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GOP Politicians Help the Fortune 500 Discard GOP Voters
Neil Munro16-21 minutes 1/5/2022
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), and 12 other GOP legislators are pushing legislation to help Fortune 500 companies hire foreign visa workers instead of hiring the American graduates who might vote for the GOP.
Miller-Meeks, who won her district in Iowa by a mere six votes in 2020, touted her bill in a December 30 tweet:
“The antidote to a bad bill … is sunlight,” said a statement from Kevin Lynn at U.S. Tech Workers. The main sponsors, Rep. Deborah Ross (D-NC) and Miller-Meeks, “need to be exposed for being toadies to the corporations and not sticking up for wage-earners,” he added.
The vast majority of the beneficiaries are the adult children of Indian’s massive workforce in the United States. The bill is being pushed by an advocacy group for Indian contract workers who have taken Americans’ jobs and homes, and it is backed by 32 members in the House and by seven members in the Senate.
Indian visa workers and their lobbyists have relentlessly lobbied U.S. legislators for more green cards during the last several years. Much of their lobbying takes place in face-to-face meetings where legislators are aggressively pressed by empathy-inducing groups of doctors or by attractive young graduates. In 2019, for example, Leon Fresco, a former congressional staffer, pushed a similar bill using similar lobbying tactics against Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY) who is sponsoring Miller-Meeks’ bill in the Senate:
The Indian advocate, Patre, insists that Americans’ homeland was created for migrants — not for Americans — and that Americans’ laws should be changed to help her group:
Kiley also tried to portray the legislation as a fix for a policy problem in President Joe Biden’s administration: “The State Department backlog under this Administration has created many issues for legal residents and businesses alike, and this legislation would aim to fix that,” he added. In reality, the problem was created in 2000 when Congress allowed H-1B temporary workers to stay in the U.S. for decades.
Sen. Rand Paul’s office declined to answer questions from Breitbart News.
The bill pushed by India’s Patre is being backed by ten House Republicans and four Senate Republicans.
They GOP supporters include Miller-Meeks, Rep. Young Kim (R-CA), Rep. John Rutherford (R-FL), Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IN), Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL), Rep. Carlos Gimenez, (R-FL), Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV), Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), and Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI), plus Rand Paul, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Jodi Ernst (R-IA), and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).
Miller-Meeks, Giminez, and Meijer are members of the House homeland defense committee. Rutherford and Hinson are members of the homeland defense panel of the House committee on appropriations.
This cheap, disposable, and compliant “green card workforce” is excellent for investors — but it profoundly distorts the white-collar labor market and regional economies in the United States.
For example, the skewed labor market makes it extremely difficult for U.S. graduates to compete for starter jobs against visa workers who can be paid with the alternative currency of free, government-delivered citizenship. The imported foreign workers will work for lower wages and long hours — and without complaint — because they carry little college debt and are eager to leave China or India to take any job in the United States.
GOP Politicians Help the Fortune 500 Discard GOP Voters
Neil Munro16-21 minutes 1/5/2022
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), and 12 other GOP legislators are pushing legislation to help Fortune 500 companies hire foreign visa workers instead of hiring the American graduates who might vote for the GOP.
Miller-Meeks, who won her district in Iowa by a mere six votes in 2020, touted her bill in a December 30 tweet:
The bill — numbered H.4331 in the House and S. 2753 in the Senate — offers no compensatory gains for Americans, such as reforms to reduce the Fortune 500’s incentives to import foreign workers instead of hiring American graduates in states such as Iowa and Kentucky.My America’s CHILDREN Act would support lifelong Americans like @uiowa‘s @PareenMhatre. They grew up here, went to college here, and positively contribute to our communities. I am proud to lead the effort to help these students. #YearInReview
“The antidote to a bad bill … is sunlight,” said a statement from Kevin Lynn at U.S. Tech Workers. The main sponsors, Rep. Deborah Ross (D-NC) and Miller-Meeks, “need to be exposed for being toadies to the corporations and not sticking up for wage-earners,” he added.
The vast majority of the beneficiaries are the adult children of Indian’s massive workforce in the United States. The bill is being pushed by an advocacy group for Indian contract workers who have taken Americans’ jobs and homes, and it is backed by 32 members in the House and by seven members in the Senate.
