WEBVTT - Learned to Code 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:07.560 This is Red Pilled America. This Labor Day weekend, Red 0:00:07.580 --> 0:00:11.960 Pilled America is offering 40% off an annual entry-level backstage 0:00:12.020 --> 0:00:15.380 membership where you can get ad-free access to our entire 0:00:15.450 --> 0:00:19.410 back catalog of episodes. Go to redpilledamerica.com and click the 0:00:19.450 --> 0:00:22.529 link on the homepage and enter the phrase Labor Day 0:00:22.690 --> 0:00:25.349 at checkout. Join the fam bam and help us save 0:00:25.390 --> 0:00:28.700 America one story at a time. This episode was originally 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:32.860 broadcast on March 15th, 2019, and it's just as relevant 0:00:32.879 --> 0:00:33.839 today as it was then. 0:00:33.860 --> 0:00:34.600 Enjoy. 0:00:36.659 --> 0:00:40.500 Silicon Valley is known for its ruthless competition, constantly battling 0:00:40.540 --> 0:00:44.550 each other to grow even larger. But one area where 0:00:44.590 --> 0:00:47.330 they put down their swords is the topic of immigration. 0:00:47.890 --> 0:00:49.790 Silicon Valley loves immigrants. 0:00:50.190 --> 0:00:54.490 My view on DACA is the Congress needs to fix DACA, 0:00:54.610 --> 0:00:57.870 and fix DACA to me means allow everyone to stay 0:00:57.890 --> 0:00:58.550 in the country. 0:00:58.690 --> 0:01:01.770 We benefit from integration. We benefit from diversity. 0:01:01.870 --> 0:01:05.350 The Washington Post reports Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his 0:01:05.430 --> 0:01:09.410 wife are donating $ 33 million to fund scholarships for undocumented 0:01:09.470 --> 0:01:10.709 immigrants called DREAMers. 0:01:10.970 --> 0:01:15.080 I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing 0:01:15.090 --> 0:01:16.380 people they label as others. 0:01:16.830 --> 0:01:24.140 But why? Why does Silicon Valley love immigrants? The truth. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:08.690 Welcome to Red Pilled America. You'd be hard-pressed to find 0:02:08.750 --> 0:02:11.389 a Silicon Valley titan who doesn't want to open our 0:02:11.450 --> 0:02:15.850 borders to immigration, both legal and illegal. When someone within 0:02:15.870 --> 0:02:19.840 their ranks goes against that orthodoxy, even opposing illegal immigration, 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:21.260 they feel the wrath. 0:02:21.690 --> 0:02:26.049 Protesters targeted the home of tech industry billionaire Peter Thiel. 0:02:26.110 --> 0:02:28.910 They are speaking out against the work by one of 0:02:28.970 --> 0:02:33.550 his companies that could track airline passengers and other immigrants. 0:02:33.930 --> 0:02:37.780 Silicon Valley is unanimously for increasing immigration to the United States. 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.660 But as we know, any time a community is unanimously 0:02:41.740 --> 0:02:46.000 agreed on a subject, something else is usually afloat. Why 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:49.470 does Silicon Valley want to increase immigration to the United States? 0:02:50.220 --> 0:02:52.350 To find the answer, We're going to hear the story 0:02:52.430 --> 0:02:56.850 of two tech industry insiders. One, a longtime computer programmer 0:02:56.970 --> 0:03:00.160 that became a whistleblower, and another, an immigrant to the 0:03:00.220 --> 0:03:04.179 United States who began his career in Silicon Valley. We'll 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:07.019 give a perspective that the masters of big tech don't 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:07.620 want you to hear. 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:22.320 I'm Adriana Cortez. Roger Ross came to the U.S. in 0:03:22.340 --> 0:03:25.440 a kind of roundabout way. His parents were actually South 0:03:25.580 --> 0:03:26.500 African diplomats. 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:31.530 We were in South Africa because they had migrated from Europe. 0:03:32.169 --> 0:03:36.770 And my father was working for the World Bank organization there. 0:03:36.810 --> 0:03:40.030 So I was born and raised in South Africa. And 0:03:40.170 --> 0:03:43.270 it just became a really cozy place to grow up. 0:03:43.410 --> 0:03:45.680 And my parents never wanted to move back. 0:03:46.090 --> 0:03:48.540 As a young boy, Roger had aspired to come to America. 