Not that long ago, JD Vance gave Breitbart an exclusive interview about H-1B visa problems and abuses. He was a Senate candidate in Ohio then.
Bannon, War Room, adamant and unequivocal. End it.
Bernie, if he can force a Senate vote and has the votes is willing to fix a few rules, where rules can be followed or ignored. And - JD insights:
With that "boiler room" image, are they replacing jobs American citizens would want? In Oct. 2022, Vance, the Ohio candidate now silent, had something to say, then:
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — Republican J.D. Vance says a
new Congress must reverse a policy that allows corporations to replace
American professionals, often in high-paying STEM jobs, with cheaper
foreign workers on the H-1B visa program.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Saturday, the Ohio Senate candidate blasted a plan
by OhioHealth where nearly 640 American tech and finance employees are
being laid off and having their jobs sent to Accenture — a Fortune 500
multinational corporation notorious for importing foreign H-1B visa
workers to replace Americans in white-collar jobs.
[...] The Buckeye State Republican was making a swing through the southeast part of the state to channel his Appalachian roots
with two weeks left in the race. [...]
On the OhioHealth layoffs, set to occur early next month [Nov.] and continue
through the beginning of 2023, Vance said federal law must be
overhauled to ensure corporations like OhioHealth are not allowed to
replace their American employees via third-party outsourcing firms like
Accenture.
“Generally speaking, a lot of the H-1B abuse we see is in the
interests of the people hiring the [foreign visa] worker, who can
undercut the wages of Americans, but is it in the interest of the 700
Ohioans who lost their jobs? Absolutely not,” Vance told Breitbart News.
“This is one of these issues where you actually need public policy to
solve this problem because they’re taking advantage of a visa system
that’s meant to ensure that American companies have the workers that
they need, it’s not meant to undercut the wages of American workers in
this country,” Vance continued. “Unfortunately, that’s what the H-1B
visa is just being used to do right now.”
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), whom Vance is running against, has for years voted to increase foreign competition in the labor market that working and middle class Americans are forced to compete against.
[...] The outsourcing-offshoring business model has proven extremely lucrative for Fortune 500 companies like
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, JP Morgan Chase, and others
as they often contract with “body shop” firms like Cognizant, Tata
Consulting Services, Infosys, Accenture, IBM, and Capgemini to lay off
their American employees and replace them with tens of thousands of
foreign H-1B visa workers primarily from India.
Accenture, for instance, sought to import more than 3,800 foreign H-1B visa workers this year alone. In 2021, Accenture sought to bring 6,200 foreign H-1B visa workers to the U.S. to take white-collar American jobs.
While being laid off, Americans are often forced to train
their foreign H-1B visa replacements. If they do not, in most cases,
their employer withholds their severance package. There are about
650,000 foreign H-1B visa workers in the U.S. at any given moment.
In Ohio, alone, firms and corporations including Cognizant, Tata
Consulting Services, Accenture, and JP Morgan Chase were allowed to fill
more than 9,700 American white-collar professional jobs with foreign H-1B visa workers this year.
Vance said “the first principle” of national immigration policy ought
to “be about defending the interests of America and America’s workers”
rather than corporate special interests.
Musk? He likes the visas, and Trump conforms. Interesting!
[...] Economic Policy Institute research has shown that most corporations importing foreign H-1B visa workers are making significant savings in wages paid by doing so.
[...] Though Vance is one of only a couple of Republicans to speak on H-1B
visa abuse this [2022] election cycle, the GOP base, swing voters, and a
majority of Americans — for years — have said U.S. employers should
boost wages and offer better benefits to attract Americans for jobs
rather than being allowed to import foreign visa workers whenever
possible.
The latest Rasmussen Reports survey
on the issue shows that 57 percent of American adults, 65 percent of
Republicans, and nearly 6-in-10 swing voters say companies should raise
their pay and try harder to recruit Americans for blue-collar and
white-collar jobs over the federal government subsidizing them with
foreign labor year after year.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Well, MAGA voted Trump into four years of Musk fascism, or that it is how it looks; which seems amenable to Trump in any event. We get what they voted for.
And don't take my word for it. JD Vance sez so. Or said so, an election cycle ago. The winds of change blow, MAGA facing a headwind; Bannon saying, stay the course. Deport them. Musk? Well, the GOP-lite Democrats have an answer - not a very good answer, but it seems to be how they think and lose. Bless their losing souls.
