@ifspp
we bring together civic minded people to advocate on behalf of American workers harmed by employment visa programs & demand Congress enact reforms.
Canada is providing a glimpse of what happens when a country lowers standards to its student visa program.
Conestoga College admitted over 30,000 international students (majority from India) in a single year. Here’s what an employer had to say about the quality of the job…
Immigration is America's superpower.
Leaders from India:
CEO of Google 🇮🇳
CEO of Microsoft 🇮🇳
CEO of Starbucks 🇮🇳
CEO of YouTube 🇮🇳
CEO of Adobe 🇮🇳
CEO of World Bank 🇮🇳
CEO of IBM 🇮🇳
CEO of Albertsons 🇮🇳
CEO of NetApp 🇮🇳
CEO of Novartis 🇮🇳
Staple green cards to diplomas.
Recently a Slack recruiter pinged me simply to “network” because they don’t have openings.
I’ve assumed the tech job market must be tougher with all the laid off ex-FAANG people on the market competing for jobs and fewer openings but is it really this bad?
The Google
#H1b
guy who lost his job wrote, "My hands are shaking as I write this email." His manager said, "My hands were shaking too while reading." His manager was also laid off, who worked at Google for 13 years.
#H1bs
must learn to live in reality.
Indians who were beneficiaries of the Einstein Green Card spend less time Einsteining and more time whining about why they can’t get more of their people into the US. Perhaps this is why none of them founded Google, NVIDIA, and Tesla even though they are the largest recipients of…
This is precisely why Sundar Pichai was selected for the role of CEO at Google.
The audacity of these guys to cry about “talent shortages” while they layoff the talent and ramp up on H-1B visas to help facilitate the offshoring of US jobs to India.
Congress is silent.
Special thanks to
@TuckerCarlson
for calling out the special interest groups that lobbied to add auto-renewal of guest worker visas for foreign workers in the Coronavirus Relief Bill; at a time of mass scale unemployment of American workers.
Just received an email from an American Software Engineer who works for a major financial institution near Dallas, Texas. The person said that they're one of the last Americans at the firm, & most of them have been replaced by H-1Bs brought straight from India. Sent us pics:
Acquire Canadian citizenship, but then reveal that your actual intention is to want to move to the United States.
As the Canadian government hands citizenship out like candy, expect more cases like this to skyrocket:
One consequence of Canada lowering their immigration standards and making it easier to acquire citizenship within 3yrs is that once foreigners acquire Canadian passports, some of them flee Canada and try moving to greener pastures using their newly acquired passports.
Cato Institute: “Immigration doesn’t depress wages.”
Also Cato Institute: “There are millions of foreigners who will happily work in poor conditions and for lesser pay. Get out of their way you whiny American!”
GOP: “How dare Big Tech engage in censorship of our viewpoints? They have become too powerful & can’t be trusted!”
Also GOP: “Big Tech is telling us there’s a shortage of high-skilled workers. We need to increase the cap on foreign work visas.”
Cut the theatrics.
None of these are “innovation” companies.
These are IT outsourcing companies whose presence in the US is to help facilitate the offshoring of US jobs to India, while also replacing incumbent American workers with cheap labor from India using H-1B visas.
Texas is the home of innovation.
Today in Mumbai, I met with leaders from
@TCS
,
@infosys
, and
@wipro
— Indian tech companies with a strong presence in Texas.
Strengthening ties with technology partners like India will further boost Texas' thriving tech sector.
The most common lie spread is that H-1B workers are “high-skilled” filling a critical labor “shortage”.
The H-1B is essentially an India outsourcing treaty visa designed to help offshore U.S. jobs to India while simultaneously helping Silicon Valley procure indentured labor.
Bodycam footage released by the Hoboken Police shows them arresting two female international students from India for alleged shoplifting at a ShopRite. Both are graduate students at Stevens Institute of Technology (
@FollowStevens
) and are repeat shoplifters.
“Will this affect us…
Note from a laid off Cisco Manager to all, valid life lessons:
"Just a quick 7 min Webex and a very long career is over. Even after serving my entire career, running a very large team, building software, minting $100+ Million in YOY revenue. Stuck with legacy technology…
Tonight,
@TuckerCarlson
goes after Senate
@SenMikeLee
&
@kevincramer
for passing an immigration bill lobbied by Big Tech - “Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act”.
