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| Trump's EEOC Chief Threatens Civil Rights Lawsuits Amid H-1B Hiring |
| 2025-02-23 |
| [Breitbart] Companies that prefer migrants and H-1B visa workers over Americans will face federal investigations and discrimination lawsuits, says Andrea Lucas, who President Donald Trump picked to serve as acting chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). "The EEOC is putting employers and other covered entities on notice: if you are part of the pipeline contributing to our immigration crisis or abusing our legal immigration system via illegal preferences against American workers, you must stop," Lucas said in a February 20 notice. "The law applies to you, and you are not above the law. The EEOC is here to protect all workers from unlawful national origin discrimination, including American workers," she added. "Guardedly optimistic," civil rights lawyer John Miano responded after Breitbart News asked for his assessment. If the EEOC follows through, it could force companies to curb their hiring of migrants over Americans, said Miano, who is now suing more than 30 Chicago companies for advertising jobs to foreign H-1B workers, but not to Americans. The move was also welcomed by Amanda Louise, a Missouri-based former tech worker who has begun filing lawsuits against companies that recruit H-1B workers over Americans. The policy shift is important because many major companies in the United States have foreign-born managers to fill up many jobs with foreign workers, such as mixed-skill H-1B workers, instead of accomplished American graduates. Nationwide, roughly 1.6 million professional jobs have been filled with foreign workers carrying H-1B, J-1, TN, L-1, TN, OPT, or CPT documents. There are no caps on these programs, nor any requirements that employers try to hire Americans first. These foreign workers are recruited by hiring managers, many of whom are themselves migrants. This job selection process is critical for Americans’ careers, yet it has been largely exempt from the nation’s anti-discrimination laws. Those laws bar discrimination against women, racial minorities, and also against American citizens. However, many Americans and visa workers have told Breitbart News that hiring managers prefer to award jobs to co-ethnic foreign workers, usually in a deal for kickbacks, such as a percentage of a worker’s salary. This concealed process allows each company’s clique of immigrant managers to profitably sell jobs held by accomplished American graduates, regardless of the damage to their company’s long-term profitability. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #2 In a different forum I was asked "Don't you want immigrants to follow the law?". I replied with "Honestly I'd like them to go home. I'd like Americans to have the first shot at participation and prosperity." |
| Posted by: Crusader 2025-02-23 02:01 |
| #1 Secondary effects |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-02-23 01:11 |