Foreign workers imported to the U.S. by giant corporations to take American jobs are now leveraging their growing economic clout to interfere in U.S. legislation.
A group of Indian contract workers called “Immigration Voice” is raising money to lobby for its demand that Congress pass a bill to expand the number of “green cards” given to Indian workers.
Titled the “Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act,” the bill already has passed the House but is stalled in the Senate by opponents.
Green cards give immigrants legal permanent residence in the U.S. Under current immigration regulations, Indians receive roughly 25 percent of all professional employment-related green cards annually. But the Indian lobbyists of Immigration Voice are pushing the Senate to approve the bill because it will allow Indian workers to get 90 percent of those green cards.
If passed, the bill would eliminate the per-country cap on green cards that is designed to prevent monopolization of green cards by one or a small group of countries.
The U.S. under the Trump administration enjoys record low unemployment, so many billionaire executives of major corporations, including the high-tech and computer industries, seek to import increasing numbers of foreign workers to drive down wages and increase profits.
Dawn Collins, an American tech professional who helped found Protect U.S. Workers, opposes the legislation.
“They’re not even citizens,” she said of the foreign lobbyists, ‘but they have been given so much by the United States, and yet they come in demanding all the green cards for the next ten years.”
Some 800,000 foreign workers from India have been imported by America’s corporations in recent years.
Immigration Voice created a Website to raise money to lobby the Congress.