Feds confirm Disney under investigation for H-1B work visa abuses

Corporate greed is at the heart of Disney's H-1B work visa scandal
It's the one scandal that isn't going away for Disney, and it's confirming what many people already knew about the Happiest Place on Earth: they are one of the most soulless and greediest companies on earth and one of the worst companies in the U.S. to work for.

The architect of Disney's plot to abuse the H-1B visa program
is no less a person than Disney's CEO Bob Iger
Case in point, look at Disney's efforts to bring back indentured servitude, a widely known outlawed form of human rights and labor violation akin to slavery, to America in the form of its abuses and misuses of the H-1B work visa program.

In October 2014, Walt Disney World in Florida fired 250 U.S. IT workers, whose jobs they were to make sure that millions of Disney World tickets sold, store purchases and hotel reservations went through without a hitch at the House of Mouse.

Those loyal and hard-working U.S. tech workers were summarily fired by Mickey Mouse and replaced by foreign IT workers fresh off the boat from India brought onto American soil solely because their highly exploited foreign replacements were willing to work at a fraction of the pay and without the same employment benefits, that U.S. workers were accustomed to work for.

To add insult to injury, those newly unemployed U.S. workers who lost their jobs to their cheaper imported foreign counterparts on U.S. soil were then forced in utter humiliation to train their foreign replacements; otherwise, Disney threatened they would not receive any form of severance pay or benefits from Mickey Mouse.
 

This was a story that was not only going on at the Walt Disney Company but scores of others fortune 500 companies, Silicon Valley high tech companies, universities, and non-profits across the country.
   

The Walt Disney Company and other companies that regularly utilize the H-1B work visa program in this outrageous manner are now confirmed to be under investigation by the feds for allegedly abusing and misusing existing immigration laws and gaming the system, according to a United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) letter to Congress.

Disney is bringing back indentured servants to the U.S. in form of foreign H-1B
visa workers and who knows what's next—maybe even slavery
In response to a request from Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the acting director of the USCIS, James McCament, wrote a letter with a response from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirming that the Walt Disney Company was one of several U.S. employers under "multiple investigations" who have previously abused and misused the H-1B work visa program to the detriment of U.S. tech workers.

The DHS's written response stated in no uncertain terms: "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has participated in multiple investigations regarding the possible misuse of the H-1B visa program by employers such as Northeast Utilities (Eversource Energy), University of California, San Francisco, and Disney, as well as the firms contracted by these companies to provide H-1B workers. USCIS continues to review information from previously filed visa petitions and site visits at these companies and will refer its findings to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement if violations of the legal requirements can be substantiated."

Protests and boycotts against Disney have been growing as the H-1B scandal continues to linger and stay in the news
Every year, more than 100,000 foreign high-tech workers are brought to the U.S. on the H-1B visa program under the false guise that qualified U.S. high-tech workers are lacking or hard to find in the U.S. labor market, and that number is still ballooning.


Of course, this is just baloney because unscrupulous and greedy U.S. companies, such as the Walt Disney Company, are merely using this as an excuse to fire and displace more expensive, but highly available, U.S. tech workers in favor of replacing them with cheaper foreign immigrant labor from overseas.

Disney CEO Bob Iger in his Burbank office thinking of new ways to screw
American workers
This is not a form of outsourcing that Americans are familiar with in the conventional sense of the word, where a company moves it factory or business operations overseas to exploit a cheaper source of labor on foreign soil, but it's happening right here on U.S. soil, which has caught the ire of many powerful politicians on both sides of the isle, including no less a politician than the President of the United States himself, Donald J. Trump.

Instead, the catchphrase used to describe this form of egregious foreign labor exploitation inside America, for the sake of profits, has now been called "insourcing" because companies have been exploiting loopholes in the immigration laws to screw the American worker.

As part of keeping its campaign promises to help protect American jobs, the Trump Administration in recent months has been tightening the screws on outsourcing firms and H1-B employers who have been abusing the veiled "indentured servitude" program that has been hurting Americans and exploiting immigrant workers.


We are comparing these H-1B visa abuses to the outlawed human rights violation of "indentured servitude," which (like slavery) had long been outlawed in the U.S. for obvious reasons, because the employer—not the foreign worker—holds all the power to permit foreign workers in this program to come to the U.S. and stay in the country to work.
    

So if these immigrant workers complain or cause any trouble for the employers, they can be summarily fired and immediately deported back to their country of origin (since non-citizens have no rights in the U.S.) at the employer's discretion.

To which, Bob Iger replied, 'Come work for me instead! It's much more darker
at the House of Mouse in Burbank.'
Thus, it is not in the visa holders' interests to make any waves or file any legitimate grievances against their employers, so they are forced to give into any demands the employer makes and work in what anyone else would consider to be a very hostile and oppressive work environment.

Therefore, the H-1B visa program is no different, in our eyes, than a legalized indentured servitude program, which makes even H-1B workers vulnerable to all kinds of workplace exploitation and abuses from their prospective employers.

Clearly, to be undercut with cheaper foreign labor inside our own country is also a very bad thing for the American worker, so we are very happy to hear that the Walt Disney Company is finally getting its comeuppance in this never-ending scandal by being investigated by federal immigration officials.
    
    
Disney Chairman and CEO, Bob Iger, said that he only regretted forcing his fired IT workers of having the humiliating task to train their replacement; however, he never expressed any regret for actually ruining their careers in the first place in the name of greed and the almighty dollar.
    
   
Disney's Bob Iger is largely responsibility for the current state of how many fortune 500 companies are gaming the H-1B work visa system. That's because he serves as the co-chair of the Partnership for a New American Economy, a controversial political action committee dedicated to the expansion of the H-1B guest worker program in the U.S. to replace American workers on U.S. soil with a cheaper and highly exploited foreign labor force.


Maybe it's time for the public to send Bob Iger a message by boycotting all things Disney to make him rethink his position about willfully harming American workers the way that Disney has.
    

After all, the Walt Disney Company has really done nothing but contribute to destroying the American dream and our way of life for many former middle-class families across the country with very unscrupulous business decisions like this.
   

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