"Trump is also facing opposition from business groups and their GOP allies who strongly back the guest-worker programs"
Cheap workers to replace befuddled older American workers. The Chamber of Commerce runts have screwed themselves in 2016. On Monday, November 28, 2016 at 6:43:34 PM UTC-6, Perplexed wrote: > > Seriously, what an America-hating POS. > > > http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/28/obama-expands-h1b-program/ > > *Obama Challenges Donald Trump by Expanding H-1B Outsourcing Program* > > President Barack Obama is on track to impose a last-minute regulation > which would help foreign graduates capture good jobs at American companies, > universities and hospitals that are sought by American-born graduates. > > > Obama’s expansion of the H-1B outsourcing program would take effect just > three days before he leaves the White House. It can be seen as a direct > challenge to incoming President Donald Trump, who promised to reform the > H-1B program > <http://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2015/08/18/donald-trump-aligns-with-iowas-chuck-grassley-on-h-1b-visa-reform/>. > > > > > “I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and > institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every > visa and immigration program,” he said in a March 2016 statement > <http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/04/trump-i-remain-totally-committed-to-eliminating-h-1b-abuse/>. > > “No exceptions,” he added. > > > Obama’s new regulation would increase the annual inflow of H-1B > professionals, and also allow more foreign professionals to get the > permanent Green Cards that allow them to stay in the United States and > eventually, to get citizenship for themselves and their family. The new > regulation also benefits employers because it ensures more competition for > jobs in business, academia, science, healthcare, technology, design and the > media. > > > “This is an attempt to rewrite the Green Card [immigration] system through > regulation,” said John Miano, an attorney who represents American workers > hit by H-1B outsourcing. “The effect is to make an even bigger hash of the > problems we have now,” he told Breitbart News. > > Companies, universities and government agencies currently employ a > population of more than 1 million foreign white-collar “guest workers,” who > are usually hired without any chance for Americans to apply for the U.S. > jobs. > > > These foreign professionals are not immigrants, but are temporary workers > slated to return home to Europe, India, China or elsewhere after six or > seven years. The population includes roughly 650,000 six-year H-1B > professionals, plus several hundred thousand additional foreign college > graduates holding L-1, B-1 or NAFTA visas, plus at least 120,000 foreign > graduates in the expanded OPT program > <http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/18/120000-foreign-professionals-rushing-immigration-back-door-opened-obama/> > . > > > These foreign graduates are eager to take U.S. jobs, even at very low > salaries, partly because the U.S. government supplements their salaries > with the chance to win the very valuable reward of U.S. citizenship for > themselves, their children, siblings and parents. That taxpayer-funded > supplement allows companies to hire foreign workers for much less money > than requested by young debt-burdened American graduates. The hidden > subsidy for foreign graduates makes it difficult for American graduates to > compete against foreign graduates for many jobs that don’t require direct > cooperation with customers. > > > Obama’s pending regulation is beneficial, according to the regulation > <https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/11/18/2016-27540/retention-of-eb-1-eb-2-and-eb-3-immigrant-workers-and-program-improvements-affecting-high-skilled#h-47>, > > because it encourages “skilled nonimmigrant workers contributing to the > economy to continue seeking LPR [Green Card] status … Allows [foreign] > dependents to enter labor market earlier and contribute to [guest > workers’s] household income … [and] may expand the numbers of [Green Card] > petitioners that are cap exempt and thus allow certain employers greater > access to H-1B workers,” says the new regulation, which was drafted by the > Department of Homeland Security, which runs much of the H-1B program. > > > “DHS has made an effort to provide additional flexibilities to as many > high-skilled foreign workers as possible,” said the regulation, which > downplays the concerns of Americans professionals. “Employer demand for > immigrant visas has increasingly outpaced supply in some categories and for > some nationalities, resulting in growing waits for some sponsored employees > to obtain their LPR [green Card] status … [resulting] in substantial > inequalities and other hardships” for the foreign workers, says the DHS > regulation. > > > The regulation also helps foreign professionals to change jobs, and it > allows H-1B professionals to stay longer than six