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Colonial reports from Mauritius, Natal, Fiji and Caribbean plantations documented high desertion, absenteeism and vagrancy rates among Indian indentured labourers, frequent refusal of work or idleness, post-contract shifts to trading and separate enclaves, remittances and savings returned to India, plus complaints of uncleanliness, cultural separation and group preferences that limited local integration.
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@ChiefEngineerCEOct 11
Replying to @paperparrot_
Put more diesel in that yacht.
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@ChiefEngineerCESep 13
Replying to @JohnCornyn
John Cornyn is still pushing the U.S. India relationship after losing because that was never a PAC-for-votes sideline for him, it is a 22-year institutional project he built. He co-founded the Senate India Caucus with Hillary Clinton in 2004, still co-chairs it with Mark Warner, and treated India as a China-balancing, defense-trade, and energy partner long before H-1B became a Texas primary weapon. He is counting on still being a big lobbyist for India interests after he leaves. Ken Paxton beat him 64–36 in the May 26, 2026 runoff after Trump endorsed Paxton and the race turned, in part, on visas and “Dallas looks like Delhi.” Cornyn stays in office until January 3, 2027. Two weeks after conceding he was back on the record congratulating Narendra Modi on becoming India’s longest-serving elected prime minister and saying the U.S.–India partnership “has never been stronger.” He does not need primary voters anymore, so he is doing what lame-duck committee members do: keep the file he owns. Finance, Foreign Relations, and Intelligence still sit on his desk; Texas energy and defense firms still sell into India; and walking away from a caucus he created would look like surrender to the attack that helped end his career, not a policy change. He is a big reason TX looks like India and he opened the cash register for himself and Abbott to sell out Texas.
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Replying to @bfwalter
You employee illegals? Isn't that a crime? Why would you not hire an American?
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Replying to @TBack40 @NewYorker
It's ridiculous that the New Yorker lives in such a bubble that they do not realize they just exposed why Democrats are against deportation. This is direct evidence of foreign manipulation of our voting system. This should be illegal. How is this different from Russia contributing to a party? Countries can send their people to work on USA political campaigns while our media advocate for them!
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@ChiefEngineerCEAug 30
Replying to @Jason
You say the border should be secured. Then basically advocate for Americans to train their cheaper replacements so you can be rich. These are not the best in the world and if you had data that said that you could simply present it. Their PISA scores are 72/74 - poor education. Their skills 19th globally. It's nothing but a warm body you scrape the delta in pay off of. It's how millionaires become billionaires. Americans are suffering from stagnant wages and losing their children's prosperity because you want to turn our country into a low - bid labor economy. There are people who served their country that got out of the service to find out they have to compete with the world for a job. And you are okay with it.
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@ChiefEngineerCE23 Aug 2025
Hall of Shame: The H-1B Kickback Machine This isn’t about “cheap labor.” It’s about a giant money-laundering scheme disguised as staffing. • Fake jobs. Body shops file for H-1Bs by the thousands. Many of the jobs don’t exist or are inflated. Workers are benched, shuffled around, or assigned to “clients” that are just shells. • Kickbacks. Once here, workers are trapped. To keep their visa, they quietly pay cash back to the sponsor or “training fees” to keep a fake paycheck moving. The firm takes a cut off both ends. • Fake billing. American clients get billed through layers of vendors. Each layer siphons off more money. What looks like IT support is actually a skimmed contract padded for kickbacks. • Money laundering. The profits get cleaned through shell companies and shipped offshore. It looks like “consulting” or “marketing,” but it’s really kickbacks being washed into tax havens. And here’s the part they never tell you: lobbyists are paid millions to keep this pipeline open. They wine and dine Congress to make sure federal and state contracts funnel back to the same H-1B-heavy body shops. Taxpayer money and corporate budgets alike are drained to feed a system that costs more than it saves. This isn’t “immigration policy.” It’s organized wage suppression and white-collar racketeering with political protection. The worker gets trapped. The American gets locked out. The middleman gets rich. America First means cutting off the kickback pipeline. No more fake jobs. No more shell vendors. No more lobbyists buying laws that keep the scam alive. Share this so people understand: the H-1B system isn’t just broken, it’s corrupt by design.
