Obama Administration Executive Action (again).

Tidewater

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Alabama alum Byron York reports that the Obama Administration has used unilateral executive action (again) to expand a visa program known as the L-1B program for multinational corporations with offices in the United States. "An L-1B visa have to show that those workers bring some sort of "specialized knowledge" to the job — that is, they have particular knowledge that would be hard, if not impossible, to find elsewhere in the United States." The Obama executive action expands the definition of the term "specialized knowledge" and loosens controls on the program, making it very difficult for a regulator to disapprove an L-1B visa request.

the article said:
Just last year, a Fremont, California tech company, Electronics for Imaging, Inc., was found by the Department of Labor to have violated the Fair Labor Standards Act for having grossly underpaid a group of Indian nationals who the company had transferred on L-1 visas from its office in India to install a new computer system at the headquarters facility in Fremont. Specifically, the company flew eight L-1B workers from Bangalore, India to California and paid them only $1.21 per hour to work 120-hour weeks. The $1.21 hourly rate was equivalent to what the employees made in Indian rupees at their workplace in India. Importantly, though the company was found by the Department of Labor to have violated the Fair Labor Standards Act for paying the workers below [California's] minimum wage, it did not apparently violate any of the terms or conditions of the visa program because there is no prevailing wage requirement.
Nice. Helping the little guy again.
 

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I bet we graciously gave them citizenship and all the "amenities" that go along with it as well since some company underpaid them.

Want to bet that we'll see a flood of "skilled" workers pouring in from SW Asia/Northern Africa?
 

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I bet we graciously gave them citizenship and all the "amenities" that go along with it as well since some company underpaid them.

Want to bet that we'll see a flood of "skilled" workers pouring in from SW Asia/Northern Africa?
We'll see the Chamber of Commerce Republicans either (a) being absolutely silent on this or (b) endorsing it.
 

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