Posted on 09/01/2019 6:34:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE: Exclusive–Hilarie Gamm: Amazon, Google Reap 15 Percent Discount to Hire Foreigners over American Graduates
The federal government is helping giant multinational corporations such as Amazon and Google to reap a 15 percent discount every time foreign workers are hired over American college graduates, says Hilarie Gamm, author of Billions Lost: The American Tech Crisis and The Road Map to Change and co-founder of the American Workers Coalition.
During an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight, Gamm explained how the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program provides a tax incentive, and thus a subsidy paid for by U.S. taxpayers, for corporations to hire foreign workers over American graduates.
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“The OPT started … in the Bush administration and then what Obama did … was he went from creating something that allowed foreign children studying in the United States to work for like six months or a year to instead be able to work three years and then get a renewal for up to five to six years,” Gamm said.
“So what’s happening today is you’ll have children that are American citizens where their parents have basically bankrupted themselves to send their kids to these American universities and they’ll be sitting alongside their foreign friends who are … earning the same degree,” Gamm continued. “And those foreign children will have a job offer in hand when they graduate and the American child will not have even gotten an interview for that same company.”
As Gamm explained, corporations like Amazon, Google, Deloitte, and Intel employ thousands of OPT foreign workers over American STEM graduates every year. In 2017, alone, Amazon had placed nearly 2,400 OPT foreign workers into white-collar STEM...
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These companies are only doing what the law lets them do. We can thank our own government for making the laws. It would not surprise me to learn that vast amounts of cash were involved in our government officials “doing the right thing”.
On top of that big bonus, there are a few taxes they are dodging by not hiring citizens.
So we should trust a bunch of crooks to rightly determine our 2nd ammendment rights, at least according to the trump admin.
Hopefully, Trump can do something to limit this through use of an Executive Order. This would show he stands with AMERICAN workers and upcoming college graduates before the 2020 election.
Isn’t Google run from India? Didn’t we spend US taxmoney to build India’s infrastructure???
Good old GOP, sticking it to the American middle class yet again.
“These companies are only doing what the law lets them do. “
Correction..they are only doing what the law (which they paid cash directly to their GOP whore politicians to write for them) lets them do.
This is simply bribery in action. It’s right in plain sight. A little simple research of the authors of the law, and their contributors will prove this.
These companies are only doing what the law lets them do. We can thank our own government for making the laws. It would not surprise me to learn that vast amounts of cash were involved in our government officials “doing the right thing”.
Corporate lobbyists write these laws. Congress just votes on them.
its going to take decades to clean up the mess the democrats created.
“its going to take decades to clean up the mess the democrats created.”
If you really still believe it’s just the Democrats that have been out to get us, you need to open your eyes.
All done at the behest of the US Chamber of Commerce.
Two of the richest companies in the world do not need the American taxpayer subsidizing their operation. This is criminal.
...the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program provides a tax incentive, and thus a subsidy paid for by U.S. taxpayers, for corporations to hire foreign workers over American graduates... corporations like Amazon, Google, Deloitte, and Intel employ thousands of OPT foreign workers over American STEM graduates every year. In 2017, alone, Amazon had placed nearly 2,400 OPT foreign workers into white-collar STEM...
The other border crisis.
So not only are foreign students inflating college costs, they are also taking the jobs of citizens so they can’t pay off then loans we underwrite ...
If Indians get in management watch out! Indians only hire Indians.
Trump has allowed the number of OPT student work visas to steadily increase.
It was about 240,000 when he came into office.
It’s about 320,000 today.
Foreign STEM graduates get 36 months on OPT.
Then, they roll straight into the H-1B program.
Then, they roll straight into the employer sponsored Green Card program.
95% of these foreign STEM graduates are completely “average” students who displace completely “average” American born students.
If you’re an American software engineer and the national government and industry lobbyists collude to betray you like this, then what claim do they have to your loyalty?
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