This isn’t a one-off incident. This is exactly how the entire H-1B visa program functions:

“An Indian technology company, which also has its office in Houston, has admitted to a conspiracy of committing a major H-1B visa fraud.”
hindustantimes.com/nri-news/india…
“Cloudgen took a percentage of the worker’s salary as their fees, earning approximately $493,516.28 in profits during the course of the conspiracy.”

Every Indian IT outsourcing firm does this. Nothing new here.
“During the plea, the company admitted to recruiting multiple Information Technology workers from India and falsely procuring H-1B visas for them to enter and work in the US.”

It always involves India. Any congress member ever ask why 75% of H-1B visas go to Indian nationals?
“Specifically, in this bench and switch scheme, the company would file documents with the Departments of Labor (DOL) and Homeland Security (DHS) containing fraudulent statements about the availability of work at third-party national employers.”
“Cloudgen would then submit forged contracts stating each third-party company had a job for the individual Indian national. Next, based on those false documents, Cloudgen would submit paperwork to get an H-1B worker’s visa for the Indian nationals.”
“However, because the jobs were fake, they were housed in different locations across the country while Cloudgen obtained other employment for them.”

This is why the H-1B program is oversubscribed — bogus petitions by firms looking to lease migrant workers for a profit.

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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
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
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Bad news US workers:

Biden is looking to expand legal immigration according to a document obtained by the NYT.

NYT states: “Biden wants to restore opportunities for foreign employees through the existing H-1B visa program... limiting the requests for evidence from applicants."
Former Obama official @CassSunstein will take charge in reshaping the immigration system. Sunstein once wrote an op-ed claiming that mass immigration fosters “economic growth” & the only reason Americans detest immigration is because they are racist. archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id…
Remember, the Biden admin has gutted every major H-1B reform that was pushed by the prior administration. The H-1B visa program as it stands is strictly a cheap labor program for Big Tech, & an outsourcing visa for the many Indian IT outsourcing firms.

mercurynews.com/2021/03/18/h-1…
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Biden's @SecMartyWalsh is choosing to delay the prevailing wage rule change for non-immigrant visa programs like the H-1B by another 18-months citing Big Businesses' concerns over the changes! With this delay, employers can continue to legally pay H-1B workers LESS than Americans
Foreign workers, businesses, universities, & future foreign workers had a lot to lose if this prevailing wage rate rule was implemented -- naturally, the number of comments supporting delaying this rule far exceeded those not in favor of delaying it.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2021-10084.pdf
By delaying these much needed rule changes to the prevailing wage levels used in the H-1B visa program, Biden's @USDOL under @SecMartyWalsh is effectively saying that it's legal for employers to pay H-1B workers LESS than US workers, & incentivizing displacement.
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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…
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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-…
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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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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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