Posted on 08/27/2020 3:08:42 PM PDT by NobleFree
No GOP or Democrat members of the House voted against a rushed bill, approved August 22, that would help Fortune 500 companies quickly outsource jobs to foreign workers instead of Americans.
The outsourcing bill is titled H.R. 8089, “the Emergency Stopgap USCIS Stabilization Act,” and it was unveiled the day before the vote. It is being portrayed as an emergency bill to prevent imminent furloughs by the underfunded U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency. The agency is funded with fees paid by employers and migrants, but the fee revenue crashed during the coronavirus crash, likely forcing a cost-saving agency furlough this month.
The bill seeks to prevent an agency furlough by expanding the agency’s income from the little-known “Premium Processing” fast-track process.
The process is normally used by companies to quickly import foreign H-1B visa workers for jobs needed by U.S. graduates. The bill would allow companies to get Premium Processing for a wider range of migrant workers, so reducing the unpredictability and delays that sometimes pressure companies to hire Americans.
Companies use the processing fees to rush their foreign workers through routine USCIS fraud checks, said John Miano, a lawyer with Immigration Reform Law Insitute. The pending bill “is essentially a pro-fraud measure,” he said.
Premium processing should be reserved for short-stay visitors, not for long-term outsourcing or legal immigrants, he said. For example,” ‘The first violinist has broken her arm, and I need to fly in a new violinist from Kazakhastan by this weekend!’ — that’s where Premium Processing makes sense,” he said.
Roughly 1.3 million visa workers are employed in long-term jobs needed by U.S. graduates, alongside several hundred thousand blue-collar workers [...]
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Please veto this bill, Mr. President.
They should pass it on the Senate before Trump speaks and he should veto it at 10pm on national tv
Silicon Valley pressure? Special interest lobbying controlled Congress for years and POTUS doesn’t like it! - nor I.
I’m seriously thinking of not voting for my Representative this year. I’m tired of hearing him brag how conservative he is and then see him tuck his tail between his legs and not oppose this anti-American legislative excrement.
Hey, at least you have a Representative that occasionally votes correctly. My Rep is part of the Pelosi/Bay Area cabal that does whatever the Ice Cream Lady wants.
Worse yet, the SOB is running unopposed in November... again!
I’m tired of hearing him brag how conservative he is
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The closer to the election the more “conservative” the GOP gets.
Its like clockwork.
We’ve been played. You think the 300 mile border wall, this story, and making Chad Wolf permanent DHS chief is a coincidence. An ex lobbyist for the Indian invasion is now in control of DHS, spit. I’ll be voting for Ann Coulter. /s https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/26/trump-nominates-chad-wolf-to-dhs-chief/
Veto!
Mr. President, VETO THIS BILL.
(and it WILL win you more votes)
:)
Outsourcing / H1B bump for later....
On Twitter, they were calling him Nasscom Wolfie.
There is some “good” news.
The State Department (I think they still administer it?) had to hold a “second round” of H-1B “bids” because thousands of H-1B job slots were unfilled in 2020.
First time that has ever happened, as far as I know.
There are 85,000 new H-1B slots that open each year.
Each slot can be renewed for six years.
If a company sponsors an H-1B worker for a Green Card, that worker no longer counts against the quota, and the foreign worker can stay in the USA until his Green Card is approved, which can take many years.
H-1Bs hired by government, by universities, and by non-profits, have no quota at all.
We should have two goals. Reelect Donald Trump for four more years and an elect Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the house. Which means you have to vote for a Republican if you have one and if you don’t vote for the Republican replacement. Please.
No Dem or GOP voted against the bill.
Block it in the Senate or veto it.
Preto analysis, who ever pays the most on time gets the most service.
Money makes the political world go round.
This is the real reason “The Nancy” called the House back.
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