According to advocates for U.S. employees, White House officials are quietly robbing a little-known rule that protects American graduates from the fly-in migrants who use temporary visa to acquire and maintain jobs.
” It’s going to wreak havoc on American experts”, said Kevin Lynn, founder of U. S. Tech Workers.
He claimed that the proposed changes to the” Schedule A” regulation wo n’t lead to an increase in the annual number of legal immigrants. However, they did assist businesses in finding overseas graduates long after their temporary visas expire, causing more Americans to flee, according to Lynn.
All]American ] expert bright- neck employees may be displaced by travel- in migrants. If this [draft Schedule A] law comes into effect, any barriers to entry that may prevent [foreign alumni ] from flying to America to take the job of an American will be eliminated.
According to business advocates, a change in the law does allow businesses to fill it positions more quickly. ” The Trump administration should resume normal updates… but that skilled immigrants can more rapidly get to work, especially in critical and emerging industries”, said a January statement from FWD. a team dedicated to promoting West Coast owners.
However, any regulatory changes aimed at American graduates does highlight the growing effects of white-collar fly-in movement on middle-class prosperity.
Refugees in the White- Neck Business
According to the most recent regulations, Fortune 500 companies can buy and retain an army of at least 1.5 million short-term, mid-skill card workers in U.S. white-collar positions. These employees are imported through the H- 1B, J- 1, TN, L- 1, B- 1/B- 2, OPT, and CPT programs, which are hardly controlled, presumably momentary, and largely unlimited. A distinct O- 1 immigration program exists for higher- skill migrants.
According to a report released by the American Immigration Council in June 2022, this outflow has now added one international tech worker and a third U.S. graduate to the field.
The majority of these unusual visa applicants are hired by the factory subcontractors beneath the Fortune 500 companies to complete mid-skill positions. These common jobs previously served as a crucial stepping stone for conventional American graduates.
International staff are supposedly momentary, according to the article. They collaborate closely with their Executives to expand or switch between permits, though. Some CEOs even turn a blind eye when whitened- neck migrants overstay their lawful status and get illegal workers.
The imported visa workers also lobby their employers to apply for one of the 140, 000 green cards that American companies offer to foreign employees ( and their families ) each year.
Because they let foreigners reside and work anywhere in the United States, green cards are extremely valuable. Once a manager’s green card request is approved, the supposedly temporary foreign worker is allowed to stay and work in the United States until they reach the head of the line for green cards.
The waiting and work process that result can take a lot of years, especially for Indians, who make up roughly 70 % of all visa holders. Because CEOs who request more green cards than the 140, 000 cards cap are not charged, their waiting list for green cards is backlogged.
So this work- and- wait process creates a huge population of cheap and powerless foreign graduates who dare not contradict, anger, or disappoint the CEOs who can cancel their legal status and green card requests for any cause. At least 1 million white collar workers are counted among the current population of more than 1 million foreign workers with short-term visas and work permits lasting for one to six years.
The CEOs of Fortune 500 companies rationally increase the number of foreign workers whose salaries are indentured to reduce employee protests from American professionals and increase short-term stock prices.
The result is that many workplaces in name- brand U. S.companies are filled with foreign workers. The number of Asians in the division that produces the core products, according to senior tech professional, Robert B. Smith, told Breitbart News about his West Coast business,” If you take administrative people, executive assistants, marketing people, project managers, and all of that, it would probably be 90 %.”
He claimed that the Indian visa workers also contribute to U.S. office politics by bringing their own cultures back to India as well because they are deeply motivated to oppose the return of other Indian visa workers. Most are “aggressive and predatory … they will sacrifice any]company goal ] to promote themselves and they never admit their mistakes”, the senior professional said.
According to him, the low-trust, culture” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>hierarchical, caste-based workplace culture in India is very different from the free-speaking, merit-based, professional culture most native-born U.S. graduates seek.
He claimed that Chinese visa workers are more cooperative and focused on their business objectives.
The result of these office politics, the senior professional said, is that top- tier executives at many Fortune 500 companies now use Indian and Chinese managers to manage the competing populations of diverse imported workers.
According to many American and visa workers, the reliance on foreign managers creates a black market where foreign managers can sell American jobs to eager immigrants with temporary work permits. Rex from Dallas told Breitbart News in May 2024 that Indians” told me that at places where they]worked ] before here, the hiring manager would anticipate receiving a cut up to 20 % of the paycheck.”
Indian managers commonly refuse to hire the best candidates because they fear the new hires may outshine them, Rex told Breitbart News. In 2021, Aabha, an Indian from North Carolina, stated to Breitbart News that Indian hiring managers “have influence in the entire market in America.
