House Sets Tuesday Vote on Green Card Giveaway to 300,000 Indian H-1B Contract Workers
The Democratic-run House will decide Tuesday whether to put at least 300,000 Indian contract workers on a fast track to valuable green cards, so incentivizing more low wage Indian graduates to take U.S. jobs from middle class American graduates.
Roughly 108 Republicans have co-sponsored the green card giveaway, called HR.1044 or the “”Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019” — even though the Democrats’ legislation is backed by Silicon Valley investors who oppose the GOP.
Democrats also have kept the legislation SECRET — the bill has had no hearing or committee votes — and it is being quarterbacked by the immigration lawyer who helped Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer write the disastrous “Gang of Eight” amnesty in 2013.
The GOP legislators backing the giveaway include Colorado GOP Rep. Ken Buck, who is the top Republican on the House’s immigration and citizenship subcommittee, and TENNESSEE GOP Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, the top Republican on the appropriations’ subcommittee on homeland security.
The bill can only pass if roughly 75 House Republicans support the giveaway. The Democrats need the GOP votes because California Rep. Zoe Lofgren is trying to pass the legislation via a fast-track process without hearings or amendments. But the fast-track process means the bill needs 290 votes, far more than the Democrats’ 235-member bloc in the House.
The names of all GOP legislators who are backing the giveaway are cited at the end of this article.
Buck has repeatedly declined to answer questions from Breitbart News about the giveaway. However, he has tried to support job giveaway legislation before.
In May 2017, for example, he
said he supported legislation which would have allowed the states to annually import 495,000 foreign workers to compete for jobs against Americans. The number would have risen as states’ economies grew, according to the
legislation, which was titled “The State Sponsored Visa Pilot Program of 2017.” Buck promised to support the CATO-pushed bill, but he showed minimal enthusiasm and the bill died after it was
exposed by Breitbart News.
Fleischmann justified his support for the Indian bill by saying technology companies have told him they cannot find enough Americans to do needed jobs. When asked about the impact on Americans’ wages by One America News Network, Fleischmann replied:
We have seen — and corporate leaders have told me — they cannot get the talent. There is dearth of talent out there, we cannot fill these jobs … We have a need for a growing talent pool, I want that talent pool to be the best in the world.
I interviewed
@RepChuck and asked him why he was supporting HR 1044, which would end country caps in our immigration law. It will provide lots of cheap labor to big tech & a legislative victory for Kamala Harris… here’s what he said:
Each year, roughly 800,000 young Americans graduate from college with skilled degrees in healthcare, engineering, software, science, math, architecture, business, or design. The degrees allow them to ask for good wages in the nation’s free market for labor.
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House Sets Tues. Vote on Green Card Giveaway for India's H-1B Workers