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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

H1-B News Updates

How to Create Amazon-Size Job Numbers in your City

Much media coverage has been given to Amazon’s search for a U.S. city to establish a second headquarters. After much fanfare and anticipation, including the hope of politicians in the large Midwestern city where I live, Amazon, in November 2018, decided to “split” its second headquarters between two cities: Arlington, [...]

07
Mar

H1-B News Updates

U.S. Universities Educate 1.6 Million International Students, Creating Winners and Losers

Nearly 1.6 million international university students were enrolled in the U.S., according to the most recent data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Of the 1.6 million, 328,205 participated in Optional Practical Training (OPT), which allows foreign-born students to work in U.S. jobs, ostensibly to obtain hands-on work experience in their chosen [...]

06
Mar

Updates

Data: Foreign Workers Continue Making Significant Job Gains over Americans
March 5, 2019

Foreign workers are continuing to make significant employment and job gains over native-born Americans, newly released Bureau of Labor Statistics data reveals. In December 2018, foreign-born worker employment increased 5 percent compared to the same time last year, adding an additional more than 1,300 workers. Meanwhile, native-born Americans saw an [...]

H1-B News Updates

The Swamp Swallows Donald Trump on Immigration

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03
Mar

Immigration News

Frustration grows among migrants in Mexico as support fades

H1-B News Immigration

Frustration grows among migrants in Mexico as support fades

MAPASTEPEC, Mexico – Madison Mendoza, her feet aching and her face burned by the sun, wept as she said she had nothing to feed her 2-year-old son who she’d brought with her on the long trek toward the United States. Mendoza, 22, said an aunt in Honduras had convinced her [...]

20
Apr
Trump Should Shut Down the Southern Border

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Trump Should Shut Down the Southern Border

Nearly 4-in-5 Republican women say shutting down the United States-Mexico border is a “good idea” to stop surging illegal immigration, while more than 4-in-9 Republican voters, overall, say President Trump is “not tough enough” on illegal immigration, a new poll finds. The latest Fox News poll conducted by Braun Research, Inc. finds [...]

19
Apr
US citizen disappears during group hike near Baja California, Mexico

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US citizen disappears during group hike near Baja California, Mexico

Kat Hammontre, missing hiker. A U.S. citizen hiking near San Felipe Mexico has been missing since Thursday. The woman, Kat Hammontre, 68, set out on the hike with a group near the desert in the Mexican state of Baja California, but at one point hurt her ankle or foot and told others she’d stay [...]

17
Apr
Thousands more Central American migrants approach U.S.-Mexico border

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Thousands more Central American migrants approach U.S.-Mexico border

Thousands more migrants are heading toward the U.S.-Mexican border, hoping to gain permanent residency here even as the Trump administration tightens rules on detention and obtaining political asylum. Some 2,000 migrants arrived in Mexico this week, forcing officials of Chiapas state to declare an emergency. 5,000 more migrants had set out toward [...]

17
Apr
Criminal referrals tied to Mueller probe may have wide reach; Schools closed over teen obsessed with Columbine

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Criminal referrals tied to Mueller probe may have wide reach; Schools closed over teen obsessed with Columbine

FILE – In this March 24, 2017, file photo, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Nunes is suing The McClatchy media chain for $150 million, saying a 2018 report about alleged cocaine use on a yacht related to a company he [...]

17
Apr
Bernie Sanders acknowledges 'serious problem' at the border, demands 'sensible immigration reform'

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Bernie Sanders acknowledges ‘serious problem’ at the border, demands ‘sensible immigration reform’

As President Donald Trump’s proposal to send illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities increasingly faces backlash from Democrats, Sen. Bernie Sanders admits there’s a “serious problem” at the border. “The problem right now is that we are now seeing desperate people fleeing violence and misery in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. With [...]

15
Apr
House Democrats demand documents on Trump administration's 'bizarre and unlawful' proposal to release migrants in sanctuary cities

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House Democrats demand documents on Trump administration’s ‘bizarre and unlawful’ proposal to release migrants in sanctuary cities

House Democrats on Monday blasted the Trump administration over its “bizarre and unlawful” proposal to release immigrant detainees into sanctuary cities, and demanded documents from the White House and the Department of Homeland Security related to the floated policy. The Democrats also claimed that if it were enacted, it would be [...]

15
Apr
White House defends Trump’s Omar 9/11 tweet; Bernie Sanders town hall on Fox News tonight

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White House defends Trump’s Omar 9/11 tweet; Bernie Sanders town hall on Fox News tonight

FILE – In this March 6, 2019, file photo, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., sits with fellow Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee during a bill markup, on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Donald Trump is weighing in on the most recent controversy involving Omar, retweeting video edited to [...]

15
Apr
Poll workers journey to reach India's most remote voters

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Poll workers journey to reach India’s most remote voters

In this April 10, 2019, photo, Indian election officials and paramilitary soldiers with election materials walk along the river Brahmaputra to board on a country boat on the eve of the first phase of general election in Majuli, Assam, India. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File) NEW DELHI – The figures involved [...]

13
Apr
Court temporarily blocks halt to Trump policy forcing asylum-seekers to stay in Mexico

H1-B News Immigration

Court temporarily blocks halt to Trump policy forcing asylum-seekers to stay in Mexico

A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily halted a ruling that would have stopped the Trump administration from forcing asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico as they wait for immigration courts to hear their cases. The decision by the three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a lower [...]

13
Apr
DHS asks for monthlong extension on troops at nation's southern border

H1-B News Immigration

Migrants break border gate, force their way into Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities said a group of about 350 migrants broke the locks on a gate at the Guatemalan border Friday and forced their way into southern Mexico to join a larger group of migrants trying to make their way toward the United States. The National Immigration Institute [...]

12
Apr
DHS Blocks White House Plan to Bus Migrants into Democrats' Districts

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DHS Blocks White House Plan to Bus Migrants into Democrats’ Districts

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) blocked a White House proposal to spotlight Central American migration by busing the migrants into Democrats’ “sanctuary city” neighborhoods, according to the Washington Post. DHS staffers leaked the hardball proposal to Democrat legislators, the newspaper reported: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s district in [...]

12
Apr