{"id":6212,"date":"2020-06-29T03:28:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T08:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=6212"},"modified":"2020-06-29T03:57:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T08:57:45","slug":"dhs-admits-600000-foreign-h-1b-workers-in-american-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/dhs-admits-600000-foreign-h-1b-workers-in-american-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS Admits 600,000 Foreign H-1B Workers in American Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/india-tech-workers-economy-filephoto-AP-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Employees work on their computers at the office of HackerEarth in Bangalore, India, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. (AP Photo\/Altaf Qadri)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2020\/06\/27\/dhs-admits-600000-foreign-h-1b-workers-in-american-jobs\/\">DHS Admits 600,000 Foreign H-1B Workers in American Jobs<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheading\">U.S. employers keep roughly 600,000 foreign H-1B visa workers in jobs throughout the United States, according to an\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/USCIS\/Native%20Docs\/USCIS_H-1B_Authorized_to_Work_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\">unprecedented report<\/a>\u00a0released by the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of resident H-1B workers has successfully been kept secret for decades, mainly because Fortune 500 companies do not want voters to recognize the massive outsourcing of jobs for themselves and their college graduate children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no count, so they had to estimate,\u201d said John Miano, a lawyer at the Immigration Reform Law Institute. He said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The whole thing is astounding. For years, [DHS] has deliberately not stored [visa worker] information into their databases. They only enter selected information into the computers. That was deliberate so that no one could know what is going on. We have sent in all kinds of [Freedom of Information Act] requests, and often the response is \u2018we don\u2019t keep track of that.\u2019<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The calculation is poorly explained, so \u201cthe estimate would be much more believable if that whole process had been explained carefully,\u201d said\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/North\/First-Time-DHS-Estimates-Total-Size-H1B-population?&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social-media&amp;utm_campaign=addtoany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\">David North<\/a>, an expert with the Center for Immigration Studies. \u201cClose to a quarter of the records \u2014 dealing with workers who often make $100,000 a year or more \u2014 there is no SSN,\u201d he added. \u201cWhat an admission!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0773966428MsoNormal\">Overall, the number of legally resident, white-collar, foreign contract workers is at least 1.3 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0773966428MsoNormal\">This population keeps denying roughly 1.3 million Americans out of starter jobs, Fortune 500 jobs, and well-paid jobs in Silicon Valley \u2014 plus an uncounted number of B-1s and subcontractor-managed illegal professionals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0773966428MsoNormal\">The corporate white-collar cheating is protected by federal laws that minimize the duty of primate contractors to verify the legality of subcontractors\u2019 employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0773966428MsoNormal\">The same legal loophole has allowed at least eight million blue-collar illegal migrants to hold jobs in construction, restaurants, warehouses, and other sites where professional licenses are not needed.<\/p>\n<p>read in full here, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2020\/06\/27\/dhs-admits-600000-foreign-h-1b-workers-in-american-jobs\/\">DHS Admits 600,000 Foreign H-1B Workers in American Jobs<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: DHS Admits 600,000 Foreign H-1B Workers in American Jobs U.S. employers keep roughly 600,000 foreign H-1B visa workers in jobs throughout the United States, according to an\u00a0unprecedented report\u00a0released by the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency. The total number of resident H-1B workers has successfully been kept secret for decades, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/dhs-admits-600000-foreign-h-1b-workers-in-american-jobs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DHS Admits 600,000 Foreign H-1B Workers in American Jobs<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6216,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions\/6216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}