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From Breitbart: Teamsters Union President Sean O’Brien says the H-1B visa program “displaces” Americans from their jobs while allowing billionaires at the top of corporations to exploit foreign workers.
Amid debate regarding the H-1B visa program, which allows companies to import hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, primarily from India, to take white-collar American jobs, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) blasted the program as nothing more than an outsourcing scheme.
“The main function of the H-1B visa program and other guest worker initiatives is not to hire ‘the best and the brightest,’ but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad.”
The cheaper the labor they hire, the more money the billionaires make,” Sanders wrote:
If there is really a shortage of skilled tech workers in America, why did Tesla lay-off over 7,500 American workers this year – including many software developers and engineers at its factory in Austin, Texas – while being approved to employ thousands of H-1B guest workers? [Emphasis added]
“.@SenSanders is 100% right. The H-1B guest worker visa program displaces US workers and allows billionaire tech employers to exploit foreign workers,” wrote O’Brien in response to Sanders’ post.
.@SenSanders is 100% right. The H-1B guest worker visa program displaces US workers and allows billionaire tech employers to exploit foreign workers. https://t.co/gWuiDfCcjh
— Sean M. O’Brien (@TeamsterSOB) January 3, 2025
Many conservatives are reacting, saying they never expected to be agreeing with Bernie Sanders or the teamsters union.
Others are slamming Sanders for not standing up against the foreign worker visas before.
I never thought I would agree with Sanders.
— Tracey Gallagher (@asmartbrunette1) January 4, 2025
I’m usually not pro union but you’re absolutely correct here, Sean.
— STANG: EVIL INDUSTRIALIST (@hydromerchant) January 3, 2025
Bernie spent most of his career working against the American worker. He voted to increase these visas. He’s a bullshit artist.
— Kate (@kate_p45) January 3, 2025
I agree, I’m a republican and disagree with a lot of union bosses, but on this I 100% stand with them and our Ameican workers! Let’s start the protesting!
— tamara (@Tamaralynn212) January 3, 2025
It’s time to stop the replacement of Americans! They have gotten away with this for too long! We need people willing to fight for the American workforce and keep it actually American 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/aFDycFACxE
— Alb (@amandalouise416) January 3, 2025
Ending H1B is the only way to fix this pic.twitter.com/LT9Iuae5AO
— Tech Worker USA (@TechWorkerUSA) January 3, 2025
Then you probably shouldn’t have voted to increase the number of H-1b workers in this country per (@NumbersUSA) pic.twitter.com/72FmIeUTam
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) January 2, 2025
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