FIRED FOR BEING AN AMERICAN ( replaced,illegally,by foreigners)

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Fired Just for Being American
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January 21, 2012   dave
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Lawyer says visa loophole being used to hire foreigners for cheap,
pink-slip U.S. workers
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By Victor Thorn
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On April 22, 2011 attorney James Otto filed a pioneering lawsuit against
Long Beach, Calif.'s Molina Healthcare, Inc., alleging that the 21
clients he is representing were fired because they were American
citizens. During a Dec. 6, 2011 interview with this writer, Otto
outlined the most under-reported employment story in our country today.
"In my complaint, I contend that a conspiracy existed between Molina and
a company named Cognizant to replace their workers because they were all
Americans,"? said Otto. "Further, none of these dismissals" 225 total
over a three-year span-occurred for disciplinary reasons.
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When AMERICAN FREE PRESS inquired as to how he obtained this data, Otto
replied, "All of the information originated from workers on the inside
of Molina. These were people that ran the company on a day-to-day basis
and saw their cohorts being fired, only to be replaced by Indians."
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As proof, Otto cited Chief Information Officer Amir Desai, who was
brought from India by President John Molina. Desai was overheard saying:
"I will not hire any Americans."
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It is alleged in the lawsuit that Molina approved this move, which is
especially troublesome since Desai enjoyed a close relationship with
Cognizant Technology Solutions, Inc., which acted as a headhunter to
import huge numbers of nationals from India into the United States.
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By some estimates, U.S. companies as a whole are hiring up to 2 million
foreign workers each year by illegally discriminating against
American-born employees, who they then summarily dismiss without excuse.
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Molina's outrageous conduct is even more egregious, according to Otto,
because they're supported solely by government proceeds.
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Otto's lawsuit contends that "The entirety of Molina's annual income
comes from U.S. taxpayers via the federal government, which pays the
Medicare and Medicaid claims filed by Molina's insured."
By firing American workers and replacing them with Indians, Otto's suit
charges that "Several billion U.S. taxpayer dollars have gone directly
to India without any benefit to the American economy or U.S. taxpayers."
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Otto said that Molina specifically used the employment agency Cognizant
to find workers in India that could be sent to the United States. As a
result, Cognizant made a commission off of every Indian worker hired.
Even more appalling, Cognizant only interviewed Indians and segregated
every American from job searches they conducted between 2006-2010.
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Otto explained, "Molina's internal records revealed that it turned their
diverse Information Technology [IT] department into one that employed 98
percent Indians. Molina falsely swore under oath that they tried to find
qualified American laborers, but the Department of Labor has found no
evidence of this claim. The Indian workers brought over by Cognizant
weren't meant to supplement U.S. laborers, but to replace them.'
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Although Indian nationals obviously benefit from this arrangement, the
real villains, according to Otto, are U.S. employers that are perverting
and violating a variety of laws. They do so by manipulating a foreign
worker's H1-B immigration status by arranging for overseas laborers to
be admitted into our country precisely because U.S. companies are giving
them jobs.
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In fact, some employers even though it is discriminatory - seek only
H1-B visa applicants and solely invite Indians to their job fairs. Their
reasoning is this: imported workers and trainees are preferred because
their wages are generally one-third to two-thirds less than what
Americans are paid. Moreover, employers don't have to pay Social
Security or payroll taxes for guest workers, and they laws that require
higher overtime wages.
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Instead of importing overseas workers, why not simply outsource these
positions to India or China? .
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Otto answered, "For non-skilled, blue-collar manufacturing jobs, that is
precisely what still takes place. But there's not enough infrastructure
in these countries to facilitate high-tech positions, so foreign
workers  are ?onshored" into America."
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The numbers reflect this startling trend. Between 2001-2006, the U.S.
imported, on average, 860,000 workers per year.
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Yet, in 2010 alone, that total leaped more than threefold to 2,816,525.
With real unemployment figures pushing 20 percent, why are nearly 3
million foreigners being legally allowed into the United States to fill
positions that Americans have been fired from?
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A definite endgame is at play, as Otto quoted a training seminar video
where the speaker actually instructed American companies on how to shun
U.S.-born laborers.
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â??The goal is not to find a qualified American worker,â??
said the video. â??Attorneys are teaching corporations legal
strategies to avoid hiring American workers while they hire cheaper
foreign workers.â??
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GREENSPAN, BUSH, CLINTON TO BLAME
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When tracing the plight of how displaced American workers are being
betrayed by employers in their own country, attorney James Otto looked
at the big picture.
"Ever since 1890 until recently, Congress has passed immigration laws
that protected U.S. jobs,"? Otto said. "But former Federal Reserve
Chairman Alan Greenspan didn't like these immigration codes. So, in
[Greenspan's] book The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, he
advocated the elimination of U.S. immigration quotas.
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Otto elaborated on this globalist financier's motives. "Greenspan said
U.S. businesses would benefit from the lowering of middle-class
wages,"? he said. "It was all about reducing the money they
earned."?
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Taking Greenspan's lead was President George W. Bush's secretary of
labor, Elaine Chao, who is married to House Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell (R-Ky.).
Otto pointed out that "Chao said it was okay for U.S. employers to
discriminate against American workers. When hiring, they didn't have to
search for competent U.S. workers and could instead replace them with
foreigners."
