U.S. workers being fired, forced to train foreign replacements?A popular visa program

[Viligant_Warrior]

Senators seek probe of claims US workers fired, forced to train foreign replacements

A popular visa program allegedly is being misused by U.S. companies to lay off thousands of American workers and replace them with foreign labor.

And, adding insult to injury, many of the laid-off workers allegedly have been forced to train their replacements, in what one anonymous whistleblower called a “humiliating” experience.

The allegations have caught the attention of a bipartisan group of senators -- including immigration hawk Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and the No. 2 Senate Democrat, Illinois’ Dick Durbin -- who are calling for a federal probe. A letter sent by 10 senators urging an investigation specifically cited reports of the firing and hiring practices at Southern California Edison, California's second-largest utility. The incidents are concentrated in the IT field, and involve American workers being replaced by H-1B visa holders.

The H-18 visa is supposed to be for foreign workers on a temporary basis due to the fact that U.S. talent is not readily available in the job marketplace. But these allegations are that it isn't being used properly,

Requirements under H-18 provisions state that foreigners must be paid current U.S. market value to keep them from depressing the job market, but U.S. workers are complaining they are being replaced by less-skilled workers who are paid less.

Sounds like another Obama immigration scam.

 

[dcontroversal]

Yeah no doubt.......they could kiss it for sure........I wouldn't do it......!

 

[AgeofKnowledge]

Obscure Immigration Program Hurts U.S. Residents–Both Young and Old: Makes it much cheaper to hire a foreigner than an equally qualified American.

• It denied American workers more than 430,000 jobs during the years 2009-2013; and

• It removed $4 billion (with a B) from the Social Security and Medicare trust funds

Read: Obscure Immigration Program Hurts U.S. Residents — Both Young and Old | Center for Immigration Studies

 

[AgeofKnowledge]

Oh and "95 percent of Indian company’s 14,000 US employees are South Asians." There's now a discrimination lawsuit filed because they won't hire American workers.

Read: IT worker's lawsuit accuses Tata of discrimination | Computerworld

 

[secularhermit]

Once a nation tears down its firewalls... the fire could be set.

 

[AgeofKnowledge]

Wages of America’s middle class have dropped below 1970s levels as immigration has surged 325 percent, according to a new congressional report.

The new Congressional Research Service report studied immigration and middle class income from 1945-2013 and found that as immigration slowed between 1945 and 1970, American incomes increased.
But when immigration expanded, the incomes of the bottom 90 percent of Americans went flat and then dropped beginning in 2000.

In the report to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the CRS reported that the foreign-born population of the United States surged 324.5 percent, from 9,740,000 to 41,348,066, from 1970 to 2013.

And as that happened, incomes of the bottom 90 percent dropped 7.9 percent in 2013 dollars, from an average of $33,621 to $30,980.

Read more: Congress: Middle class incomes drop as immigration surges | WashingtonExaminer.com

 

[AgeofKnowledge]

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