Every position in every company I’ve interviewed that is a manager or at least a senior president is an Indian one. For sure it’s an Indian, and they do not take the people that are qualified now, they are taking people who they can get]faked ] reference from and … get some sort of kickback from.
According to the senior professional, those office conflicts prevent innovative American professionals from becoming managers or being promoted. An American professional told Breitbart News that” the majority of the managers ]at Intel are Indian, so it is very difficult for an American to get hired there,” adding:” Most of the managers are Indian.
I’d go into a room of 30 people and 15 to 17 of them are from India … They all come from the same area]in India], they all know each other, they all hang out together … The Indians are a very, very tight group. They are automatically aware of the caste system; the guys at the bottom are aware that the caste guys are above them.
The end result is that many U.S. businesses are run by foreign managers under the direction of a small number of American MBAs,” who have a degree in business but do n’t actually understand our [technology ] business,” the senior professional said.
” Which is also why smaller companies tend to innovate more”, he added.
This anti-meat debate has erupted at numerous once-great companies, including Intel Corp., Twitter,  ., IBM, Google, and  .
According to Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies, “most CEOs only want to keep Americans in the storefront roles where they can provide an American face for a foreign workforce.” She added:
White-collar migration has no negative effects, according to the Biden administration. They do n’t know if American workers have been unfairly treated, so they view the protection as barriers to employers and immigrants, and as some outdated provisions that need to be eliminated.
Biden’s deputies “are , dismantling the legal , protection for American workers that used to be baked into our legal process”, she added.
The PERM Rule Change
The federal government does little or nothing to shield American graduates from the brutal office politics brought on by its strict visa laws.
For example, the Department of Justice rarely enforces civil rights laws against racial and national discrimination in hiring. The senior professional told Breitbart News that if CEOs are subject to potential discrimination lawsuits, they follow the diversity hiring quotas by hiring the Indian wives of the Indian visa workers.
However, according to Lynn, Americans still have some protections when applying for green cards through visa holders.
Federal rules require employers to , show that they cannot hire Americans for particular jobs before they can ask permission to legally immigrate a person — such as a visa worker — for the job.
This procedure was established in 2005 and is frequently referred to as the” PERM Labor Certification” process.
Major U.S. companies, like Facebook and Apple, have evaded this process by attempting to obtain green cards for their visa workers. Both of those companies were given kid- glove treatment , by Biden’s Department of Justice.
Additionally, prior lobbying has indicated that some job categories have a permanent labor shortage, which allows businesses to choose to ignore the PERM test when awarding green cards to employees. These exemptions are included in” Schedule A” of the PERM regulations, which make it easier to hire foreigners, including doctors, nurses, physical therapists, and workers who have “exceptional ability in the sciences, arts, or performing arts.”
This loophole is widely used by healthcare CEOs to quickly hire and import cheap and compliant foreign nurses with offers of green cards and citizenship.
Fortune 500 companies are currently working to increase the number of exemptions on Schedule A and declare permanent labor shortages for a range of positions. This Labor Condition Examination, Lynn stated in a statement to Breitbart,” Although far from perfect, this Labor Condition Examination that they have to do in the PERM current process was the last obstacle to simply displacing Americans willy-nilly with foreigners.” ” They want to take that barrier away”, he added.
Biden’s Department of Labor made the first step in the rewriting of the PERM regulation in December by asking , lobbyists, employers, advocacy groups, and U.S. professionals for comments.
Should the Department expand Schedule A to include non-STEM occupations in addition to the parameters set forth for STW occupations? If so, what should the Department consider to establish a reliable, objective, and transparent methodology for identifying non- STEM occupations with a significant shortage of workers that should be added to or removed from Schedule A?
According to Lynn, officials are looking for ways to end the PERM test for tech positions that are typically filled by Americans with” Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics” (STEM) degrees, according to the request.
However, Lynn told Breitbart that the language also demonstrates that officials want to end protections for SKW (Skilled Technical Workforce ) technicians who hold two-year degrees.
Officials are also looking for ways to end the PERM test for many non- STEM jobs sought by Americans with humanities and arts degrees, he added.
Business organizations reacted by calling for the list of exempt jobs to be significantly expanded. For instance, a recruitment firm called Talent Beyond Boundaries supported a , proposal from Institute for Progress pro-immigration supporters.
That proposal targets Americans getting pay raises, and sacrifices Americans ‘ right to a level playing field in their national labor market to aid two powerful groups: Investors and federal economic planners. It reads:
The Schedule A shortage occupation list has n’t been updated in over three decades, completely disconnected from the state of the labor market.
