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@ifspp we bring together civic minded people to advocate on behalf of American workers harmed by employment visa programs & demand Congress enact reforms.
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Apr 9 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Bodycam footage released by the Hoboken Police shows them arresting two female international students from India for alleged shoplifting at a ShopRite. Both are graduate students at Stevens Institute of Technology (@FollowStevens) and are repeat shoplifters.

“Will this affect us for H-1B process?” one of them asks as they’re being transported to get booked at the police station. “Will this affect us for H-1B process or any job?”

Officer: “Yes! If they run your information, it’s going to show that you were arrested.”
Feb 3 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 Paul Krugman has been activated by the Biden administration to gaslight Americans into believing all that chaos at the border, which has resulted in millions of illegal aliens being released into the country, has actually been good for the economy.

Let’s debunk his thread… Looks like @zerohedge was right when they said all the new jobs created under Biden went mostly to foreign-born workers.

Krugman saying that’s a good thing because it reduced inflation is ironic because it’s coming from the guy who says immigration doesn’t lower wages.
Nov 10, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 Apple pays $25M fine for finding ways to disqualify Americans from applying for jobs so they could help their H-1B visa foreign workers obtain employment-based Green Cards for “permanent” job positions.

More proof “high-skill” immigration is a scam.
fortune.com/2023/11/09/app…
Image These tech companies claim they can’t find American talent to fill these job openings. Then why are they going to through the trouble to ensure Americans can’t apply for these jobs? Why is a tech company forcing Americans to apply for jobs through regular paper mail?
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Aug 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
.@VivekGRamaswamy’s immigration policy is basically anyone who can prove they’ll be a net economic benefit and can pass some form US civics test before obtaining a visa.

There are over a billion people who could easily fit this requirement.

The only points that matter when discussing immigration policy are:

• the numbers
• qualifications/quality of the immigrants
• what’s best for the American people

Vivek’s policy already fails the first and third point.

The numbers matter!
Jul 21, 2023 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
These people think immigration is the source of the problem of why TSMC can’t find qualified workers in the US when the actual issue is semiconductor fabrication plants require a specific skill set that has largely been concentrated in Taiwan because that’s where the bulk of chip… https://t.co/fSJHfFWOOztwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Here’s what’s really going on with TSMC’s skills “shortage”:

TSMC set up shop in Taiwan and trained Taiwanese workers. Over time, these Taiwanese workers developed a skill set comparative advantage because chip mfg was largely concentrated to them: https://t.co/0MK7WzMytoarstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
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Jun 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🚨 We have filed a charge with the DOJ under the Immigrant Rights Section claiming two Chicago-based companies, P33 and TeCHicago, specifically solicited foreign H-1B visa holders for employment, and therefore engaged in “country of origin discrimination”. instituteforsoundpublicpolicy.org/45-companies-n… P33 and TeCHicago are practicing what’s called “country of origin discrimination” against U.S. citizens and permanent residents, who are a protected class. The charge could allow us to move forward with an administrative action against P33 and/or TeCHicago, or the DOJ could… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Apr 28, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
.@meghaverma_art's point was liberalized immigration policy in Canada pertaining to student visas has invited an influx of bad actors predominantly from India that are not there for pursuing an actual education, but using it to procure Green Cards through deceitful methods. Canada's lax student visa program as a pathway to getting Green Cards has created blatant fraud and abuse of the problem. Is this "good high-skilled immigration" @debarghya_das?
Apr 1, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Almost 3,500 Likes on a misleading and false tweet. Not only does he get the number of applications wrong, but he goes on to say that H-1B visas are “high skilled” when the minimum requirement for an H-1B is a Bachelor’s degree and most H-1B workers are outsourcing IT workers… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… There’s a visa that is uncapped for truly high-skilled geniuses called the ‘O’ visa. Congress has literally allowed uncapped visas for the best and brightest. When you hear cries for expanding the H-1B visa program, what you’re hearing is a demand for more cheap labor.
Dec 14, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
These aren’t “software boot camps” like Lamda School, Hack Reactor, General Assembly, etc. that invest several months teaching you to code.

