President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Labor, Alexander Acosta, said during a congressional hearing that he believed it is “not the intent” to replace American employees with cheaper, foreign ones under the H-1B visa program.
Business advocates who want to import more foreign consumers and more foreign workers are developing plans to counter President Donald Trump’s popular call for a merit-based immigration reform.
Open borders are the only path to defeating President Donald Trump, a Salon writer claims.
Goldman Sachs estimates that almost one million foreign H-1B contract-workers are now employed in college-level jobs throughout the United States, even though media routinely say the federal government approves only 85,000 H-1B visas per year.
The open borders lobby is bracing for a fight with President Donald Trump’s administration over the H-1B foreign guest worker program, which opponents say is discriminatory against American workers.
White House officials have announced they are temporarily closing a fast-track process for companies seeking to hire foreign professionals via the controversial H-1B outsourcing program.
The University of California, San Francisco, laid off 79 IT workers this week after making the decision to outsource their work to a firm in India.
A minority of registered voters believe the foreign guest worker H-1B visa program is necessary, according to a new poll by POLITICO and Morning Consult.
President Donald Trump is set to suggest tonight a huge overhaul of the nation’s immigration rules that would reduce the huge inflow of low-skill, welfare-dependent immigrants, but perhaps increase the inflow of productivity-boosting white-collar immigrants.
GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving blamed Silicon Valley’s use of H-1B visas on the “technical illiteracy” of Americans in a post on his official blog.
A report claims that job availability in the computer science field would be up by as much as 11% and that wages would have increased by 5% if the H-1B visa system allowing companies to employ foreign workers in high-skilled fields had not been introduced.
A number of multinational tech companies fear what could be President Donald Trump’s next move on the issue of foreign guest worker visas that are allotted to corporations every year.
In the latest high visibility offshoring of Silicon Valley jobs to India, the San Francisco Business Times (SFBT) reported last month that the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) will offshore about 72 information technology (IT) jobs from San Francisco to India in a restructuring that could slash labor costs by 75 percent.
A leading Indian software entrepreneur says Indian companies must accept President Donald Trump’s pro-American policies and must start hiring Americans instead of sending Indian white-collar H-1B visa workers into American job sites.
Silicon Valley start-ups appear to be moving employees to Vancouver’s Silicon Valley North more rapidly in response to increasing U.S. enforcement of immigration and labor laws.
Silicon Valley’s relationship with the Trump administration may soon become even further strained as President Trump is reportedly set to announce reforms of the H-1B visa system.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is criticizing Donald Trump’s plans to build a border wall with Mexico and to curb migrants entering the United States from several Muslim countries.
President Donald Trump’s deputies have yet to stop the Department of Homeland Security from printing more of President Obama’s work permits for younger illegals.
Airline pilots will hold a White House rally on Tuesday asking President Donald Trump to block Obama’s last-minute approval of a plan that would replace thousands of American pilots with foreign aircrew paid at rock-bottom foreign wages.
Last week, tech employees mounted protests at Palantir, the Silicon Valley security company connected to Peter Thiel, a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump, claiming the company would be responsible for Trump’s “Muslim registry.”
Newly-elected Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) vows that he will go to jail to protest the presidency of Donald Trump as part of the “California Resistance” to the new administration.
Former IT workers at Disney have filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming that American workers are being discriminated against in favour of hiring H-1B visa workers from overseas. ComputerWorld reports that following an announcement by Disney in October 2014
GOP leaders, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, have quietly ended an unpopular 2015 program to outsource another 198,000 blue-collar jobs to lower-paid foreign workers.
The Forum will be comprised of many business leaders, but at least three of the 16 members have a history of supporting the importation of foreign workers.
President Barack Obama’s border and immigration secretary praised Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, spiking alarm among pro-American immigration reformers who fear that President-elect Donald Trump will pick McCaul to run the critical Department of Homeland Security.
U.S. universities are rapidly increasing the number of fee-paying foreign students who are being fast-tracked into the professional jobs sought by American graduates.
Barack Obama’s expansion of the H-1B outsourcing program would take effect just three days before he leaves the White House. It can be seen as a direct challenge to incoming President Donald Trump, who promised to reform the H-1B program.
Donald Trump won a Republican White House, Senate and House because he led a rebellion against the Democrats’ embrace of Silicon Valley’s business model, which profits from global trade, offshore labor and foreign skilled workers.
“The only point I would make for the tech community is on the H1B visas, I support them. When I was a Senator from New York I supported them,” Hillary Clinton told a meeting hosted by a software company in August 2014, according to a document apparently prepared by her campaign team.
Hillary Clinton has strongly backed the unpopular H-1B outsourcing program since at least 2000, but her support could be a 2016 problem because it is a direct economic threat to one of her strongest constituencies — university educated professionals.
At a 2006 fundraiser, Hillary Clinton jokingly told donors that she could “easily” see herself as the elected representative of foreign citizens in the Indian region of Punjab.
An iconic American company, McDonalds, has quietly outsourced the jobs of 70 white-collar professionals in Ohio to foreign H-1B workers.
Janet Napolitano, the chancellor of the state-wide University of California, is dumping American information-technology professionals to hire cheaper H-1B contract workers from India.
Caterpillar is firing 300 American employees in Mossville, Indiana, even though it is continuing to recruit and pay foreign “H-1B” guest-workers to do the white-collar jobs sought by American professionals in the United States.
The tech industry has been lobbying for increases to the number of temporary foreign workers allowed to come to the U.S. on H-1B visas for years by stressing that there are simply not enough American workers available to fill the needed positions.
Hillary Clinton today promised her donors to provide Green Cards to an unlimited number of foreign white-collar professionals, even though the predictable flood of university-trained labor would drown the lifetime wages and career prospects of her college-educated American supporters.
Far left Senator Elizabeth Warren launched an attack against populist Senator Jeff Sessions at Thursday’s national convention for the American Constitution Society.
While the candidacy of Donald Trump has brought some light to the abuse of immigration “guest worker” programs, most Americas still aren’t aware of the issue and few know about the Indian companies profiting behind the scenes.
Frightened political and business insiders have gone to great lengths to keep the American public from learning about the controversial H-1B guest worker visa program, which helps explain why the Silicon Valley elites and the Republican old guard are coming together to try and destroy Donald Trump.
California’s high-tech business wizards like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg are in full freak-out mode over Donald Trump, and the key to understanding why lies in the H-1B visa program.
