Public policy nonprofit releases report on CHIPS and Science Act, cautions against hiring guest workers to fill jobs

Report: US-Mexico reach deal on asylum overhaul The Washington Post reports that the Trump administration has cut a deal with the incoming Mexican government potentially overhauling long-standing asylum rules; Bryan Llenas reports from West Palm Beach, Florida. Reports on Saturday said the Trump administration had struck a tentative deal with Mexico’s incoming government to require all asylum-seekers ...

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s incoming government denied a report Saturday that it plans to allow asylum-seekers to wait in the country while their claims move through U.S. immigration courts, a deal the Trump administration has been pursuing for months. “There is no agreement of any sort between the incoming Mexican government and the U.S. government,” future ...

H-4 visas are issued to the spouses of H-1B foreign workers. A legislation seeking to prohibit the Trump administration from revoking the work authorization of spouses of H1-B visa holders, which include Indians, has been introduced in the US Congress by two lawmakers who said that eliminating this benefit would force many foreign workers to use ...

Kishore Kumar Kavuru has been charged with 10 counts of visa fraud and as many counts of mail fraud in connection with a scheme to maintain a pool of foreign workers for the clients of his consulting companies. A 46-year-old Indian-American has been arrested and charged in California on charges of H-1B visa fraud. Kishore Kumar Kavuru ...

While Thanksgiving normally signals the start of what is known as the Giving Season, President Trump didn’t appear to be in a giving mood when it comes to immigration. Speaking to reporters while in Florida for the holiday, Trump threatened to close the U.S. border with Mexico for an undisclosed period of time if his administration ...

Artificial intelligence has the potential to displace US workers and/or create new and more lucrative jobs. What will it be. Kevin Lynn in his address to the California Democratic Party’s Business and Professionals Caucus gives his take on the present and the future with regard to information technolgy workers and workers in general.

This is our third day of coverage of the Buchanan vs. TATA Consultancy Services workplace discrimination trial. And once again Rolf gives us a fantastic recap of the day’s proceedings that included testimony from more witnesses from the plaintiffs as well as a TATA manager called on to validate the veracity of documents produced to ...

This is U.S. Tech Workers second day covering the TATA Consultancy Services vs. Buchanan workplace discrimination trial taking place in Oakland, CA. As we did last week, Rolf provided an overview of the day’s proceedings and highlights of the key testimony. Today the Jury heard from witnesses that were involved in TATA’s Human Resources Dept. ...

Watch the video coverage of the first day of the Tata Consultancy trial

Kevin Lynn hosts a panel discussion with four women who combined have more than 80 years experience in the tech industry. Today’s panel started with a discussion of the recent Google walkout. However, it quickly morphed into an industrywide expose of threats to workers that transcended gender issues. Interestingly, it is both men and women ...

As I write this week’s blog, most of the votes from yesterday’s elections have been tabulated and, with one or two exceptions, the winners declared. For the second election in a row, I have not been surprised by the results. Although the Democratic Party squeaked out a majority of seats in the House, it was ...

Shocked by the number of “For Sale” signs lining the streets leading to my home, a friend visiting from Denver recently asked, “What’s going on? What’s wrong with Connecticut?” He then went on to draw the stark comparison between Colorado and Connecticut: “In Denver, the houses sell in hours of being listed, and the job ...

The headline financial news story of late is Verizon’s announcement that it offered a voluntary severance package to about 44,000 employees or about one-third of its workforce. But the subtitle is equally disturbing. Verizon will transfer more than 2,500 jobs – some insiders peg the total at closer to 5,000 – to India-based Infosys as ...

Recently I was in Washington, D.C., to exercise two of the five freedoms in the First Amendment: freedom of speech and “applying to the Legislature … for redress of … grievances.” My grievance is that I have been displaced and/or bypassed by cheap foreign labor dumping, and having a great education and great work experience is ...

Recently on Jim Blasingame’s Small Business Advocate Show, Hilarie Gamm talked about the U.S. tech industry, immigration, and how women professionals have fared in the 21st century. With 60% of college-educated, white women disapproving of President Trump’s policies, according to a new Quinnipiac poll, Gamm provided some backbackdrop how the current administration can win over this demographic.  ...

In response to your September 16 article:  One Face of Immigration in America Is a Family Tree Rooted in Asia You got one thing right. “Trump is the first of any modern day president to advocate for reducing legal immigration”… and because of it, it’s my contention that’s why he won the election.  If Trump wants to ...

Although news unrelated to the Brett Kavanaugh-Christine Blasey Ford din was hard to find, last week swamp business continued as usual. And, sadly but not surprisingly, congressional American worker sell outs proceeded along an all-too-familiar path. Last March, President Trump promised that he would never again sign a fiscally disastrous budget bill like the $1.3 trillion ...

Following up from the phone calls he made a couple weeks ago, Dudeski wrote a long letter to his congressman about the consequences of H.R. 392 on U.S. Tech workers.  We are posting a link to a copy of the letter so as to provide others a template for writing similar letters to their representatives. ...

Below are the notes that were taken by Stephen Pushor (aka Dudeski), USTW, Director of Operations for the DC Area from his calls to the House Rules Committee Members regarding H.R. 392.  You are probably all too aware that this bill was inserted into an appropriations bill as an amendment by Congressman Kevin Yoder.  Dudeski’s ...

I sat down with John Miano to learn more about the Numerical Limitation to Any Single Foreign State amendment Kansas Congressman, Kevin Yoder snuck into the DHS appropriations bill on July 25th. This amendment is bad news for U.S. tech workers and John Miano gives the details.

We had the pleasure of spending some time this week  with author and tech worker Hilarie Gamm. Hilarie is the author of the book Billions Lost, a book the chronicles the demise of US tech workers. Today we discussed the recent Business Round Table Letter that was sent by many of the nation’s CEOs to ...

The attached pdf is the transcript of conference call that saw a lot of gloating over the poison pill Congressman Yoder slipped into the Homeland Security appropriations bill that would end employment visa/green card country caps.  This is an obvious quid pro quo to the Indian lobbies at the expense of U.S. tech workers. IV August ...

In 2007, the Pittsburgh-based law firm Cohen & Grigsby hosted an immigration seminar in which it advised employers how to get around hiring American tech workers, and instead hire foreign national H-1B visa holders. The videotaped session showed a Cohen & Grigsby director outlining the ways tech job postings could be written to discourage American candidates and ...

With a strong economy and many technology jobs, Massachusetts is shouldering the burden of tech layoffs, outsourcing, and offshoring. Upon initial inspection, the Massachusetts economy is thriving. Houses sell in just days, recent college grads can always find work in the state’s many retail outfits when white-collar professional work is sparse. The state also ranks ...

The following statement was issued by Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) regarding committee approval of the FY 2019 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill, which contained a provision blocking the Attorney General’s recent asylum reforms and removed per country caps from legal immigrant admissions: “What happened in yesterday’s markup can ...

You notice that people from India are poking around your workplace—and their numbers are growing. It is time to smell the coffee and realize that you and your coworkers are about to get the H-1Boot. What should you do now? Time and again we hear of situations where entire IT departments are laid off, outsourced, and in ...

My FAVORITE retailer, TJX, parent company to TJMaxx, Marshalls, and Home Goods is selling out its American roots, and sending tech jobs offshore. Cognizant, the largest H1B visa procurement company in the U.S. in 2017, is replacing TJX tech staff as the vendor of choice to supplant the U.S. IT workforce. As local news reports,   the ...

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 ...