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31 Mar, 13 tweets, 5 min read
Starting tomorrow, Trump’s pandemic-related suspension on work visas will be lifted. Biden has decided not to extend the suspension. Foreign workers in IT, au pair, hotels, resorts, etc.—all allowed now.

Employers use these visas primarily for importing cheap indentured labor.
“The H-2 guest worker program, which brought in 150,000 legal foreign workers last year, isn't supposed to deprive any American of a job. But many businesses go to extraordinary lengths to deny jobs to U.S. workers so they can hire foreigners instead.”
buzzfeednews.com/article/jessic…
“Temporary workers in the US on H-1B visas would arrive, and the Eversource employees would need to train their replacements.”
theverge.com/2017/4/20/1537…
“15 companies authorized to bring au pairs to the United States colluded to keep their wages low, ignoring overtime and state minimum wage laws and treating the federal minimum wage for au pairs as a maximum amount they can earn.”
epi.org/blog/au-pair-l…
“Investigators found Facebook creates permanent positions open only to H-1B visa holders while employing deceptive tactics to deliberately avoid hiring Americans.”

newsweek.com/united-states-…
“About 250 Disney employees were told in late October that they would be laid off. Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers, who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India.”
nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/…
“Despite receiving a $3 billion tax cut last year, AT&T announced new and expanded alliances with big outsourcing companies to replace workers with foreign or cheaper domestic talent.”

axios.com/trump-att-outs…
“In a 2012 meeting between Google and several researchers, including myself, the firm explained the advantage of hiring foreign workers: the company can’t prevent the departure of Americans, but the foreign workers are stuck.”

huffpost.com/entry/trump-h-…
“Oracle overwhelmingly hires workers dependent upon Oracle for sponsorship to remain in the US. This preference for a workforce that is dependent on Oracle for authorization to work in the US lends itself to suppression of that workforce’s wages.”

mercurynews.com/2019/01/25/h-1…
“Experts in the abuse of so-called H-1B visas say University of California is the first public university to send the jobs of American IT staff offshore.”

latimes.com/business/hiltz…
“Those firms have used the visas to bring their employees, mostly from India... And as the share of H-1B visas obtained by outsourcing firms has grown, more Americans say they are being put out of work, or are seeing their jobs moved overseas.”

nytimes.com/2015/11/11/us/…
“Because J-1 workers are considered part of an international exchange, employers can skirt regulations like health and safety protections and avoid paying Social Security and health care benefits.”

thenation.com/article/activi…
“Thanks to OPT’s loose provisions, these new hires can legally work for less than market wages. That helps explain why the median annual wage in IT occupations rose just 3% between 2014 and 2019, while employment jumped 18.7%.”

bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-…

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11 Mar
The H-1B doesn’t require employers to prove they couldn’t find qualified Americans to fill the job, but the employment-based Green Card process does. So, employers find ways to disqualify qualified Americans.

@emeriticus discusses this in his latest:

newsweek.com/united-states-…
Thanks to the Immigration Act of 1990, Congress turned the H-1B into a “dual-intent” visa. This meant an H-1B worker was both a temporary worker & seeking permanent residency in the US. Business lobbyists pushed for this because they could attract foreign labor using Green Cards.
Employers knew that if they could promise Green Cards to H-1B workers, they could get an eager foreign workforce that would be willing to work for cheaper wages & remain loyal to the employer. H-1Bs don’t have job mobility like Americans. Their visa is tied to their employer.
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13 Feb
Immigration law doesn’t target Indian immigrants. They take the largest share of employment-based Green Cards each year.

The problem is the dual-intent nature of the H-1B program that pushes a business model to displace/discriminate American workers using cheaper Indian workers.
75% of H-1B visa go to Indian nationals each year & the top 10 sponsors of H-1B visas are Indian IT outsourcing firms. These aren’t “high-skilled” rocket scientists either. These are low-end IT workers that are coming in to displace American IT workers through fissured work.
The massive oversubscription of the H-1B program by Big Tech & Indian IT outsourcing firms crowds out other nationalities from getting H-1B visas.

If anything, the current H-1B program is stifling true high-skilled talent:

nytimes.com/2015/11/11/us/…
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28 Jan
America is one giant playground for the elites who have engaged in harmful arbitrage profiteering schemes.

They displaced our labor using cheap visa workers; off-shored manufacturing; & purposefully bankrupted companies for stock wins.

Destruction for profit.
The Boeing Company was once driven by innovation. Then an MBA-finance type CEO took over & started looking for quick shortcuts to increase profits. Result: two plane crashes.

amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/60…
Disney had a cutting-edge IT team consisting of high-skilled American workers who were good at what they did. Disney decided to lay them off but not before training their foreign H-1B replacements. They were forced into early retirement.

nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/…
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24 Jan
*Thread*

Progressives often look to Denmark as a beacon of success & want those successes replicated in the US.

What Progressives fail to address is Denmark’s restrictive immigration policies. They have a Social Democrat/Liberal (party) PM who is an immigration restrictionist.
The Danes aren’t anti-immigrants. They just understand that a more lenient immigration policy would create an economic burden to the country because of their numerous social welfare programs (healthcare, education, paid vacation, etc), & effect on wages.

@SenSanders knew this:
Denmark has a capitalistic system that ensures their citizen’s benefit first. They realize there’s no utility in having a country if the majority of their people are suffering. They don’t try to make a quick buck by screwing over their citizens as is emblematic in the US.
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23 Jan
Would you like to comment on the immigrants waving the India, South Korea, South Vietnam, and “Iranians for Trump” flags at the Capitol fiasco?
Does @AlexNowrasteh have a comment about 9/11?
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22 Jan
"Illegal bad, more legal good"

The @GOP inaccurately claims to think that our government and taxpayers are able to keep up with the masses of people if they only happen to come in "legally".
The GOP will constantly ramble about how illegal immigration is bad. Truth be told, they love undocumented workers. Why? Because they can exploit them and increase their profit margins because these workers have no choice. Look at Gov. Ricketts R-NE:
Why is Gov. Ricketts (R-NE) allowing meatpacking factories to hire undocumented workers? Why isn't he prosecuting these businesses if he is so against illegal immigration?

Reality is that Ricketts et al. see undocumented workers as a benefit because it enriches his funders.
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