Posted on 04/29/2020 11:15:40 AM PDT by NobleFree
[…] As many as 250,000 guest workers seeking a green card in the U.S. — about 200,000 of them on H-1B visas — could lose their legal status by the end of June, said Jeremy Neufeld, an immigration policy analyst with the Washington, D.C., think tank Niskanen Center. Thousands more who are not seeking resident status may also be forced to return home, he said.
[…] H-1B visas, for instance, are tied to a specific location and employer that commits to paying the recipient a minimum salary. Furloughing recipients, reducing their wages and in some cases allowing them to work from home violates visa requirements. H-1B workers who are terminated have 60-days to find another job, transfer to a different visa or leave the country.
[…] In a letter sent to the State and Homeland Security departments April 17, TechNet — a lobbying group whose members include Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft — joined a coalition of trade groups calling for relief for foreign-born workers. The letter requested a delay in work authorization expiration dates
[…] The Trump administration has not responded to the letter. A U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesperson declined to say whether the agency would extend visa deadlines but said it may provide special support for people affected by circumstances beyond their control when requested.
[…] The companies facing the hardest decisions, though, are those reducing staff in response to the pandemic. Some are choosing to furlough U.S.-born workers and fire foreign employees whose visas require them to be paid. Others are choosing to keep H-1B workers on staff to maintain their legal status, while firing U.S. workers.
There’s risk in either approach because employers who treat workers differently based on their immigration status expose themselves to potential discrimination lawsuits […]
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If they can work from home, they can work from their own country. Those visas should only be issued if the companies requesting them can not find Americans who will accept the job and then they must be paid over the amount any American in the same position in that state is paid.
Have the American replacement hire-ees trained by the H1B- Visa holders.... THAT’s how Disney replaced Americans with H1-Bs!!
Seriously. Disney did this, and most major US companies.
Send them home, along with ALL 30+ MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS!
“More than 200,000”!? I hope A LOT more.
Let our President know what you think: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/50-million-americans-are-unemployed-please-halt-employment-visas-year
Suck it, Satya.
Do it!
What worries me that 5 years from now we’ll have to it all over again.
Done.
Hip Hip Hooray!
Our industries being sold to hostile foreign powers.
Our tech industry largely bought up by commiescum China.
Our tech workers being replaced by imported H1B visa people with no loyalty to the US.
Part of a plan to wreck us?
Oh heck no.
Just, you know, stuff happens.
Lets not be conspiracy kooks!
We don’t want the msm to point fingers at us and laugh, you know.
Deport them all. Freeze H1b visas for a good long while.
Pfft. Doesn’t mean they:
a) Will leave, or
b) Not Vote.
The whole Visa thing is a scam. Literally *no one* actually leaves once they are in. ‘Overstaying a Visa’ is probably the easiest crime to get away with on a near-permanent basis.
There’s no way to independently verify, as it’s ‘racist’ to ask, either as a landlord or county voter registration official; only a *new* employer can ask via an I-9; and no one ever checks or audits those; there isn’t nearly enough manpower at the USCIS or DOL to do so.
The only time it happens is ‘for show’ at some meat-packing plant; where they know they can get high volume violations for minimal time commitment.
No e-mail either?
A pretty good start.
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Twenty years overdue.
My FRiend we currently take in a million people a year. As I’ve often said here when and where was it decided and by whom that we’re Motel 6 for the whole world?
That’s not even counting all the illegals. We need a drastic overhaul of immigration. I no longer accept the argument about bringing in “best and brightest” from other places, either. Those countries need their best people in order to lift them up from $hitholes.
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