0:03:49.210 --> 0:03:52.210 I had always set my sights on the American dream, 0:03:52.910 --> 0:03:56.370 at least what was depicted about it in the sitcoms 0:03:56.490 --> 0:04:00.100 and the Hollywood movies that I watched, that America is 0:04:00.140 --> 0:04:04.180 this great land of opportunities and you can pursue all 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.660 your dreams. And I really wanted to focus on that 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:12.750 and become part of the American lifestyle. I really valued 0:04:12.790 --> 0:04:16.150 that lifestyle to the point where I even adopted and 0:04:16.190 --> 0:04:20.510 started to change my accent to to fit in. So 0:04:20.570 --> 0:04:23.210 I did everything I could to assimilate into the culture. 0:04:23.490 --> 0:04:25.710 He went to an international school in South Africa that 0:04:25.730 --> 0:04:29.230 encouraged its students to study abroad. So before his senior 0:04:29.250 --> 0:04:31.510 year of high school, he made the move to America, 0:04:31.910 --> 0:04:35.070 to a small town of 10,000 people in Northern California. 0:04:35.370 --> 0:04:38.530 I actually started my journey quite early. I moved to 0:04:38.570 --> 0:04:42.110 the United States in 99 and I didn't graduate from 0:04:42.150 --> 0:04:46.560 the international school. I graduated from a local public school 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:50.000 here in California. And I came here on like a 0:04:50.180 --> 0:04:51.440 foreign exchange basis. 0:04:51.860 --> 0:04:54.849 His high school was a predominantly white public school. And 0:04:54.890 --> 0:04:57.850 his years of admiring America made him fit right in 0:04:57.910 --> 0:04:58.430 on arrival. 0:04:58.750 --> 0:05:01.150 A lot of the people were very friendly to me. 0:05:01.570 --> 0:05:04.850 They were actually astonished by my level of English because 0:05:04.890 --> 0:05:06.880 a lot of the foreign exchange students that they had 0:05:06.940 --> 0:05:11.279 encountered spoke little English or with a heavy accent. And 0:05:11.300 --> 0:05:13.839 they thought that I was just someone who had, you know, 0:05:14.020 --> 0:05:16.260 migrated from San Diego and moved up north. 0:05:18.470 --> 0:05:21.909 Roger wasn't feeling academically challenged at his new school, so 0:05:21.950 --> 0:05:24.810 he enrolled at a nearby college to take collegiate-level classes 0:05:24.870 --> 0:05:29.500 while simultaneously finishing high school. He would eventually attend UC Davis, 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.360 where he got his bachelor's in applied mathematics and a 0:05:32.380 --> 0:05:36.760 master's in economics. By the time he graduated in 2010, 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:38.680 Silicon Valley was making a comeback. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:44.060 This was after the recession of 2008, where things started 0:05:44.110 --> 0:05:48.410 to be booming in Silicon Valley with Facebook going public 0:05:48.470 --> 0:05:52.630 and various other tech companies coming into the limelight and 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.840 showing a lot of great success. So we started to 0:05:55.900 --> 0:05:58.460 see a boom in the startup industry. 0:05:58.779 --> 0:06:01.240 At the time, the message being pumped out by Silicon 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.680 Valley was that American employers needed the foreign students graduating 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.300 from our American universities. 0:06:06.660 --> 0:06:09.080 There was a startup that was interested in a market 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.360 researcher or a market analyst. 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.080 So Roger applied for the job. And that's when the 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.669 startup exposed him to the foreign work visa. 0:06:18.350 --> 0:06:21.930 And they were, you know, they were short on funding, 0:06:22.010 --> 0:06:25.230 so they brought me on an H-1B visa. 0:06:25.490 --> 0:06:28.469 An H-1B is a foreign worker visa that purports to 0:06:28.510 --> 0:06:32.120 help American employers fill job openings for highly skilled workers. 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.779 They're only supposed to be used if the company cannot 0:06:35.900 --> 0:06:39.360 find a qualified American worker to fill the job. The 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.640 origin of the H-1B visas goes back to the Immigration 0:06:42.740 --> 0:06:44.210 Act of 1990. 0:06:44.210 --> 0:06:49.510 This bill provides for vital increases for entry on the 0:06:49.550 --> 0:06:53.590 basis of skills, infusing the ranks of our scientists and 0:06:53.670 --> 0:06:57.330 engineers and educators with new blood and new ideas. 