Suddenly, emails are pouring in! On April 3, 2017, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) established an internet hotline to inspire individuals to report H-1B abuses and fraud. And at the end of its first year, it saw quite a bit of action. The Fraud Detection and Nationals Security Directorate (FDNS) encouraged American workers and overseas ...

Steve Bannon Speaks the Truth on Tech Guest Worker Programs

On May 10, 2018, John Miano, co-author of the book Sold Out conducted a fireside chat with small group of activists at the home of Paul Hess in King County, Washington. For almost 2 hours John spoke on the topic of guest worker visas to include H-1B and OPT. This video is a snippet from ...

Since the Immigration Act of 1990 created the H-1B visa, the debate surrounding its value has been intense. Supporters contend that H-1Bs are needed to fill an acute talent shortage among U.S. tech workers; critics maintain that the visa cravenly serves to import cheap overseas labor that eventually displaces Americans or blocks qualified domestic candidates ...

With April 3 the Opening Day, so to speak, for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to accept fiscal year 2018 H-1B visa petitions, how this affects displaced and unemployed American tech workers is a timely subject. Congress established a 65,000 H-1B visa cap per fiscal year; an advanced degree cap exemption will go to an additional ...

Americans are increasingly coming to a better understanding of how the H-1B visa is being used to undermine the American workforce in numerous industries. With the H-1B visa, companies in the United States are allowed to temporarily employ foreign workers “in occupations that require the theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge and a bachelor’s ...

Starting on St. Patrick’s Day weekend, we launched our ad that encouraged Silicon Valley and other employers to hire U.S. tech workers. The ads appeared on BART trains and in two stations. They urged Congress to “fix” the H-1B visa program which has been a major source of U.S. tech worker displacement since 1990, and also ...

A new report that drew from Census Bureau and Department of Homeland Security data found that in 2016’s first six months, 1.03 million legal and illegal immigrants arrived in the United States. The Washington, D.C.-based, nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) extrapolated the 1.03 million and concluded that newly settled immigrants for all of 2016 ...

Craig DiAngelo caught the nation’s attention when he was interviewed last year on 60 Minutes wherein he discussed the unscrupulous manner in which he and 219 of he colleagues at Northeast Utilities were laid off in one fell swoop and replaced by low cost, incompetent foreign workers here on H-1B Visas. Frustrated by his attempts ...

We sat down for an incognito interview with Blaine Taylor (not his real name), a construction site inspector who works in Southern California to discuss the impact of illegal aliens on an industry that at one time guaranteed its workers a solid middle-class income. Blaine spoke extensively on the decline of wages in trades like ...

Displaced American IT workers, and recent grads struggling to find a tech job, just received good news. A February U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services memo advised employers hoping to hire a foreign-born engineer that they would have to conclusively prove that no qualified American is available. Given the numerous fired American engineers at Disney, Caterpillar, Metropolitan Life ...

The American visa system is a complex beast, built seemingly to confuse American and immigrant alike. It is also crafted in ways to make them easily exploitable by those who would “help stimulate our economy,” a phrase which is synonymous with corporations lining their pockets. We’ve discussed at length the abuses of the H1-B Visa, a ...

A recent article published in the Los Angeles Times reported that the White House is considering a compromise in its current immigration reform proposal: one that would ensure legal immigration would remain at its current level of 1.1 million annually. In late January, President Trump unveiled his approved guidelines for any legislation on immigration, which included ...

Senate Introduces Bill Intended to Displace U.S. Tech Workers February 2, 2018 | Joe Guzzardi In one of his final official acts before retiring, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced the Immigration Innovation Act of 2018 that would increase the annual H-1B quota from the current 85,000 up to as many as 195,000. Cosponsored by lame-duck Sen. Jeff ...

  Friday, February 2nd is World Wetlands Day, in commemoration of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on February 2, 1971 in Ramsar, Iran. It delves into likely the most overlooked environment on earth, the wetlands. Our planet’s wetlands are in dire need of protection against over development. Loss of these environments leads to the loss of vital ...

