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Vote Delayed: Senate Action on Big Tech Green Card Bill S.386 | Center for Immigration Studies
Vote Delayed: Senate Action on Big Tech Green Card Bill S.386
Update (09/19/2019): Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) objected to unanimous consent, blocking HR1044/S386 from the Senate Floor.
Original Article (09/18/2019):
According to advocacy groups representing the Big Tech employers and their guestworkers,the Senate will consider a bill on Thursday, September 19, that would dramatically change our system for awarding employment green cards in a way that rewards their business model — which has displaced U.S. workers on a grand scale. The bill is the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act (S. 386), which is a companion bill that is very similar to H.R.1044, which passed in the House earlier this year.
This bill is anything but fair to U.S. workers, because it strengthens and perpetuates a system that is actively displacing them. It offers a major concession to employers who have bypassed U.S. workers for decades, without reforming the system to reduce guestworker admissions or prevent employers from replacing U.S. workers. This is one reason that DHS issued a statement opposing the bill when the House considered it earlier this year.
It eliminates a control known as the per-country cap, which meters issuance of green cards so that they are distributed to applicants from all countries before citizens of any one country can go above a certain number. Under this system, applicants from India now receive 20 percent of the employment green cards. Most of the applicants from India hold temporary visas (usually H-1B) as contract workers in technology occupations, and the number of green card applicants greatly exceeds the number of visas available, especially with the per-country cap. But according to USCIS, if the cap were eliminated, citizens of India would suddenly be able to claim nearly 100 percent of the employment green cards — for the next 10 years. So applicants from all other countries would effectively be blocked for the foreseeable future. This also means that U.S. employers who want to sponsor new foreign workers for green cards from any other part of the world would no longer be able to do so.
The Indian contract workers who are waiting for the chance to apply for a green card may apply for a visa extension and are not forced to leave the United States. And they still have their jobs — unlike the Americans they replaced.
Sources tell us that an actual vote is highly unlikely; instead, a unanimous consent request from a senator is more likely, which allows them to bypass the committee process, hearings, amendments, and, most importantly, a public debate. Reportedly, even at this late hour, most offices still do not have a final version of the legislation to review.
The Senate version of the bill was co-introduced by Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.). Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) had blocked it from unanimous consent because of concerns that it would reduce the admission of foreign nurses. Reportedly, Sen. Paul has recently agreed to let it come up if it includes a provision that would guarantee admission of 5,000 foreign nurses on temporary visas each year for the next 10 years. This will please U.S. hospitals, which generally prefer to import nurses from abroad rather than expand the number of slots for Americans to enter domestic nursing schools to fill the need. Since when is nursing a job Americans won't do?
The best solution to this issue is not to scrap the per country cap, or to increase the number of green cards, as some have argued, but to enact a merit-based system for awarding employment green cards that rewards the most qualified, talented, and likely to succeed, regardless of their country of origin.
What is HR1044/S386?
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Indian engineers, scientists in U.S. nearing one million
Indian engineers, scientists in U.S. nearing one million - The Hindu
Three-fourths of H1B visa holders in 2018 are Indians: US report
Read more at:
Three-fourths of H1B visa holders in 2018 are Indians: US report - The Economic Times

It seems that the bill will be proposed sneakily without hearing at any time. Please see what is happening now:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/s386?f=live
If you oppose this nasty bill that will rob jobs from American middle class, please sign the petition:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...386-fairness-high-skilled-immigrants-act-2019
 
Vote Delayed: Senate Action on Big Tech Green Card Bill S.386 | Center for Immigration Studies

Three-fourths of H1B visa holders in 2018 are Indians: US report - The Economic Times

It seems that the bill will be proposed sneakily without hearing at any time. Please see what is happening now:
#s386 hashtag on Twitter
If you oppose this nasty bill that will rob jobs from American middle class, please sign the petition:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...386-fairness-high-skilled-immigrants-act-2019

Welcome to DP fish_fish and congratulations on your first post.

Can you give me a hint what this bill is about?
 
