Samuel Kellum

Catholic | Founder of @NCTechWorkers 🇺🇸 | Principal Software Engineer 👨🏼‍💻

[Fairbairn @Fairbairn27451]

19 of 20 horses descended from Secretariat yet YOU think putting YOUR kids in year-round travel sports will be the reason you don’t have to pay for their college?

[Samuel Kellum @SamuelKellum]

@RealTXPolitics Looks pretty indicative Indians are ~30% of the electorate and are only voting for their ethnic kin, and nobody else is voting for them.

[Case of the Wednesdays @Wednesday1776]

I live in Baton Rouge Louisiana where yesterday a group of juveniles, one of whom was permitted to remove his ankle monitor attached when he brought an automatic weapon to his high school that discharged in class. He was instructed that he could not leave his house. Regardless, he went to the mall, with other thugs to resolve some social media beef that was apparently gang related.

This turned into a gunfight, in what is a nice area of town. The derelicts on either side of this fight, were so ferrule and stupid that they shot six people. Only 5 of whom had anything to do with whatever their “beef” was about. They killed a high school senior who had a tennis scholarship and shot two of her friends, who were also shining stars in their communities with bright futures ahead of them. They ruined 5 lives filled with promise bc of their utter disregard for humanity and lack of any human decency.

Helicopters and SWAT Teams with long guns showed up on a chaotic scene affecting untold thousands of my fellow citizens. A central shopping area in my city was and is still shut down, bc the parents of these animals did not bother to raise them.

After a day and a half of law enforcement congratulating themselves for their “response” Governor Landry said what needed to be said.

As a citizen of one of the most loving and fun states in the union I must say. This is not civilization. We do not have to live this way. We as a city, and a state and a nation need to bring order to the chaos. Good on you @LAGovJeffLandry. Do not let this drop. Name and shame everyone involved, the parents, the judges, the animals who did this. We’re praying for you, our beautiful state and my city. But must especially I pray that God that he may deliver us from this evil and bring peace.

[Samuel Kellum @SamuelKellum]

@jasonc_nc Have you ever been to the Research Triangle Park or Morrisville?

[Samuel Kellum @SamuelKellum]

@ProjectLiberal Perhaps American families would be moving into your neighborhood if companies in Plano like Capital One, NTT Data, Infosys, and Cognizant hired Americans over foreign nationals on H-1B, H-4 EAD, and OPT visas.

[U.S. Tech Workers @USTechWorkers]

A couple of influencers on here are circulating a misread of a new Cato Institute analysis on X, and unfortunately the VP @JDVance appears to have picked it up and shared the same incorrect stat. Cato estimates a ~90% drop in **overseas** H-1B petitions (largely from outsourcing firms sponsoring workers located outside the U.S.). This is being misrepresented as a 90% drop in total NEW H-1B visa issuances by @USCIS, which isn’t correct. The cap is still fully exhausted and has consistently reached the 85,000 statutory limit in recent years, and @USCIS has recently announced that this year’s lottery registrations met the cap. This points to a reshuffling of recipients rather than an actual reduction in total numbers.

That distinction matters because treating this as a major cut overstates progress and reduces the urgency for meaningful reform. The changes so far are largely cosmetic and mainly shift visas toward international students already in the U.S. and large firms like Google and Amazon, without meaningfully improving opportunities for recent graduates overall.

More substantive reforms, such as ending STEM-OPT (3-yr work authorization for international students) and H-4 EAD (work authorization for spouses of H-1Bs) can be done through rulemaking since they were created administratively. Time is of the essence. These steps should have been underway already, since rulemaking takes a very long time. There is still an opportunity to get them done, but inaccurate claims like this distract from the urgency of acting.

[Barefoot Student @BarefootStudent]

They're calling the Dignidad Act the Zoomer Replacement Act. Nailed it.

- staples green cards to diplomas
- allows foreign students preference to no cap 0-1 visas
- effectively doubles employment based green cards
- mass amnesty for illegal aliens

Most anti American youth bill ever.

[Project for Immigration Reform @PFIRorg]

Also the media: “The Trump administration is despicable for slowing the H-1B visa program, denying foreign workers access to the U.S. job market and the chance to build a life here.”

[Rep. Eli Crane @RepEliCrane]

American companies should prioritize American citizens, not replace us with foreigners.

It’s long overdue that we fix the broken visa process.
https://t.co/PHhDxudhuZ

[Samuel Kellum @SamuelKellum]

@CBSEveningNews @CBSNews It's important to note that CBS's parent company, Paramount Skydance, is now controlled by David Ellison, the son of Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle. Oracle filed for more than 3,000 foreign worker visas despite laying off thousands of American employees.

[Samuel Kellum @SamuelKellum]

@LAGovJeffLandry @Hyundai Nothing in the article provides any assurance the jobs will go to Americans and the locals in Louisiana. Sounds like Hyundai is going to predominantly hire illegal aliens and Korean nationals like they did in Georgia. https://t.co/Wf8IkEPddx

[Raphael Rashid @koryodynasty]

ICE has released a video of its raid on Hyundai–LG's Georgia battery plant site, showing Korean workers chained up and led away.

