After the passage of the Immigration Act of 1990 that created the H-1B/L-1 visa program, stories of US workers training their foreign replacements before layoffs immediately started popping up.
Here’s a @DanRather segment from 95’ covering the displacements of US workers at AIG:
“How do you come to work everyday Sir & train someone for your job that you’ve been doing for 7 years?”
AIG used a 3rd-party IT firm (Syntel) that brought the H-1B visa workers from India under Level 1 (entry-level) wages & *leased* them to AIG who then fired the US workers.
Business lobbyists, CEOs, & DC-Libertarians like to claim that the “H-1Bs are being paid the *prevailing wages* so it’s not cheap labor”.
The prevailing wage rates, especially for Level 1 & 2 wage tiers in the Labor Condition Application are set too low! epi.org/publication/h-…
Essentially what employers sponsoring H-1B visas are doing is selecting the lowest prevailing wage rate on the Labor Condition Application (Level 1 & 2) when it’s not reflective of the skill level of the foreign worker or the true market rate. WAGE ARBITRAGE.
Here’s the CEO of Syntel claiming that the H-1Bs brought in were “paid the prevailing wage”. Same deceptive gimmicks used by CATO, NFAP, FWDus, & Chamber of Commerce.
If it isn’t about money but a “shortage of skills”, why are US workers then training their foreign replacements?
Secretary of Labor at the time of the AIG scandal was @RBReich. Reich acknowledged the exploitation of the H-1B program but seemed fearful of issuing any reforms to the program because of legal backlash by the “powerful” Business groups.
Reich left in 97’, & President Clinton...
...would then go on to sign the American Competitiveness of the 21st Century Act (AC21) in 2000 that would among other things allow H-1B visa holders to indefinitely renew their H-1B visas past the 6 years limit if they have a pending Green Card petition; cap exemptions for...
universities & “research” institutions that need H-1Bs; & temporarily double the H-1B cap to 195,000 visas until 2004!
AC21 had disastrous consequences:
It led to more layoffs of US workers as @Troup1998 interviewed in this news segment explains (2003):
AC21 also led to employment-based Green Card backlogs for one country’s nationals in particular—India.
Due to the oversubscription of the H-1B visa program by Indian nationals who corporations & hiring managers solely had a preference for, Green Card backlogs occurred.
A displaced US worker at AIG warned in 1995 that it’s not just Programming jobs that would be harmed by guest worker visa programs. He was right.
Teachers, nannies, accountants, healthcare, university professors, & etc. have been negatively impacted by our visa programs.
30 years later, Congress has taken no action in reforming guest worker visa programs. More US jobs continue to be off-shored, & more companies continue to lay-off US workers & replace them with visa workers.
The Business lobby & Big Tech continue to push for more visas.
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Here’s a reason why stapling a Green Card to a diploma is a bad idea:
An international student from India falsified transcripts, bank documents, and a death certificate for his father as part of a grand scheme to obtain a student visa and a full-ride scholarship to Lehigh.
The troubling part is he would have gotten away with the fraud had he not admitted his sins on Reddit by also *naming* the university where he attended. A Reddit moderator reported it to the university and from there, it wasn’t hard to deduce who the fraudster was.
Fabricating documents is a common occurrence to obtain legal immigration benefits. This is one of the reasons why “illegal bad, legal good” is a pointless argument — the LEGAL system is also being scammed!
This guy got caught for being dumb. Now imagine the numbers of got-aways.
Bodycam footage released by the Hoboken Police shows them arresting two female international students from India for alleged shoplifting at a ShopRite. Both are graduate students at Stevens Institute of Technology (@FollowStevens) and are repeat shoplifters.
“Will this affect us for H-1B process?” one of them asks as they’re being transported to get booked at the police station.
“Will this affect us for H-1B process or any job?”
Officer: “Yes! If they run your information, it’s going to show that you were arrested.”
Their names haven’t been released. According to Indian media, they hail from the Telugu region of India.
The Telugu region has been the largest source for outsourcing labor and student visas. Lots of cases of immigration fraud coming out of there.
🧵 Paul Krugman has been activated by the Biden administration to gaslight Americans into believing all that chaos at the border, which has resulted in millions of illegal aliens being released into the country, has actually been good for the economy.
Considering working-age Americans are dropping out of the labor force, the prudent thing to do would be to figure out why and take steps to help get those Americans into the workforce — not replace them with foreigners!
Also, more than half think jobs aren’t “plentiful”.
🧵 Apple pays $25M fine for finding ways to disqualify Americans from applying for jobs so they could help their H-1B visa foreign workers obtain employment-based Green Cards for “permanent” job positions.
These tech companies claim they can’t find American talent to fill these job openings. Then why are they going to through the trouble to ensure Americans can’t apply for these jobs? Why is a tech company forcing Americans to apply for jobs through regular paper mail?
Remember DOJ prosecuting Facebook (now Meta) for exactly the same thing in 2020? Just like Apple, Facebook hired immigration lawyers to find ways to disqualify Americans from obtaining jobs that were reserved for H-1B visa workers looking for Green Card sponsorship.
.@VivekGRamaswamy’s immigration policy is basically anyone who can prove they’ll be a net economic benefit and can pass some form US civics test before obtaining a visa.
There are over a billion people who could easily fit this requirement.
The only points that matter when discussing immigration policy are:
• the numbers
• qualifications/quality of the immigrants
• what’s best for the American people
Vivek’s policy already fails the first and third point.
The numbers matter!
“Bring in people who are actually in love with this country”
How exactly are you going to determine that? To obtain a Green Card, people are willing to just lie about anything in order to obtain one.
These people think immigration is the source of the problem of why TSMC can’t find qualified workers in the US when the actual issue is semiconductor fabrication plants require a specific skill set that has largely been concentrated in Taiwan because that’s where the bulk of chip… https://t.co/fSJHfFWOOztwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Here’s what’s really going on with TSMC’s skills “shortage”:
TSMC set up shop in Taiwan and trained Taiwanese workers. Over time, these Taiwanese workers developed a skill set comparative advantage because chip mfg was largely concentrated to them: https://t.co/0MK7WzMytoarstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
So when TSMC decides to suddenly open up chip factories in the US without having done the necessary process to ramp up local workers with the skills required to run such an intricate manufacturing plant, it’s obviously going to run into a workers shortage problem. Stapling a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…