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@ChiefEngineerCEAug 26
I was sitting there trying to explain to a mid 20's finance MBA that 5 million per hour in downtime would be unacceptable. He kept pointing at the delta on savings and gave zero Fs about cost to the customer. They asked me to replace our most critical components with Chinese that were sketchy and because my system was massive had to come by boat. 14 weeks vs 6. To save 30,000 each x 6. The fact was our commercial contract said we couldn't do it and they didn't care. The PE guys were so frustrated they called me to a meeting and said that as chief engineer I needed to find savings. I pointed out before they came in I had lifted margins from 20% to 60% by doing that work already and some components were too critical to customer uptime.. They said I had no choice, took two weeks for me to answer a LinkedIn request and move to Florida less money but sanity. Then I sat back and consulted on the side for the customer to try and help them survive but my old employer would not allow them to use alternate components. So ... They lost the entire product line and the customer had literally no choice but to design their own system. 1.5 billion in capital equipment with 5 million per system aftermarket. All to save $400,000 so a finance guy could meet his target and the PE firm could justify buying a company that provided that component. The truth ... I have seen even worse than this.
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@ChiefEngineerCEAug 18
Finished! If you gaveled a Proforma - I didn't vote for you. If you said positive stuff about George Floyd and locked horns with the governor over it - I didn't vote for you. If you are all for immigration - legal or illegal - I didn't vote for you If you are a school board candidate that's a registered Democrat somehow on the ballot advocating to bring back gender ideologies to the district - I did not vote for you. Big Ag - looking to increase migrants- nope. Coincidentally, right outside the polling place was a robotic lawn mower running up and down the field. That's way preferable to a migrant making money and sending it out of the USA. But that's how CE rolls...
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@ChiefEngineerCEAug 13
This is called Izzat. Thank you for playing the game of why do only people I associate with deserve a pass. Here's the difference - if I saw anyone from any country doing this I would be upset. If I saw someone from my country do this - I would be embarrassed. We are not the same.
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@ChiefEngineerCEAug 11
I remember it like it was yesterday... Because everything to me is that way as I have temporal issues. Right after it happened - the hand wringing media and Politicians... All said - This is bad news for America The plant will never recover To this day I feel the entire operation was meant to be a patio that backfired There was an interview on the street and I wish I could find it where an American guy said he was laid off from that plant and would jump back in if they fixed the pay to what it was I knew the media and politicians were screwed after seeing that. The next week the media had already invested in going to check the disaster and were surprised to find the waiting room full of applicants... folks lined up to get in and apply. NBC of all folks actually reported it fairly too. I was shocked. Even CBS noted it one one small segment. We expected more of these operations but nope. It backfired. Maybe it was an experiment to show America that folks wouldn't work there maybe they opened the office to show it empty of applicants then were surprised? Regardless - that was about the only one they did when @ICEgov could have shown America that Americans will work. My guess is politicians got involved. If you look at opensecrets.gov you see massive donations to politicians and the DNC/RNC by Tyson and others. Openly paying for protection from folks who likely have the ears of the folks in charge. Greg Bovino was an issue ... For the lobbyists. They got rid of him by convincing the administration the optics in Minnesota were bad for the party. When in actuality - the party has the worst optics of all.
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@ChiefEngineerCEAug 3
Replying to @thegrimscalper
I think it's a movement that's just started and the truth is : there is no stopping it. We have actually gotten used to this as an issue when two years ago nobody, and I mean nobody even discussed it. This is why - If Trump cuts back on deportations and tries (but can't) and fails at visas then the public gets upset and demand more. --- If Trump succeeds and gets crazy numbers - the improving economy and jobs for citizens will demand more --- The more Democrats complain the more it pushes the issue into the top three There's no course heading where this goes away. This is only the start. Politicians are like Blockbuster dismissing Netflix or Sears laughing at Amazon. What's worked before will always work as we watch incumbents fall in primaries while the RNC tries to push WEF candidates on us.
