...
  • Trump Backs H-1B Visa Program After Elon Musk Vows ‘War’ During Fiery Online MAGA Debate

    12/28/2024 12:43:15 PM PST · by Mariner · 256 replies
    The Wrap via Yahoo ^ | December 28th, 2024 | Stephanie Kaloi
    Elon Musk will “go to war” to defend the H-1B visa program in the United States, the tech CEO wrote on X, formerly Twitter, Friday night. Musk credited the program as “the reason” he is in the U.S. and added, “Take a big step back and F–K YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.”The fight over the H-1B visa program began Monday after Trump surrogate Laura Loomer criticized the president-elect’s nomination of Sriram Krishnan as White House senior policy adviser for Artificial Intelligence. “Our country was built...
  • I’ve been scrolling through approved H-1B visas all morning and it’s far worse than I thought. I’m talking janitors, line cooks, secretaries, and every entry level position you can think of...

    12/27/2024 2:42:03 PM PST · by Its All Over Except ... · 236 replies
    X.com ^ | 12/27/24 | Aesthetica
    ... The worst culprit by far is Cognizant who got almost 7,000 H-1B visas approved in 2024 alone. These people need to be investigated for defrauding the American people.
  • The GOP Must Look at the Fate to the U.K.'s Conservative Party Before It Betrays Their Voters by Refusing to Limit the H-1b Invasion

    12/27/2024 1:07:20 PM PST · by wildcard_redneck · 71 replies
    Free Republic Vanity ^ | Wildcard_redneck
    After 10 years of betraying their voters the Conservative Party of the U.K. has been abandoned by its members for the Reform Party. A few days ago Reform Party paying membership surpasses the Tories after the Reform Party was strategic in removing the feckless, back-stabbing Tories in the election held earlier this year. In 2016 Brexit was predictive of Trump's surprise defeat of D.C.'s heroine Hillary Clinton and now the election repudiation of the Conservative Party this year predicts a MAGa voter backlash if the GOP under President Trump does not stop the foreign invasion and colonization of America and...
  • Elon Musk Endorses Post Suggesting Americans Are Too ‘Retarded’ To Do Skilled Jobs

    12/27/2024 9:42:57 AM PST · by Miami Rebel · 181 replies
    Mediaite ^ | 12/27/2024 | Charlie Nash
    Billionaire Trump surrogate Elon Musk endorsed a post on Thursday which suggested Americans were too “retarded” to be hired for skilled jobs. After the South Africa-born CEO of X, SpaceX, and Tesla found himself embroiled in an argument over H-1B visas and the importation of foreign labor over American workers, a pro-Musk account wrote: So basically the right split into two factions, tech right and right right, and the tech right is like “hey we need h-1b visa people to do the jobs,” and the right right was like “no you need to hire americans,” and the tech right is...
  • Musk on H-1Bs: "we need more like double that number yesterday!"

    12/26/2024 12:28:34 PM PST · by NobleFree · 273 replies
    X/Twitter ^ | Dec 25, 2024 | Elon Musk
    No, we need more like double that number yesterday! The number of people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated in the USA is far too low. Think of this like a pro sports team: if you want your TEAM to win the championship, you need to recruit top talent wherever they may be. That enables the whole TEAM to win.
  • Microsoft, Google seek green card rule change [Freep this reg!]

    05/10/2024 8:47:41 AM PDT · by NobleFree · 9 replies
    techtarget.com ^ | 03 May 2024 | Patrick Thibodeau
    Amid a series of layoffs, tech companies are finding it increasingly difficult to sponsor foreign workers for employment-based green cards due to stringent labor rules designed to protect U.S. workers. The process, governed by the Program Electronic Review Management system, mandates job advertising to ensure U.S. workers are not adversely affected. However, President Joe Biden's administration is considering a green card rule change that could significantly alter this landscape. The proposed exemption could be applied to a broad range of tech occupations including, notably, software engineering -- which represents about 1.8 million U.S. positions, according to U.S. labor statistics data...
  • Ramaswamy wants to end the H-1B visa program he used 29 times

    09/16/2023 3:41:45 PM PDT · by libh8er · 49 replies
    Politico ^ | 9/16/2023 | Myah Ward
    GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has vowed to “gut” the system for H-1B temporary worker visas if he wins the White House. It’s the very system he’s used in the past to hire high-skilled foreign workers for the pharma company that built much of his wealth. From 2018 through 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved 29 applications for Ramaswamy’s former company, Roivant Sciences, to hire employees under H-1B visas, which allow U.S. companies to employ foreign workers in tech and other specialized jobs. Yet, the H-1B system is “bad for everyone involved,” Ramaswamy told POLITICO. “The lottery system needs to...
  • The sad truth behind job growth in the American economy

