U.S. Grads to Gain as Foreign College Workers Stay Away
The number of foreigners registering at U.S. universities to get work permits is falling quickly, likely opening up many Fortune 500 jobs for American graduates. The good news means that “30,000 additional slots have just opened up for Americans, maybe as many as 60,000,” said Kevin Lynn, the director of U.S. Tech Workers, a group…
Trump Rewrites H-1B Program to Help American White-Collar Workers
President Donald Trump’s deputies have launched a fundamental reform of the H-1B visa system to protect American graduates from outsourcing — despite furious opposition from donors and leaders from Silicon Valley, Fortune 500 companies, and coastal investors. The reform will end the annual award of 85,000 H-1B visas by lottery, which has been gamed by…
Tom Cotton: Joe Biden Avoids Wage-Raise Policy
Joe Biden’s open-borders migration policy ignores the obvious way for the government to help Americans get wage raises, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., told SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. “The simple way to help workers to get pay raises is to mandate the use of the E-Verify system,” Cotton said in the October…
H-1B Supporters Denounce Wage-Boosting Regulations
Advocates for the H-1B visa-worker program are protesting the wage increases required by President Donald Trump’s deputies, saying the raises will sharply reduce hiring of the foreign workers. The labor department “requires the employers to agree to pay foreign workers significantly higher than the market rate—which would prevent many employers from seeking foreign talent in…
White House Touts H-1B Visa Worker Reforms
The White House is touting President Donald Trump’s curbs on the mass replacement of Americans by H-1B visa workers, raising some hopes among reformers that the President may push the issue in the final weeks of the campaign. “They understand they need to advertise what they’ve done,” said Kevin Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Workers.…
Trump Gets Pennsylvania Opportunity as Democrats Endorse H-1B Outsourcing
The Vanguard Group’s outsourcing of 1,300 Pennsylvania white-collar jobs to Indian H-1B workers has given a huge opportunity to President Donald Trump in the key swing state, says a series of activists and consultants. “Most voters vote their pocketbook, and if one candidate is going to protect their jobs and the other is going to…
Agency Officials Offer Surprise Giveaway to 400,000 Indian, Chinese White-Collar Visa Workers
President Donald Trump’s deputies at the departments of state and homeland security are offering a huge giveaway to at least 400,000 foreign visa workers and their Fortune 500 employers just before the November election. “This is the news that a lot of people have been waiting for a long time,” Greg Siskind, an immigration lawyer…
Labor Day Win: CEOs Hire Americans Because Donald Trump Excludes Visa Workers
Business groups are training young Americans for jobs and careers because President Donald Trump temporarily blocked the inflow of foreign contract-workers, according to multiple press reports. In Tennessee, the Gatlinburg-area tourist industry was denied many J-1 workers, so it “responded by developing a hospitality internship program that seeks to bring more U.S. college-age workers to…
DHS Recycles 14,500 H-1B Visas for Fortune 500 Employers
The Department of Homeland Security is recycling 14,500 unused H-1B visas to employers after worried companies declined to accept the work visas they had won in the annual lottery. The redistributed visas will be used to import foreign workers to fill the Fortune 500 jobs that will appear when the economy recovers, said Kevin Lynn,…
Trade Group for Koch, GM Asks Trump for More Foreign Workers
A trade association that includes General Motors and the Koch Industries is asking President Donald Trump to cancel his popular June 22 decision to narrow and reform the nation’s visa worker programs. “We urge you to lift the restrictions in the June 22 proclamation and to work with Congress to identify ways to ensure these…