The bill was passed without any public hearings, & will reward Big Tech’s appetite for cheap indentured labor.
Paul Krugman (2006):
“The willingness of Americans to do a job depends on how much that job pays—and the reason some jobs pay too little to attract native-born Americans is competition from poorly paid immigrants.”
Paul Krugman (2024):
Most recent job growth involves foreign-born workers, and the usual suspects are screaming that they're stealing our jobs. In fact, we need those workers because our aging native-born population is fully employed
There’s a reason why
@TuckerCarlson
has become the most TRUSTED man in mainstream news. He LISTENS to the concerns of Americans & reports on it immediately.
Here he is asking why are we bringing in H-1B/H-2B visa workers at a time of HIGH unemployment:
This is what a liberalized immigration policy with low standards and no numerical limits or country caps looks like.
It’s also very hard to argue that immigration doesn’t depress wages or crowd out natives competing for these jobs when you just have to look at this video.
One of the reasons inflation in the UK came down was because immigration eased the labour shortage. Recent polls suggest voters may accept lower growth to reduce immigration. If implemented Britain would need a whole new regime of macroeconomic management, not targeting full…
@HawleyMO
Senator, it’s not just moving jobs back to the U.S. Our guest worker visa programs, like the H-1B/L-1/OPT etc., have to be reformed in such a way that companies don’t exploit a loophole that currently exists of them not having to hiring Americans. Jobs for Americans first!
From the
@WSJ
today. A headline as old as time.
Indian IT outsourcing company, Tata Consultancy Services, a company
@GregAbbott_TX
is helping expand their operations in Texas, has been firing Americans and replacing them with H-1B workers from India.
Listen to Ellwood Davis, an unemployed computer engineer shed some light on how the H-1B visa program has pushed him & other Americans out of the labor force, & how the future looks bleak for young American graduates in STEM.
We need more stories like these shared.
On behalf of US Tech Workers, thank you
@IngrahamAngle
for standing up against
@realDonaldTrump
& holding him accountable!
Mr. President, we can’t say the same for you. There’s NO SHORTAGE of skilled American Workers! It’s sad you don’t understand this.
Happening right now:
Employees at the Tennessee Valley Authority are gathering in Knoxville & Chattanooga to protest the outsourcing of Software Engineering jobs to H-1B visa dependent contracting companies. Many of these employees are having to train their foreign replacements.
Abbott wants to help expand the Indian IT outsourcing company HCL Technologies in Texas. The company that was responsible for this debacle regarding the Boeing 737-Max:
Texas and India are both home to a thriving technology industry.
Great to visit
@hcltech
’s headquarters today to discuss expanding their presence in Texas.
Through partnerships with global tech leaders like HCLTech, we can ensure Texas' continued growth in tech and beyond.
So how did the EO get watered down?
Tucker explains that White House aides were scared of angering Apple CEO, Tim Cook.
Officials from the Dept. of Labor & the Council of Economic Advisers pushed for exemptions for temporary guest worker visas because Americans are on welfare.
The do-nothing immigration moratorium:
- Temporary visa workers (H-1B, OPT, J-1, L-1, H-2B, etc.) won’t be suspended.
- New green card issuances put on hold.
- EO applicable for 60-days only, & may extend based on economic conditions.
“Well Mr. President, the H-1B visa program is gamed to funnel cheaper labor from one country - India. 75% of H-1B visas go to Indian nationals every year.”
The claim that American college students are too dumb so that’s why we need to import a gazillion H-1Bs from India each year is a pernicious lie.
Not only are we graduating record number of computer science grads, but they’re outperforming CS grads from China, Russia, and India!
Chronicles of total American supremacy:
* US 4th year computer science students performed better than peers in China, Russia, India by 0.75 S.D.
* In fact, non-elite US students performed slightly better than CN/IN/RU at "elite" institutions.
* India actually overrated here as…
“Microsoft, Adobe, and Pepsi wouldn’t have CEOs [if it weren’t for immigration].”
