Recent Shootings of NRIs and H-1B Indians, Raise Concerns about Security

• "Go back to your own country".. shouting comments by Gunmen

• Americans are losing jobs to foreigners and training their replacements

• President Trump promised to 'buy American and hire American.

Washington, March 09, 2017
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Shootings of NRIs (Non-resident Indian) and Indian HI-B visa holders in the United States are raising concern, as four of them have been shot in recent weeks in different areas of the country.

Hotelier Bharat Patel told NRIpress: “ NRI Community and NRI entrepreneurs in US are really concern about a danger to our NRI kids in schools, workplaces, businesses and even NRI doctors working in hospitals.

The frustration in Americans started when American laid off by Disney, filed lawsuits in federal court in Tampa, Fla., against Disney and two global consulting companies, HCL and Cognizant, which brought in foreign workers who replaced them. They claim the companies colluded to break the law by using temporary H-1B visas to bring in immigrant workers, knowing that Americans would be displaced.”

“Most of the NRIs feel that NRIs developed good reputation in North America by their hard work and honesty for the past 3-4 decades,” Dr. Ashok Agarwal  said. “ Now 2nd Generation-NRI children are also getting top positions and involve in politics. They become upset when  American colleges at work place ask questions about IRS Phone Scam calls, TV DISH discounted calls, HP Computer virus and window scam call received from India’s call centers.”

According to the US Justice Department, the scam trapped thousands of American citizens, who ended up losing over $300 million (over Rs 2,040 crore) to people who posed as IRS officers.

Americans are losing jobs to foreigners and training their replacements. (Employees cried to Trump in election time)

Disney laid off 850 American workers, some of whom were given 90 days to train their replacements with the threat of losing their severance pay if they didn’t stay to the end. “We all felt humiliated when the foreign workers sat next to us and watched everything that we did,” wrote one Disney employee going through the experience. The training sessions prove that the H-1B workers don’t hold special skills that American workers lack. “If our own pool of IT professionals were so incompetent, then why would companies like Disney have us train our replacements and spend months teaching them?” wrote the displaced worker.

Disney posted $7.5 billion in profit in fiscal year 2014, a month after major layoffs in October 2014. The company continued to lay more Americans off until 850 lost their jobs from Orlando, Florida to Anaheim, California…..Read

Republican Senator from Arkansas Tom Cotton, who met U.S. President Donald Trump this week, said the current system does not bring in the brightest and the best from across the world. “They don’t bring in PhDs and computer scientists. They bring in mid-level and they replace mid-level data management workers. That’s why you get controversies like people losing their jobs at companies like Disney and Southern California Edison that were just replaced by foreign workers who weren’t necessarily high skilled,” Mr. Cotton argued.

“It’s really an empirical question where we do have gaps in our economy. But I will say this, there is no job that an American won’t do. Americans, with the right pay, will do any job. That’s just the fact of the matter,” he noted.

The new bill is a effort from California’s Republican congressman Darrell Issa and Democrat congressman Scott Peters. They want to curb the abuse of H1-B visas to “protect American jobs” and make sure “such programs are not abused to allow companies to outsource and hire cheap foreign labor.”

The role of lobbyists have diminished:

Indian IT companies lobbied at an industry level through Nasscom, which spent over $4,40,000 in 2016, an increase of 25% over previous year.

While Microsoft spent a total of $8.7 million towards lobbying in 2016 alone, New Jersey headquartered-Cognizant -which has a large workforce in India -bumped up its budget by 25% to spend $1.68 million in 2016.Rivals TCS and Infosys lobbied at an individual level as well, even though with significantly smaller budgets.

At least 15,000 Americans lost more than $300 million collectively during the four-year scam, according to the feds. -A Texas grand jury indicted 24 people from nine U.S. states, 32 people from India and five call centers in Ahmedabad, India, earlier this month…..Read

HP Tech Support phone call scam

Millions people in US do get a call from someone pretending to be from HP and trying to get credit card information for an issue you’re not familiar with. They asked people to run something and showed them that there was a ''virus'' that couldn't be removed by deleting it.  Told them that he had to get on to my computer to get rid of it. 

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• March 02, 2017: Deep Rai Singh, 39, was shot in a Kent driveway by a gunman,  a stocky, 6-foot-tall white man wearing a mask over the bottom part of his face - said "Go back to your own country" and pulled the trigger. Rai owns the plumbing company  and was wearing a turban. Kent is about 30 km from Seattle.
• Lancaster, South Carolina: On March 02, 2017: Harnish Patel, 43, was shot and killed in front of his own home, after returning home from working at the Speedee Mart convenience store. Patel had lived in the United States for 14 years. He was married and had one child in elementary school. He was originally from the Indian state of Gujarat.
• Srinivas Kuchibhotla  was shot and killed on February 22, 2017 in Olathe, Kansas. Alok Madasani was also shot in Olathe, but survived
• In 2015, Hindu place of worship in Kent, the Sanatan Dharma Temple, was attacked and had its windows smashed and the word, "Fear" was painted on it. Another Hindu temple in nearby Bothell was also attacked.
• Milwaukee, In 2012, a man shot and killed six Sikh worshipers and wounded four others at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee before killing himself.