Migration moves money. Born Irish, then a Cold War bridegroom. Former Defense News, WashiTech, National Journal, TheDC. Lucky me.

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Journos who cover migration should absorb this admission that Wall St. profits from the "Nation of Immigrants" narrative. Eg, the #H1B program flips college-grad wealth to the C-suite & Wall St. Listen to Larry Fink: bit.ly/3y4Qd5y Look at Haiti: bit.ly/481SRX
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I appreciate that the Trump administration is earnestly trying to investigate H-1B fraud but the more research I do, the more dms I get, it just becomes painfully obvious that we are trying to empty the ocean with a shovel. I have literally thousands and thousands of tips that I've either already sent in or have on my list to send in. And I have BARELY scratched the surface of H-1B fraud. I haven't even started on F1 fraud, OPT fraud, O-1 fraud, it just goes on and on and on. The amount of fraud is in the millions and thousands more come in every day from every visa under the sun. There are 1.4 billion indians in india. Hundreds of millions of them want to come to America. They will do whatever it takes to scam the system to escape india and the system is so poorly set up that they will be allowed to do it. We just can't win this way. We need help. We need to turn off the fraud spigot and the only way to do that is if we totally ban all immigration from india indefinitely. It pains me to say this and I don't want to blackpill but the numbers are just too great for us to handle, anything other than a total ban on all indian immigration is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
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Many Indians are using "Parakeet AI" to pass job interviews. It can generate answers in real time. The AI overlay can also remain hidden from the interviewer even when the candidate shares their screen. Many cheating their way into lucrative jobs!
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The private sector is private. It is not sovereign. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. The Tariff Act of 1930 prohibited the import of goods produced with forced labor. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 prohibited oppressive child labor. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 prohibited employers from knowingly hiring workers who are not authorized to work in the U.S. labor market. And so on and so forth. The entire history of labor, employment, and immigration law in the United States consists of government deciding that certain private labor arrangements are unlawful. And to the extent we permit imports, we necessarily accept goods produced under labor and employment laws established by foreign governments.
There is something terrifying about politicians who don’t seem to understand that the private sector is private. Companies do not exist to carry out the government’s preferred labor policy.
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Replying to @JohnJSSoriano
I know that everyone I work with are on visas... H-1B, TN, F1, 0-1A, just on my team, not a single person I work with was born in this country. It's honestly ridiculous, and then competent American engineers I know can't get a job here because "the interviewer" (on a visa) had doubts.
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🚨 JUST IN: DHS Secretary Mullin has declared “worksites” in Kansas are OFF-LIMITS to ICE So basically, Mullin has granted amnesty to any illegal shittily building houses in America’s heartland This is NOT what 80 MILLION Americans voted for!
NEW: DHS says @ICEgov is not arresting illegal immigrants at worksites in Kansas— @SecMullinDHS saying, “ICE is not conducting worksite operations in Kansas. ICE law enforcement has conducted operations targeting heinous criminals including murderers, rapists, and drug traffickers and illegal aliens with final orders of removal.” This comes as livestock associations in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma released a joint statement pushing back on workplace enforcement operations and local news outlets are reporting that “some businesses in southwest Kansas are shutting their doors temporarily this week as federal immigration agents make arrests.”
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Estb. Democratic 'moderate' @RepTomSuozzi says his "biggest desire" is amnesty for about 9 million illegals. Democrat Rep. @RepDeliaRamirez is boasting of "Latino Power." In stable societies, politicians try to help their citizens, not replace them. bit.ly/4dSsNSL
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Replying to @amandalouise416
@amandalouise416 shows how the #H1B visa programs allow Walmart to maintain a US workforce that largely excludes US citizens. The feds, the estb media, and the unions have done nothing to curb this industrial-scale discrimination against Americans. bit.ly/46HiFIJ
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Replying to @David_J_Bier
Tata, while technically private, is effectively a proxy for the Indian Government 🤡🥴Also:
Just a sampling....of US corporations free training in tech jobs but only in India These companies fraudulently claim a lack of skilled workers in America while training foreign nationals for free overseas then import these people here so they can pay them less, eventually capture the US corporation from within then offshore the company to India...massive national security threat imo as it pertains to AI, Quantum computing, cybersecurity etc. Nearly half of all US STEM graduates are unemployed or underemployed. The Indian Govt has extremely strong local labor law protections for their people in India. Only the US govt allows its citizens to be treated like replaceable parts.
