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The prospect of President Trump’s altering the U.S. legal immigration system and the H-1B visa has one of the largest outsourcing firms rattled.

After British Airways was hit with a technical problem, forcing it to shut down all of its flights at London Heathrow and Gatwick airports, unions are now blaming the fiasco on the company’s decision to outsource its IT department.

A pro-American employee organization is asking Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly to not expand a visa program that outsources blue-collar jobs.

The IT fiasco which saw hundreds of flights from Heathrow cancelled and hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded “could have been avoided” if British Airways had not sacked British tech experts and outsourced their jobs to India, say workers’ representatives.

Outsourcing firms who have relocated hundreds of thousands of American jobs overseas are already feeling the repercussions of President Trump’s Buy American, Hire American proposal.

The foreign outsourcing industry is increasing its H-1B visa lobbying efforts to ensure the flow of foreign labor continues as the Trump Administration conducts a full legal review of the program.

The largest agriculture pro-outsourcing organization says President Donald Trump has “assured” them that the current flow of foreign workers in the farming industry will continue unreformed.

A new report states that only 36 percent of Indian software engineers can write working, compilable code based on a test used to automatically grade programming skills.

Most native-born American photojournalists have been elbowed out of the Hollywood paparazzi business by an immigration wave of lower-wage, lower-status, illegal-immigrant photojournalists, according to a California academic and media reports.

IT workers at the University of California intend to file a lawsuit challenging their dismissal after they were replaced by offshore workers, arguing that those sacked from the UC San Francisco campus were discriminated against based on age and national origin.

Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) is singling out the H-1B visa program in a new op-ed for its harmful impact on American workers.

Outsourcing firms, which supply major U.S. companies with thousands of foreign workers, are being called-out by the Trump White House.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Stephen Miller held a closed door meeting this week at the White House to discuss the controversial H-1B foreign guest worker visa program.

The New York fashion establishment’s close ties to the open borders lobby will be on full display during an upcoming joint press conference calling for the continued flow of low-skilled legal immigration.

The Trump Administration created a tool for Americans to report H-1B visa fraud in their workplace.

On the day the H-1B visa program is open for applications by employers, mostly from the tech industry, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is warning companies not to replace American workers with foreign help.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Labor, Alexander Acosta, said during a congressional hearing that he believed it is “not the intent” to replace American employees with cheaper, foreign ones under the H-1B visa program.

In the latest high visibility offshoring of Silicon Valley jobs to India, the San Francisco Business Times (SFBT) reported last month that the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) will offshore about 72 information technology (IT) jobs from San Francisco to India in a restructuring that could slash labor costs by 75 percent.

A new study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has found that California lost a net 589,100 jobs from 2001 to 2015, after China entered the World Trade Organization.

Barack Obama’s expansion of the H-1B outsourcing program would take effect just three days before he leaves the White House. It can be seen as a direct challenge to incoming President Donald Trump, who promised to reform the H-1B program.

Up to 350 manufacturing jobs are being sent to Mexico from a factory in Indianapolis, according to news reports in Indiana.

“The only point I would make for the tech community is on the H1B visas, I support them. When I was a Senator from New York I supported them,” Hillary Clinton told a meeting hosted by a software company in August 2014, according to a document apparently prepared by her campaign team.

The dismal forecast in the latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Economic Outlook reads like Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s talking points — namely, in its analysis that “sub-par growth at recent levels risks perpetuating itself—through the negative economic and political forces it is unleashing.”

Hillary Clinton’s State Department oversaw a government agency’s expenditure of millions of taxpayer dollars to help companies outsource American tech jobs to foreign countries.

Political jobs held by two veteran Democratic politicians have been outsourced to two young immigrants, underscoring the growing impact of mass immigration on white-collar Americans.

On Fox News Sunday, Sen. Ted Cruz found himself on the defense, explaining what his VP pick of Carly Fiorina signals for his campaign’s views on outsourcing.

A landmark article in the March 26 edition of The Economist, headlined, “The problem with profits,” gets one to thinking about the fundamentals of our economy.

The first accomplishment of California’s pioneering $15 minimum wage law is killing the revival of America’s clothing industry.

Wednesday at a campaign rally in New York City, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton delivered a populist message to rallygoers in attendance. Clinton threatened a “exit tax” on companies fleeing the United States for lower taxes and vowed to use

A white-collar professional at Abbott Labs spoke to Laura Ingraham’s radio show to describe the company’s mass layoffs.

In 2014, the Northeast Utilities Company in Connecticut — now known as Eversource Energy — allegedly laid off around 200 of its American tech workers and replaced them with low-wage foreigners admitted on H-1B guest worker visas.

Mondelez bakeries, which makes Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers, and Cadbury chocolates, has announced yet another round of layoffs at its Chicago bakery. The company is enlarging its Mexico facilities as it closes nine bakery lines in the Windy City, some of which

Industry executives and university advocates have successfully duped nearly every reporter, editor and anchor nationwide about the scale and purpose of the H-1B professional outsourcing program.

Donald Trump vows to bring back the millions of American jobs lost to China and other foreign competitors if voters put him in the White House.

The exchange of favors is unseemly, because the president essentially validated Nike’s highly criticized and dubious corporate outsourcing model, and for a mere pittance.

President Barack Obama vowed to expand an obscure visa program on Monday which would allow employers to circumvent prohibitions on using cheap foreign labor to replace American workers.