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.980 Washington, D.C. created a whole host of foreign worker visas 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.720 that were specifically not supposed to be used to displace 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:08.420 American workers or negatively affect their wages. The employer is 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.660 supposed to pay the foreign worker what is called the 0:07:10.700 --> 0:07:13.840 prevailing wage. which are the published wage levels that are 0:07:13.980 --> 0:07:17.040 usually paid to the majority of workers within a particular 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.820 work sector. It's kind of like the minimum wage for 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.620 a particular job. This way, the employer could not use 0:07:23.670 --> 0:07:27.550 these visas to bring in cheap foreign labor. The problem is, 0:07:27.830 --> 0:07:30.330 many big tech firms have been using these visas to 0:07:30.410 --> 0:07:35.210 bypass and replace American workers. Many employers like using foreign 0:07:35.250 --> 0:07:37.550 worker visas because of the many benefits they get from 0:07:37.690 --> 0:07:39.990 using them. One is a cost savings. 0:07:40.670 --> 0:07:44.480 If you're paying an American $ 100, 000 to do a job 0:07:44.540 --> 0:07:49.780 and then you pay $ 60, 000 to a foreigner, multiply that 0:07:49.860 --> 0:07:51.720 savings by $ 250, 000, that's a lot. 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:56.200 That's Sarah Blackwell, a Florida-based attorney specializing in employment law 0:07:56.620 --> 0:07:58.340 and founder of Protect U.S. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:07:58.820 Workers. 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.250 But the ultimate end goal and the end game for 0:08:02.290 --> 0:08:03.450 this business model is. 0:08:03.430 --> 0:08:06.110 That most of the work is offshore to India. 0:08:06.130 --> 0:08:06.230 Yeah. 0:08:07.010 --> 0:08:11.430 And the company pays about $ 9, 000 to $ 10, 000 to those workers. 0:08:12.150 --> 0:08:15.650 So you take 250 American workers who are getting an 0:08:15.710 --> 0:08:19.350 average of $ 100, 000 and now we're paying Indians in India 0:08:19.370 --> 0:08:19.830 to do it. 0:08:19.830 --> 0:08:20.110 For $ 10, 000. 0:08:19.970 --> 0:08:25.000 That's some serious savings. And that's, you know, they say, oh, 0:08:25.220 --> 0:08:25.920 we say, you know. 0:08:25.980 --> 0:08:27.080 Labor cost savings. 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:31.020 That's where we're getting the $ 5 million bonuses for the CEOs. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.820 And that's why the CEOs are making so much money 0:08:33.900 --> 0:08:38.839 because they're using... the lie of lack of workers and 0:08:39.140 --> 0:08:43.850 globalism and all of these other arguments for basically using 0:08:44.730 --> 0:08:46.770 foreign slave labor, in my opinion. 0:08:47.210 --> 0:08:49.569 For people working in the United States with a foreign 0:08:49.610 --> 0:08:52.990 work visa, many refer to this labor arrangement as legal 0:08:53.110 --> 0:08:56.550 indentured servitude because in order to keep their work visas 0:08:56.590 --> 0:08:58.829 and remain in our country, they have to work in 0:08:58.870 --> 0:09:01.510 conditions American citizens simply would not tolerate. 0:09:06.140 --> 0:09:10.460 The Indian-based companies or even when the American companies hire 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:15.160 the H-1Bs, the H-1Bs have to have a sponsor to 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.880 keep their visa. And so they are in a position 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.949 to be exploited, to have to work a ton of 0:09:22.990 --> 0:09:26.689 hours and to be paid a certain amount, but have 0:09:26.730 --> 0:09:29.310 to give money back for certain things. And that happens 0:09:29.370 --> 0:09:32.450 a lot. And then the Americans have to compete with that. 0:09:32.570 --> 0:09:32.890 So the. 0:09:35.420 --> 0:09:39.140 Having to compete with workers who are staying there 90 0:09:39.140 --> 0:09:41.330 hours because if they don't, they could be sent back home. 0:09:41.710 --> 0:09:45.929 Roger Ross experienced this exploitation firsthand when he became a 0:09:46.130 --> 0:09:47.330 foreign visa worker. 