{"id":1081301,"date":"2021-12-03T16:44:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1081301"},"modified":"2021-12-03T16:44:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:44:17","slug":"democrats-wobble-on-visa-giveaway-to-zuckerbergs-fortune-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-wobble-on-visa-giveaway-to-zuckerbergs-fortune-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Wobble on Visa Giveaway to Zuckerberg&#039;s Fortune 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-wobble-on-visa-giveaway-to-zuckerbergs-fortune-500%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1081301&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Democratic Senators are suggesting they may block the huge green card giveaway to Fortune 500 investors in the Build Back Better bill, if the Senate\u2019s parliamentarian rejects their parole amnesty for 6.5 million illegal migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats will decide whether or not to push the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/20\/media-hides-democrats-historic-migration-expansion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">historic visa giveaway<\/a> once they get an answer back from the parliamentarian, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) told Bloomberg news.&nbsp;\u201cIt all depends on how it\u2019s structured and what else we get,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The underlying problem is that the parliamentarian might block the parole amnesty \u2014 yet also support the visa giveaways. That outcome could leave the Democrats supporting a huge white-collar jobs transfer to the Fortune 500\u2019s imported workers \u2014 but without amnestying for blue-collar migrants.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18145930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"40\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/09\/wi\/ap\/29\/senate-cares-sen-robert-menendez-speaks-senate-banking-housing-urban-affairs-committee-hearing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18145930 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/senate-cares-sen-robert-menendez-speaks-senate-banking-housing-urban-affairs-committee-hearing-1024x655-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"1024\" height=\"655\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., speaks during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the CARES Act on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021 in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch\/Pool via AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>That outcome would display the progressive Democrats as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PabloReports\/status\/1466488482990374913?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shills for Wall Street\u2019s greedy investors<\/a> \u2014 and as too feeble to win the noble-seeming prize of citizenship for poor, non-white migrants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they lose the parole piece, do they keep the green card giveaway in there?\u201d a Hill staffer told Breitbart News. \u201cIt would be really bad politics for them to not get their amnesty but be giving this big green card giveaway to businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt would be the height of irony that all of our efforts on immigration would be to help business and not help people who are undocumented,\u201d Menendez told Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>Early this year, Menendez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/02\/18\/joe-bidens-amnesty-bill-will-steal-careers-from-many-u-s-college-grad-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">threatened<\/a> business groups if they did not support the Democrats\u2019 voter-creating amnesty policies:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p>We need the high-tech community \u2014 who will benefit from the reforms we are proposing \u2014 to be advocates of the overall reform movement. We need those who need the H-1B and [H]-2B visas in the business community to be advocates of overall reform. What we cannot have is only being an advocate for the simple niche that takes care of your economic issue, but doesn\u2019t resolve the overall question of the 11 million.<\/p>\n<p>When we join together \u2014 those and so much more \u2014 we can achieve the [amnesty] goal because then those senators and those members of the House who represent large agricultural interests in their districts and state, those who represent high-tech interests in their state, those who represent some of the [H-2B] critical workers \u2014 whether it be in the seafood industry in the meatpacking industry or whatnot \u2014 who need that work \u2026&nbsp; so that people understand that this is something worthy of putting their [political] capital [on].<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Amnesties are supported by most business groups. But amnesties do not add to the total number of workers, renters, or consumers in the United States, but do empower the Democrats\u2019 government-before-business coalition.<\/p>\n<p>So the business groups prefer new laws that expand the inflow of cheap, powerless, subordinate, and disposable visa workers \u2014 such as F-1 graduates and H-1B workers. They want those workers to replace the progressives\u2019 peers, the free-speaking American graduates in American business.<\/p>\n<p>Business lobbying ensured that the House version of the BBB bill allows the Fortune 500 \u2014 and their myriad subcontractors \u2014 to import an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/10\/29\/democrats-migration-bill-rewards-hiring-discrimination-against-us-graduates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unlimited number of college F-1 visa workers<\/a> with dangled offers of green cards and citizenship instead of American-level salaries.&nbsp; The change would dramatically expand the current rules which allow the companies and their contractors to keep roughly one million visa workers in a wide variety of professional jobs that would otherwise go to Democrat-voting college graduates.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>This rivalry between investors and progressives has been recognized by Indian visa workers who work for the Fortune 500 and also are lobbing to get green cards for themselves and their families:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.3305439330544\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Menendez is acting in good faith, wanting to help families without giving away the store to companies. You need to stop tweeting and follow IV action items. They know what they are doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hardwrking Immigrant (@hwimmi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hwimmi\/status\/1466772055412596740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The parliamentarian has already shot down two amnesty plans from the Democrats, on the grounds that policy riders are not allowed in the fast-track, 50-vote, reconciliation spending bill.<\/p>\n<p>But the Fortune 500\u2019s lobbyists say they will keep going back to the parliamentarian until she says yes to one of their proposals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJ<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">ust remember this process is&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">iterative,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leedsgarcia\/status\/1466097155462946817\">said<\/a> a December 1 tweet from Alida Garcia, a top lobbyist at Mark and Priscilla Zuckerberg\u2019s pro-migration group, FWD.us. \u201c<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">What comes back is refined clarity on what next step is \u2013 not the beginning or end.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_15291302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1185337762.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15291302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1185337762.jpg\" alt=\"MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 03: (L-R) Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg attend the 2020 Breakthrough Prize Red Carpet at NASA Ames Research Center on November 03, 2019 in Mountain View, California. (Photo by Ian Tuttle\/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize )\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg attend the 2020 Breakthrough Prize Red Carpet at NASA Ames Research Center on November 03, 2019 in Mountain View, California. (Photo by Ian Tuttle\/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize )<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/fwd-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investors at FWD.us<\/a> are leading the 2021 amnesty push, especially the green card giveaway elements.