Immigration Bill Passes the Senate, Includes More H-1B Visas

[ElNono]

"While the landmark immigration bill (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113s744es/pdf/BILLS-113s744es.pdf) (full text PDF), which recently passed the U.S. Senate, is being hailed as bringing crucial reforms (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-immigration-overhaul-20130628,0,5866141,full.story) that will vastly improve the state of immigration in this country, there is a provision in it that is seeing relatively little discussion (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/technology/a-bill-allowing-more-foreign-workers-stirs-a-tech-debate.html): section 4101, a 'market-based' increase in the amount of H-1B visas for skilled workers. 'The pitched arguments of both sides, which are likely to resurface in the House when it takes up its version of an immigration overhaul, cloud a complicated reality. There is little empirical evidence to suggest that foreign engineers displace American engineers as a whole. If anything, one recent study suggests, the growth of immigrant workers in American companies helps younger American technical workers — more of them are hired and at higher-paying jobs — but has no noticeable consequences, good or bad, on older workers.'"

[ElNono]

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[Homeland Security]

Get ready for more stinky Paki

[scott]

Good as DOA in the House.

Cornyn and Cruz both taking heat from the Texas Business Community (Texas Association of Business expressed their disappointment today) for their opposition.

[Rogue]

little chance for it to pass the house though, that's what usually happens when the senate and house are controlled by different parties.

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lets train and educate americans to do american jobs

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House tea bagging Repug extremists will, as Boner said, come up with their own imm bill which will be so punitive, racist, xenophobic, extreme that it will never pass the Senate.

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" 'market-based' increase in the amount of H-1B visas for skilled workers."

a totally dishonest euphemism, a smoke-screen, the corporations (aka the sacred, worshipped bogus "market") will max out the H1B visa quote every year, importing lower-paid Asians, East Europeans, etc to satisfy the profit goals of corporate mgmt and investors, leaving middle class Americans unemployed, or at best under employed.

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The Truth About Immigration Reform and the Economy


http://readersupportednews.org/images/stories/alphabet/rsn-T.jpghe battle over immigration reform is often about economic fear - fear that immigrants are hurting the economy for native born Americans. But that fear is based on several economic myths:

MYTH ONE: Immigration reform will strain already overburdened government safety net programs like Social Security and Medicare.

Wrong.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office finds (http://www.cbo.gov/publication/44346) that immigration reform will actually reduce the budget deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Why is that? Because while they seek citizenship, undocumented workers will be required to pay into Social Security and Medicare even though they won't be eligible for them.

They're also younger on average than the typical worker, so even when they're citizens they'll be paying into Social Security and Medicare far longer.

MYTH TWO: New immigrants take away jobs from native-born Americans.

Wrong again.

The economy doesn't contain a fixed number of jobs to be divided up among people who need them. As an economy grows, it creates more jobs. And what we've seen over the last 200 years is that new immigrants to America fuel that growth, and thereby create more jobs for everyone.

We've also learned that new immigrants are by definition ambitious. They wouldn't have borne all the risks and hardships of immigrating to the United States if they weren't. And that ambition and hard work help the economy grow even faster.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates (http://www.cbo.gov/publication/44346) that immigration reform will increase economic growth by more than 3 percent 10 years from now, 5 percent in 20 years.

Ambition also helps explain why the children of new immigrants earn more college degrees (http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/report/2013/04/03/59040/the-facts-on-immigration-today-3/), on average, than the children of native-born.

And why their incomes are higher (http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/02/07/second-generation-americans) than their parent's incomes.

All of which also helps grow the economy and create more jobs.

MYTH THREE: We don't need new immigrants.

Wrong again.

The American population is aging rapidly. Forty years ago there were five workers for every retiree. Now there are three. If present trends continue, there will be only two (http://mercatus.org/publication/how-many-workers-support-one-social-security-retiree) workers for every retiree by the year 2030.

No economy can survive on a ratio of 2 workers per retiree.

But because new immigrants are on average younger than native-born Americans, they'll help bring that ratio back down. They're needed so we can continue to have a vibrant economy.

Get it? Three wrongs don't make a right. The right answer is immigration reform is not only good for undocumented workers. It's also good for the rest of us.

http://robertreich.tumblr.com/

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Another reason business doesn't want enforcement of eVerify, or other legal integration of undoc immigrants into the system

Many low-wage workers who won judgments were never paid

Anita Herrera spent years cleaning offices in San Diego, but her boss never gave her a legally required lunch and rest break during a seven-hour shift.

When she eventually asked for a breather, her employer cut her hours. So, in 2009, Herrera filed a complaint with the California Labor Commissioner's Office. Investigators corroborated the allegation and got a court order requiring her former employer to pay her $20,000 in penalties for the wage-and-hour law violations. Even so, she never got a cent.

Herrera's cleaning company switched offices, changed its name and took out new business licenses, she said in Spanish. "I feel very defrauded. The company continues with its contracts and continues doing business."

Her experience is not unusual.

Over a recent three-year period, thousands of mainly immigrant workers in California who clean buildings, pick crops, wash cars, sew garments and perform other minimum- and low-wage jobs won monetary judgments against their employers but were never paid, according to a new study to be released Thursday.

