STEM – ImmigrationReform.com https://www.immigrationreform.com The Official Blog of FAIR Tue, 15 Mar 2022 17:13:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 https://www.immigrationreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cropped-IR-Favicon-100x100.png STEM – ImmigrationReform.com https://www.immigrationreform.com 32 32 H-1B Visa Abuse: So Bad That Even Biden’s Crew Can’t Ignore It https://www.immigrationreform.com/2022/03/15/more-h1b-visa-fraud-immigrationreform-com/ Tue, 15 Mar 2022 17:13:41 +0000 https://www.immigrationreform.com/?p=25482 A California company was charged last month in a multimillion-dollar visa fraud and money-laundering scheme that filled U.S. tech jobs with foreign workers. The case was the latest in an ongoing string of immigration scams involving H-1B “skilled” visas. To cite just a few: An Indian company, with offices in Houston, admitted to running a [...]

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]]> Are Tech Companies Giving American Minorities the Short End of the Stick? https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/07/22/stem-minorities-foreign-guest-workers-tech-immigrationreform-com/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/07/22/stem-minorities-foreign-guest-workers-tech-immigrationreform-com/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:50:04 +0000 https://www.immigrationreform.com/?p=23252 Top universities are graduating black and Hispanic computer science and engineering students at twice the rate that technology companies are hiring them, a new USA Today analysis finds. The analysis reveals that “on average, just 2 percent of technology workers at seven Silicon Valley companies that have released staffing numbers are black; 3 percent are [...]

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]]> https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/07/22/stem-minorities-foreign-guest-workers-tech-immigrationreform-com/feed/ 1 NPR’s Tech Talent Story Does Not Compute https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/01/28/tech-workers-stem-immigrants-immigrationreform-com/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/01/28/tech-workers-stem-immigrants-immigrationreform-com/#comments Tue, 28 Jan 2020 18:36:32 +0000 https://www.immigrationreform.com/?p=22436 Echoing a year-old story line, National Public Radio (NPR) announced over the weekend that Canada is “winning the war for global tech talent,” and that U.S. immigration policy is to blame. According to NPR, Canada’s streamlined visa program attracted some 40,000 technology workers in each of the past two years. While that’s impressive for Canada, [...]

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]]> https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/01/28/tech-workers-stem-immigrants-immigrationreform-com/feed/ 1 Bad OPTics: Time’s Up for Foreign Training Subsidies https://www.immigrationreform.com/2018/03/12/bad-optics-times-foreign-training-subsidies/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2018/03/12/bad-optics-times-foreign-training-subsidies/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:57:07 +0000 http://live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io/?p=16630 The Trump administration looking to rework or end a program that benefits foreign students and hurts American taxpayers.

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]]> https://www.immigrationreform.com/2018/03/12/bad-optics-times-foreign-training-subsidies/feed/ 8 Tech Employers Continue to Prefer Cheap Foreign Labor https://www.immigrationreform.com/2016/04/07/tech-employers-continue-to-prefer-cheap-foreign-labor/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2016/04/07/tech-employers-continue-to-prefer-cheap-foreign-labor/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2016 20:34:19 +0000 http://live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io/?p=12537 In news that surprises no one, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it has reached the H-1B cap for FY 2017. Because USCIS has received more applications than the 65,000 H-1B cap set by Congress, the agency will utilize a lottery to determine which employers get the foreign workers—most likely for science, [...]

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]]> https://www.immigrationreform.com/2016/04/07/tech-employers-continue-to-prefer-cheap-foreign-labor/feed/ 13 FAIR Submits Comment to Stop the STEM Jobs Giveaway https://www.immigrationreform.com/2015/11/18/fair-submits-comment-to-stop-the-stem-jobs-giveaway/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2015/11/18/fair-submits-comment-to-stop-the-stem-jobs-giveaway/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:45:49 +0000 http://live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io/?p=10939 The Obama administration is trying to bypass Congress and make it easier for the technology industry to hire cheap foreign workers instead of Americans. Through a proposed regulation—which is open for public comment through TODAY—the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning to allow foreign science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degree-holders remain in the [...]

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