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We developed a powerful database showing the U.S. jobs employers want to fill with citizens from other countries. When a company submits a labor condition application (LCA) for a position, it is either filling a job opening or looking to displace a U.S. worker. If an application is successful, it will be at least three years before an American could fill that position.

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Kushner’s Immigration Plan Would Displace More American Workers from Good Jobs

White House senior advisor Jared Kushner’s immigration plan is a direct threat to thousands of U.S. workers with white-collar jobs. Kushner’s vision, which he’s worked on for months, and developed under the false pretense that the nation has a dire labor shortage, would emphasize skilled labor, but would further displace [...]

14
May

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John Miano and Kevin Lynn Discuss Latest H-4 EAD Developments

I received several calls this week about a meeting at the Office of Management and Budget regarding the effort to rescind H-4 EAD and thought it would be a good idea to do a podcast with attorney, author, and tech worker John Miano. John gives his insight as well as [...]

04
May

H1-B News Immigration Updates

U.S. Tech Worker Defender Cissna Deserves to Keep USCIS Job

Just days before Congress adjourned for its spring recess, Capitol Hill rumors circulated that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Francis Cissna was in the departure lounge, soon to be removed. Since President Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Secret Service Director Randolph Alles, gossip-crazed Washington expected the [...]

03
May

Updates

Remembering Sen. ‘Fritz’ Hollings and His Support of American Workers

Ernest “Fritz” Hollings (Jan. 1, 1922 – April 6, 2019) served South Carolina as a U.S. Senator from 1966 through 2005. A WWII combat veteran and Gov. of South Carolina, his voting record and his writing on trade issues and in opposition to cheap, foreign labor dumping stand out. Sen. [...]

25
Apr

H1-B News Updates

Audio of USCIS Hire American, Buy American Listening Session

This is the audio from the almost two hour long United States Citizenship & Immigration Services listening session. The session was chaired by the agency’s director, Francis Cissna. Early on we heard from Francis Cissna; Mary Thomas, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, DOJ; Molly Conway, Acting Assistant Secretary, [...]

22
Apr

Updates

Same Old Story, 85,000 H-1B Visas Will Displace American Workers from Their Good Jobs

The race for cheap tech labor is over, at least for fiscal year 2020. On April 10, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that a computer-generated, random process to select enough H-1B petitions to meet the congressionally mandated 65,000 cap had been completed. USCIS also received enough requests to satisfy [...]

18
Apr

H1-B News Updates

Manufacturing Constituents: The Push to End Country Caps

India will dominate the U.S. green card system for the next decade if legislation to end country caps passes. Right now, U.S. reps and senators are signing on as cosponsors of H.R. 1044 and S. 386. Well-monied interests, including the Business Roundtable, an association of some of America’s largest corporations, [...]

11
Apr

Updates

H-1B Fraud and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) is a little known law that is starting to receive massive attention in the H-1B/L-1 outsourcing world. TVPA is a U.S. Code that addresses “trafficking in persons, also known as involuntary servitude/slavery or forced labor. These provisions are contained in Chapter 77 of Title 18 [...]

04
Apr

H1-B News Updates

Intel Contracts With Infosys and Guess What? Hundreds to Be Laid Off!

Kevin sits down with veteran tech worker, Adele Smith to discuss this week’s announcement by Intel that it is outsourcing much its internal technical and administrative functions to Infosys, an Indian outsourcing firm well know to employ H-1B visa holders to displace American workers. This will impact jobs around the [...]

04
Apr

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Silicon Valley Lobbyists Chip Away Worker Rights

The Texas Workforce Commission has proposed a new rule allowing gig-economy, app-based employers like Lyft, Uber and Handy to classify their workers as “independent contractors,” stripping them of basic labor rights like unemployment insurance, and shifting the payroll tax burden from the company to the gig workers. While other states’ [...]

28
Mar

Updates

Open Letter to President Trump – STOP DISPLACING SKILLED U.S. WORKERS!

March 15, 2019   The President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20500 Subject:  Meeting Request Dear Mr. President: During your presidential campaign, you said that your top priority was to put America and Americans first when it comes to jobs and immigration. This is why I, [...]

14
Mar

Updates

OPT: Gateway to Cheap Labor Dependence

Americans need to know about a couple of little-known programs that allow foreign students on F-1 visas to get tax-free jobs. They’re “little known” to Americans being injured by the programs, but not to the businesses and F-1s exploiting the windfall. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) website boasts: [...]

14
Mar

Immigration News

Border patrol official gives Fox News first-hand look at ‘ground zero’ for illegal crossings

H1-B News Immigration

Border patrol official gives Fox News first-hand look at ‘ground zero’ for illegal crossings

Migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border are being spotted on a daily basis casually walking down a dirt road in an area immigration officials call “ground zero” for illegal entries. John Morris, the acting deputy chief of the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande sector, took ‘Fox & Friends’ co-host Brian Kilmeade on a recent tour [...]