0:09:47.870 --> 0:09:50.910 When I was initially sponsored for it, my correct job 0:09:50.950 --> 0:09:54.210 title should have been, you know, that of an economist 0:09:54.309 --> 0:09:58.750 or a market researcher or a market analyst. And my 0:09:58.770 --> 0:10:02.900 employer saw the prevailing wage in the job handbook and said, oh, 0:10:03.030 --> 0:10:05.290 that's too high of a salary. We can't afford to 0:10:05.340 --> 0:10:09.860 pay you that. So why don't we make your job, 0:10:10.220 --> 0:10:14.280 you know, something that we can find a prevailing wage 0:10:14.340 --> 0:10:17.920 that's much more lower. And at the same time, we 0:10:17.940 --> 0:10:20.059 want to employ you on a part time basis, but 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:25.040 make you work full time. And you know, that that's 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.960 how they exploited me per se. And at that point, 0:10:29.020 --> 0:10:31.120 I was just like, okay, I just need to get 0:10:31.179 --> 0:10:34.160 the H-1B visa. You know, this is what they want 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.740 to do, then so be it. Because I'm just a 0:10:36.780 --> 0:10:41.080 fresh college graduate. I'm dying for a job. We're coming 0:10:41.140 --> 0:10:45.260 out of a recession. And any job will do because 0:10:45.540 --> 0:10:50.319 I had loans to pay myself. So I gladly accepted, 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.699 you know, whatever they'd deemed necessary to get me on 0:10:53.740 --> 0:10:54.500 the H-1B. 0:10:54.900 --> 0:10:58.200 But what Roger learned was that he lost his ability 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.600 to speak up because he was beholden to his employer. 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.240 One false move and he could lose his job and 0:11:04.260 --> 0:11:05.660 be sent back to his country. 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:12.410 But as I got my H-1B, I noticed that, you know, 0:11:12.570 --> 0:11:17.870 there was no way I could retaliate or make my 0:11:17.929 --> 0:11:19.990 voice heard if I felt like I was being dealt 0:11:20.429 --> 0:11:24.920 inappropriately with the work or whether I was not being 0:11:24.980 --> 0:11:27.599 paid fairly. I just felt like I didn't have a 0:11:27.660 --> 0:11:31.040 voice in that. And, you know, that was really problematic. 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.719 It's a problem for the foreign worker as well as 0:11:33.780 --> 0:11:37.040 for the American worker. Because the exploited foreigner not only 0:11:37.110 --> 0:11:39.900 takes the job from an American, they also set the 0:11:39.950 --> 0:11:43.150 standard for the Americans still working within the company. And 0:11:43.210 --> 0:11:46.730 Americans don't just lose out on new job openings. Sometimes 0:11:46.750 --> 0:11:50.410 they're even forced to train their foreign replacement under incredibly 0:11:50.450 --> 0:11:53.770 stressful circumstances. That's what happened with Michael Emmons. 0:11:54.429 --> 0:11:57.830 My daughter was born with spina bifida. She's had about 0:11:57.830 --> 0:12:05.140 28 surgeries. And I'm training my foreign replacement workers. My insurance, 0:12:06.100 --> 0:12:09.600 I'm self-employed, so my medical insurance premiums were $ 947 a month. 0:12:09.620 --> 0:12:11.339 And to find out that my trainee's salary is $ 53 0:12:11.260 --> 0:12:21.540 more than my medical premiums, I mean, how does an 0:12:21.580 --> 0:12:26.420 American compete? And I don't know why, but I decided 0:12:26.470 --> 0:12:26.980 to fight it. 0:12:27.610 --> 0:12:31.630 And fight it, Michael did. More Red Pilled America after 0:12:31.650 --> 0:12:32.050 the break. 0:12:34.670 --> 0:12:38.970 Welcome back to Red Pilled America. Michael Emmons has seen 0:12:39.010 --> 0:12:40.329 a lot of the United States. 0:12:40.910 --> 0:12:46.060 I was born in Mississippi, lived in Tennessee till fourth grade. 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:50.130 Then we went to North Carolina. till seventh, and then 0:12:50.190 --> 0:12:52.330 I've been here since eighth grade. 0:12:52.750 --> 0:12:56.410 Here being Florida. That's where his father introduced him to programming. 0:12:56.710 --> 0:12:58.770 My father said, why don't you try this? And I 0:12:58.809 --> 0:13:00.569 took one class and I was hooked. 0:13:00.929 --> 0:13:03.369 Michael did then what so many people are told to 0:13:03.429 --> 0:13:05.530 do today. He learned to code. 0:13:06.290 --> 0:13:09.910 It was a lot of concepts and learning how to code. 0:13:10.510 --> 0:13:13.750 One of my first class, we used an IBM mainframe. 0:13:14.350 --> 0:13:17.970 The PCs came in on my senior year. They started 0:13:17.990 --> 0:13:21.350 having like a PC lab. We used cards for my 0:13:21.390 --> 0:13:24.270 first two classes, you know, where you had like cards 0:13:24.309 --> 0:13:26.050 and you programmed on the cards and you ran them 0:13:26.370 --> 0:13:27.110 through a card reader. 0:13:27.530 --> 0:13:31.080 He'd eventually graduate from the University of Florida in 1984 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.020 with a degree in computer science and began solving people's 0:13:34.100 --> 0:13:35.240 problems through coding. 