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GOP Sen. Kennedy Blocks Democrat Bill to Import More Indian Workers
Breitbart ^ | 17 Oct 2019 | NEIL MUNRO

Posted on 10/18/2019 11:38:05 AM PDT by NobleFree

Lousiana GOP Sen. John Kennedy has blocked a bill drafted by a top Democratic Senator that would accelerate the flow of Indian visa workers and immigrants into Americans’ office jobs.

“The American people deserve an immigration system that looks like somebody designed it on purpose,” Kennedy told Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin during a polite conversation on the Senate floor. He said:

I am rising to object [to Durbin’s bill] because a number of my colleagues … would like a little additional time to study this bill. But equally important, if not more important, many of my colleagues’ sentiment is that we should take this bill up first in the judiciary committee.

Kennedy’s October 16 objection blocked Durbin’s effort to pass his “RELIEF Act” via the Senate’s fast-track “Unanimous Consent” process.

Durbin’s RELIEF Act would double the annual award of green cards given to the cheap foreign workers who are hired by American companies for jobs in the United States. It would double the annual inflow to 120,000 workers by exempting their immediate families from the annual cap. The bill would also lift the annual “country caps” and so allow companies to annually reward roughly 100,000 Indian visa-workers with valuable, government-provided green-cards, up from 10,000 Indian workers a year under the current rules.

The touted virtue of the Durbin bill is that it would reduce the population of 300,000 Indian visa-workers who mostly work for below-market wages while waiting for years to get their promised “Employer-Based” green cards.

This so-called “backlog” population of 300,000 workers and 300,000 family members gets much sympathetic coverage from American progressives. But the backlog was created by the crush of Indians who accepted green-card nominations from companies in a barter payment for taking jobs, salaries, and careers that would otherwise have gone to American graduates. [...]

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: dickdurbin; greencard; h1b; hireamerican; howdymodi; illinois; immigration; india; johnkennedy; lousiana; neilmunro
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1 posted on 10/18/2019 11:38:06 AM PDT by NobleFree
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To: NobleFree

Perhaps if we need them but if we don’t?


2 posted on 10/18/2019 11:40:42 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: NobleFree

They’re going to be all over that man.


3 posted on 10/18/2019 11:42:19 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: NobleFree
Haha, pass the curry!
4 posted on 10/18/2019 11:42:43 AM PDT by pburgh01 (Negan all the MSM)
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To: NobleFree

Did he have a very bad customer service experience ? LOL


5 posted on 10/18/2019 11:43:08 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: NobleFree

Thank you Senator Kennedy!

(never thought I’d say those words)


6 posted on 10/18/2019 11:44:33 AM PDT by Dagnabitt
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To: NobleFree

With all the things broken in the USA, this is what our do-nothing Senate decides to work on?


7 posted on 10/18/2019 11:46:45 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: NobleFree

Kennedy is a true American patriot.

No, not the Kennedy burning in hell right now..


8 posted on 10/18/2019 11:49:52 AM PDT by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy it. I hope every lib die.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

REPLACEMENT MIGRATION

Replacement Migration is the Neo Slavery.

We NEED none of them FOREIGNERS. There has not been a single Replacement Immigrant we have needed in 50 years.
Zero. Zip.

Each sector of the economy is targeted with half price foreigners who all vote hardcore socialist.

Doctors, nurses, office, mechanics, teachers, all of you,
just GET OFF THIS LAND !!! You vagrant!
We Chamber of Socialist Commerce OWN this land, not you!
WE are the new royalty.


9 posted on 10/18/2019 11:51:16 AM PDT by TheNext (Leader of the Happy People of the World)
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To: Dagnabitt
Indian IT parasites, about as bad as the ChiComs. Want to know why your Android phone crashes so much, why most CRMs like Salesforce suck, want to know why that website you keep putting your CC info in keeps crashing. Thank Panjeeb or Prateek for that. Google and the big tech companies fellate themselves over their $47 per hour Python or Android developers. Get what you pay for. I can count on hand the number of times I have hired or worked with a competant Indian. Mostly mumbling dishonest as*hats.

India, the greasy afterbirth of humanity.

10 posted on 10/18/2019 11:52:08 AM PDT by pburgh01 (Negan all the MSM)
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To: NobleFree

YES!


11 posted on 10/18/2019 11:53:03 AM PDT by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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To: Dagnabitt
(never thought I’d say those words)

either did Trump!




12 posted on 10/18/2019 11:53:16 AM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: NobleFree

FOLLOW THE MONEY

Who in the GOP is pushing this? I know the Chamber of Commerce is likely advancing this, but who else?. Lee from Utah? and...?


13 posted on 10/18/2019 11:56:22 AM PDT by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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To: NobleFree

Amazing, somebody besides President Trump is siding with the citizens.
I’ll have to remove him from my list of Bush League Republicans.


14 posted on 10/18/2019 12:05:13 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: max americana

This John Kennedy is a true son of the South ... and every inch a patriot.

I’m crazy for Indian food, and on an individual basis I rather like Indian immigrants.

But Anytown USA isn’t Mumbai or New Delhi ... or Shanghai or Singapore for that matter. And these are the non-Islamic parts of Asia.

I wish Asian nations all the health and prosperity life has to offer but I don’t want my country’s tech industry turning into Bangalore.


15 posted on 10/18/2019 12:13:19 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: NobleFree
Why don't the tech companies set up offices in India?

Why bring them here?

16 posted on 10/18/2019 12:13:20 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: NobleFree
The article sez:Anybody know if he was successful yesterday?

IMHO, both these bill are worthless. We need fewer immigrants, not more. Again IMHO, we could shutdown all immigration (legal and illegal) for the next 20 years and be ahead for it.

17 posted on 10/18/2019 12:19:25 PM PDT by upchuck (Democraps say the President is out of control. They mean the President of out of THEIR control.)
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To: NobleFree

I don’t need more H1Bs. I know too many American engineers who have lost their jobs to these employment roaches.


18 posted on 10/18/2019 12:21:31 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: NobleFree

a Kennedy giveth
and a Kennedy taketh away

(read your history books if you don’t get it)


19 posted on 10/18/2019 12:22:14 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: NobleFree

Thank goodness. We need to end this system of modern day indentured servitude and send the flood of cheap labor back. Large Corporations and their lapdog politicians have screwed over Americans far too much with cheap foreign labor already.


20 posted on 10/18/2019 12:22:56 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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