These are IT bodyshops holding classes for 4 weeks teaching you IT basics & on how to pass the job interview while fabricating your resume. It’s almost like attending a multi-level marketing event where these IT bodyshops will target foreign students (majority all from India) in promising them visa sponsorship in exchange for working as contract workers. These shops make money off wage arbitrage.
Dec 13, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
On the House floor today, @RepZoeLofgren claimed that country cap quotas for Green Cards, a fixture of the Immigration Act of 1965 (Hart-Cellar) is “racist” because it’s designed to favor immigrants from “Western Europe”.
@DHSgov’s report says otherwise: dhs.gov/sites/default/… Here are the stats for the last 3 years from the same DHS report. Not one European country even lands in the top 15 for new Green Card recipients. And this is with country-cap quotas! Removal of the country-caps would allow complete monopolization by one or two countries.
Dec 13, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Wow! In her closing statement, @RepZoeLofgren is still lying about the CRS report! She’s claiming that the report said citizens from Africa or the Caribbean would not be impacted by this bill. The report says no such thing! Here’s the link to the report: crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/…
Dec 13, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
.@ZoeLofgren is blatantly lying on the floor about the EAGLE Act. She’s lying about the Congressional Research Studies report about the bill that it wouldn’t harm other countries’ nationals. The report clearly states that it would exacerbate backlogs for ALL nationals. @RepMcClintock does a great job debunking this bill. He correctly points out that the Indians currently take the largest share of employment-based Green Cards every year due to spill-over of unused Green Cards from other countries.
Sep 30, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
If @KariLake becomes governor of AZ, she shouldn’t allow any tax incentives for companies that don’t hire American workers, or offshore US jobs overseas.

Infosys, a major outsourcing IT company responsible for the displacement of American workers has a huge operation in AZ. Infosys is a large IT outsourcing company based out of India. The company has exploited our legal immigration system, specifically the H-1B and L-1 visa program, to funnel cheaper foreign IT workers predominantly from India to displace American IT workers.
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Aug 17, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 The latest research on whether there is a STEM labor shortage just dropped from Professor @RonHira. The verdict: There is no STEM Labor shortage. Here's why (CONT’D): issues.org/stem-workforce… Businesses, universities, & government agencies have time & again (spanning sixty years) raised alarms over a STEM labor shortage, even as these claims are unfounded. As a result, these institutions "benefit from the push to train and import STEM workers." They get cheaper labor.
Dec 21, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Funny segment in a recent @washingtonpost article about labor shortages:

Indian immigrant motel business owner Hasit Patel is having trouble retaining his American workforce because they’re all leaving to go work for Target or fast food franchises that offer better pay/benefits. Patel is upset about this. He believes that American greatness was supposed to be about having a constant supply of cheap foreign labor at his disposable.

This dispels the whole “immigrants create jobs for Americans” narrative.
Dec 19, 2021 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
"Salil Choudhary’s American dream started in India... Now, more than 20 years after moving to the U.S., he is skeptical of the visa program that brought him here. “It’s a big scam,” Choudhary said."
politico.com/news/magazine/… “Many said that the program is used not to fill labor shortages, as corporations insist, but to cut costs.”
Nov 30, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Even more stunning is that Progressives in Congress have coalesced around Mark Zuckerberg’s lobbying group FWDus to pass major immigration provisions in the Build Back Better bill that would enrich Big Tech.

The “Squad” literally voted for the displacement of US workers. House Judiciary Democrats explicitly cite Mark Zuckerberg’s lobbying group FWDus in their fact sheet regarding the immigration provisions added to the Build Back Better bill👇
Nov 29, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
“A good reminder of the opportunity America offers to immigrants.”

Until the immigrant CEOs of listed companies end up screwing over the American workers. New CEO of Twitter:
Nov 12, 2021 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
🧵 Had Miriam (NYT) always been honest about guest worker visa programs and how they are used primarily to undercut American workers, she wouldn’t be receiving the blowback she’s receiving for this piece where she now acknowledges this argument only because it fits a narrative. Keeping that aside, what exactly happened here with the Black farmworkers?

Older Black farmworkers being paid $7.25/hr were fired and had to train their foreign replacements who were younger South African workers brought in on H-2A visas and paid $11/hr.
Nov 11, 2021 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
This guy gets paid over $200K a year running a *one-man* "think-tank" (funded by Big Tech/Big Business lobbying groups) to push intellectually dishonest articles about H-1B visas.

Take at look at this laughably dishonest headline for an article he recently published for Forbes: The BBB bill hasn’t passed (& probably won’t), has a provision that adds an extra $500 supplemental fee on top of existing H-1B filing fees (chump change for most companies).

Stuart is making the assertion that *if* the BBB bill passes, it proves H-1Bs aren’t cheap labor😂
Sep 12, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
George W. Bush used executive rule making to expand work authorization privileges for international students, forever exacerbating job opportunities for US grads.

OPT grew by 400% after 2008, when GWB allowed OPT to be extended from 12 to 29 months for STEM grads. Heavy lobbying by Microsoft lobbyists, GWB’s admin turned OPT from an internship program to a de facto guest worker program without Congress’ approval!

Under the new rule, student visa holders could remain in the US looking for work even while unemployed! GWB forgot 9/11?