H-1B: Indian Migrants Want Elon Musk to Help Them Win Green Cards
A lobby group for Indian H-1B contract workers is trying to use the GOP’s planned 2025 reconciliation bill to get fast-track green cards for roughly 1.2 million Indian citizens living in the United States.
The lobbying effort is built on the hope that President Donald Trump’s West Coast business allies will defeat the rising skepticism of many voters and GOP legislators, many zig-zagging Democratic legislators, and President Donald Trump’s American-first mandate.
“There’s a blank slate at the moment,” immigration attorney Leon Fresco told many of the Indian migrants during a phone conference hosted by the Immigration Voice lobby group on Sunday night.
“We don’t know this could literally be the best of times, or this could literally be the worst of times,” said Fresco, who worked as an advisor for Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) as the “Gang of Eight” amnesty was being drafted in 2013.
“We believe that the time is now as the upcoming new administration takes over,” said Aman Kapoor, the president of Immigration Voice. “There is new energy, there is now a desire to make changes, and we want to be part of that change.”
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The Indians are allowed to take desirable careers from Americans because many U.S. employers use the H-1B, L-1, J-1, TN, OPT, CPT, and H4EAD programs to hire low-wage foreign graduates, mostly for entry-level jobs. Indians get roughly 70 percent of these visas.
These programs are uncapped, do not require the jobs be offered to Americans, and do not require a skills test. Only the uncapped O-1 “genius visa” requires proof of prior accomplishment.
India’s government heavily promotes Indians for these multi-year visas. In 2023, roughly 69,000 low-skilled, mid-skilled, or high-skilled Indians got approved for H-1B visas, and another 210,000 got three-year extensions on their visas, according to Indian reports.
Those numbers suggest that at least 600,000 Indian H-1B workers now hold white-collar jobs needed by American graduates. More than 500,000 other Indians hold jobs via other visa programs.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/12/22/indians-migrants-bet-on-elon-musk/
With 33,000,000+ Americans out of work, how does this make any sense?
With 33,000,000+ Americans out of work, how does this make any sense? https://t.co/f5QIS5Ck7C
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) May 7, 2020
India and China are continuing to monopolize the United States’ H-1B visa program which is regularly used by corporations and big businesses to lay off American professionals from their jobs and replace them with foreign visa workers.
India and China are continuing to monopolize the United States’ H-1B visa program which is regularly used by corporations and big businesses to lay off American professionals from their jobs and replace them with foreign visa workers. https://t.co/su3bijTB3L
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) June 7, 2023
UC Berkely Computer Science Professor — “My high GPA students can’t get jobs because they’re outsourced to cheap H1B labor”
Tech bros: “There’s a shortage of talent. We need more workers! More H-1Bs!”
Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley: “My perfect GPA students are contacting me worried because they are getting zero job offers.” pic.twitter.com/iF7iKXPppk
— U.S. Tech Workers (@USTechWorkers) December 27, 2024
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