Imagine being approved for an Einstein Green Card for saying the dumbest things.
The EAGLE is DEAD! Great job everyone who called their Reps.
"Members are advised that the Chair has announced that further proceedings of HR3648 - EAGLE Act of 2022 will be postponed. The House is no longer expected to complete consideration of HR 3648."
Breaking: President Trump issues an executive order to block undocumented immigrants from being counted in the 2020 census for the purpose of congressional representation.
Robert Harrison, an American tech worker whose story was captured on 60 Minutes; detailing how he & his colleagues were laid off from their jobs at UCSF & had to train their H-1B foreign replacements from India, has a message for Congress.
#NoS386
A 15 year old from Venezuela shot a Brazilian tourist in the leg.
The Brazilian will now be entitled to apply for a U-visa (visa for victims of US crimes) and eventually be allowed to apply for a Green Card in the future.
Welcome to the absurd world of US immigration policy.
Times Square NYC
During an NYPD briefing about yesterday shooting. NYPD Cheif john chell confirmed
@NYPDChiefPatrol
. The shooter is a migrant from Venezuela He's a 15 year old who's in one of our public schools
The H-1B visa isn’t about attracting “highly educated” people. It’s a visa Silicon Valley uses to displace American workers from tech jobs while replacing them with cheaper workers from India.
Illegal immigration is a problem, but so is the H-1B.
@RichardHanania
The growth is coming from H1B1 and other programs that attract highly educated, desirable people. The “asylum seekers” stealing from drugstores and driving mopeds on the sidewalk are not engines of economic growth.
🧵 Paul Krugman has been activated by the Biden administration to gaslight Americans into believing all that chaos at the border, which has resulted in millions of illegal aliens being released into the country, has actually been good for the economy.
Let’s debunk his thread…
Immigration is looming larger in the campaign, partly because it's becoming harder for Republicans to run against Biden on the economy. But there's a strong case that immigration has been a key part of Biden's economic success 1/
Today it became clear that the only immigration bill that the Democrats and GOP will let you sign during your tenure will be the Green Card give away bill that rewards Indians for taking American jobs and rich Chinese investors.
@realdonaldtrump
“We are an American company and we are literally giving away our legacy. We are giving away our knowledge base.” - An American AT&T worker that was displaced.
cc:
@SenatorDurbin
@ChuckGrassley
Or when conservatives chant, “I have no issue with LEGAL immigration, it’s the illegals I have a problem with.”
Ilhan Omar is the product of LEGAL immigration.
This is why I kinda scoff when people look at the border invasion and say “it’s all military age males!”
So what? Does this video make you think we should let the women and children come?
Senior writer for the New York Times writes a piece for The Atlantic admitting that the architects behind the Immigration Act of 1965 essentially lied to their voters claiming the bill would have “modest” effects.
He also mentions that Democrats now are so horrible on…
We have written a letter asking that the H-1B & H-2B visa program be suspended for this year due to the economic fallout from the Coronavirus. Letters have been sent to the office of the President, to his Chief of Staff, & to all members of congress.
“Using H-1B workers to replace capable and willing American citizens is turning entire communities upside down. Left unchecked it’ll turn our nation upside down.”
- Stacy Whetzell (Engineer at TVA)
If you’re living in the California Bay Area, congressman
@ericswalwell
will be holding a townhall meeting at Wells Middle School (6800 Penn Drive), in Dublin, CA. Doors open at 9:15am today. This is a chance for people to show up & voice against H-1B visa abuse & HR1044.
Another 6.6 million jobless claims filed, bringing the total to over 16 million!
The unemployment rate is now close to 13%, the worst since the Great Depression.
USCIS will still continue to process new OPT work permits & H-1B visas.
Why?
First off
@Timcast
- F-1 visa students are not classified as “legal immigrants”. They’re on a temporary non-immigrant visa. Second, these students (all from India), knowingly participated in the scam of enrolling in a fake school just to obtain work permits & not attend classes.
Holy fuck
So legal immigrants on student visas applied to a school listed on the DHS website as legitimate later find out the school was fake and because they aren't here as students they get arrested and deported??
