Congress is back in session. Instead of taking up the financial crisis, the budget deficit, oil speculators, the energy bill, extended unemployment benefits or any legislation that puts U.S. citizens first for jobs in their own country….the very first thing they are going to try to do is, increase employment based Visas by over HALF A MILLION!
550,000 to be exact.
These are employment based Visas. Yet they want to bypass any pretense of considering American workers first and even the requirement to have a high school diploma in order to obtain one!
Just as a refresher, here is the classic caught in the act video of a law firm, making a lot of money, just to ensure an employer doesn’t have to even consider an American worker for a job when bringing in foreign labor on one of these employment based Visas:
Don’t believe us that this is about cheap labor? Yet again, this is another lobbyist written bill, pushed for by Compete America, one of the biggest corporate cheap labor lobbyists on the hill. Where are Americans being represented in Congress? Nowhere. American workers are pretty much on our own here through the valiant grassroots efforts of the few. Please help.
This mass importation of cheap labor will be spun as somehow being pro immigrant when the reality is their agenda, led by the supposed party that wants to help the middle class….is completely about corporate lobbyists, flooding the labor market even while corporations are laying people off in droves and in complete alignment with multinaitonal corporations cheap labor demands.
It doesn’t matter to Congress that are unemployment rate is at a 6 year high or the reports on how corporations use these Visas to undermine wages, age discriminate and transfer critical technology outside of the United States to these multinational corporations’ foreign subsidiaries.
You find this all outrageous? We sure do. Please call the Congressional switchboard, 1-202-224-3121 and ask your Congress Representative why do they insist on putting American workers last.
Ask them to stop H.R. 5882.
Even a journalist in Canada is finding this outrageous.
Other groups are requesting you demand your representatives to represent you. Please call Congress to stop this outrage.
Dr. Norm Matloff has some more background information.
Your web-site is named ‘no slaves’ and this bill, 5882, will end the slavery of a few people working here in the US by granting them rights to work with the employer of their choosing. It has nothing to do with bringing in thousands of slaves to take american jobs. By opposing this bill you will promote more slavery. Please inform yourself before acting - your action is impacting innocent lives here
You are seriously misinformed. Firstly this site is about putting U.S. citizens, US workers first in the United States and assuredly importing cheap labor is not good for them either and leads to massive exploitation. But this bill is not about giving anybody the right to work. If you are interested in that you would support S.1035. It’s all about increasing guest worker Visas and flooding the market with more foreign labor. An EB Visa can be just as exploited as a H-1B or a L-1. On top of it, corporations use these to displace US workers and that is unacceptable. US jobs for people who are citizens of this country FIRST. This is our country, our economy, our government, our taxes and jobs in America should first support it’s citizens. If you don’t like that, please complain to your own government about employment opportunities in your own country.