Ron Klain, Biden's White House Chief of Staff, has long been working for the big technology companies and defending H-1B visas. 

(Photo : Reutersconnect/Kevin Lamarque)

Joe Biden announced recently that he tapped Ron Klain, who worked with former Pres. Barrack Obama, as his White House Chief of Staff. Klain is expected to carry out his duties and meet what Joe Biden is expected from him as they enter the White House in January. 

Ron Klain could play a very significant role in allowing H-1B visas for foreign individuals with special skills.

This visa is currently at a halt due to the global pandemic and the interest of the current administration which is to prioritize the residents in the country in getting the jobs first. 

According to Breitbart, Klain worked on behalf of the Silicon Valley executives and their interests that include providing tech corporations with endless H-1B visas and more free trade.

It is not known to everyone, but Ron Klain served on the executive council of TechNet - a firm that promotes the interests of Silicon Valley's tech corporations in Washington, D.C.

He served on the council together with the executives from the Oracle Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Google, Visa, Apple, and Microsoft.

This now adds up to the report that Joe Biden will lift the cap for H-1B visas under his administration.  

Read also: Thousands of Trump Supporters March to Protest Against Election Results in DC

TechNet joined a lawsuit that opposed the present cap of H-1B visas. The present administration wants Americans and residents in the country to be prioritized in getting jobs first instead of importing foreign workers. 

However, some big companies were not happy to limit the H-1B visas in the country. There are around 650,000 H-1B visa workers in the U.S. at any given moment, according to the Center for Immigration Studies. Typically, foreign individuals replace laid-off American workers. 

In a study conducted in 2018, it was found out that 71 percent of tech workers in Silicon Valley, California, are foreign-born, while the tech industry in the San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward area is made up of 50 percent foreign-born tech workers.

One of the goals of TechNet is to include corporations to dictate the annual level of legal immigration to the United States.

Part of the goal is also to eliminate per-country caps that would effectively let countries like India and China monopolize U.S. green cards.

Meanwhile, TechNet's goals on trade are in direct opposition to the present administration's economic nationalist agenda that has imposed tariffs on foreign imports from China, Canada, Europe, and other parts of the globe. This is to make sure that American products and workers will be prioritized. 

Biden's plan for his administration is to flood the U.S. labor market with foreign workers who will compete with Americans for jobs. But this also means that more Americans will not be getting the available jobs first amid he global pandemic that brought millions of residents in the country being laid-off and currently unemployed. 

Read also: Can Trump Win Through Legal Challenge of Election Verdict?