“The workers themselves, even though a lot of them are Mexican descendants themselves, are very uptight...very worried & very mad about the illegals coming to break their strikes. It takes away their jobs...”
“We don’t want Mexico to export its poverty to us.”
#CesarChavezDay
Whenever politicians &/or the mainstream pundits tell you that foreign workers do not take jobs from Americans, share with them the story of what happened to Leo Perrero—an American tech worker who not only lost his job to an H-1B visa worker, but had to train them as well.
Abbott is an utter fraud.
You’re watching the Republican immigration two-step happening in real time: hardline stance against the illegal “invasion” … then pushing for MORE cheap labor work visas to help offshore jobs to India.
“India’s tech presence in Texas” = outsourcing.
From emerging technologies to renewable energy, Texas is the future of innovation.
I met with
@nasscom
members today to discuss ways to expand India's tech presence in Texas.
Texas' unmatched business climate & talented workforce make our state the BEST place to invest.
Breaking: Indian nationals are in front of Sen. Durbin’s home right now protesting about bill S.386; the bill that would allow nationals from India on H-1B visas to monopolize all employment based Green Cards for the next 15-17 years. Signs say “Durbin is an ethnic cleanser”.
🧵 Apple pays $25M fine for finding ways to disqualify Americans from applying for jobs so they could help their H-1B visa foreign workers obtain employment-based Green Cards for “permanent” job positions.
More proof “high-skill” immigration is a scam.
The issue of “proxy” interviews is more common than you think.
Desperate for immigration benefits, these “IT workers” from India will pay top dollar to have their resumes fabricated and for someone to sit technical interviews for them.
It’s a massive cottage industry.
Bad news for American workers and new college grads — the Biden admin proposes new rules to the H-1B process to help employers and foreigners:
• Expands ways to circumvent the annual 85,000 H-1B numerical cap
• Dumbs down H-1B requirements
• Eases the transition process from…
Today
@DHSgov
posted a notice of proposed rulemaking to modernize and improve the regulations relating to the H-1B program. To learn more about these improvements, visit:
Breaking: Kamala Harris is Joe Biden's VP pick. She is also Silicon Valley's pick. She's the lead sponsor of bill S386 in the Senate that would reward Big Tech's business model of importing cheap indentured foreign labor.
#BidenHarris2020
Governor
@GregAbbott_TX
wants to act tough on the border crisis but he just met with Infosys, an Indian IT outsourcing company that paid the largest ever fine levied for an immigration fraud case:
From
@ICEgov
: .
Texas is the home of innovation.
Today in Mumbai, I met with leaders from
@TCS
,
@infosys
, and
@wipro
— Indian tech companies with a strong presence in Texas.
Strengthening ties with technology partners like India will further boost Texas' thriving tech sector.
“
@SenMikeLee
, you should be embarrassed. We are embarrassed for you either way.”
@LouDobbs
blasting the Senator for passing HR1044/S386
which is a gift for companies like Facebook. FB is currently being sued by the DOJ for discriminating against hiring American workers.
The Senator from Utah, Mike Lee.
He's not fighting for the interests of Americans. He's passing bills in the Senate to help foreign nationals and their Big Tech employers. And the rest of the GOP is helping him.
#ThisIsAmerica
#Utah
#MikeLee
Two main reasons why citizens aren’t being prioritized for jobs but intl. students are:
1. Indentured labor — employers know foreign students’ immigration benefit is tied to employment.
2. In-group preference — Indians prefer to hire other Indians or wish to exploit their own…
#Alert
After vetting the rumors, it’s seems that Sen. Mike Lee is going to attempt bringing bill S.386 (India/Big Tech green card giveaway bill) for a UC vote next week based on leaked sources. We will be working to stop this, but please call your Senators in DC as well.
#NoS386
Should have asked what
@GregAbbott_TX
was doing in India in the first place
@TuckerCarlson
while his state is being “invaded”.
He’s brokering deals with Indian IT outsourcing firms to help expand their presence in TX so they can replace Americans and offshore their jobs to…
In an interview from India, Gov. Greg Abbott says ten other states have sent national guard to the Texas border, and others will follow. Abbott says he is “prepared” for a conflict with federal authorities.
