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Outsourced U.S. Workers: Trump White House 'Pushed Aside' Concerns

posted onJanuary 29, 2019
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Article snippet: “We endorsed him, he said exactly the opposite of what that tweet says,” Blackwell exclusively told Breitbart News. “So that was so utterly disappointing, it made me cry.” The tweet took outsourced American workers who put their faith in Trump’s economic nationalist agenda off guard. They have yet to see major wins from the administration on the issue, but remained hopeful that the president was on their side of the issue, not on the side of tech plutocrats like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and outsourcing billionaires such as IBM’s Ginni Rometty. Just months before, Trump’s United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency described a plan to reduce the outsourcing of American jobs to foreign workers through the H-1B visa program. Every year, more than 100,000 foreign workers are brought to the U.S. on the H-1B visa and allowed to stay for up to six years. There are about 650,000 H-1B visa Breitbart News. More than 85,000 Americans a year potentially lose their jobs to foreign labor through the H-1B visa program. Trump’s tweet, though, reversed his “Buy American, Hire American” anti-outsourcing stance, instead endorsing a “pathway to citizenship” for H-1B foreign workers and writing that he wants to “encourage” foreign workers to come to the U.S. to take American jobs. While American worker advocates have blasted the tweet, they acknowledge it is somewhat of an inevitable outcome from an administration that they say has shunned its populist-nationa... Link to the full article to read more

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