Google took a public position in favor of immigration rights through a court case Friday that points to the ability to paint in the United States for some 90,000 immigrants, the vast majority of whom are women.
Google has led a coalition of generation corporations by filing an amicus brief (or the so-called “friend of the court” document) that supports the authorization of paintings for highly professional partners entering the United States on H-1B visas.
The filing relates to a one-year legal attempt to complete the H-4 EAD program, which provides paint authorization to spouses of those with H-1B visas, which is used in the generation industry.
“In other words, she seeks to complete the ability of highly professional immigrant partners to paint in the United States,” Catherine Lacavera, Google’s vice president of legal services, wrote in a blog post Friday. She added that the H-4 EAD program granted paint authorization to more than 90,000 people, more than 90% of whom are women.
“The pandemic has already had a disproportionate effect on women and the completion of this program would only make things worse, leading to interrupted careers and lost wages,” Lacavera added. is that we welcome a user to the United States to work, but we make it more complicated for his wife to work. “
“It damages their families, affects our ability to compete and damages our economy,” he wrote.
More than two dozen corporations, adding more leaders to Amazon, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, and Reddit, have joined the brief amicus.
The court record holds that “H-4 visa holders, like their H-1B spouses, constitute a highly informed and highly qualified group,” adding that 99% of H-4 visa holders have a college degree and nearly 60% have a college degree. Master’s degree or more. Completing the program would cause “serious monetary damage and emotional trauma to tens of thousands of people across the country,” the report says.
In addition, he argues that such personnel stimulate innovation in the United States, that is, in the generation sector, and assistance stimulates the economy and competitiveness of the United States.
Finally, it estimates that the loss of household chores in the program are offset by “the 6,800 tasks created through H-4 marketers who have businesses and employ American staff. “
The ongoing dispute against amicus’ writing stems from a lawsuit originally filed in 2015 through a U. S. staff organization claiming to have lost their jobs to foreign staff due to the visa program. mass visa program, but legal war is back in Washington, D. C. , district court, where the amicus brief of the giants of the generation was presented.
Lacavera said the company’s paintings on immigration rights are personal, and wrote, “As an immigrant, I have been the beneficiary of a welcoming America and I hope we can ensure the same welcome for long-term immigrants through the preservation of H-4. EAD Program”.
“Ending this program would harm families and undermine America’s economy at a critical time,” he added.
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