Kevin McCarthy, 140 GOP Reps Vote
for Democrat Plan to Outsource Jobs, by Neil Munro, 7/10/19 Breitbart. GOP legislators (140) voted for a bill drafted by business
groups and Democrats which provides a green card giveaway to 300,000 Indian
contract workers and dramatically increases the incentives for more Indian
graduates to take college graduate jobs in the United States.
The 365- to-65 vote
means the bill moves to the Senate, where GOP Senators are pushing a matching
giveaway bill which is backed by Democrat Senator and presidential hopeful,
Sen. Kamala Harris. Only 57 of 197 GOP legislators and only eight Democrats present voted
against the giveaway.
The GOP’s House leader,
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, voted for the giveaway to Indian outsourcing
workers.
The bill also helps U.S.
real-estate investors by extending the green-card giveaway to the Chinese leaders who use the EB-5 program to buy
green cards for their families.
The Senate’s version of
the bill was halted in late June when Sen. Rand Paul blocked a “unanimous consent”
maneuver by GOP Utah Sen. Mike Lee. But Paul may switch his vote, allowing Lee
to repeat his “unanimous consent” maneuver. Lee is backed by South Carolina
Sen. Lindsey Graham, who chairs the Senate’s judiciary committee.
Business groups touted
the win before the vote. Via Twitter, Andrew Moriarty,
deputy director of federal policy at Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us advocacy group compared the
HR.1044 “country caps” bill to the Democrats’ DACA-amnesty bill:
This is a
very important bipartisan effort that we strongly support… If this passes, it
will join the Dream and Promise Act as two pieces of commonsense but CRUCIAL
immigration legislation passed by the House this year, waiting only for a vote
in the Senate.
The Department of
Homeland Security finally announced its opposition to the Senate’s version —
S.386 — of the legislation, shortly before the House voted for the giveaway to
Indian contract-workers and their U.S. employers:
The Department of
Homeland Security does not support S. 386. The bill would do nothing to move
the current employer-sponsored system toward a more merit-based system. The
adverse effect on immigrant visa wait times for nationals of countries
currently with lesser demand would be an obstacle to any potential plan to
promote or increase immigration from countries who immigrants present reduced
risk, such as Visa Waiver Program countries, or any other class of countries
which the Administration may desire to provide preferential treatment (e.g.,
countries with which the U.S. has negotiated favorable trade deals).
The statement was signed
by Joseph Joh, Assistant Director and Senior Adviser for the Office of
Legislative Affairs at DHS.
Joh’s letter may become
irrelevant if business lobbies persuade top White House aides and President
Donald Trump to accept the green-card bill as a variety of “merit-based
immigration.”
White House officials
may also argue the bill has nothing to do with immigration and amnesties, but
only deals with visa workers who are supposedly needed by high-tech companies.
In practice, there is no shortage of high tech workers– only a shortage of CEOs
and investors willing to spend the money needed to hire some of the many
American professionals employed at other companies.
In the Senate, GOP
leaders may choose to block the giveaway bill, in part, because it is being
pushed by Sen. Kamala Harris, who may be the Democrats’ challenger in
2020.
Establishment media
outlets almost entirely ignored the HR.1044 bill prior to its approval. After
the vote, Tai Kopan, the San
Franciso Chronicle’s Washington reporter, praised the
House vote even though the legislation would raise the number of Indians
seeking to displace the declining share of American graduates in her
newspaper’s home district of Silicon Valley:
Throughout
the run-up to the brief House debate, the House GOP leadership kept a low
profile as the giveaway bill was protested by immigration reform groups, including
NumbersUSA, the Federation for American Immigration reform, ALIPC and other
groups. Hill staffers reported that the phone lines were clogged by the
pro-American groups.
But
there is no sign that the GOP leadership pressured other GOP legislators to
vote against the Democrat-corporate legislation.
The
top GOP legislator on the House judiciary committee, Georgia Rep. Doug Collins,
announced he would vote against the legislation because it did not go through a
process of hearings and votes.
Whip
Steve Scalise kept a low profile, and quietly voted against the measure. Minority
Leader Kevin McCarthy voted for the giveaway, which provides a fast-track to
green cards for 300,000 Indian contract-workers and 300,000 of their family
members who choose to stay and work in the United States after their work visas
expired. They were allowed to stay once their employers nominated them for
green cards.
The legislation offers
roughly 75,000 extra green cards per year to encourage Indian graduates to
become contract workers in the United States.
Indian graduates use the
H-1B visa program and the Optional Practical Training program to seek low-wage
job offers for U.S. white-collar jobs that are also sought by the 800,000
Americans who graduate from college each year with new degrees in healthcare,
engineering, business, science, math, computers or science.
The Democrat bill
includes no protections for American graduates — many of whom have large
college debts — and it ignored alternative measures that would have reduced the
companies’ ability to hire Indian outsourcing workers and also pay them with
green cards.
Shortly before the vote,
McCarthy’s election campaign announced a record haul of political
contributions:
No House Republican has
ever raised as much money in the first half of a year as Republican leader
Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) has thus far in 2019, according to fundraising figures
released by his campaign on Wednesday morning.
McCarthy’s fundraising
committees announced the campaign had raised $10.66 million in the second
quarter, bringing his total haul for the year thus far to $33.72 million. The
success has allowed it to already distribute $8.8 directly to reelection
campaigns of members and $10.7 million to the National Republican Congressional
Committee and state parties.
“The substantial resources
raised thus far will allow us to take our vision and message to the people and
expand the map by outworking, out-recruiting and exposing the corrupt, inept
new Democrat socialist party,” McCarthy said. “Together we will restore a
government that put America first and every American back on top.”
In the brief floor
debate on Wednesday, GOP legislators repeatedly praised the bill because it
helps imported workers, investors, and companies. They did not explain how it
might help American graduates, middle-class voters, and professional
employees.
In contrast, Sean
Hannity Hannity said July 9: I do believe in
merit-based immigration, but I don’t think this is the bill, though,
because it would reward employers who literally replace American workers
potentially with hundreds of thousands of low cost, less skilled workers who
are entering on temporary visas, mainly H-1Bs, often working the tech sector.
…
If we want to raise the
standard of living of the American people, right now, the little bit of
shortage we have in the job market, you know, it creates an opportunity for …
it is a natural pressure-up that people are going to get more pay, better
benefits and if you start allowing immigration on a mass level … you have to do
it in a way that protects the American worker and their ability to climb the
ladder of success and their opportunities and their standard of living.
I want a solution to the
problem … the devil is in the details. It can always be done better.
The Democrats’ giveaway
bill was also by a new wave of groups created by Americans who say their
incomes have been slashed by companies’ use of the green card system to attract
and pay cheap white-collar labor from India. During the last year, these
professionals have organized into several groups, including the American WorkersCoalition, doctorswithoutjobs.com, ProUSworkers, No on H.R. 1044,
and The Multinational Coalition Against H.R.
1044/S. 386. In
2018, these American opponents of the green card giveaway bill helped defeat
Kansas GOP Rep. Kevin Yoder, who supported a prior version of the legislation.
Comments
This greencard
giveaway should sit in the senate and be ignored until we can get a Merit-Based
Immigration Bill that cancels the Lottery, Chain Migration, Anchor Baby,
Asylees and the Border Wall is done.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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