years. > > > The regulation dismisses public concerns about the impact of foreign > workers on Americans’ wages, and downplays the regulation’s impact on > Americans’ access to good jobs. “DHS estimates in the [regulation’s > notes] that there will be about 92,600 dependent spouses and children that > may be eligible for [one new feature, the] compelling circumstances > employment authorization in the first year (the year with the largest > number of eligible applicants) which represents approximately 0.06 percent > of the overall U.S. civilian labor force,” according to the regulation. > > > Currently, at least 100,000 new H-1B workers arrive each year, and many > thousands more get permanent Green Cards. > > > On paper, there is an annual cap of 85,000 H-1B visas allowed for > companies. But many companies get around the limit by working with > non-profits who are allowed to import as many H-1B workers as they wish. > The “cap exempt” loophole for non-profits means that universities, colleges > and their affiliated hospitals and allied companies now employ roughly > 100,000 H-1B professionals > <http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/05/industry-universities-hide-workforce-100000-extra-foreign-white-collar-h-1b-employees/> > instead > of 100,000 American professors, doctors, therapists and scientists. > > > The new regulation expands the “cap exempt” category by making it easier > for companies to partner with non-profits, such as a university, and it > allows state-run research agencies to hire an unlimited number of H-1Bs on > behalf of local companies. > > > By getting the regulation established on Jan. 17, three days before Trump > is inaugurated, trump’s deputies will be forced to go through a lengthy > process to reverse the H-1B expansion. “The Trump administration would need > to engage in full notice-and-comment rulemaking to do so, an effort that > would take time and may not be a focus of the new administration given the > president-elect’s other immigration priorities,” said Justin Storch > <https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/dhs-final-rule-green-card-high-skilled-workers.aspx>, > > a manager at the Council for Global Immigration. > > > Although industry lobbying and media coverage of the H-1B program is > focused on Silicon Valley’s outsourcing, the guest-workers are employed at > many tasks by many famous companies, including Caterpillar > <http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/09/06/caterpillar-hires-h-1b-foreign-graduates-fires-300-american-professionals/> > , McDonalds > <http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/09/18/mcdonalds-hires-foreign-h-1bs-fires-70-american-accounting-staff/> > and > CVS <http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Cvs-Pharmacy/138356.htm> and > at many little-known outsourcing companies > <http://www.myvisajobs.com/H1B-Visa/SearchLCA.aspx?ST=Certified&O1=Employer&O2=JobTitle&OC=29&VS=H-1B&TY=New%20employment&Y=2015&E=Jdc%20Healthcare,%20Pllc>. > > > > > For example, the federal government approved requests for 7,865 H-1B visas > for healthcare jobs in 2015, including almost 700 therapists and 207 > pharmacists, according to the MyVisaJobs.com website. Most of these > requests were from non-profit operations, such as university hospitals and > government agencies. > > > [image: Screen Shot 2016-11-25 at 11.58.58 PM] > <http://media.breitbart.com/media/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-25-at-11.58.58-PM.png> > > > The foreign professionals are also employed at federal laboratories. > > > The resident population of H-1B foreign professionals is roughly half the > number of Americans who graduate from college with skilled degrees each > year. In 2014, for example 358,000 Americans earned business degrees, > 51,000 got degrees Information Technology degrees, 108,000 became > engineers, 199,000 got health-related degrees, 21,000 got degrees in math > or statistics, and 29,000 earned science degrees. That’s almost 1.2 > million new graduates > <http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_322.10.asp?current=yes>, > or roughly two Americans for each job held by a H-1B foreign professional. > > > Many of the H-1B workers get Green Cards once their employees start the > bureaucratic process. That process sharply increases the resident > population of of foreign-born professionals in the United States, so > helping hold down Americans’ salaries across the economy. In Michigan, > Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, for example, the current population of up to > 40,000 H-1B employees is augmented by roughly 75,000 foreign professionals > <http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/09/30/hillary-clintons-h-1b-outsourcing-program-has-100000-foreign-workers-in-midwest-white-collar-jobs/> > > who have gotten Green Cards via their employers since 1990. > > > The inflow of extra white-collar temporary workers is being accompanied by > a sharp increase in the numbers of unskilled migrants seeking blue-collar > jobs