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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

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.

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.

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.

In all the drama surrounding Facebook’s recent meeting with “leading conservatives” and notable Never Trump leaders such as Glenn Beck, Brent Bozell, and S. E. Cupp, it’s worth remembering that there is a real issue underlying the animus between Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump: immigration reform.

Technology giant Intel announced April 19 it will fire 12,000 skilled U.S.-based professionals — after already swelling its workforce with 14,523 requests in Washington D.C. since 2010 for visas to import foreign professionals through the controversial H-1B and Green Card programs.

On April 10, supporters of Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) clashed in a televised town hall while examining the future of the Republican Party in the midst of one of the most closely contested primary races in recent U.S. history.

Companies’ demand for foreign white-collar guest workers is so high that they have reached the 85,000 annual quota just two weeks after the yearly process began April 1.

David North of the Center for Immigration Studies argues that not only does the H-1B visa system unfairly harm American workers, it is also discriminatory because it favors nationals from one country over the rest of the world.

The Clinton family charities have outsourced many U.S. white-collar jobs to foreign college graduates instead of hiring American college graduates.

Donald Trump warned that both legal and illegal immigration are cutting Americans’ wages, following the release of a bombshell report from the Center for Immigration Studies which documents the nation’s record levels of immigration.

Disdain and outright fear of a Donald J. Trump presidency has changed Silicon Valley politics and is pushing more donations towards the Hillary Clinton camp, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. However, a number of leading tech executives have quietly conveyed their admiration for Trump and his campaign, especially his use of social media.

Donald Trump’s campaign is out with a statement insisting he hasn’t changed his position on the H-1B visa issue at all. It says he remains “committed to eliminating rampant, widespread abuse” in the program.

A Democratic senator is demanding answers from a company in his state said to be laying off 180 workers and replacing them with foreign workers.

At Donald Trump’s Sunday rally at Madison City Stadium, two of Marco Rubio’s own constituents–former Disney workers Leo Perrero and Dena Moore–detailed on camera and to the entire crowd why they are endorsing Donald Trump for President.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) is joining Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Jeff Sessions to push for legislation to increase immigration enforcement and crack down on guest worker abuse.

Fewer students could enter the tech field as companies manipulate guest worker programs to drive down wages, Ron Hira, associate professor of public policy at Howard University, testified Thursday before a Senate subcommittee hearing examining the impact of the H-1B visa program.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) is calling for a Justice Department investigation into allegations that a northeastern utility company fired hundreds of workers and forced them to train their less expensive foreign replacements.

During Saturday night’s ABC Republican Presidential debate, donor-class favorite Marco Rubio accused Barack Obama of trying to fundamentally transform the country. However, Rubio did not mention that he himself had co-authored the border-opening Gang of Eight immigration bill, which President

Following Rick Santorum’s inability to name a single achievement of Sen. Marco Rubio, the media sought to answer the question for themselves. Yet many reporters appear to have come up empty handed.

Wednesday’s cover of La Opinión, the nation’s largest daily Spanish-language newspaper, prominently portrays donor-class favorite Sen. Marco Rubio with the infamous “hope and change” imagery that defined Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.

Microsoft Corp. will be providing the technology to count the votes of Iowa caucus-goers, according to a new report.

In 2014, the Northeast Utilities Company in Connecticut — now known as Eversource Energy — allegedly laid off around 200 of its American tech workers and replaced them with low-wage foreigners admitted on H-1B guest worker visas.

Conservative commentator and best-selling author Michelle Malkin slammed Fox News on Twitter for the network’s decision to allow someone who entered the country illegally to participate as a questioner in tomorrow night’s Republican presidential debate. Malkin tweeted: “FoxNews debate questioner Dulce Candy