U.S. Pilots to rally at WH, urge blockage of export of White Collar jobs UPDATE

January 24, 2017 — bunkerville

UPDATE: Google this topic and nothing found about it. I did see a picture slide by on twitter yesterday.Here tis and that was it.
http://pics.mcclatchyinteractive.com/news/politics-government/28w25a/picture128460689/ALTERNATES/FREE_960/IMG_1632

We learn of one more time bomb inserted by Obama a couple of days before his departures. In this case,foreign workers. The more the merrier for him, but in this case let’s have those of us flying the friendly skies supported by American workers, not those earning a buck an hour. Here tis:

Airline pilots will hold a White House rally on Tuesday asking President Donald Trump pilotsto 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.

The airline pilots’ appeal will come one day after Trump’s signature on Monday killed the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, which would have allowed an unlimited number of foreign companies to replace U.S. workers with imported foreign workers paid $1 an hour wages.

“This [Obama pilot] decision is just another failed trade deal by the Obama administration, giving foreign companies an unfair advantage over U.S. companies,” said Captain Jon Weaks, Southwest Airlines Pilots’ Association president.

Throughout his two terms, Obama worked to increase the annual inflow of foreign white-collar workers, and his last-minute regulations allow many more white-collar contract workers to get permanent residence.

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.

“This is an attempt to rewrite the Green Card [immigration] system through regulation,” said John Miano, an attorney who represents American workers hit by H-1B outsourcing. “The effect is to make an even bigger hash of the problems we have now,” he told Breitbart News. Currently, roughly 1 million while-collar jobs in Americans are held by multi-year foreign contract workers. These professionals include 100,000 H-1B contract workers employed in universities, and 147,00 foreign graduates of U.S. universities. Also, several Democrat-run states are granting professional licenses to illegal immigrants. In addition, legal immigration brings in more than 150,000 white-collar immigrants each year.

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Healthcare costs and illegal immigration- rarely talked about.

June 25, 2012 — bunkerville
 
I took a bit of time off this weekend, so  I apologize to my regulars. We have a very big week coming up. The Arizona Immigration case, and of course Obamacare among others. These two issues are inextricably linked together. Illegals are destroying our healthcare system to the tune of Billions, driving many smaller hospitals into the red. States, thus  U.S. citizens must pick up the tab. Private Insurance companies have been expected in the past to help pick up the tab when negotiating contracts with Hospitals. One of the reasons for the rising insurance costs.  So I found this short clips that I believe clearly tie these two issues together that are rarely found in the same discussion. Next is a brand new 30 sec ad regarding H-1b Visas for Engineers and why Obama can’t wait to bring them over.
 
Government hearing where Mary Clayto of the Martin County Hospital in Florida describes the costs and problems the hospital has incurred treating illegal immigrants. The INS provides no assistance in deportation.
 

Numbers USA . put out this short ad  which is a great website if you are interested in Immigration Stats.

Jennifer Wedel, whose engineer husband was laid off three years ago, asks Pres. Obama during an online Town Hall meeting why the government continues to bring in 1 million new immigrants when so many Americans can’t find a full-time job. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, 1.8 million engineers are either unemployed or not working in the engineering field.

 

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Homeland Security Dept. Cannot ‘Precisely’ Track the Number of Foreigners Working in U.S. on H-1B Visas

January 20, 2011 — bunkerville

Janet and her DHS Department are a joke. These H-1B visas as well. She has no idea? India does.

 No one knows how many foreign workers with H-1B visas are in the United States at any given time because of “limitations in agency data,” a new report says.

The report says the Homeland Security Department is responsible for tracking the number of H-1B petitions and the number of H-1B visas issued, but “it cannot precisely do so.”

H/T: RJJRDQ

I got news Janet… I wrote a post based last year  that might help you out:

The high-tech industry in the United States “lost” 245,000 jobs last year. At the same time, more than 100,000 H-1B visas were issued. The same government that issued these visas are the same ones that cannot find money for a Tier 5 extension. They borrowed nearly $900 billion to “stimulate” an economy. The economy remains in shambles. This is the same government that champions amnesty, with accompanying chain migration. This is the same government that despite the aforementioned failures, continue to issue foreign work visas hand over fist.

So America is being hit from all sides. High skilled labor is shipped in, and low skill labor just walks in. Caught in the middle is the American worker, not wanted by American companies (or those posing as American companies), or the American government for that matter. 

From our earlier post : No Jobs for Americans but plenty of Foreign Worker Visas. Story Here

To continue:

By law, the number of foreign workers holding H-1B visas is capped, currently at 65,000. So how did we get to 100,000??

But according to the Government Accountability Office, “The total number of H-1B workers in the U.S. at any one time — and information about the length of their stay — is unknown, because (1) data systems among the various agencies that process such individuals are not linked so individuals cannot be readily tracked, and (2) H-1B workers are not assigned a unique identifier that would allow for tracking them over time–particularly if and when their visa status changes.”

To give you an idea of the scale of visa abuse, Microsoft laid off 5,800 American workers in the last two years. During that same time period they also received 2,355 H-1B visas. They no doubt saved a bundle. Microsoft is not alone. They are just an example.

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