sought by Americans. Since late 2012, for example, Obama has > provided work permits, or school slots, to perhaps 300,000 migrants > <http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/17/obama-central-american-inflow-hits-record/> > > from Central America. If allowed to stay, those migrants will cost > Americans roughly $200 billion in taxpayer funds over the next 75 years. > > > In the first half of 2015, Obama also allowed more than 900,000 legal > immigrants > <http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/31/immigration-2015-one-immigrants-two-new-workers/> > > in the country. That mass immigration delivered almost 1 new immigrant to > the labor market for every two young Americans who begin looking for work > in 2015, or one new immigrant for every two American children born that > year. > > > The 2015 inflow of almost 2 million immigrants, plus the 1 million > blue-collar and white-collar guest-workers, added up to three new > foreigners for every four Americans who enter the workforce. > > > > In general, the huge inflow of immigrants and guest-workers aids CEOs and > investors by lowering the price of labor, so boosting profits. This > transfer shifts roughly $500 billion per year > <http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/09/21/national-academies-study-shows-500-billion-immigration-tax-on-working-americans/> > > from Americans’ paychecks up to managers’ and investors’ accounts, > according to George Borjas, a Harvard economist. > > > However, Trump’s reform plan could largely eliminate the wage-cutting > impact of the H-1B programs. In August 2015, for example, he issued a > reform plan > <http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/16/donald-trump-releases-immigration-reform-plan-designed-to-get-americans-back-to-work/> > > saying: > > > We graduate two times more Americans with STEM [science, technology, > engineering and math] degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as > two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the > H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program’s > lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom > two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give > these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed > native and immigrant, instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. > This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in > Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark > Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that > would decimate women and minorities. > > > > Since 2009, Obama has grown the number of guest-workers in the United > States, partly by allowing the spouses of temporary workers to work in the > United States. In 2013, Obama also pushed a “Comprehensive Immigration > Reform” that would have allowed an unlimited number of foreign graduates to > get work permits in the United States by first paying tuition fees to U.S. > universities. That “staple” plan was derailed in 2014 by voters eager to > reduce annual immigration, and then blown up in 2014 by GOP primary votes > in the Seventh District of Virginia, who ejected the GOP’s Majority Leader, > Rep. Eric Cantor. In the 2016 campaign, Democratic candidate Hillary > Clinton supported a similar plan to “staple” work permits to postgraduate > degrees > <http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/06/28/graduates-staple-green-cards-hillary-clinton/>. > > > > > So, far, however, Trump has not chosen a person to run the Departments of > Labor or the Department of Homeland Security, which manage the H-1B and > other guest-worker programs. > > > Trump is also facing opposition from business groups and their GOP allies > who strongly back the guest-worker programs, which bring in roughly 1 > million foreign blue-collar and white-collar workers each year. > > > For example, in 2late 2015, House Speaker Paul Ryan effectively quadrupled > the size of the H-2B program > <http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/22/speaker-ryan-defends-h-2b-pink-slip-plan-200000-blue-collar-voters/>, > > which brings in 66,000 blue-collar workers for jobs in the landscaping, > hotel, vacation and forestry businesses each year. Some of those workers > are also used to replace Americans in high-wage construction jobs. that > expansion expires in December, unless Ryan extends the H-2B expansion. > > > Overall, Trump’s immigration > <http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/donald-trump-immigration-address-transcript-227614> > reform plans <http://www.breitbart.com/wp-admin/> are expected to open > up jobs to young Americans and to nudge up Americas’ salaries, according > to a Wall Street study. > > > > Read the new regulation here > <https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/11/18/2016-27540/retention-of-eb-1-eb-2-and-eb-3-immigrant-workers-and-program-improvements-affecting-high-skilled#h-47> > . > > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. 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