For much of the summer, the House of Representatives obsessed over the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act (HR 1044), a bad bill that would eliminate the traditional 7 percent country caps imposed on employment-based visas, largely H-1Bs. By so doing, the bill would ensure that the overwhelming majority of those coveted employment-based visas would go ...

Last month, rumors swirled that, on Thursday, Sept. 26, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) would make a second pass at seeking unanimous consent for S. 386, the “Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act.” Previously, in July, Sen. Lee made an unsuccessful attempt to seek unanimous consent for the bill. It was a surprise, then, that Lee’s second unanimous ...

It’s an appalling reality that in the entire U.S. Senate not one single member is willing to stand up for American workers. From appointed Arizona Republican Martha McSally to Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders, possibly the world’s only avowed socialist who won’t defend his nation’s workers, none stood up against the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, S. ...

White House insiders report that Stephen Miller, President Trump’s senior advisor and go-to immigration guy, is no longer the point man. Instead, going forward, the president will rely on his immigration know-nothing son-in-law Jared Kushner. Slight correction: Kushner isn’t quite a complete immigration dunce. He’s savvy enough to realize that some types of immigration can ...

On July 25, 2019, ten Democrats in the U.S. Senate sent a letter to Sundar Pichai, the 47-year-old Google CEO who hails from India. The senators expressed their “objection to Google’s misuse of independent contractors and temporary workers,” citing recent stories in The New York Times on May 28, 2019 and August 5, 2019. After reading ...

For some time, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been using his ample platform to sound off about population: not the world’s continuing, disastrous human population boom, but what he foresees as an impending population collapse. At a time when the Earth continues to add more than 80 million people annually – year in, year out – ...

The Trump administration is about to implement new rules that it claims will “modernize” and “improve” the Endangered Species Act (ESA). All too predictably, certain industries in Trump’s favor approve of this imminent overhaul, while environmentalists are in an uproar. Yet neither the Trump administration nor its most vociferous environmental critics is willing to address or ...

Shortly before Congress adjourned for its summer break, what it aggrandizingly likes to refer to as “constituent work days,” the House of Representatives passed a horrible immigration bill, the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act. U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), who never met a bill to expand the foreign-born labor pool at American workers’ expense she ...

shibboleth: a word or saying used by adherents of a party, sect, or belief and usually regarded by others as empty of real meaning (Merriam-Webster)   In July 2018, President Trump announced an initiative to train and “reskill” Americans for jobs. Hey, I believed him when he declared Buy American, Hire American in April 2017. Why not this? The ...

Dena Moore is a tech worker who has joined us on podcasts in the past. But today is different in that she is introducing her book, How To Be Happy, How to Live a Life of Love and be Happy. The book and accompanying workbook are the direct results of Dena having to bounce back ...

Ellwood Davis is a tech worker with amazing credentials in the area of enterprise software implementation and thought leadership. Our conversation focused on what things were like for tech workers back in the early 1990’s when he was getting started in the industry and what they are like now in an environment of offshoring and ...

July 20 marks 50 years since our nation’s astronauts landed the lunar module on the Moon in what may arguably be the greatest technological achievement of modern time. I remember where I was, as a kid, that 1969 evening watching Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first humans and Americans to walk on ...

Multinational retailer Walmart recently announced that it will lay off almost 600 corporate employees. According to the Business Insider, the finance and accounting jobs will be outsourced to Genpact, described as a New-York based professional services firm. Genpact isn’t a household name. So, who are they? According to Wikipedia, Genpact originally was a business unit of ...

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Earlier this week Immigration Voice posted a press release stating that Senator Chuck Grassley dropped an amendment to S. 386, the notorious and poorly named “Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act.” At this point in time, the Amendment has not been filed, but it has been prepared and could be filed anytime. In light of ...

Below is the proposed amendment for S.386.

Tech worker Roger Ross is in DC this week walking the halls of Congress educating on the harm posed by H.R. 1044 and ways to reform our broken employment visa program.

Employment authorization for H-4 visa holders – H-1B visa spouses and their children under age 21 – may be determined soon. The decision to reverse work permission has been delayed several times since the Trump administration first proposed it in 2017. In the last five years, more than 500,000 H-4 visas have been issued, mostly to ...

Give a listen to this short and energized conversation with tech worker and entrepreneur, Adele Smith.

President Donald Trump in his May 16, 2019, immigration policy speech alluded to, but did not specifically refer to, as he did in his May 20, 2019, Pennsylvania speech, Buy American and Hire American. This was surprising, since Buy American and Hire American were part of Trump’s cardinal campaign promises and addressed in an early (April 2017) Executive Order. ...

Congress needs to refocus its priorities on protecting Americans and their families’ futures.

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 American workers. U.S. workers, especially ...

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 an update on his lawsuit.

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 unpredictable President Trump would soon ...

Fifty years ago, in 1969 when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon, the world’s population was 3.6 billion; in 2019, it’s 7.7 billion. A half a century ago, the U.S. population stood at 208 million; today, it’s 329 million and growing at the unsustainable rate of one net person ...

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. Hollings was the only senator to ...

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, Employment and Training Administration, DOL; ...

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 the temporary, nonimmigrant 20,000 advanced ...

  Kevin Lynn, the founder of Doctors without Jobs, talks with Rick Fowler of the Saturday Morning Update in Washington, D.C., about building awareness for Doctors without Jobs.    

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, and Indian outsourcing agencies that ...