Posted on 12/31/2015 8:29:03 AM PST by ConservingFreedom
Heads-up, America.
President Obama is dropping a New Year's Eve bomb on the nation's best and brightest workers.
It was top-headlined on the Drudge Report late Wednesday night with a link to Neil Munro's report at Breitbart.com:
New Year's Surprise: Obama Regulation To Give Work-Permits To Foreign College-Graduates
As the nation prepares to ring in the New Year, President Barack Obama is preparing a colossal new executive action that could print-up work permits for a huge number of foreign white-collar graduates every year, above and beyond the levels set by Congress.
This executive action, which directly bypasses Congressional lawmakers, is likely to reverberate across the presidential race, as GOP voters look to choose a nominee they believe will most effectively roll back the President's still-expanding agenda.And it will certainly raise new security concerns as it covers categories of immigration utilized by migrants from the Middle East and nearby regions.
President Barack Obama's Department of Homeland Security plans to publish the proposed rule tomorrow, the last day of 2015.
The 181-page rule focuses primarily on giving work-permits to foreign college-grads who will compete against Americans for white collar jobs, despite the large number of American graduates now stuck in lower-wage positions and struggling to pay off college debts. The rule will also make each foreign graduate much cheaper for U.S. employers to hire than many U.S.-born college grads.
"Obama has gone the Full Monty to bust the immigration system," says immigration lawyer John Miano. "What is going on is he is effectively giving Green Cards to people on H-1B visas who are unable to get Green Cards due to the [annual] quotas… it could be over 100,000."
The new rules to aid foreign college-graduates are an extension of his earlier efforts to bypass popular laws against illegal immigration, said Miano, the co-author of a new book about the painful impact of the white-collar guest-worker programs, titled "Sold Out."
My Sold Out co-author John Miano sounded the alarm earlier this week at the Center for Immigration Studies here:
DHS Files Last-Ditch Motion to Preserve Improper OPT Rules
At issue is the so-called Optional Practical Training program, which John is challenging in federal court and which we spotlighted in Sold Out. As we told you last month, President Obama's executive amnesty initiatives and this latest backdoor regulatory expansion of work permits are all cut from the same Big Business/open-borders cloth:
Under the Constitution, Congress defines the classes of immigrants eligible to work in the United States, and the executive branch has the broad authority to determine the individual immigrants within those classes who are authorized to work. Obama's Department of Homeland Security flipped this around and usurped the authority to allow any alien - legally or illegally in the country - to work unless Congress explicitly prohibits it.
The Obama administration first encroached upon congressional authority over immigration with the so-called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allowed illegal immigrant children to remain in the United States.
Next, Obama created the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program, which granted illegal immigrant parents with children born in the United States the right to remain in the United States and work.
After lower court judge Andrew Hanen issued his initial injunction this year, Obama bureaucrats defiantly violated it anyway and issued 2,000 more work permits to people here illegally. The 5th circuit ruling puts an exclamation point on Judge Hanen's order to stop the unlawful Obamnesty.
But if you thought these brazen usurpations of power were bad, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Both George W. Bush and Barack Obama sneakily expanded the foreign worker supply by administrative fiat another way: executive expansion of the Optional Practical Training program, through which 560,000 foreign "students" have been authorized to work in the U.S. It may well be America's largest de facto guest-worker program, yet it has never been authorized by Congress. This backdoor H-1B visa increase allows foreign students to work with little monitoring, no wage protections, no payment of Social Security payroll taxes and no requirement for employers to demonstrate labor market shortages.
In addition, Obama this year unilaterally started allowing certain spouses of H-1B workers (H-4 visa holders) to work in the United States.
The good news is that software engineer-turned-lawyer John Miano, the co-author of our new book, "Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers," is challenging both schemes in court. Like the states that stopped executive expansion of illegal immigrant worker benefits, John and his clients aren't waiting for D.C. politicians to do the job of defending American sovereignty.
John's groundbreaking federal lawsuit on behalf of WashTech (a labor union of professional tech workers) against President Bush's regulatory expansion of the OPT program is, as National Review's John O'Sullivan called it, "the first step of a long battle." In April 2015, John and the Immigration Reform Law Institute filed another federal lawsuit in D.C. challenging President Obama's arbitrary and capricious regulatory expansion of work authorizations for H-1B workers' spouses (classified as H-4 visa holders). The plaintiff, Save Jobs USA, is a group of former Southern California Edison employees who were forced to train their foreign guest-worker replacements before being laid off.