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Hot college grad from Ecuador moves to US & claims asylum. But she's deported w/ her hotter daughter when her car is totaled by another illegal migrant. WashPost has the details, but no sense of humor. Nor any recognition of Biden's asylum death toll. bit.ly/4iNIUoi
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🚨 THIS IS EXACTLY WHY THE $100,000 H-1B FEE HAS TO APPLY TO TRANSFERS TOO. Sara Gonzales just interviewed a former H-1B worker who makes extraordinary allegations about his experience with multiple consulting companies, including Great America Technologies. He says he originally came to America sponsored by a consulting firm. He says he borrowed $6,000-$7,000 to cover immigration-related costs he was required to pay, including USCIS and attorney fees. Then in January 2024, his H-1B sponsorship was transferred to Great America Technologies after promises of projects and timely pay. According to his account, things got even worse. He says he went as long as SIX MONTHS without being paid. And he says the company ultimately owed him: MORE THAN $100,000 IN UNPAID WAGES. Here’s the part Washington absolutely needs to pay attention to: He says he isn’t alone. He describes a third-party consulting model where workers can pay thousands to get here, get placed with end clients, and then become dependent on the sponsoring company for both their paycheck and their immigration status. He says many other H-1B workers are caught in similar situations. This is why focusing the $100,000 fee only on H-1Bs entering from overseas leaves a massive blind spot. A transfer doesn’t magically make the employer legitimate. If an employer wants to take over sponsorship of an H-1B worker already in America, why shouldn’t that employer face the same scrutiny? And this goes beyond fees. Every H-1B employer should be subject to meaningful audits. Is the job real? Is the worker actually being paid the required wage? Who is paying the immigration costs? Is the worker sitting unpaid on the bench? Does the employer actually operate where it claims to operate? And we need a serious conversation about whether third-party consulting companies should be allowed to sponsor H-1B workers at all. The worker in this interview says his dependence on the system left him deeply vulnerable. Protecting American workers and protecting foreign workers from exploitation are not competing goals. Close the transfer loophole. Audit the employers. Enforce the rules. @SaraGonzalesTX @StephenM @USCISJoe @USLaborIG @WHFraudTF
I Exposed What This H-1B Fraudster Was Doing to His Workers...And Now He's Self-Deporting!
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When you hear “Baptist hospital in Montgomery, Alabama,” is this the residency class you picture? Broken laws got us to the point where we have a doctor trained at the Government Medical College in Bhavnagar, India leading a residency program where 23/24 residents are foreign med school grads.
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Hot college grad from Ecuador moves to US & claims asylum. But she's deported w/ her hotter daughter when her car is totaled by another illegal migrant. WashPost has the details, but no sense of humor. Nor any recognition of Biden's death toll. bit.ly/4iNIUoi
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Department of Labor IG Signals Total Shutdown of The H-1B Program, Preparing Mass Fraud Arrests: 'We Have HANDCUFFS Ready...' Anthony D'Esposito: "We are building a case. I think that the efforts and the focus that you see from the White House and from this administration is telling a story. We are laying out the case very vividly to the American people." "l think that the foreign labor visa program is going to look very different 365 days from now than it does today." End this fraud, @USLaborIG
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Watch a confident politician insist that mass migration boosts national productivity. I'm told that he also sold armor plate to Ned Kelly and camels to Victoria. Reality: bit.ly/3JrZd74 Bonus Australian article: bit.ly/40AaTgD
Right after performing a land acknowledgement for Indigenous peoples, Labor Premier Peter Malinauskas makes a case for replacing the entire population of Australia with migrants because native born Australians are apparently too much of a fiscal burden. ''Here's the ripping beauty of skilled migrants: they arrive job-ready at relatively low cost. A couple of years ago, federal Treasury estimated that the average Australian-born resident — Aussies born here — has a lifetime net cost to public budgets of $85,000. Net cost. Whereas average skilled migrants deliver a net $198,000 benefit to public budgets over their lifetime in this country. For a single primary skilled migrant, that number rises to a lifetime surplus of $415,000 net benefit. Now, on the one hand I find these numbers staggering, but on the other hand it makes perfect sense when you think it through. Skilled visa recipients arrive in their prime working age, immediately able to get to work and pay tax, where a child born in Australia relies on public investment in education and training for decades before they reach the workforce.'' He then concedes that Australian productivity growth has collapsed over the past few years just as we have embarked on the largest mass migration program in our national history. His solution here is to import more migrants to fix our productivity problems. He simply refuses to engage with recent studies which found that just 12% of the overall Permanent Migration Program goes specifically to offshore independent skilled workers. Finally he straight up lies and argues that Australia will not be able to build AUKUS nuclear submarines without mass migration, even though the cleared AUKUS workforce is limited to Australian citizens only. What a catastrophic speech.
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Good news: @SecRubio's State Department is opening doors worldwide for Markwayne Mullin's ICE to deport tens of thousands of illegal migrants who were being shielded from deportation by autocracies and Muslim governments. bit.ly/4d339dT
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Trump's deputies zig-zag toward regulatory curbs on the sale of Americans' jobs to Indian migrants via the visa programs, incl. #H1B. "The H-1B should not exist to replace American workers with low-wage foreigners," says @VP Vance. bit.ly/46K1mXx
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Rupert Murdoch is using his New York Post to push for an amnesty & migration bill that would shift more wealth from citizens to investors & migrants. So expect a big 'post-mortem' amnesty push to end GOP populism if the Dems win the midterm election. bit.ly/46GXBlD
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"Latino Power": A Latino Democrat exults as she pushes to open the borders. Gosh, I dare say the estb. media might show some excitement if a GOP Rep used a paler version of that phrase. But it is just vibrant diversity in a stable culture, right? bit.ly/4rvNPMD
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This should be torches and pitchforks stuff. $100B in economic benefit annually, wantonly bestowed to the third world by greedy corporates and their pet legislators.
706,457 tech workers laid off since 2022. 670,693 H-1B visas issued to Indian nationals in the same period. The pipeline never slowed down- even as Americans lost their jobs by the hundreds of thousands and were permanently displaced.
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90% of my coworkers are Indians on H-1B, H-4 EAD, and OPT contractors and full timers. Manual testers, BAs, Scrum masters, POs. This company is packed with Indians from the CTO down to the junior consultants. The code they write and the testing they do is sloppy garbage. I’m sick of this invasion. American citizens are getting shoved out of our own jobs. How is the government this useless at looking into the fraud or do they just care about the lobbying money? 😞@StephenM @SaraGonzalesTX @USCIS @USLaborIG @USDOL @WHFraudTF @WhiteHouse
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