In what has become a yearly ritual, Immigration Voice tried to push yet another piece of bad legislation through Congress and it was shot down before it got a chance to take flight.
The EAGLE ACT – which would have eliminated country caps on Green Card disbursement – was scheduled to be voted on by the full House in one of Nancy Pelosi’s last sessions but was tabled indefinitely after failing to find enough support.
In usual fashion, members of US Techworkers – and their supporters – led the fight against this bill. They took to their telephones and called each and every member of Congress to tell them how bad this legislation truly is.
“The EAGLE is Dead!,” tweeted Kevin Lynn, founder of US Techworkers.
The way this bill is worded, citizens of India would have been rewarded with over 74% of all Green Cards over the next 10 years, with Chinese citizens receiving 12% and citizens from the rest of the world receiving the remainder.
Does that sound equitable to you?
Does that make any sense?
In all reality, this is just a rehash of last year’s S386 bill (the so-called Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act) and others before that.
They just don’t get it. The American people want a fair immigration system that benefits THIS country – not the special interests of another.
This bill is bad in so may ways – but here are four reasons it is bad for our country:
- It would have increased the size of the permanent IT workforce by thousands upon thousands of workers, at the very time Big Tech firms like Meta (aka Facebook), Twitter and other companies have announced huge layoffs.
- It would reward a country that openly defied President Biden’s call for countries of the world to stop buying oil from Russia.
- It would reward a country that is actively trying to unseat the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency?
- It would choke off all talent from the rest of the world (India has 17% of the world population; why should they get 74% of all Green Cards?).
One of the key voices in Washington selling this to Congress was David Bier, an employee of the Cato Institute.
You’ve got to wonder what motivates a guy like this to do the bidding of foreign interests. Is it money? I sure hope he’s getting something for his troubles. Because, in supporting this bill, he is rapidly becoming Public Enemy #1 among voters who are facing a weak job market.
“This guy is a traitor to his country, to the town he was brought up in and … probably to his own mother,” said one Stamford IT worker after the bill was defeated. “He won’t be missed.”
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