South Korea's foreign ministry has confirmed over 300 of the 457 taken into custody are Korean nationals.

[Samuel Kellum @SamuelKellum]

@jayforjersey What is your position on everyday American tech workers being systematically replaced and discriminated against in favor of Indians on visa programs such as H-1B and OPT, shifting the balance of economic leverage and power from ordinary American workers to the shareholder class?

[U.S. Tech Workers @USTechWorkers]

A Manhattan federal jury on Monday awarded $8.4 million to a New York University professor and former Cognizant Technology Solutions employee who claimed he was fired in retaliation for alleging the information technology company engaged in systematic hiring bias.

. . .

Jean-Claude Franchitti said he was fired in 2016 from a $350,000-a-year job after a decade at New Jersey-based Cognizant. He claimed it was retaliation for asking questions about the company's alleged bias toward hiring workers from India as part of a "cheap labor" profit model.

The award for Franchitti consisted of $4.2 million in back pay, or lost wages, and $4.2 million in punitive damages. The jury declined to award compensation for front pay, or future earnings, or for an emotional distress claim.

The trial revealed a dearth of written communications from Franchitti complaining about Cognizant's alleged strategy to keep a cheap labor pipeline open. His lawyers said Franchitti kept concerns verbal because he knew he was walking a "fine line" and wanted to find fixes diplomatically.

Franchitti is pleased with the verdict, his lawyer, Daniel Kotchen, told Law360 via email.

"The jury sent a strong message that violating employees' rights will not be tolerated," he said.

(Link to full article in the replies.)

[Brianna Lyman @briannalyman2]

There was an American student who was denied from Duke so that a foreigner could take his spot

[Ann Wynn @5dgm749ghw]

@WSJ Progressives have argued that the US should not be extracting Africa’s natural resources - wouldn’t talent count? Let these countries’ best and brightest build back better on their own lands. And let us look within.

[Samuel Kellum @SamuelKellum]

@Blacksword011 I bet he was rejected by a White girl before making this 😂

[Project for Immigration Reform @PFIRorg]

Hasan Minhaj decided to do a segment on the H-1B visa issue, even sharing clips from 60 Minutes’ coverage of the scandal involving Americans being fired and having to train their H-1B replacements to receive severance. Instead of sympathizing and presenting a fair assessment from the perspective that this is a labor issue that needs reform, he chose to mock the American workers for being replaced simply because they were… white.

He then tried to conflate immigrant tech founders with H-1B workers, even though most immigrant tech founders never used the H-1B visa program. He also falsely frames H-1B visas as being based on ‘merit,’ when in reality the selection process is a random lottery that has little to do with merit. The segment is poorly researched and rather crass in its presentation. He also appears to still be upset about his Netflix show being canceled, as well as the backlash he faced for allegedly misrepresenting the racism he said he experienced growing up in liberal Davis, CA.

[Vince Virga @vvirga]

Daniel,

When calculating the value or impact of skilled immigration on the economy, GDP, national debt, etc.

…Shouldn’t the cost of ALL trade offs be considered?

For example, where do I enter the number of Americans who were replaced in their job by a cheaper imported foreign worker?

And what those unemployed workers have cost us in social services? (Not to mention what it’s cost them & their families & their dignity)

Where do I enter in the total dollar amount of US STEM workers’ wages that have been suppressed as a result of the mass importation of foreign white collar visa workers?

Where do I enter the costs of what will happen when our US grads can’t pay back the $1.7 trillion in student loans because they are being locked out of the entry level job market by 240,000 OPT Visa workers every year?

Where do we add in the 15% FICA taxes that aren’t being paid for & by those same entry level OPT workers?

Can we add in a number that calculates the dollar value of the disappointment that 40% + of US STEM grads are experiencing because they are underemployed or out of work?

And then add in the real societal costs of long term unemployment (drug abuse, divorce, etc)

I could go on.

Without considering any of these real world trade offs associated with the mass importation of foreign white collar workers, you can’t be taken seriously.

Sorry to say, but this is totally bogus Big Visa propaganda bought & paid for by big biz.

[Samuel Kellum @SamuelKellum]

I regretfully watched the video. The entire video is falsely premised on the idea that H-1B is a meritocratic program and that immigrants are dominating the tech industry because they are outcompeting Americans on a level playing field.

I find it bizzare that as a supposed leftist he would support a program that benefits the bottom line of corporations at the expense of ordinary American workers, brushing off legitimate concerns with the classic corporate manufactured H-1B sympathizing talking points.

The video was also littered with clear racial resentment towards White Americans and an ingratitude towards the people who gave him and his parents a first world standard of living they never would have had in India. So it's very telling that you would endorse such a video.

[Gabe Guidarini @GabeGuidarini]

The mask of “principle” slips off and reveals the ugly, archaic anti-Catholic resentment within.