"U.S. Tech Workers... told the court Friday that its main "goal is to combat the displacement of American workers by uncovering what fuels the offshore pipeline of workers, then using this information to influence policy reform."
"U.S. employers routinely take advantage of this huge H-1B-American worker wage differential to use foreign firms (generally Indian) to supply H-1B replacements for their American workers," UTW wrote in its proposed amicus brief.
USTW told the court the "challenged regulations adequately respond to the absurdity" created by the H-1B program, which it says has harmed U.S. citizens.
@POTUS your lawyers have defended these H-1B wage regulations, when you are you going to enact them?
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"Spending millions on foreign recruiters, Northwestern Polytechnic University enrolls 99% of its students — more than 6,000 overall last year — from overseas, with little regard for their qualifications. It has no full-time, permanent faculty"
"The school issues grades that are inflated, or simply made up, so that academically unqualified students can keep their visas, along with the overseas bank loans that allow the students to pay their tuition."
"Kandori has been able to live here thanks to her father's long-term work visa, which he obtained more than a decade ago to get a tech job in Research Triangle Park."
There is no such thing as a "long-term work visa" for people like your dad who accept low wage jobs for decades.
"My Wake County community is one of many across the country that has flourished because of immigrant workers..." @DeborahRossNC said.
At the cost of how many North Carolinians who lost their jobs because they were replaced by foreign workers? Shame on you Congresswoman Ross.
On the plus side, @DHSgov published @SecMayorkas' endorsement of the EB-5 final rule doubling the minimum investment. It's good to see the government is committed to EB-5 reform.
Yale professor says "The Biden administration seems intent on continuing the Trump administration's effort to revise the H-1B program in terms of how they select individuals, going away from a lottery system to a salary-based system... That's going to be controversial"