Not exactly sure. Since the US senate passed an amended version of HR 1044, it goes back to the US House to pass it. Then I think the senate takes another stab at it. Then it goes to Trump's desk.
Don't think this unanimous consent measure BS is veto-proof, thankfully. Still trying to get info on this from my sources.
Last year, 140 House Republicans helped 224 House Democrats pass the giveaway after a huge lobbying effort by Big Tech corporations, the Chamber of Commerce, and the billionaire Koch brothers’ network of organizations.
Here they are. Find your representative. If they voted yes, support a primary challenger. Vote against them in the general even if it means voting for a far-left Democrat over a RINO; getting rid of that Democrat in 2 years will be easy, getting rid of an entrenched Republican will not.
But why is this so important?
From OP's article:
Existing rules ensure that companies can only give out 70,000 green cards to foreign workers every year with a maximum 11,000 of those green cards going to Indian nationals. The giveaway increases that annual rate of green card allotment up to 140,000 a year with perhaps 100,000 going to Indian nationals annually. The green card giveaway for giant tech corporations will allow Indian nationals to effectively monopolize the United States’ green card system for at least ten years ... Currently, there are roughly 400,000 Indian nationals in the U.S. on temporary visas who are waiting to get green cards to permanently remain in the country. The giveaway fast-tracks them.
This is them getting around the wall. They've doubled the annual rate these greencards are given out at - 700,000 new overpaid imported foreign workers on our soil, now with a vote, most of them Indian. Not to hate on Indians, but the way the bill is written, Democrats are clearly trying to legalize all 400,000 currently here on temporarily visas plus bring in another 300,000 to be made citizens, which means that they're really wanting to bring in way over 300,000 more Indian tech workers.
Why this bill, and why now? Because Trump just upped the foreign IT worker minimum wage to over $200,000 per year. This is in effect a massive tariff on outsourcing; in years past, companies have fired American workers, cut the pay for the position in half, and imported twice as many foreign workers who are willing to work for less and don't know American labor laws. These over-the-top minimum wage rates were set to avoid this, and Trump kicked it up to an even more extreme rate, so to avoid the issue altogether Big Tech wants to simply make their Indian imports into American citizens who can legally be paid sub-$100,000.
Supply and demand. If you bring in lots of desperate workers from impoverished, corrupt countries who will do anything to stay in the USA, they'll happily take less money than a US citizen worker and won't complain if the bosses make decision that undermine the long-term future of the company.
The c-suite executives want a complaint workforce. They love gloablism and importing misery into formerly happy countries in the west. Screw them.
Not exactly sure. Since the US senate passed an amended version of HR 1044, it goes back to the US House to pass it. Then I think the senate takes another stab at it. Then it goes to Trump's desk.
Don't think this unanimous consent measure BS is veto-proof, thankfully. Still trying to get info on this from my sources.
It’s absolutely disgusting
ALL GOP SENATORS ARE RINOs! UNSEAT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM!
Here they are. Find your representative. If they voted yes, support a primary challenger. Vote against them in the general even if it means voting for a far-left Democrat over a RINO; getting rid of that Democrat in 2 years will be easy, getting rid of an entrenched Republican will not.
From OP's article:
This is them getting around the wall. They've doubled the annual rate these greencards are given out at - 700,000 new overpaid imported foreign workers on our soil, now with a vote, most of them Indian. Not to hate on Indians, but the way the bill is written, Democrats are clearly trying to legalize all 400,000 currently here on temporarily visas plus bring in another 300,000 to be made citizens, which means that they're really wanting to bring in way over 300,000 more Indian tech workers.
Why this bill, and why now? Because Trump just upped the foreign IT worker minimum wage to over $200,000 per year. This is in effect a massive tariff on outsourcing; in years past, companies have fired American workers, cut the pay for the position in half, and imported twice as many foreign workers who are willing to work for less and don't know American labor laws. These over-the-top minimum wage rates were set to avoid this, and Trump kicked it up to an even more extreme rate, so to avoid the issue altogether Big Tech wants to simply make their Indian imports into American citizens who can legally be paid sub-$100,000.
Supply and demand. If you bring in lots of desperate workers from impoverished, corrupt countries who will do anything to stay in the USA, they'll happily take less money than a US citizen worker and won't complain if the bosses make decision that undermine the long-term future of the company.
The c-suite executives want a complaint workforce. They love gloablism and importing misery into formerly happy countries in the west. Screw them.
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