That bill is also being boosted by an ethnic Indian, pro-Democratic advocacy group, which helps Democrats gain power as the Fortune 500 converts roughly 25,000 Indians per year into citizens.Black Americans who spent most of their lives working on Mississippi farms are suing their former employer after they were replaced by foreign workers on the H-2A visa program. Black Americans Sue U.S. Farms for Replacing Them with Foreigners
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) November 13, 2021
Indian visa workers and their lobbyists have relentlessly lobbied U.S. legislators for more green cards during the last several years. Much of their lobbying takes place in face-to-face meetings where legislators are aggressively pressed by empathy-inducing groups of doctors or by attractive young graduates. In 2019, for example, Leon Fresco, a former congressional staffer, pushed a similar bill using similar lobbying tactics against Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY) who is sponsoring Miller-Meeks’ bill in the Senate:
Many of the Indian visa workers and their advocates are eager to smear disagreement by Americans as racism. For example, Fresco said in 2019:We have lots and lots of doctors in Kentucky, both in Louisville and in Lexington, and in other cities around Kentucky, who can all express how important this bill is to them, and how they literally can’t afford to be doctors anymore.
Miller-Meeks is a doctor and worked with medical groups in Iowa. She cited the case of Indian-born Pareen Mhatre, who has been living in the United States while her parents held university jobs that would otherwise have gone to U.S. STEM graduates.All of our opponents can be lumped into one of two categories, very simple. Either you are an ethno-racist … Or you are what I would call a for-profit racist, meaning, “I have figured out a way to make money from the racist system, and if this racist system goes away, I’m not going to make money anymore.”
Both of those are disgusting, OK? Whether you are a racist or a for-profit racist, you’re still a racist, and anyone who is taking money from ethno-racists or from for-profit racists or benefiting from ethno-racism or from for-profit racism, is going to be called out by us in the next few weeks and no-one — whether it is Sen. Paul currently or any other Senator who wants to object to this [bill] — is going to be able to survive the scrutiny that we are going to bring.
Her tweet prompted much criticism from American voters.My America's CHILDREN Act would support lifelong Americans like @uiowa's @PareenMhatre. They grew up here, went to college here, and positively contribute to our communities. I am proud to lead the effort to help these students. #YearInReviewhttps://t.co/1xDXQHHMv7
— Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, M.D. (@RepMMM) December 31, 2021
The Indian advocate, Patre, insists that Americans’ homeland was created for migrants — not for Americans — and that Americans’ laws should be changed to help her group:
Miller-Meek’s office evaded when asked by Breitbart News about the impact of the legislation on Americans. Her spokesman portrayed the bill as a fix for problems with temporary visas, not about green cards and citizenship. “The Congresswoman personally knows many [foreign] individuals who have been impacted by the issues with renewing visas,” said her spokesman Will Kiley.Agreed! Since the foundation of this country was built by immigrants for immigrants, America should continue to serve as a beacon of hope for all immigrants. In order for that to happen, current immigration laws need to be changed now. @SenateDems @SenateGOP #ImproveTheDream https://t.co/ENDiU34Raq
— Pareen Mhatre (@PareenMhatre) December 8, 2021
Kiley also tried to portray the legislation as a fix for a policy problem in President Joe Biden’s administration: “The State Department backlog under this Administration has created many issues for legal residents and businesses alike, and this legislation would aim to fix that,” he added. In reality, the problem was created in 2000 when Congress allowed H-1B temporary workers to stay in the U.S. for decades.
Sen. Rand Paul’s office declined to answer questions from Breitbart News.
The bill pushed by India’s Patre is being backed by ten House Republicans and four Senate Republicans.
They GOP supporters include Miller-Meeks, Rep. Young Kim (R-CA), Rep. John Rutherford (R-FL), Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IN), Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL), Rep. Carlos Gimenez, (R-FL), Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV), Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), and Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI), plus Rand Paul, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Jodi Ernst (R-IA), and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).
Miller-Meeks, Giminez, and Meijer are members of the House homeland defense committee. Rutherford and Hinson are members of the homeland defense panel of the House committee on appropriations.
Under current subsidy rules set in 1990 and expanded multiple times since then, Fortune 500 companies are allowed to hire an unlimited number of foreign graduates for U.S. jobs by dangling a bonus of government-provided green cards and then citizenship. That bonus is so valuable that roughly one million mid-skill foreign graduates are now working in U.S. jobs for many years to get their valuable green cards, often in lower-wage, gig-work jobs for Fortune 500 subcontractors.Indian H-1B contract workers pressed Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin to demand he support Sen. Mike Lee's S.386 bill, which rewards Indian graduates. Watch–Sen. Durbin to Indian Visa Workers: ‘It Is Good that You Come’ to U.S.
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) November 6, 2019
This cheap, disposable, and compliant “green card workforce” is excellent for investors — but it profoundly distorts the white-collar labor market and regional economies in the United States.
For example, the skewed labor market makes it extremely difficult for U.S. graduates to compete for starter jobs against visa workers who can be paid with the alternative currency of free, government-delivered citizenship. The imported foreign workers will work for lower wages and long hours — and without complaint — because they carry little college debt and are eager to leave China or India to take any job in the United States.