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.280 I worked for Florida Department of Revenue and I created 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:44.179 an application to accept revenue through checks out at the 0:13:44.230 --> 0:13:47.719 remote locations. So I then left to go with a 0:13:47.780 --> 0:13:53.780 small company that we created a crime laboratory tracking system. 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:58.870 I built a jail system to handle all the money 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:02.730 that inmates get. So when he was arrested, they took 0:14:02.830 --> 0:14:05.150 everything from him and they put it into our system 0:14:05.550 --> 0:14:08.069 and gave the inmate a receipt. I was working 80 0:14:08.070 --> 0:14:11.949 hours a week and they were paying me about 40. 0:14:11.950 --> 0:14:15.020 And I asked for a raise and they didn't want 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:18.200 to pay me. So that's when I decided, I'm just 0:14:18.220 --> 0:14:19.340 going to go do this on my own. 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.280 He went coding in South Carolina, Texas, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 0:14:23.940 --> 0:14:26.540 He ended up at the Church of Scientology in Los Angeles. 0:14:27.060 --> 0:14:31.880 Writing their, I call it a book-selling application, because to 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:33.380 me it's not really a church. 0:14:33.990 --> 0:14:35.850 Then a guy he worked with left the Church of 0:14:35.900 --> 0:14:39.290 Scientology and got a job in Silicon Valley working with Siemens. 0:14:39.930 --> 0:14:43.030 So Michael took a contracting gig at Siemens working on 0:14:43.090 --> 0:14:47.460 voice-over IP phones. What was Silicon Valley like in the 90s? 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.560 Did it have the same kind of lore that it 0:14:49.620 --> 0:14:50.100 has now? 0:14:50.820 --> 0:14:54.540 It was amazing. To go live in right smack in 0:14:54.580 --> 0:14:57.740 the middle of all the stuff that I do and everything, 0:14:58.460 --> 0:15:02.610 it was amazing. I really enjoyed it. But I believe 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.290 it's changed quite a bit now. 0:15:04.850 --> 0:15:05.310 In what way? 0:15:06.050 --> 0:15:08.790 Well, it's overrun with foreign workers. 0:15:21.490 --> 0:15:25.310 Michael would soon be overrun himself. After the dot-com bubble 0:15:25.350 --> 0:15:29.350 burst in 2001, Seaman merged two of their businesses into one. 0:15:29.910 --> 0:15:32.430 They had an office in Florida and offered Michael a 0:15:32.500 --> 0:15:35.680 contracting job at that office. He jumped at the chance 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.800 because now he'd be able to actually live in his 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.860 house instead of being on the road. But it was short-lived. 0:15:41.980 --> 0:15:46.420 In the middle of 2002, the employees in the IT 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.900 department were brought into a room that And told them 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.300 that they were going to have to train their replacements. 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:56.180 They didn't know who it was. But they were told 0:15:56.220 --> 0:15:58.640 that they were going to basically be let go. But 0:15:58.660 --> 0:16:01.970 they want them to train their replacements. So I was 0:16:02.010 --> 0:16:04.770 an employee. I was a contractor. So they didn't bring 0:16:04.810 --> 0:16:07.390 me into the room. But some of the employees had 0:16:07.450 --> 0:16:08.730 told me, this is. 0:16:08.670 --> 0:16:09.350 What's going on. 0:16:10.410 --> 0:16:15.660 About 30 days later, in comes about 30 or so people. 0:16:16.690 --> 0:16:22.370 Mostly young male Tata India employees are trainees. 0:16:23.070 --> 0:16:25.930 Tata is a huge Indian company that, among other things, 0:16:26.390 --> 0:16:30.340 provides a foreign Indian workforce to corporations on American soil. 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.180 At the time, Michael can't recall any foreign visa workers 0:16:34.260 --> 0:16:37.040 at Siemens and only remembered a few within the IT 0:16:37.100 --> 0:16:37.920 industry at large. 0:16:37.940 --> 0:16:41.660 I don't think they had any visa holders working here. 0:16:42.660 --> 0:16:46.760 The group I worked for in Sunnyvale, they had about 0:16:46.860 --> 0:16:50.380 two or three on H-1Bs. And I knew who they were, 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.220 and they were friends of mine, and there was no problem. 