"Under the Constitution, Congress is supposed to have control over immigration," John reminds our fellow citizens. At stake is a fundamental question for the republic:
Do we have an office of president or an office of Caesar?
What can be done to stop this?
As I noted on Twitter two weeks ago, a new bill co-sponsored by longtime reformer Sen. Jeff Sessions and GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz would not only restore U.S. worker protections in the flawed H-1B program, but would also prevent "continued use of the non-statute-based Optional Practical Training (OPT) Program, and the creation and use of other similar programs, which have also been used to displace American workers under the guise of student training."
Good to know there are at least two Senators on Capitol Hill who aren't snoozing while President Obama tries to throw U.S. high-skilled workers and talented U.S. college grads under the bus in the dark of the last night of 2015.
What about the rest of the politicians in Washington on both sides of the aisle? Have they all hopelessly sold out?
And why aren't these issues being raised in the presidential debates on behalf of American workers by competent questioners who know what they are talking about for once?
Anyone?
Another one. Good for you.
I notice it is on the same issue. This issue appears to hold particular significance with you.
Well i'm with you on this one.
Jeff Sessions bump for later....
Remove Obama.
This is the only thing that can be done and should have been done a long time ago.
I like Ted Cruz and Sessions but this "bill" is hogwash. Do they think that Obama would sign a bill that is designed to stop Obama? Or are they pretending it could pass as a veto proof bill, which is utterly delusional?
I like both these guys but they both know their bill has zero chance of stopping Obama. They are doing this for publicity and nothing more.
If they really wanted to save America they would be on TV saying Obama is deliberately trying to harm the US by importing foreigners from all corners of the globe to overwhelm and dilute the American culture into non existence. For this he must be removed.
Happy 2016 from Barry :(
Jeff Sessions Immigration bump.
Why wasn’t there a filibuster on the omnibus budget to remove the additional immigration spending? It seems like that would’ve been a shutdown that the public would have stood behind.
Even though they voted no on the bill, much more could’ve been done at the time instead of giving up to go home for Christmas.
Politicians.
The GOP/DNC political hacks, along with all of their crony wall st. free traitor backers are all just salivating over the prospect of a new supply of dirt cheap white collar labor.
Great point.
This won't be covered by the msm.
Blue and white collar democrats are being hurt by this too.
soetoro plans on doing as much damage as possible to America and the middle class as possible in the next year.
You sound like Boehner and McConnell.
"Publicizing" the issue even when you know that you won't win this round, is a good thing!
Sessions is doing all he can do. He gets some help from Cruz, Lee and a few others. Sessions has been fighting this battle for years, mostly alone. I’d like to see him as majority leader with Cruz or Trump as president. Then the needs of the American people would be at the top of the list, not special interests.
What changed? Oh now he wants to be president.
Cruz/Sessions bill would stop sneaky Obama sabotage of skilled U.S. workersWindow dressing from a couple of known frauds
Cruz and Sessions both have admitted to lying about their intent on a bill.
How do we know they aren't lying now?
Just as important, how do other members that they need to support their bill know they can be trusted, Cruz has even bad-mouthed some members of Congress he may need now.
In 2013, Sen. Cruz proposed amendments to the "Gang of 8" bill that would strengthen border security, expand green card opportunities, increase high-skilled "H1B" visas, prevent illegal aliens from receiving welfare benefits, and enforce the rule of law.When Obama does it it's "sabotage of skilled American workers"...When Cruz does it he proudly posts it on his official Senate website
Was he lying then or is he lying now?
I am sure that both Cruz and Sessions believe in their bill. The point is that once the Omnibus was passed the game is over for the rest of the Obama Administration. This is why we need Donald Trump to teach Ted Cruz how to really get things done.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's a news flash. We have not won ANY round and never will when our response to unconstitutional and deliberate violations of oath of office is to propose legislation that would have to be agreed to by the very people doing the violating.
No I'm not at all like Boehner, McConell, Trey Gowdy, Darrel Issa.
All these guys have been "publicizing" the wrongdoings of this administration for years but have actually done exactly squat to stop it.
Results are the only thing that matter and the end result has been the Democrats advancing the left agenda absolutely unopposed
Introducing and debating a bill is a good way to get on TV.
Cruz and Sessions both have admitted to lying about their intent on a bill.
By professing support for the provisions of amendments really intended as poison pills? So what?
How do we know they aren't lying now?
It's a bill - what would it be poisoning?
H-1B Kill it!
As a tech worker, it's a feeding-my-family issue for me (as it is for many other FReepers and Americans generally).
Well i'm with you on this one.
Glad to hear it! (Want to be on my H-1B ping list?)
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