<\/p>\n<p>But \u201cthey\u2019re getting right up against Christmas Day, so they\u2019ve got two real legislative weeks left,\u201d said the Hill source.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats\u2019 stalled effort to get rid of the Senate\u2019s filibuster rule is also reinforcing their efforts to get an amnesty, the source said:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p>It really seemed like they were going to try for amnesty, but if they didn\u2019t get their first option, then they were just going to do enough \u2014 like a college try \u2014 to make it sound like they put their backs into it but couldn\u2019t quite get it through. Then \u2026 they would use [the amnesty failure] as fodder for their push to limit the [60-vote] filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>I think they\u2019re realizing that they\u2019re not going to be able to get rid of the filibuster, and so they see this [\u201citerative\u201d strategy] as their only other option to really get to really get this [amnesty] done.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re very convinced that actually getting an amnesty of some sort is going to be key to them getting a mid-term victory next year,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>FWD.us and other pro-migration groups are touting push polls to declare that the Democrat\u2019s far-left base will fail to vote in 2022 if they do not get an amnesty.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/08\/25\/polls-few-democrats-see-migration-amnesty-top-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">many national polls<\/a> show that few Democrats view amnesty as a top issue, compared to climate, coronavirus, and the economy.&nbsp; Just four out of 285 Democrats polled in August said \u201cimmigration\u201d is a top problem,&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/354026\/satisfaction-drops-covid-resurges-top-problem.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">according to<\/a>&nbsp;an August 24 statement from Gallup.<\/p>\n<p>Many&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/11\/zuckerbergs-investor-lobby-promises-wages-raises-with-amnesty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polls show<\/a>&nbsp;that labor migration is&nbsp;deeply&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/immigration-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unpopular<\/a>&nbsp;because it damages ordinary Americans\u2019&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2021\/03\/12\/bloomberg-opts-h1bs-take-two-three-new-tech-jobs-each-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">career<\/a>&nbsp;opportunities, cuts their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/04\/08\/elite-academics-hide-amnesty-wage-pain-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wages<\/a>, and raises their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/16\/new-yorks-mayoral-rivals-vow-cheap-housing-plus-more-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rents.<\/a>&nbsp;Migration also curbs Americans\u2019&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2020\/07\/11\/president-trump-wins-big-on-secret-meatpacking-robots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">productivity<\/a>, shrinks their political&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com+%22john+binder%22+%22demographic+change%22&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS946US946&amp;oq=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com+%22john+binder%22+%22demographic+change%22&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.10228j0j4&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">clout<\/a>, widens&nbsp;regional wealth&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/13\/zuckerbergs-data-says-amnesty-gives-economic-windfall-coastal-democratic-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gaps<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/01\/survey-elite-imposed-migration-is-transforming-national-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">radicalizes<\/a>&nbsp;their democratic, compromise-promoting civic&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/search\/?s=%22white+supremacy%22#gsc.tab=0&amp;gsc.q=%22white%20supremacy%22&amp;gsc.page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">culture<\/a>, and allows elites to ignore&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diseases_of_despair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">despairing Americans<\/a>&nbsp;at the&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JorgeAl49986803\/status\/1439791277571145737?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">bottom of society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For many years, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/03\/30\/harvard-harris-poll-5-in-6-americans-want-to-end-immigration-from-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wide<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2021\/01\/14\/poll-americans-want-companies-hire-americans-before-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">variety<\/a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/04\/13\/ipsos-poll-nearly-8-in-10-americans-want-immigration-moratorium-for-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pollsters<\/a>&nbsp;have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/08\/05\/poll-swing-voters-hugely-oppose-2020-democrats-promising-more-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shown<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2020\/04\/24\/poll-trumps-opponents-applaud-his-jobs-for-americans-immigration-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deep<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2017\/01\/31\/poll-shows-public-support-trump-migration-poicy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broad<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2020\/05\/28\/business-poll-backfires-shows-public-wants-less-migration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposition<\/a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/11\/16\/exit-polls-3-in-4-voters-want-less-immigration-during-and-after-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">labor migration<\/a>&nbsp;and the inflow of&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2020\/08\/06\/ipsos-poll-public-opposes-migrant-workers-by-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">temporary<\/a> contract workers&nbsp;into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates. This&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2021\/03\/05\/survey-americans-underestimate-quiet-public-opposition-to-legal-migration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposition<\/a>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2020\/04\/29\/washington-post-poll-hispanics-are-the-strongest-opponents-of-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multiracial<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2020\/07\/11\/poll-suburban-women-strongly-back-donald-trumps-migration-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cross-sex<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/09\/24\/survey-hispanic-americans-most-opposed-to-illegal-immigration-defunding-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">non-racist<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2018\/04\/27\/study-black-working-class-opposes-mass-migration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">class-based<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/02\/22\/poll-democrat-sex-split-visa-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bipartisan<\/a>,&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USTechWorkers\/status\/1377363222005575680?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rational<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2021\/05\/11\/harvard-poll-swing-voters-want-biden-to-embrace-trumps-border-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">persistent<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/01\/22\/rasmussen-poll-liberals-and-wealthy-welcome-caravan-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recognizes<\/a>&nbsp;the solidarity Americans owe to each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Senators are suggesting they may block the huge green card giveaway to Fortune 500 investors in the Build Back Better bill, if the Senate\u2019s parliamentarian rejects their parole amnesty &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}