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:54.900 You know, we worked together. We taught each other. You know, 0:16:55.060 --> 0:16:55.920 we learned from each other. 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.400 But now the entire IT department was being replaced by 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:00.230 Indian workers. 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:05.550 Yeah, they assigned us people to train, and they watched 0:17:05.670 --> 0:17:06.850 over us as we did things. 0:17:07.250 --> 0:17:12.340 Michael was floored. Here was an entire IT department. gainfully employed, many, 0:17:12.500 --> 0:17:16.460 like Michael, dependent on their jobs, now all being replaced 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:20.140 by foreign workers. There was no worker shortage. These foreign 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.420 workers didn't have high-skilled training that the IT staff didn't have. 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.459 I mean, the workers were being trained by the American workers, 0:17:26.510 --> 0:17:29.710 for God's sake. No, these American workers were being replaced 0:17:29.770 --> 0:17:33.630 by foreign workers because they were simply cheaper. Michael learned 0:17:33.670 --> 0:17:34.430 this the hard way. 0:17:34.910 --> 0:17:38.310 It was extremely rough at the time. My daughter was 0:17:38.369 --> 0:17:43.310 born with spina bifida. She's had about 28 surgeries. And 0:17:43.369 --> 0:17:48.250 I'm training my foreign replacement workers. I'm self-employed, so my 0:17:48.290 --> 0:17:54.100 medical insurance premiums were $ 947 a month. And to find 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:59.100 out that my trainee's salary is $ 53 more than my 0:17:59.140 --> 0:18:03.639 medical premium? I mean, how does an American compete? And 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:06.600 I don't know why, but I decided. 0:18:06.260 --> 0:18:09.840 To fight it. So Michael, a programming whiz... began digging 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.420 around on the company's servers and he found some documents. 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.200 So I looked around on the server and I found 0:18:15.260 --> 0:18:20.100 Tata's shared drive. And I found all their documents. And 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.000 that's where I found the knowledge transfer documents, which I 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:27.700 had given to my U.S. congressman. I found their staffing 0:18:27.740 --> 0:18:31.570 document too. And what was interesting in the staffing document 0:18:31.650 --> 0:18:34.670 is all but about one or two of the people 0:18:35.109 --> 0:18:42.990 were on L-1B visas. Intra-company transfer visas. Tata India transfers 0:18:43.030 --> 0:18:48.810 their employees from India to Tata America. Then they sell 0:18:48.850 --> 0:18:51.790 them out to businesses in the U.S. 0:19:04.980 --> 0:19:08.870 These L-1B visas are rarely discussed. but they are particularly 0:19:08.970 --> 0:19:12.800 harmful to American workers. This visa was originally created to 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:17.260 allow foreign companies to bring their employees with, quote, special 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:20.040 knowledge to help set up a branch in the United States. 0:19:20.460 --> 0:19:23.790 But in practice, L-1B visas are used in an entirely 0:19:23.830 --> 0:19:27.609 different way. They are predominantly used to replace American workers 0:19:27.930 --> 0:19:32.230 with cheap foreign labor. Foreign companies, primarily from India, set 0:19:32.270 --> 0:19:34.920 up shop in the United States. then bring their countrymen 0:19:34.980 --> 0:19:37.820 into the states and shop them out to American corporations. 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.890 Unlike H-1B visas, there are no numerical limits on how 0:19:41.930 --> 0:19:45.369 many L-1B visas are issued, and there is no restrictions 0:19:45.430 --> 0:19:49.160 on paying the foreign worker a prevailing wage. In other words, 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.440 the American corporation can pay them as little as possible. 0:19:53.060 --> 0:19:56.359 So these foreign workers become very attractive. When the corporations 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.740 hire them, they make their American employees train their replacements. 