• MEDIA: Indian Government Hides Flood of H-1B Migrants from U.S. Media

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 24 11:25:06 2025
    Via Breitbart Immigration, Breitbart.COM/immigration, see Neil Munro
    on whether Donald Trump will attempt to enlist Peter Thiel's VP JD
    Vance to serve as Trump's Deputy Chief Sales Critter for Trump's bi-
    partisan, comprehensive, merit-based, immigration reform legislative
    legacy authored by the Cheap Labor Lobby and passed by Mike Johnson's
    House.GOV and John Thune's Senate.GOV: <URL:https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/13/indian-govt-hides-h-1b-migrants-u-s-media/>
    | Instead, he and his deputies are focusing on the Indian tariffs that
    | construct U.S. sales to India. The message was pushed by Fox
    | Business News; which ignored immigration as it wrote: "Over the next
    | few days, [Modi] is expected to offer some major concessions in an
    | attempt to move toward what the White House calls a 'fair bilateral
    | trading relationship.'"
    |
    | The divide over India's migrants was noted by USA Today reporter,
    | Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, who wrote:
    |
    || In December, Trump's appointees to head the Department of
    || Government Efficiency, billionaire entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek
    || Ramaswamy, ignited a political firestorm when they wrote about the
    || need for foreign workers in technical fields. Musk, an immigrant
    || from South Africa, wrote on X that there was a "permanent shortage
    || of excellent engineering talent" and that it was limiting Silicon
    || Valley.
    ||
    || ...
    ||
    || A swift backlash from Trump's MAGA world, many of whom oppose
    || immigration, ensued. Trump was forced to weigh in, saying he was a
    || "believer in H-1B," having hired some workers under the program for
    || his properties. It was a different stance from his first go around
    || as president, before his recent embrace by tech titans.
    |
    | Ramaswamy, however, also hid the scale of the H-1B program, which
    | she described as "capped at 65,000 per year."
    |
    | In reality, the H-1B program imports roughly 125,000 new contract
    | workers per year and keeps a workforce of roughly 730,000 foreign
    | graduates in the white-collar jobs needed by U.S. professionals.
    | Roughly 500,000 of the H-1B contract workers are Indians. In 2015,
    | President Barack Obama also granted work permits to the workers'
    | spouses.

    What will be the foreign born population in Howard Lutnick's
    Census.GOV head counts and share of the American labor market in Lori Chavez-DeRemer's BLS.GOV surveys at the end of Trump's second term
    and which aspirant for WhiteHouse.GOV does Susie Wiles predict will
    attempt to stump as tribune for legacy American proles?
    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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    "You're missing a few: *Suspend EB5 for Chinese investors. *End OPT
    for Chinese H1Bs in universities, pharma, hlthcare &amp; sensitive
    research. *Suspend F1 visas to Chinese students. *Freeze H1B/H4EAD.
    *Immediate overall immigration moratorium now. RT @charliekirk11 ! #AmericaFirst https://t.co/DDZKol5V0K" - Michelle Malkin <URL:https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/1240000244751847424>

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