Two Indian-born congress members along with Republican
@RepMcCormick
introduce a bill that alters the U.S. immigration system to benefit Indian nationals on work visas. Once again, it’s that disastrous bill to remove country caps for employment-based Green Cards.
Tennessee Valley Authority was created to spur the Tennessee Valley economy. But TVA is outsourcing jobs to French, Irish, & Canadian companies. Keep jobs in the Valley.
“Republicans are also helping the Democrats push the Eagle Act which amounts to a Green Card giveaway for these Big Tech companies they often complain about at their fundraisers” -
@emeriticus
How convenient for Senator Mike Lee
@SenMikeLee
in wanting a public debate when it suits him. But when it comes to bill S. 386, he wants ZERO public hearings on a major immigration bill.
#NoS386
BREAKING: Sen. Lee, Republican from Utah, heavily criticizes Trump admin.'s briefing for senators today on Iran, saying officials expect Senate to be "good little boys and girls" and not debate in public.
"I’ve only been working here 6 months but judging from the visa renewal forms I see at the printers (and from talking to them), they don’t want to go back. All want green cards and feel entitled to them."
This is why S.386 & Relief Acts are meaningless bills.
The actual ghastly story about
@IBM
is how they offshored the vast number of American jobs to India, and used the H-1B visa program to help facilitate that transfer. IBM is an “American” company in name only; the majority of its workforce resides in India.
@stclairashley
Running a company, as you know, is hard. In the
@ibm
video their CEO says he wants the demographics of IBM to reflect the entire country. Could it be that's what puts his company in the best position to succeed ?Do you have a problem with that ? It's exactly what I suggested and…
Boeing used a third party IT outsourcing firm called HCL which used the H-1B visa program to source the cheaper workforce from India. The American engineers involved at Boeing got the boot and were replaced by the cheaper foreign workers.
From Bloomberg:
For the 777, Boeing put their heads of software engineering on the test flights.
For the 737 Max, Boeing outsourced the software testing to $9 an hour contractors in India.
Decline is a choice.
We received a lot of emails and phone calls from angry American tech workers disappointed by the latest news that the State Department found a loophole to nuke
@realDonaldTrump
’s EO on suspending work visas...
And Indians ally with Democrats.
Very funny to watch
@GregAbbott_TX
help his state turn Blue so long it’s done through “LEGAL” immigration. Joke’s on Republicans.
At a recent town hall event in
#Utah
,
@SenMikeLee
tries to explain a major immigration bill, S.386, to his constituents. He has refused a public hearing on the bill, & continues to misrepresent the FACTS about what this bill does.
#NoS386
UK and Canada massively expanded legal immigration to compensate for declining birth rates and it only exacerbated the situation — birth rates went FURTHER down. Those who are keen in wanting to start families have only seen their opportunities eroded thanks to financial…
The problem with “Great Replacement Theory” is that it fails to address the foundational issue of low birth rates.
Record low birth rates are leading to population collapse in Europe and even faster population collapse in most of Asia. Immigration is low in Asia, so there is no…
Larry Kudlow to Ivanka Trump:
“We still need to get 6 million people employed. While I believe in LEGAL immigration, merit immigration, we still need to focus on getting our own back in the work force”
#CPAC2020
What
@elonmusk
and
@VivekGRamaswamy
both fail to understand is that LEGAL immigration is used to displace and discriminate against American workers (see media headlines below), hence the backlash. Companies are using the label of high-skilled immigration to get cheaper workers.
The Silicon Valley guys who have been crying about tech labor “shortages” as an argument for more H-1B visas are now capriciously stating none of those workers were actually needed.
Folks need to understand that the H-1B visa program isn’t being “abused” — it’s working just as congress intended — to legally allow employers to replace American workers with cheaper indentured foreign workers.
There are thousands of American medical students who never matched at residency programs. Why are you calling on the
@StateDept
to open for MORE visas for foreign physicians when we have a large base of unmatched American MDs?
#coronavirus
#MatchDay2020
To expand the physician workforce we're calling on
@StateDept
to open visa processing at embassies for physicians seeking to join US residency programs starting in July & publicly confirm that J-1 physicians are permitted to be redeployed to new rotations.