Joe Guzzardi: Facebook Aiding and Abetting Southern Border Invasion | Opinions

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Facebook, the tech giant known for censoring posts that promote political views as opposed to its perspective, recently admitted that its users support and encourage illegal immigration.

In response to a letter from Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, Facebook acknowledged that it allows online users to share information that provides advice on illegal immigration and, alternatively, how to hire human traffickers to smuggle foreigners into the United States and then apply for asylum.

Shocked by Facebook’s open admission of helping foreigners to criminally beat the system, Brnovich wrote a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland urging the Justice Department to open a full investigation into Facebook to find a way to stop his active encouragement and facilitation of illegal entry “. . “

Brnovich’s outraged letter continued: “Facebook’s policy of posts promoting people smuggling and illegal entry into the US to regularly reach its billions of users seriously undermines the rule of law. The company is a direct intermediary and is thus exacerbating the disaster on the southern border of Arizona. “

The likelihood that Garland will investigate Facebook is zero. Since Facebook has shown an undisguised willingness to break immigration laws, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others consider themselves above the law, knowing that federal agencies will not lift a finger to disrupt their agenda, no matter how brazen.

For example, in mid-October, the Justice Department caught the social media titan who reserved and then hired jobs for overseas-born H-1B visa workers.

In December 2020, the Immigration and Workers’ Rights Division (IER) in the Civil Rights Division of the Division filed a complaint against Facebook at the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer.

The department alleged that Facebook refused to hire skilled U.S. technicians – and was therefore unable to hire. The investigation began in 2017 when then-President Donald Trump’s executive order “Buy American and Hire American” came into force, which mandated that American worker protection be given priority.

In its complaint, the IER alleged that for positions it had reserved for these temporary visa holders, no adverts appeared on Facebook’s careers website, no online applications were accepted, and candidates would physically apply by mail – not email – Send to the Company, an unusual practice for a large company that rose to fame and fortune thanks to the Internet.

But in what Center for Immigration Studies-based Law and Politics Fellow Andrew Arthur, a former House Justice Committee attorney and retired immigration judge, referred to as “the core” of the Justice Department case, IER contended that “even if US workers apply, Facebook will not consider them for the advertised positions ”, but the company“ only fills these positions with temporary visa holders ”.

The department concluded, “Put simply, Facebook reserves these positions for temporary visa holders.”

Facebook’s deliberate undermining of the H-1B’s original intent – to replenish the native workforce when no other American employee can be found – has denied skilled US technicians coveted office jobs. Facebook denied an estimated 2,600 US workers a fair chance of professional jobs, which the Justice Department said in its filing represented an average annual salary of $ 156,000.

Instead, Facebook hired workers who received H-1B and other overseas visas in 2018 and 2019. Despite Facebook’s egregious and illegal crime, the Justice Department’s lawsuit over a symbolic blow of $ 14 million on the wrist was settled.

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, director of the Department of Justice’s civil rights division, concluded, “Facebook is not above the law.”

Aside from Clarke’s claims on Facebook, whose 2020 revenues were $ 21.2 billion and available cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities as of December 31, were $ 61.95 billion, $ 14 million is pocket money, a sum that has likely been dismissed as a cost of doing business by the company’s executives.

Although the Justice Department exposed Facebook’s dirty, anti-American worker ploy, the H-1B program will continue without significant reform, at least during the current administration.

Zuckerberg, his lobby arm Forward.us, and other tech giants like Google, Twitter, and Amazon are big donors to the Democratic Party. In politics, nothing is truer than the old phrase “money speaks”.

– Joe Guzzardi is an analyst and researcher at Progressives for Immigration Reform, now based in Pittsburgh. He can be reached at [email protected], or follow him on Twitter: @ joeguzzardi19. Click here to read the previous columns. The opinions expressed are his own.

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