New attorney general Jeff Sessions's letter on H1 in 2015

[Batman_fan]

Jeff sessions was one of the senators who wrote this to then Attorney general. Now he is Attorney general under Tump. 

 

 

 

Text of the Senators’ letter follows:

“Dear Attorney General Holder and Secretaries Johnson and Perez:

We are concerned about recent information that has come to light regarding the abuse of the H-1B visa program by Southern California Edison (SCE) and other employers to replace large numbers of American workers. We urge you to investigate this matter.

A number of U.S. employers, including some large, well-known, publicly-traded corporations, have reportedly laid off thousands of American workers and replaced them with H-1B visa holders. To add insult to injury, many of the replaced American employees report that they have been forced to train the foreign workers who are taking their jobs. This troubling practice seems to be particularly concentrated in the information technology (IT) sector, which is not surprising given that sixty five percent of H-1B petitions approved in FY 2014 were for workers in computer-related occupations. Though such reports of H-1B-driven layoffs have been circulating for years, their frequency seems to have increased dramatically in the past year alone.

In many cases it appears that the H-1B workers are not employees of the U.S. company laying off American workers, but instead are contractors employed by foreign-owned IT consulting companies. This increasingly popular business practice by U.S. companies and foreign-owned IT outsourcing firms raises several questions. For example, have the U.S. companies that have laid off American workers and replaced them with H-1B workers and/or the IT consulting contractors the companies retained engaged in prohibited citizenship status discrimination against U.S. citizens? Did the Labor Condition Applications certified by the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration and the petitions approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for each H-1B visa holder who replaced a U.S. worker at these companies accurately reflect the scope and location of their work? Did such labor condition applications or visa petitions show any evidence of misrepresentation or fraud by the employer-petitioners? Did the employer-petitioners maintain a true employer-employee relationship with the H-1B workers after they were placed at the U.S. client company? While media reports indicate that the H-1B visa program is the principal visa program at issue in the layoffs, were other visa programs, such as the L-1B or the B-1, also used to displace American workers at U.S. companies?

We respectfully request that you investigate the unacceptable replacement of American workers by H-1B workers to ascertain whether SCE or any other U.S. companies that have engaged in this practice, or the IT consulting companies supplying those companies with H-1B workers, have violated the law. Additionally, please notify us of any obstacles in existing law to conducting such an investigation.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

Richard J. Durbin
United States Senator

Jeff Sessions
United States Senator

[mettastar]

Attorney general emi bills introduce cheyadu senate or house lo 

so dont worry

[Batman_fan]

Just now, mettastar said:

Attorney general emi bills introduce cheyadu senate or house lo 

so dont worry

okavela valu h1 system has issues and investigation avasaram ante...they still need Bill?

[TampaChinnodu]

4 minutes ago, mettastar said:

Attorney general emi bills introduce cheyadu senate or house lo 

so dont worry

He will still have lot of influence in the government. 

[mettastar]

1 minute ago, TampaChinnodu said:

He will still have lot of influence in the government. 

like ?

[mettastar]

3 minutes ago, Batman_fan said:

okavela valu h1 system has issues and investigation avasaram ante...they still need Bill?

yes evaranna case vesthe .. as per rule implement cheyakapothe they may stop new H1s until they fix the existing .. but adi antha easy kadhu

[TampaChinnodu]

4 minutes ago, mettastar said:

like ?

The principal duties of the Attorney General are to:

• Represent the United States in legal matters.
   
• Supervise and direct the administration and operation of the offices, boards, divisions, and bureaus that comprise the Department.
   
• Furnish advice and opinions, formal and informal, on legal matters to the President and the Cabinet and to the heads of the executive departments and agencies of the government, as provided by law.
   
• Make recommendations to the President concerning appointments to federal judicial positions and to positions within the Department, including U.S. Attorneys and U.S. Marshals.
   
• Represent or supervise the representation of the United States Government in the Supreme Court of the United States and all other courts, foreign and domestic, in which the United States is a party or has an interest as may be deemed appropriate.
   
• Perform or supervise the performance of other duties required by statute or Executive Order.

[mettastar]

1 minute ago, TampaChinnodu said:

The principal duties of the Attorney General are to:

• Represent the United States in legal matters.
   
• Supervise and direct the administration and operation of the offices, boards, divisions, and bureaus that comprise the Department.
   
• Furnish advice and opinions, formal and informal, on legal matters to the President and the Cabinet and to the heads of the executive departments and agencies of the government, as provided by law.
   
• Make recommendations to the President concerning appointments to federal judicial positions and to positions within the Department, including U.S. Attorneys and U.S. Marshals.
   
• Represent or supervise the representation of the United States Government in the Supreme Court of the United States and all other courts, foreign and domestic, in which the United States is a party or has an interest as may be deemed appropriate.
   
• Perform or supervise the performance of other duties required by statute or Executive Order.

he is mostly limited to admin and other things buddy.. advice ante evaridaggara aina theesukuntaru.. if congress is passing some bill he doesn't have authority to stop that until someone files a case against it.

[dasara_bullodu]

Bhayya ee letter lo H1 fraud gurinchi matladadu anthe kada... Trump thatha la tala tikka ga em cheppaledu ... fraud chese vadu edo oka roju bhayapadalsi untundi.. genuine ga unte em problems undavu .. kudirthe manchicompany vetukkondi ..my 2 cents

[TampaChinnodu]

Just now, mettastar said:

he is mostly limited to admin and other things buddy.. advice ante evaridaggara aina theesukuntaru.. if congress is passing some bill he doesn't have authority to stop that until someone files a case against it.

True and very much possible that he might not involve at all.

But still not a good sign ilanti vaadu AG avvatam , Indian IT companies ki and consultancies ki.

[TampaChinnodu]

1 minute ago, dasara_bullodu said:

Bhayya ee letter lo H1 fraud gurinchi matladadu anthe kada... Trump thatha la tala tikka ga em cheppaledu ... fraud chese vadu edo oka roju bhayapadalsi untundi.. genuine ga unte em problems undavu .. kudirthe manchicompany vetukkondi ..my 2 cents

Agreed. Worst case affect ayyedi Indian IT companies and consultancies.