BREAKING: Democrat @RepZoeLofgren & Republican @RepJohnCurtis (Utah) have introduced the Big Tech Green Card giveaway bill under a new name: EAGLE Act - Equal Access To Green Cards for Legal Employment Act.
Still the same disastrous zero-sum bill as S.386 with a few changes. /1
Still the same disastrous zero-sum bill as S.386 with a few changes. /1
The bill still seeks to remove the 7% country cap quota for employment-based Green Cards. It would create a train wreck to the legal immigration system where one country would monopolize all Green Cards (India) while creating BIGGER backlogs for all other countries. /2
The bill also aims to increase the country cap quota for family-based Green Cards from 7% to 15%, which means Mexico (most backlogged country in FB sponsorship) would take more GCs away from other countries. This in turn would start growing backlogs for other countries. /3
What’s newly added to the bill are all the provisions that @SenatorDurbin included in S. 386 from last congress. This includes the newly created Green Card Lite provision — any foreign worker on an approved I-140 petition (Green Card application) gets EAD permits after 2 yrs. /4
Major unintended consequence of EAD:
Foreign students on STEM OPT would cajole their employers to sponsor them directly for Green Cards instead of H-1B visas to get those coveted EAD permits. Why deal with the H-1B lottery when one could get an EAD before the OPT expires? /5
Foreign students on STEM OPT would cajole their employers to sponsor them directly for Green Cards instead of H-1B visas to get those coveted EAD permits. Why deal with the H-1B lottery when one could get an EAD before the OPT expires? /5
Expect to see a black market being created due to the EAD provision where small IT firms could charge $$ for I-140 filings to foreigners so they can get EAD privileges. It’s currently happening now even without the EAD provision: amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/06/04… /6 
H-1B reform language adopted from Grassley/Durbin’s H-1B reform bill is also added to the bill but pointless because the premise of the bill is fundamentally flawed. H-1B reform should be its own separate bill instead of being added to a bill with deleterious consequences. /7
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