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[Leon Fresco @FrescoLeon]

What was even more outrageous was that House Democrats summarily rejected a Senate bill passed by unanimous consent that would have created early filing for all people in the employment green card backlog (not just Indians). The leaders had promised that they would pass any bill the Senate passed, and then lied about it. We now have a far worse situation today than we would have had if that Bill had passed. I hope all of the people involved in that decision one day have the integrity to own up to what they did. We know what they did and why they did it and it is appalling.

[Immigration Voice @immivoice]

💯 Country caps in the skilled green card category are unfair and distort the labor market, harming both American workers and immigrant workers. It would create a much better system for innovation and competitiveness if we:

1) Remove country caps on Employment-Based green cards to reduce the wrong incentives for hiring from backlogged nations

2) Reform the system to prioritize American workers

@RepMcCormick + @CongressmanRaja + @RepJayapal in the House, and in the Senate, @SenatorHick + @SenKevinCramer’s bipartisan bill does just that:
https://t.co/gKOjxAhTPo

A similar bill passed the Senate unanimously with ALL 100 Senators agreeing to its passage in a bipartisan way.

[Immigration Voice @immivoice]

As we welcome a new year - and with it, a new White House Administration and a newly seated Congress - we face new challenges and fresh opportunities in our collective effort to address the green card backlogs. Progress never happens on its own; it depends on our community coming together, amplifying our voices, and setting a clear path for positive change.

To align our efforts and plan for the work ahead, please join us & @FrescoLeon for a public conference call. Your participation is crucial in making 2025 a year of meaningful progress.

Time: 06:30 PM EST (03:30 PM PST)
Date: Sunday, December 15, 2024

Dial-in: [phone]
Access: 250171#

Online: https://t.co/c29VK8FRyv

[Senator Kevin Cramer @SenKevinCramer]

Appreciated the chance to meet with @immivoice about the importance of Congress passing the EAGLE Act, legislation I introduced in the Senate with @SenatorHick.

[Immigration Voice @immivoice]

Special thanks to @RepMcCormick @CongressmanRaja & @RepJayapal for introducing H.R.6542 – the Immigration Visa Efficiency and Security Act. We look forward to visiting the Hill next week to create awareness on why this critical bipartisan bill is necessary to pass this Congress.

[Immigration Voice @immivoice]

Eternally grateful to @SenatorHick and @SenKevinCramer for leading the bipartisan bill to remove per-country limits on Employment-Based Green Cards. We look forward to EAGLE Act's quick passage. Join us for the effort Dec 3-5 in DC : https://t.co/lFLp1AUpmB

[Immigration Voice @immivoice]

Dec 3-5: Join us for Immigration Voice's Advocacy Event in Washington D.C.! Engage in 350+ Congressional Meetings to champion bipartisan solutions for the immigrants in the backlog. Gain insight & speak up for yourself & your family! Register at https://t.co/WGe56cz8St Password: 2821614665284910

[Leon Fresco @FrescoLeon]

Dear @USCIS and @DHSgov -- now that SCOTUS has denied cert in the Washtech OPT case -- there is literally no excuse for not giving the people backlogged for longer than 180 days an EAD/AP. You would only be refusing to do this in order to intentionally harm these people. Act!

[Leon Fresco @FrescoLeon]

I have consistently said that there will not be stateside visa renewals for Indians for a long time because of how backlogged the passport office is. Why would they take resources from passports? But they will brag about a pilot program that helps people from other places again

[Leon Fresco @FrescoLeon]

Last point. Every change @uscis has made on this list is to benefit employers. They either make it easier to hire workers or lay off workers without getting sued. Securing any change to help workers will require major effort to overcome tech opposition.

https://t.co/YhlwH7A3zo

[Immigration Voice @immivoice]

As the largest organization of members currently on H1B visa stuck in green card backlogs, we completely agree with @VivekGRamaswamy & others willing to speak the truth: H1B visa is, in fact, indentured servitude that only benefits the company that sponsors the visa, but is bad for everyone else. We agree - it is time to gut H1B #H1isHumanTrafficking

https://t.co/QxaT0DetY1

[Immigration Voice @immivoice]

Biden Administration and Tech Companies are complicit to and subservient of H1B human traffickers. We have to just admit it. There is no hope that Members of Congress or anyone else can persuade the staff at the WH who all want tech jobs when they leave WH. 2/3

[Leon Fresco @FrescoLeon]

It will not go without a reply that none of the tech, business ,or immigration advocacy groups—or even anyone other than members of Congress—even bothered to lift a finger to try to help. Yet they readily jump to hurt the people in the backlog to prevent #greencardequality.

[Immigration Voice @immivoice]

Dear IV members, if you know, or work at, a big tech company that has a practice of withdrawing approved I-140s for anyone who leaves the employment, or any other immigration status related punishments; please email us at [email protected] as we will be filing human trafficking cases against big tech companies (you can remain anonymous) 1/2

[Leon Fresco @FrescoLeon]

I cannot express how unconscionable and embarrassing this is. A common sense fix that had been done before with bipartisan support is suddenly the one “no go” for this Administration. In addition, they offer no alternatives other than “pound sand, keep working and avoid dying.”

[Leon Fresco @FrescoLeon]

A sleeping giant has been awakened today. @immivoice is a group with standing that can sue to challenge anything this administration has done, or will do, to place people in the green card line ahead of its members. It is a shame that it has come to this.

[Immigration Voice @immivoice]

H1 visa is Human Trafficking Visa. We will not stop advocating for those in need. We will continue to work and will soon be placing a spotlight on all of the people involved in maintaining this human trafficking ring for the benefit of tech companies. 3/3

[Immigration Voice @immivoice]

Totally shocked and dismayed to learn that Biden Administration has refused to help us. They are taking pride in their cruelty and are bragging that they will NEVER help us with visa bulletin relief. At the same time they give illegal paroles to 1 million people per year with no ties to the US. 1/3

[Leon Fresco @FrescoLeon]

If you were at a restaurant and they had a chart like this for when you could get a table if you were of a certain ethnicity —-how many people would lose their minds!! How can this Administration stay so indifferent to doing anything/something to help these people!!

[Leon Fresco @FrescoLeon]

Great question by @FrancoOrdonez at @NPR This admin did not say “ask congress” when it came to helping 20 other countries with work permits and advance paroles. It gives these people work permits within days of getting here. #stoptheh1bservitude

https://t.co/m3dOqmYMxZ