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@ChiefEngineerCEAug 2
Replying to @LeadingReport
As if ... They always existed and suddenly found the party? No - 40% of housing unaffordability.. Tech job hijacked from American grads. Let's be clear the 'problem' establishment GOP has is that their decades of selling out our prosperity has been revealed and will come to an end. Their 'problem' is that the desire for the Save America act is a clue that 80+% of Americans know what is happening. The movement is growing. The movement will overtake both parties at some point. To do otherwise is suicidal and as Americans increasingly lose their homes, have dwindling earnings, and have jobs turned over to illegals and Visa folks it's going to become clear. Trump had a Moderate position. The biggest complaints right now? Not enough is being done- @GovRonDeSantis has a clear path to victory here. This is not the end of a movement - this is the start and they better find new lobbyists to cater to if they want to keep lining their pockets. Might I suggest the unions representing ICE and the border patrol or American Companies that want to preserve their IP and innovation advantage? 1919 is an interesting year to start your education on what is about to happen.
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@ChiefEngineerCEJul 11
All you really have to do is go to opensecrets.org ...And see who gave money to them in return for legislation or a look the other way while we replace Americans w/ H1B. Fed Ex did exactly this. They gave a shitload of money to various politicians, then got billions of dollars in federal contracts, then fired a massive amount of Americans and hired H1B.. The politicians invested. That's how insider stock trading worked.
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@ChiefEngineerCEJul 9
It doesn't make sense. Why not just make a different story if you are going to change the characters? They are taking away the culture and people like you are the problem.
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@ChiefEngineerCEJul 8
Replying to @EricLDaugh
Whistleblowers - Patriots. All it took was reporting. For the folks that said it doesn't work- it does. Do not stop.
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@ChiefEngineerCEJun 28
Replying to @lsferguson
I know why Steve - It's a bit drawn out but I looked into it. Everyone benefits, but Americans. #1 Unions - foreign labor like TPS and H1B cannot form unions which is a major hit to profits to healthcare who have record high profits throughout the sector. So the large financial institutions that back these healthcare facilities give graciously to politicians. It's way less expensive than 10k more per employee plus benefits. Politicians then fund NGOs with our tax money that aid Haitians and others with getting access to permanent residencies so that these employers don't have turnover and retain cheap labor that never gets a raise. Remember the 5.7 billion the house and Senate voted on for foreign-labor? This is the grift. Our money ... to replace us by our own party. It's essentially an indentured class of labor that enriches the system that we pay for. So here in Florida when you hear politicians talk about the hit to healthcare. They are talking about employers who lobby them, not patients. There are 400,000 Floridians looking for work right now and an equal number of TPS eligible for deportation. Politicians don't want us to realize the healthcare facilities making record profits are the biggest losers while everyday Americans are the biggest winners. You want to get rid of foreigner labor overnight? Allow them to unionize. It would put Democrats in a very awkward position too. My opinion - Right now H1B/TPS and even illegals should be suing for reparations and would probably win the largest class action suit in history.
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@ChiefEngineerCEJun 21
Replying to @UtahFlatRanger
Never forget. This is the only country on the planet where politicians allow their citizens to be easily replaced by foreign labor and it's not even close. A surprisingly low fee for them to do so, as well. They don't work for us.
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@ChiefEngineerCEJun 20
Replying to @Eastcoastspygrl
These posts are throttled specific to content. I have greater that 10% engagement - literally unheard of... Meaning it's kept out of feeds. A healthy engagement is 3%. Meaning these posts should be in front of 300% more but... Then the algorithm can't catch up as engagements snowball. It's happened before. I can literally predict - this post will get high engagement. Low impressions means nobody sees it .. high engagement means when people do - they respond to it. Basically - If folks don't know- folks don't get upset. Just because you share doesn't guarantee it gets seen either.
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