Just when you think that the Senate Republicans have nothing more to give in terms of  betraying the President and the America First platform he ran on, they manage to exceed expectations yet again.

The latest iteration of betrayal comes in the form of a green card giveaway promoted by Republican Utah Senator Mike Lee and Democrat Illinois Senator Dick Durbin.

Durbin Announces Bipartisan Agreement To Help Immigrant Workers Stuck In The Green Card Backlog [Revolver Comment: No mention of helping Americans in this headline]

U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, today joined Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) on the Senate floor to announce their bipartisan agreement to amend Lee’s Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act. [Senator Dick Durbin]

This green card handout is a huge boon to IT companies dependent on cheap labor from India and China, and terrible for American holders of STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) degrees who already face tough job prospects in a corona-depressed economy.

Revolver Exclusive: A Congressional source described the legislation to Revolver.news as a “slap in the face” to the Trump Agenda. The legislation does not include ANY of President Trump’s requested reforms, either to the asylum system or to the H1-B visa system which is used by IT employers to undercut American STEM graduates.

The components of the Lee-Durbin green card giveaway are as follows:

1.  Immigrant workers and their immediate family members would be eligible for “early filing” for their green cards.  Immigrant workers would be able to switch jobs and travel without losing their immigration status.  The amendment includes a critical protection from Durbin’s RELIEF Act, which would protect the children of immigrant workers from “aging out” of green-card eligibility so they will not face deportation while they are waiting for a green card.

2.  The amendment would reserve 4,600 green cards on an annual basis for immigrant workers who are stuck in the backlog overseas and not eligible for early filing.

To add insult to injury, the amendment includes a largely fake and symbolic bread crumb substitute for genuine H-1B reform.

Finally, the amendment would address abuse of H-1B temporary work visas by prohibiting a company from hiring additional H-1B workers if the company’s workforce is more than 50 employees and more than 50 percent temporary workers.

A congressional source intimately familiar with deliberations on the matter has told Revolver.news that Durbin has appeased even the immigration “hawks” in the Senate, and that the green card giveaway legislation is moving along swimmingly in the Republican-controlled senate.

One White House source and one former White House official familiar with internal deliberations offer additional perspective on the White House’s relation to this legislation.

Apparently, some in the White House welcome the green card giveaway as part of an electoral strategy to woo the IT sector, and Indian voters in North Carolina.

The political cost of selling out the Trump voter base and betraying Trump’s to Hire American agenda does not matter to this faction within the White House.

The Lee-Durbin legislation comes right on the heels of President Trump’s Executive Order protecting American tech workers from precisely the types of abuses facilitated by the Lee-Durbin green card giveaway.

This Executive Order was incredibly popular with the American people, swing voters in the Heartland, and the Trump base. Curiously, there was almost no celebration or coverage of this executive order by the President’s surrogates on the largely compromised Fox News outlet. This lack of a genuine PR push and victory lap suggests that the resistance to the President’s America First and Hire American agenda extends beyond the usual suspects like Mike Lee in the Senate, and reaches well within the senior campaign officials in charge of surrogate operations, and even into the White House itself.

Here is the full list of Republican co-sponsors:

Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND]
Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO]
Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Sen. Gardner, Cory [R-CO]
Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Sen. McSally, Martha [R-AZ]
Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Sen. Hoeven, John [R-ND]
Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID]
Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
Sen. Romney, Mitt [R-UT]
Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]

You can contact these senators and politely give them a piece of your mind by clicking here. We would suggest politely asking them why they are co-sponsoring a massive Green Card Giveaway that will drive down American wages at a time when more than 30 million are out of work.

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