From 2008 to 2011, only 17% of court-ordered claims for back pay and labor law penalties were collected, according to the report (http://www.nelp.org/hollowvictories) by the National Employment Law Project and the UCLA Labor Center titled "Hollow Victories: The Crisis in Collecting Unpaid Wages for California's Workers."

Just 42% — $165 million out of $390 million — was recovered after being verified by government regulators, even after judges signed orders and employers signed settlement agreements.
Meanwhile, companies representing three-fifths of unpaid-wage judgments legally vanished, the report said.

"Businesses are dissolved, licenses canceled, and it's very hard for workers to get their money," said Eunice Cho, a staff attorney in the National Employment Law Project's Oakland office and coauthor of the report.

Avoiding court-ordered back wages and penalties is a symptom of an amorphous underground economy that experts say involves cash payments for goods, services and labor that deprive California and local governments in the state of an estimated $7 billion a year in tax revenue, according to a 2011 legislative research report. More than a quarter of Los Angeles County workers are paid in cash, according to a decade-old study by the Economic Roundtable, a Los Angeles public policy research organization.

For each of the 27,000 janitorial companies legally registered in California, there are two to three underground firms in the same business, said the Maintenance Corporation Trust Fund, a nonprofit group that helps victims of wage theft. The organization is bankrolled by large janitorial service employers as part of agreements with labor unions.

"The lowest bidder gets the contract," said Lilia Garcia, the fund's executive director. "The way the irresponsible business gives the lowest bid is by breaking state wage and hour laws, not paying taxes and not paying workers' compensation insurance."

In one such case, the labor commissioner's office this month said it issued citations against a Los Angeles garment maker for almost $300,000 in wage and hour violations after an investigation uncovered that the company had changed its name to avoid paying previous citations.

"This case demonstrates our commitment not just to addressing wage theft but also to cracking down on the shell games used to avoid detection," said Labor Commissioner Julie Su.

Advocates for low-income workers are hoping to get a new tool to collect judgments more speedily, before potential scofflaw employers can switch their identities to avoid payment. They're backing a bill introduced this session in the Legislature, AB 1164, by Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal (D-Long Beach). The proposal, dubbed the Fair Paycheck Act, would slap a wage lien on an employer's property to ensure assets are available to settle any unpaid wages after a judgment is rendered.

The measure, though, stalled in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. It ran into a solid block of opposition from the California Chamber of Commerce, which added the proposal to its list of "Job Killer" bills.
A who's who of other major business trade groups and chambers of commerce also pilloried the proposal, saying it "would cripple California businesses by allowing any employee, employee representative or the Labor commissioner to file super-priority liens on an employer's real property ... for an alleged, yet unproven wage claim."

Lowenthal intends to revive her bill next year.

"AB 1164 is about fairness," she said. "Every Californian deserves to be paid the wages they are due."

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/1780/article/p2p-76465248/

along with wage theft, as a PBS documentary showed, many of the immigrants are repeatedly raped, sometimes for years.

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psychotic leftist government sycophant

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68 Senators Vote to Create Incentive for Employers to Hire Amnestied Immigrants Over U.S. Citizens

"Under Obamacare, businesses with over 50 workers that employ American citizens without offering them qualifying health insurance could be subject to fines of up to $3,000 per worker. But because newly legalized immigrants wouldn’t be eligible for subsidies on the Obamacare exchanges until after they become citizens – at least 13 years under the Senate bill – businesses could avoid such fines by hiring the new immigrants instead."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/68-senators-vote-create-incentive-employers-hire-amnestied-immigrants-over-us-citizens_738015.html

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68 Senators Vote to Create Incentive for Employers to Hire Amnestied Immigrants Over U.S. Citizens

that's a lie, but it's right wingers that nothing but lying and propaganda.

and WS and similar shit rags know well enough that the Senate bill is stillborn, aborted by the House Repugs.

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Forget for a moment what the House will do with the bill , give me some kind of coherent response to the italicized paragraph in my post.

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68 Senators Vote to Create Incentive for Employers to Hire Amnestied Immigrants Over U.S. Citizens
that's a lie, but it's right wingers that nothing but lying and propaganda.

and WS and similar shit rags know well enough that the Senate bill is stillborn, aborted by the House Repugs.




It's not a lie, non citizens are exempt from Obamacare. You're one of those fake ass nig nogs calling for social justice against Zimmerman and planning to riot once he gets off aren't you? Bring it son.

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Southern California Edison IT workers 'beyond furious' over H-1B replacements

Information technology workers at Southern California Edison (SCE) are being laid off and replaced by workers from India. Some employees are training their H-1B visa holding replacements, and many have already lost their jobs.

The employees are upset and say they can't understand how H-1B guest workers can be used to replace them.

The IT organization's "transition effort" is expected to result in about 400 layoffs, with "another 100 or so employees leaving voluntarily," SCE said in a statement. The "transition," which began in August, will be completed by the end of March, the company said.

"They are bringing in people with a couple of years' experience to replace us and then we have to train them,"

http://www.itworld.com/article/2880532/southern-california-edison-it-workers-beyond-furious-over-h-1b-replacements.html?phint=newt%3Ditworld_today&phint=idg_eid%3De9a1bab1fadac3242d97a6dde939315b#t k.ITWNLE_nlt_today_2015-02-07

War on Employees, of course, non-unionized employees, always powerless, easily disposable.