@RepJimBanks these are the companies abusing the H1B visa to illegally discriminate against Americans. They hire 100% of their workforce from India.
TechnoGen claims to be a "minority & women owned small business" to qualify for federal contract set-asides. They are exploiting SBA programs designed to benefit minority and female Americans who they then proceed to exclude when hiring.
Even though a woman is listed as "founder and CEO" in Virginia's business records, Lax Chepuri is the real owner of this company. The female co-founder exists solely so TechnoGen can score 5% of federal contracts set aside for women.
TechnoGen is categorized as "H1B Dependent" which means they must meet additional criteria when hiring H1Bs.
U.S. taxpayers gave this company a very generous $1.73 million bailout. We are effectively rewarding the companies that discriminate against us.
One of WCWOA's members has been successfully fighting this discrimination. Perhaps too successfully. He is encountering resistance from the current DOJ who have told him to slow down.
“Critics say that businesses regularly game the system to pay H-1B visa holders below market wages, both exploiting foreign workers and stacking the deck against American job seekers.”
“Robert Bouchard, who worked for years as a recruiter at IT staffing firms and now consults and podcasts under the name the H-1B Guy, said that he regularly came across resumes that exaggerated or fabricated an H-1B worker’s skills.”
"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"
"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.