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Otto warned of the consequences.
"Today, if you graduate from college or high school and try to find a
well-paying job, you might as well forget it. You don't have a chance
because American students are being discriminated against in favor of
cheaper ones from foreign countries."?
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And if that's not bad enough, Otto referred to how Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton authorized up to $26 million to build a computer school
in Sri Lanka so that their graduates could travel to America and fill
high-tech jobs.
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To prevent this crime against U.S. born citizens, Otto offered a
solution. "All immigration quotas that benefit foreign workers need to
be immediately eliminated, especially those with H1-B statuses."
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Indentured Servitude in U.S.
By Victor Thorn
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In pondering forced labor and human slavery, one imagines cramped
Chinese sweatshops, tribal African overlords wielding whips or Hispanic
'coyotes' ? illegally transporting illiterate Mexicans into the United
States. But there is another kind of indentured servant in existence
today who is not enslaved in some Indonesian textile mill or picking
crops for dollars a day. Today, even white-collar engineers, accountants
and computer programmers with college degrees working in respectable
office buildings can be slave labor, who toil endlessly for the profits
of multinational corporations.
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Akin to the fees charged by smugglers when carrying truckloads of
illegal aliens across our southwest border, corporate headhunters are
similarly forcing foreign workers to pay hefty sums of money before
landing a job on American soil.
To retain legal distance, U.S. companies subcontract this sordid
practice to what are called 'body shops'? These are the functional
equivalent to low-rent apartments where dozens of Mexicans reside in
cramped rooms, but instead they warehouse H1-B workers from India or
China in overcrowded, sometimes squalid conditions.
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Once these H1-B visa workers arrive on U.S. shores, the gullible foreign
employees often discover that promises made to them were untrue or that
they had been deceived into signing less than-appealing contracts.
Fearful of being deported or losing their work visas, the foreigners are
forced to endure harsh conditions and long hours for little money and
can never complain.
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Increasingly, the majority of laborers flooding the United States are
originating from India. Not only are these individuals exploited, the
aftermath of what is being done to American workplaces is equally
devastating. And this has resulted in a flurry of lawsuits.
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Denver attorney Curtis Kennedy is suing telecom firm Qwest, alleging
that the multi-billion dollar company has been running roughshod over
U.S. employees and systematically replacing them with H1-B Indians.
Commenting on how entire information technology departments were being
restructured with foreigners, Kennedy said, "They want to dismantle
them. We're going to get a complete picture of the destructiveness of
Qwest's downsizing. It's nothing but an example of corporate greed,
shattered lives and shattered communities."?
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Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) reflected on the sordid techniques used
by employers and their unscrupulous headhunters.
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"Some of these companies are nothing but pimps,"? said Grassley.
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However, until massive loopholes relating to the influx of H1-B workers
are tightened, American workers will continue to suffer.
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In a June 22, 2011 article in SFWeekly entitled "H1-B Visa Program
Creates Caste System for Silicon Valley,"? reporter Matt Smith
examined the problem.
"2008 Department of Homeland Security audit determined that one in five
H1-B visas were obtained through fraud or as a result of technical
violations,"? wrote Smith. He added that a 2003 study by the
University of Michigan claiming that the U.S. suffered from a shortage
of qualified technicians and programmers was completely BOGUS.
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Smith zeroed in on the actual cause and effect of this phenomenon.
"H1-Bs are merely a cheap labor pool, and many companies exploit the
program as a way to replace older and thus less desirable U.S.
employees,"? he wrote. "Another study showed that H1-B workers weren't
even particularly highly skilled. They were merely compliant and cheap.
This is all about whether Microsoft can hire an engineer for $30,000 per
year instead of $80,000 per year."
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Echoing this sentiment, David Bacon spelled it out in his book Illegal
People.
"H1-B status is just a way of getting a cheap worker,"? he wrote.
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PRISON LABOR
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Lest anyone forget that thousands of jobs are still being outsourced
from America to other nations, another disturbing trend continues to fly
beneath the mainstream media's radar. Large American retailers such as
Walmart are greatly benefiting from the use of prison laborers that
receive at most $2 per hour and often less.
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On June 27, 2011 Victoria Law, writing for the online news site
"Truthout,"? investigated how the Arizona Department of Corrections
subcontracted its prisoners out to a firm named Martori Farms, which is
the exclusive supplier of fruits and vegetables to Walmart Supercenter
stores. Through various interviews with female prisoners, Ms. Law
exposed an array of appalling practices. In addition to working in the
blazing sun on 100-plus degree days, the women also battled bees, snakes
and scorpions. All for practically no money whatsoever.
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Although medical care was provided to the inmates, it frequently left
much to be desired. One detainee wrote a letter describing what happened
after she'd been injured in the field.
"There's no anti-venom available for snake bites, and they want us to
use Windex (yes, glass cleaner) for scorpion stings"? she said. "It's
absolute insanity.??"
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Victor Thorn is a hard-hitting researcher, journalist and the author of
many books on 9-11 and the New World Order. These include 9-11 EVIL:
Israel?s Central Role in the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks 
and Phantom Flight 93 and Other Sept. 11 Mysteries Explored.
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