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Plutocrats Unite: Big Tech, Business Lobby, Outsourcers Demand Amnesty

posted onMarch 22, 2019
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Article snippet: A new plan by House Democrats known as the “Dream and Protection Act” gives amnesty to nearly three million illegal aliens who are eligible and enrolled in former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Aside from the nearly three million DACA-enrolled and DACA-eligible illegal aliens who would be able to permanently stay in the U.S. — providing a flooded market with lower wages for the business lobby — the amnesty would be extended to the nearly 500,000 foreign nationals who are currently living in the country on Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The amnesty is so expansive that even DACA-eligible and DACA-enrolled illegal aliens who have already been deported from the U.S. would be allowed to apply for amnesty and eventually permanently resettle back in the country. In a letter to Congress, the wealthiest CEOs and executives from multinational corporations like IBM and Verizon, as well as tech giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Twitter, have joined a new coalition to demand a DACA amnesty be swiftly passed: The signers of the letter include: The letter and list of signers can be found here: Corporations like IBM, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft have all sought to outsource American jobs by importing foreign workers through the H-1B visa program. IBM, alone, over the course of the last three years, sought to import more than 32,000 H-1B foreign workers to take American jobs while outsourcing remaining U.S. jobs to ... Link to the full article to read more

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