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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This Monday we attended the “You’re Fired!” protest outside of the White House in Washington D.C. The action was organized by Sara Blackwell, President, Protect US Workers an organization dedicated to shedding light on the abuses of the H1-B Visa program. The protest included many voices from the tech industry that felt frustrated and silenced ...

This summit brought together an amazing panel that consisted of John Michael Greer, James Howard Kunstler, Chris Martenson, Frank Morris, and Dmitry Orlov to talk about issues ranging from politics, the economy, the food we eat, immigration, labor, poverty, minorities, war, and much more. Please be sure to stay tuned for more dynamic events from ...

Donna Conroy of Bright Future Jobs shares the “secret” behind the abuses done to white collar workers under the H1-B Visa Program.  After watching this information packed video, please like and share it.

This is a video we recently completed for a sister organization that at a high level speaks to ways in which the US H1-B Visa prorgram is being abused.  Enjoy! Kevin Lynn