Vote Delayed: Senate Action on Big Tech Green Card Bill S.386 | Center for Immigration Studies
Vote Delayed: Senate Action on Big Tech Green Card Bill S.386
Update (09/19/2019): Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) objected to unanimous consent, blocking HR1044/S386 from the Senate Floor.
Original Article (09/18/2019):
According to advocacy groups representing the Big Tech employers and their guestworkers,the Senate will consider a bill on Thursday, September 19, that would dramatically change our system for awarding employment green cards in a way that rewards their business model — which has displaced U.S. workers on a grand scale. The bill is the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act (S. 386), which is a companion bill that is very similar to H.R.1044, which passed in the House earlier this year.
This bill is anything but fair to U.S. workers, because it strengthens and perpetuates a system that is actively displacing them. It offers a major concession to employers who have bypassed U.S. workers for decades, without reforming the system to reduce guestworker admissions or prevent employers from replacing U.S. workers. This is one reason that DHS issued a statement opposing the bill when the House considered it earlier this year.
It eliminates a control known as the per-country cap, which meters issuance of green cards so that they are distributed to applicants from all countries before citizens of any one country can go above a certain number. Under this system, applicants from India now receive 20 percent of the employment green cards. Most of the applicants from India hold temporary visas (usually H-1B) as contract workers in technology occupations, and the number of green card applicants greatly exceeds the number of visas available, especially with the per-country cap. But according to USCIS, if the cap were eliminated, citizens of India would suddenly be able to claim nearly 100 percent of the employment green cards — for the next 10 years. So applicants from all other countries would effectively be blocked for the foreseeable future. This also means that U.S. employers who want to sponsor new foreign workers for green cards from any other part of the world would no longer be able to do so.
The Indian contract workers who are waiting for the chance to apply for a green card may apply for a visa extension and are not forced to leave the United States. And they still have their jobs — unlike the Americans they replaced.
Sources tell us that an actual vote is highly unlikely; instead, a unanimous consent request from a senator is more likely, which allows them to bypass the committee process, hearings, amendments, and, most importantly, a public debate. Reportedly, even at this late hour, most offices still do not have a final version of the legislation to review.
The Senate version of the bill was co-introduced by Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.). Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) had blocked it from unanimous consent because of concerns that it would reduce the admission of foreign nurses. Reportedly, Sen. Paul has recently agreed to let it come up if it includes a provision that would guarantee admission of 5,000 foreign nurses on temporary visas each year for the next 10 years. This will please U.S. hospitals, which generally prefer to import nurses from abroad rather than expand the number of slots for Americans to enter domestic nursing schools to fill the need. Since when is nursing a job Americans won't do?
The best solution to this issue is not to scrap the per country cap, or to increase the number of green cards, as some have argued, but to enact a merit-based system for awarding employment green cards that rewards the most qualified, talented, and likely to succeed, regardless of their country of origin.
What is HR1044/S386?

It seems that the bill will be proposed sneakily without hearing at any time. Please see what is happening now:
#s386 hashtag on Twitter
If you oppose this nasty bill that will rob jobs from American middle class, please sign the petition:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...386-fairness-high-skilled-immigrants-act-2019

Same with a new policy change that added a new visa to the books the B-1 visa, the bureau of ocean energy management zone of outer continental shelf.
U.S. Workers Lose as Another Obscure Visa Category Is Unveiled | Center for Immigration Studies
 
But right now, they want to pass it sneakily and ASAP (somebody said it will be within next two weeks). Please see
s386 - Twitter Search
It will let all the H1b abusers and their H4 relatives get Green Card legally and rob jobs from American working class.
Please pass the word, if you object it, please sign the petition and let more people know about it: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pet...rants-act-2019
It is urgent, please call your senators and oppose the bill.
 
But right now, they want to pass it sneakily and ASAP (somebody said it will be within next two weeks). Please see
s386 - Twitter Search
It will let all the H1b abusers and their H4 relatives get Green Card legally and rob jobs from American working class.
Please pass the word, if you object it, please sign the petition and let more people know about it: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pet...rants-act-2019
It is urgent, please call your senators and oppose the bill.

Any idea where did go that Tri-Lateral Comission?

Seems there's no solution, maybe it's time for that World Congress?
 
Funny how despite the rise of immigration in the past few decades, unemployment hasn't gone up (except during the 2008 financial crisis and the lockdowns). Also, there's a little thing called the lump of labor fallacy.
 
Funny how despite the rise of immigration in the past few decades, unemployment hasn't gone up (except during the 2008 financial crisis and the lockdowns). Also, there's a little thing called the lump of labor fallacy.

But Capital has been able to keep wages stagnant. Their real goal.
 
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