With President Trump’s first State of the Union address fast approaching, there has been much speculation about what he will recognize in the annual speech. Trump will most likely treat the speech as a victory lap, toting his perceived achievements such as tax reform. It is almost certain that he will discuss one of, if ...

A new poll released by Harvard-Harris shows that immigration is still a top issue across the nation, and that Americans are ready to make a deal. When asked if DACA recipients should be given a pathway to citizenship, 77% of responses said they should. 79% of responses believed that America should move towards a merit-based immigration ...

Craig DiAngelo caught the nation’s attention when he was interviewed last year on 60 Minutes wherein he discussed the unscrupulous manner in which he and 219 of he colleagues at Northeast Utilities were laid off in one fell swoop and replaced by low cost, incompetent foreign workers here on H-1B Visas. Frustrated by his attempts ...

In October of 2013, House Republicans refused to compromise on raising the debt ceiling which forced the government to shut down from October 1st to the 17th. In an hour-long heated press conference, President Obama chided and rebuked the Republicans for their narrow-mindedness.  At one point he stated, “And this is not just for me; ...

  Join us for a riveting podcast where we discuss a broad range of topics from immigration, the economy, US Hegemony, class warfare, and JMG’s take on the three most important issues to arise between 2018 and 2020. John Michael Greer is a widely read author and blogger whose work focuses on the overlaps between ecology, spirituality, ...

The week of January 7 to January 14 has been dubbed “National Migration Week,” wherein Americans reflect on the United States’ history of immigration. This is an important aspect of introspection; we must look to our past in order to move forward. However, events such as these have been distorted by some Non-Government Organizations to ...

There is a joke that goes, “how can you tell when a politician is lying?  Answer: When his lips are moving!”  Last Tuesday I attended a protest outside the Capitol building sponsored by Casa De Maryland and the very misguided Service Employees International Union (SEIU.)  I would say somewhere north of 2,000 protesters showed up ...

Finn Murphy offers us a striking example of a unique person cutting his own deal about how to live his life not patterned by his upbringing environment or his family’s economic or social status. His story in his book published by WW Norton in 2017 called “The Long Haul” tells of his evolution as the child ...

Freshman Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas has found himself in perhaps a meteoric rise in the Trump Administration. With the palace intrigue of the White House at a fever pitch, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has reportedly been on the chopping block for quite some time. CIA Director Mike Pompeo is assumed to be his ...

I was catching up on reading a stack of newspapers that had piled up while pondering what to write for this week’s blog when the answer leapt out at me from the front page of the Sunday local Lancaster, Pennsylvania newspaper.  Front and center was an article entitled DOCTORS WITHIN BORDERS. Since 2006, 7,000 Cuban doctors ...

I was catching up on reading a stack of newspapers that had piled up while pondering what to write for this week’s blog when the answer leapt out at me from the front page of the Sunday local Lancaster, Pennsylvania, newspaper. Front and center was an article about more than 240 Cuban doctors who have ...

As Kevin Lynn’s 11/7 op ed entitled “Citizenship for Sale with EB5 Visa” tells us, virtually anyone can become a US citizen by paying $500,000. The ways for entering the US legally and illegally have multiplied and the whole system is in need of serious reform. By maintaining present annual additions of legal and illegal aliens ...

The American visa system is a complex beast, built seemingly to confuse American and immigrant alike. It is also crafted in ways to make them easily exploitable by those who would “help stimulate our economy,” a phrase which is synonymous with corporations lining their pockets. We’ve discussed at length the abuses of the H1-B Visa, a ...

In a recent conference on the economic state of California, historian and commentator Victor Davis Hanson spoke on the consequences of our flawed immigration system. He remarked on the hypocrisy of Silicon Valley tech moguls, who preach on income equality and immigration from their ivory towers while the working class suffers. The elites of California, ...

On October 25th, 2017 the House Judiciary Committee approved Rep. Lamar Smith’s (TX) Legal Workforce Act. The bill would mandate the usage of the E-Verify system, currently used by the federal government to electronically verify whether potential employees are legally authorized to work in the United States. Private companies are currently free to enroll in ...