16
May
Fleet of Jeeps honored slain student in Colorado STEM shooting at his funeral

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Jeep fleet honors victim of Colorado STEM school shooting at funeral

A fleet of Jeeps encircled a Colorado church on Wednesday to honor Kendrick Castillo, an 18-year-old senior at the STEM School Highlands Ranch who was fatally shot when he tried to apprehend a gunman in his class. COLORADO STUDENT, 18, KILLED WHILE TRYING TO STOP SHOOTER, CLASSMATE SAYS More than 600 [...]

15
May
Fleet of Jeeps honored slain student in Colorado STEM shooting at his funeral

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Fleet of Jeeps honored slain student in Colorado STEM shooting at his funeral

A fleet of Jeeps encircled a Colorado church on Wednesday to commemorate Kendrick Castillo, an 18-year-old senior at the STEM School Highlands Ranch who was fatally shot when he tried to apprehend a gunman in his class. COLORADO STUDENT, 18, KILLED WHILE TRYING TO STOP SHOOTER, CLASSMATE SAYS More than 600 [...]

15
May
Mexican cartels using border migrant crisis to distract agents from drug smuggling, Carroll says

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Mexican cartels using border migrant crisis to distract agents from drug smuggling, Carroll says

Mexican cartels are using the migrant crisis at the southern border to overwhelm U.S. agents stationed there so they can smuggle drugs across with greater ease, said James Carroll, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. “These drug traffickers, they’re smart, they know what they’re doing,” [...]

15
May

Immigration Updates

Kushner’s Immigration Plan Would Displace More American Workers from Good Jobs

White House senior advisor Jared Kushner’s immigration plan is a direct threat to thousands of U.S. workers with white-collar jobs. Kushner’s vision, which he’s worked on for months, and developed under the false pretense that the nation has a dire labor shortage, would emphasize skilled labor, but would further displace [...]

14
May
Violence, poverty reign in Honduran city where caravans form

H1-B News Immigration

Violence, poverty reign in Honduran city where caravans form

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras – In the dusty, dimly lit neighborhoods of San Pedro Sula, everyone knows the unwritten rules: There are places you don’t go without permission. If driving, roll down the windows so gang members and their lookouts can see who is inside. It’s safest to stay home [...]

12
May
Trump declares 'invasion' at border after DHS says 1 percent of Honduras, Guatemala entered US

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Trump declares ‘invasion’ at border after DHS says 1 percent of Honduras, Guatemala entered US

A day after the acting Homeland Security secretary estimated that more than 1 percent of the populations of Guatemala and Honduras had entered the U.S. since September, President Trump declared an “invasion” at the U.S.-Mexico border. Meanwhile, his administration expects record numbers of migrants to arrive from Central America in the coming months. [...]

09
May
WH Immigration Plan Would Steer New Migrants into U.S. College Jobs

H1-B News Immigration

WH Immigration Plan Would Steer New Migrants into U.S. College Jobs

The White House’s draft immigration plan includes valuable border security reforms, but it also shifts the migrant inflow from blue-collar jobs towards white-collar college jobs, so sharpening workplace competition for a wide range of American graduates. The bill would neither increase nor reduce total legal immigration, now at roughly 1.1 [...]

08
May
Democrats See Growing Political Risk from Central American Migration

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Democrats See Growing Political Risk from Central American Migration

Democrat leaders are growing concerned that swing voters will blame their pro-migration policies for the huge Central American migration at the U.S. southern border. Under the lede, “Donald Trump has Democrats in a nearly impossible position on the border,” Politico reported: Democrats are struggling with exactly how to confront the [...]

06
May
Pentagon Ends Afghan Pilot Training After Nearly Half Went AWOL

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Pentagon Ends Afghan Pilot Training After Nearly Half Went AWOL

The United States military “disbanded” a United States-based Afghan pilot training program after over 40 percent of the trainees went absent without leave (AWOL), the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a watchdog agency, revealed this week. Although SIGAR did not provide updated data on if U.S. authorities [...]

03
May
Mexico begins deporting members of migrant caravan after shelter riot

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Mexico begins deporting members of migrant caravan after shelter riot

TAPACHULA, Mexico — In a week that has seen the latest migrant caravans largely stalled in southern Mexico, there are further signs that Mexico is honoring a commitment to crack down on those attempting to reach the U.S. border. On Thursday, Fox News captured video of Mexican officials deporting 93 [...]

03
May

H1-B News Immigration Updates

U.S. Tech Worker Defender Cissna Deserves to Keep USCIS Job

Just days before Congress adjourned for its spring recess, Capitol Hill rumors circulated that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Francis Cissna was in the departure lounge, soon to be removed. Since President Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Secret Service Director Randolph Alles, gossip-crazed Washington expected the [...]

03
May