{"id":1231946,"date":"2022-01-22T17:22:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T22:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1231946"},"modified":"2022-01-22T17:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T22:22:43","slug":"chamber-of-commerce-cheers-bidens-expansion-of-american-job-outsourcing-for-amazon-blackrock-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chamber-of-commerce-cheers-bidens-expansion-of-american-job-outsourcing-for-amazon-blackrock-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamber of Commerce Cheers Biden&#039;s Expansion of American Job Outsourcing for Amazon, BlackRock, Facebook"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fchamber-of-commerce-cheers-bidens-expansion-of-american-job-outsourcing-for-amazon-blackrock-facebook%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=1231946&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237244326-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The United States Chamber of Commerce is cheering on President Joe Biden\u2019s expansion of a visa pipeline set to deliver more foreign competition against American professionals while cutting costs for the nation\u2019s largest multinational corporations.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News\u2019s Neil <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2022\/01\/22\/biden-invites-more-foreign-workers-take-americans-white-collar-careers\/\">Munro reports<\/a>, Biden\u2019s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the expansion of the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program whereby corporations like Amazon, Facebook, and BlackRock hire foreign students over American STEM graduates at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/09\/01\/exclusive-hilarie-gamm-15-percent-discount\/\">a 15 percent discount<\/a> by avoiding tens of billions in FICA taxes.<\/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>Specifically, Biden expanded the OPT program to include 22 fields of study from which corporations can hire foreign students at American universities for coveted white-collar, entry-level jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Those new fields of study include&nbsp;bioenergy, climate science, earth systems science, economics and computer science, mathematical economics, general data analytics, and research methodology.<\/p>\n<p>The Chamber of Commerce, representing corporate special interests, cheered the move as \u201cone of a series of key actions needed to address the workforce shortage crisis\u201d even as American college students <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/05\/21\/college-students-ask-trump-to-halt-egregious-h-1b-visa-opt-program\/\">have urged<\/a> the federal government to end the program.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome the Biden administration\u2019s announcement on international STEM talent,\u201d the Chamber\u2019s&nbsp;Jon Baselice said in a statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Much more needs to be done to update and modernize our nation\u2019s immigration system, and those types of changes require congressional action<\/strong>. The Chamber will continue to push Congress and the White House to work together and address these pressing issues, as the workforce challenges impacting many businesses today won\u2019t be abating anytime soon. [Emphasis added]\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Chamber\u2019s vision, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/11\/chamber-of-commerce-ceo-flood-u-s-with-twice-as-much-legal-immigration-amnesty-for-illegal-aliens\/\">recently detailed<\/a> by CEO Suzanne Clark, includes flooding the U.S. labor market with twice as much foreign competition against America\u2019s working and middle class.<\/p>\n<p>During a policy speech this month, Clark called on Congress to double legal immigration levels \u2014 which would bring anywhere from two to four million foreign nationals to the U.S. annually \u2014 and provide amnesty to most of the nation\u2019s 11 to 22 million illegal aliens.<\/p>\n<p>Such a policy would bring a foreign-born population nearly six times the size of Boston, Massachusetts, to the U.S. every year. The goal, Clark said, is to provide corporations and big businesses with as much readily available foreign labor as possible without having to compete for American workers with higher wages and better benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion of foreign competition against white-collar American workers is likely to hugely benefit the top employers of OPT visa workers. In 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/unitedopt.com\/Home\/blogdetail\/top-companies-offering-opt-jobs-to-international-students-in-2021\">Amazon ranked<\/a> as the top outsourcer to foreign students for American jobs, followed by Apple, BlackRock, Facebook, Microsoft, Accenture, Oracle, Bank of America, Capgemini, Cognizant, Deloitte, Citigroup, eBay, Google, Goldman Sachs, Hewlett-Packard, Infosys, JP Morgan, McKinsey &amp; Company, Tata Consultancy Services, Wayfair, and Yahoo, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Annually, more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/828915\/number-of-stem-degrees-awarded-in-the-us-by-degree-level\/\">half a million<\/a> American STEM graduates enter the white-collar workforce looking for entry-level jobs. Those prospects are crushed by foreign visa worker competition that allows corporations to import foreign nationals on cheaper salaries before securing them green cards to permanently remain in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at&nbsp;jbinder@breitbart.com.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Chamber of Commerce is cheering on President Joe Biden\u2019s expansion of a visa pipeline set to deliver more foreign competition against American professionals while cutting costs for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1231946","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\/1231946","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231946\/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=1231946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}