Clinton’s cozy ties with Indian interests were so well-known that the Obama campaign brought them up during the 2008 election, citing it as proof of her untrustworthiness and the extent to which she is beholden to special interests. The way Obama put it, she was “all about the money”, and going by her support for nearly doubling the disastrous H-1B guest worker program as well as ties to pro-Indian lobbyists, she definitely was.
Not only did Clinton go out of her way to court corporate interests who stood to benefit from sending American jobs overseas, the “Senator from Punjab” masterminded deals that turned them healthy profits and left American workers to fend for themselves:
“As the Washington Post has reported, Tata has given tens of thousands of dollars to the Clinton Foundation:
Although foreign nationals cannot contribute to U.S. campaigns, Clinton has won campaign support from the Indian American community, records show… Tata Consultancy Services contributed between $25,000 and $50,000 to the Clinton Foundation, and Ratan Tata, then chairman of the Tata Group, was a speaker at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in 2010.
Tata is also a participant in the Clinton Foundation’s STEM education program.
The Clinton’s ties to the Indian corporation extend back for over a decade.
In 2003, then-Senator Hillary Clinton was widely-credited for recruiting and helping Tata open a software development center in Buffalo, New York.
As a press release issued by Tata, announcing the opening, stated: ‘The deal was the brainchild of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.’
A year before the announcement, Clinton had courted executives from Tata and other Indian businesses—giving them a tour of the region. Clinton was so instrumental to the deal that the company even flew her to Buffalo to join Tata’s CEO, Subramaniam Ramadorai, for the announcement of the company’s opening.
Even at the time, Clinton’s decision was a controversial one.
Five days before Clinton and Tata announced the Buffalo opening, Tata came under fire for helping a Siemens unit in Lake Mary, Florida lay off its American workers and forced them to train their lower-wage foreign replacements brought in on guest worker visas.
As Bloombergreported less than a week before the announcement of Tata’s Buffalo opening, ‘Siemens made no bones about the cost-cutting nature of the layoff.’ Bloombergnoted that one of the foreign replacements, ‘who speaks halting English,’ allegedly earned just one-third of the original American employee’s $98,000 a year salary.
Yet despite public outrage over Siemens and Tata’s anti-American worker business model, Clinton forged ahead with Tata’s opening in Buffalo.
‘The event signaled that Clinton, who portrays herself as a fighter for American workers, had aligned herself with Indian American business leaders and Indian companies feared by the labor movement,’ the Los Angeles Timesreported in 2007.
Mike Emmons, one of the American Siemens workers who was axed and replaced by a foreign worker, said that he was in touch with Clinton’s staff as all of this was happening. Yet shortly after Emmons had reached out to Senator Clinton seeking representation and protection for his colleagues from Tata’s job theft, Emmons was forced to watch as Clinton celebrated Tata at its grand opening in Buffalo.
In July of 2016, Emmons decided to speak out in response to Clinton’s claim that she finds it ‘heartbreaking’ when American workers are forced to train their foreign replacements. In an op-ed titled, “Don’t Believe Clinton’s Crocodile Tears Over Lost American Jobs,” Emmons denounced Clinton’s ‘preference for foreign guest workers over qualified Americans.’
Emmons pointed specifically to Clinton’s long history of supporting expansions to the H-1B program and her support for legislation “that would have weakened the already laughably feeble ‘protections’ currently in place to prevent Americans from being displaced by guest workers.”
‘For me, the issue is personal. I am a tech worker who was replaced by a foreign guest worker,’ Emmons wrote. Emmons said that as he struggled to afford medical care for his handicapped daughter and as he watched his former colleagues struggle to make ends meet, he decided:
I could not remain silent… I reached out to elected office-holders across the country, including Hillary Clinton, who had been elected Senator from New York in 2000. Shortly after I reached out to Senator Clinton’s office, I saw that she attended the grand opening of a Tata regional office in Buffalo, New York… If Hillary Clinton truly was heartbroken about Americans being forced to train their foreign replacements, she had ample opportunity to do something about it when she was in office. I for one have good reason not to trust that she will do the right thing if elected [president].
‘Tata has been responsible for destroying tens of thousands of American jobs and depressing the wages of countless more,’ said IT labor expert and Howard University Professor Ron Hira, who was a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology at the time of Tata’s opening in Buffalo.
Hira said that Clinton’s actions ‘enabled’ Tata’s anti-American worker business model:
These guest workers are imported by Tata because they are cheaper than American workers. Over the ten-year period FY2005-14, Tata imported an incredible 27,193 H-1B guest workers. We don’t know how many L-1 workers it imported but it’s likely more than 10,000. That’s at least 27,193 jobs that American workers should have been hired for or in many cases were already doing (workers at Siemens, Northeast Utilities, and Southern California Edison) and got replaced by an H-1B worker. Those are high wage jobs that pay more than $85k to American workers… Why would anyone court a company whose business model is based upon destroying American jobs? It’s the height of irrationality to think that destroying American jobs is effective economic development policy… By giving Tata her repeated endorsements she enabled these very practices.”
Source: Breitbart
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Commie
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In it for personal gain only
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