    09/05/2023 8:57:15 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 5 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 09/05/2023 | Andrea Widburg
    According to Axios, a left-leaning publication, the only thing keeping the American economy afloat is the blessed presence of foreign-born workers…because those lazy Americans just won’t work. However, according to a study by Zero Hedge, Americans are losing their jobs like crazy, and only foreign-born workers are getting those jobs. Who to believe? Who to believe? First, Axios:Immigrants are joining the U.S. workforce at much higher levels than normal.They're likely to account for roughly half a million new jobs over the next three quarters, per a new report from Goldman Sachs.Why it matters: As the U.S. continues to struggle with...
  • The Casteism I See in America

    08/05/2023 7:50:19 PM PDT · by wildcard_redneck · 87 replies
    The Atlantic ^ | November 8, 2021 | The Atlantic
    A raft of evidence shows that caste discrimination has been imported from India to the United States. Indians and Indian Americans are often held up as a “model minority” in the United States. Members of this community are more likely to be highly educated and to have health insurance, make more money, work in more senior positions, and have lower rates of poverty than both the average immigrant and the average American. They are well represented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—the so-called STEM subjects—and more and more of them occupy roles of political and social influence, including Vice President...
  • WHY INDIAN ENGINEERS ARE NOT EMPLOYABLE? Poor quality of India's IT employees

    12/31/2022 6:27:03 PM PST · by nwrep · 135 replies
    CareerNuts India ^ | July 20, 2021 | Abhishek Sareen
    In a country like India, we are highly driven by herd mentality. Whenever we see some success in a particular career, we tend to get attracted in masses towards it. Engineering is one such profession. India produces about 150,000 engineers per year, and very few of them eventually get engineering-related jobs. According to an Employability Survey done in 2019, 80% of Indian engineers are not fit for jobs. In the early 1990s, India was going through liberalization that lead to a boom in manufacturing. This created a lot of new jobs and engineering as a career became popular. We then...
  • America's labor shortage is actually an immigrant shortage

    04/08/2022 6:11:12 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 35 replies
    Cbsnews ^ | 04/08/2022 | IRINA IVANOVA
    U.S. employers say it's a hard time to find and keep talent. Workers are decamping at near-record rates, while millions of open jobs go unfilled. One reason for this labor crunch that has largely flown beneath the radar: Immigration to the U.S. is plummeting, a shift with potentially enormous long-term implications for the job market. In the middle of the last decade, the U.S. was adding about 1 million immigrants a year. But those numbers, which slowed down during the Trump administration, hit a brick wall when COVID-19 erupted in 2020.
  • Bush Center, Chamber of Commerce, Koch Network Unite to Lobby for Mass Immigration Expansion

    03/04/2022 5:03:59 PM PST · by MarvinStinson · 26 replies
    breitbart ^ | 2 Mar 2022 | JOHN BINDER2 Mar 2022
    The George W. Bush Institute, the Chamber of Commerce, and the billionaire Koch brothers’ network of donor class organizations are banding together with other mass migration groups to demand President Joe Biden expand overall immigration to the United States. The groups, along with others, have teamed up to create the Alliance for a New Immigration Consensus that will lobby Biden and members of Congress to pass amnesty for illegal aliens, increase security at the southern border, and increase the ability of businesses to import foreign workers. AD “Employers are also struggling to find workers to fill jobs in many industries,”...
  • GOP Rep. John Curtis: Salazar Amnesty Bill Delivers ‘Reliable Foreign Workers’ to Business

    02/13/2022 5:04:06 PM PST · by AnthonySoprano · 63 replies
    Breitbart News ^ | 2/13/2022 | John Binder
    Rep. John Curtis (R-UT) says a plan that gives amnesty to illegal aliens and expands pipelines for foreign visa workers will be a boost for business. Last week, as Breitbart News reported, Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL) and six House Republicans introduced “The Dignity Act” to provide green cards to the nation’s 11 to 22 million while expanding visa programs to more readily outsource American jobs. Curtis is co-sponsoring the bill alongside Reps. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Pete Sessions (R-TX), Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon (R-PR), Tom Reed (R-NY), and Peter Meijer (R-MI). The bill is backed by the United States Chamber of Commerce and...
  • Biden Administration Defends Trump's H-1B Wage Rule

    07/30/2021 2:06:25 PM PDT · by jroehl · 2 replies
    U.S. Tech Workers ^ | 07/30/2021 | Kevin Lynn
    Founder's Corner Dear All:Biden Administration Defends Trump's H-1B Wage Rule In January 2021, former President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a final rule that would have rid us of the random H-1B visa lottery. The lottery would have been replaced by a system that prioritizes applications by the highest wage offered. Sadly, the Biden administration pushed back the rule’s implementation to the end of the year. If perpetually pushing back the rule change isn’t bad enough, there’s more to bemoan. A group of immigration attorneys in cahoots with cheap labor aficionados like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National...