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.540 This process is known as knowledge transfer, and if an 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:08.169 American worker refuses, they receive no severance package. Also, as 0:20:08.190 --> 0:20:11.629 a condition of receiving the severance package, the corporation shuts 0:20:11.690 --> 0:20:14.040 them up. by making them sign away their right to 0:20:14.100 --> 0:20:17.160 speak to the press. These foreign visas are so often 0:20:17.340 --> 0:20:20.080 used in the IT business that insiders won't speak out 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.800 about them for fear of being blacklisted from the industry. 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.370 That's why we seldom hear about this morally reprehensible practice. 0:20:30.890 --> 0:20:33.690 We're constantly sold by the big tech industry that foreign 0:20:33.710 --> 0:20:38.270 workers are needed because of American worker shortages. But they're lying. Again, 0:20:38.350 --> 0:20:38.949 Sarah Blackwell. 0:20:39.300 --> 0:20:42.260 The argument is they're high skilled and that's why we 0:20:42.300 --> 0:20:45.080 need them. And we don't have enough American workers to 0:20:45.100 --> 0:20:47.960 do the job. That's the argument. But obviously we have 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:51.780 high skilled American workers if the American high skilled workers 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:54.260 are teaching the foreigners how to do their job. 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:59.840 Sarah represented former Disney employees in a high profile case. 0:21:00.300 --> 0:21:03.290 In 2014, 250 of the company's IT employees were forced 0:21:03.310 --> 0:21:05.869 to train their replacements, which was a large group of 0:21:05.910 --> 0:21:07.850 Indian nationals with foreign work visas. 0:21:08.510 --> 0:21:13.070 Well, I filed a RICO lawsuit because these corporations have 0:21:13.090 --> 0:21:15.070 a lot of money and they paid some really smart 0:21:15.109 --> 0:21:19.450 attorneys to figure out how to break immigration and employment 0:21:19.470 --> 0:21:24.970 laws without breaking employment or immigration laws. So basically what 0:21:26.170 --> 0:21:28.590 Disney did, if they would have just done on their own, 0:21:28.630 --> 0:21:31.730 they would be violating employment law because you can't take 0:21:31.730 --> 0:21:36.170 250 people and then replace them all with one race 0:21:36.270 --> 0:21:39.359 and one national origin. I mean, that's So these corporations 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:44.840 find loopholes to legally replace American workers with cheap foreign labor, 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:46.100 take advantage of the desperate. 0:21:45.980 --> 0:22:10.490 Foreign workers, and gag their former employees so no one 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:12.840 knows what's going on. And they do it all with 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:16.139 the help of our politicians in Washington, D.C. That's why 0:22:16.180 --> 0:22:19.640 what Michael Emmons did in 2003 was so important. He 0:22:19.700 --> 0:22:22.560 was a pioneer in blowing the whistle on this despicable 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:25.960 corporate scam. When Michael was forced to train his replacements, 0:22:26.340 --> 0:22:29.649 he wasn't an employee. He was a contractor. And corporations 0:22:29.670 --> 0:22:31.890 at the time were not hip to shutting people up yet. 0:22:32.430 --> 0:22:34.810 Michael wasn't going to take this abuse sitting down. He 0:22:34.830 --> 0:22:37.450 was a highly skilled programmer, that kept up to date 0:22:37.490 --> 0:22:38.909 with the industry's new technology. 0:22:45.380 --> 0:22:49.540 But I've spent my whole career relearning and relearning to 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:51.700 stay proficient in the industry. 0:22:53.420 --> 0:22:55.189 So he approached a former customer and said he was 0:22:55.210 --> 0:22:57.670 looking for work. They scooped him up, but at a 0:22:57.730 --> 0:23:01.750 sizable salary decrease. Nonetheless, that freed him up to blow 0:23:01.790 --> 0:23:05.179 the whistle on the entire foreign worker visa scam. 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So Michael Emmons learned that 0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:40.220 the company he was working for was replacing their American 0:24:40.260 --> 0:24:43.960 tech workers with cheap foreign labor. To add insult to injury, 0:24:44.160 --> 0:24:47.270 they were forcing them to train their replacements. Michael wasn't 0:24:47.310 --> 0:24:49.880 going to take this sitting down. He secured another job 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:52.550 at a sizable pay decrease, but that freed him up 0:24:52.590 --> 0:24:55.590