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satisfying the PERM process can be costly and redundant, unnecessarily burdening both the incoming immigrant workers and wasting valuable DOL resources … , There are many aspects of it that are confusing for employers and immigrants, so much so that it can convince people to not even apply ]for green cards ].
The Center for Immigration Studies, which also submitted comments, claimed that” the concept of a” labor shortage in a free market economy as large as that of the United States is unfounded.
According to CIS, STEM salaries are declining, with only 37.8 % of all U.S.-born and immigrant workers holding STEM jobs, and only 9.4 million STEM-trained workers are currently employed in a STEM occupation.
” Allowing DOL to exempt employers from testing the labor market before hiring foreign workers puts a finger on the scale in favor of employers ‘ bottom lines to the detriment of workers ‘ interests”, CIS said.
However, according to Lynn, “pretty much every]white collar job will be on Schedule A” if officials and lobbyists can rewrite the rule to favor employers.
Politics and Migration Policy
But the little- known rules change is part of a , deliberate strategy by the White House to accelerate the flow of foreign workers into a wide variety of jobs needed by American college graduates.
For instance, Biden’s administration has repeatedly facilitated employers ‘ use of O-1, H-1B, and J-1 foreign contract workers, B-1 / B-2 business visitors, and foreign students with CPT and OPT work permits.
As a result of Biden’s growing immigration wave, more American graduates are losing jobs and careers. Yahoo.com reported on May 13:
Following a turbulent year of layoffs in the tech sector in 2023, mass layoffs have continued throughout 2024.
Nearly 2, 000 tech companies made significant layoffs in 2023, leaving over 260, 000 tech workers without jobs by December of that year. According to online tracker, layoffs. However, job cuts have plagued the sector for the past year, with over 81, 000 of them laid off already in 2024.
Many Americans are also being pushed out of careers in tech.  , For example, a , 2021 study  , by the Census Bureau reported:
The majority ( 62 % ) of college-educated individuals who majored in a STEM field worked in non-STEM occupations like accounting, accounting, management, law, education, and accounting. Additionally, 10 % of STEM college graduates completed careers in STEM-related fields like medicine.
… Only a few STEM- related majors ( 7 % ) and non- STEM majors ( 6 % ) ultimately ended up in STEM occupations.
Because it shifts a lot of white-collar wealth to Wall Street investors, the white-collar policy has a broad economic and technological impact.
Pro-migration advocates claimed that the curbs cut $ 100 billion  from companies ‘ stock values on Wall St.” Firms that relied more on foreign employees took almost twice as much a hit in the wake of the announcement,” lamented the researchers.
Economic data shows falling salaries for U. S. college graduates in a wide variety of STEM and non- STEM careers:
Source: NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
College debt, high housing costs, and stagnant salaries are already burdening U.S. graduates. They are also facing the threat of losing more wealth and jobs to the expanding reach of artificial intelligence software.
Biden’s airport inflow also causes business innovation because it stifles the professional clout of employees in comparison to the C-suite executives who are chosen by profit-maximizing investors. Instead of using migrants to boost their consumer economy, China is investing heavily in high-tech manufacturing centers.
Unlike investors and blue- collar workers, white- collar professionals do not have any political organizations or special interest groups to fight for their workplace interests. Wrongful, merit-oriented professionals are personally reluctant to engage in the office politics to stop diverse foreign immigrants from replacing them.
Through his U.S. Tech Workers group, Lynn has been urging American professionals to express their formal opposition to the proposed changes.
Here is our submitted comment on @USDOL’s proposed rule to” Modernize the Schedule A Occupation List”.
The deadline to comment is today. If you have n’t already, follow up tweets have links to places where you can post your comments. pic. twitter.com/Mpo0l2BTd I
May 13, 2024 — U.S. Tech Workers ( @USTechWorkers )
Few GOP or Democratic politicians even recognize the damaging impact of Biden’s migration on the professional sector. Many politicians, however, are aware of the political influence of factory workers, and on May 14 Biden’s deputies announced plans to shield American workers from China’s high-productivity factories.
Trump did, however, oppose a C-Suite plan to replace some white-collar employees with foreign replacements in 2020.
Also, in 2022, Republicans and Democrats united to block the “EAGLE Act” which would have provided an end- run around the annual limits on the award of green cards to imported visa workers.
Journalists at established media outlets who prefer — and are pressured — to only provide sympathetic coverage to poor migrants crossing the southern border have almost entirely ignored the growing flood of Biden’s fly-in- migrants.
The media and political silence about the growing harm to the U.S. professional class, according to Lynn, are disastrous for both Americans and America.  ,” This administration is out to destroy the American professional white- collar class”, said Lynn. This is absurd.
