Posted on 10/03/2003 10:27:25 AM PDT by traumer
GAO: Homeland security agency must keep better track of H-1B visa holders WASHINGTON -- The Homeland Security Department needs to keep a closer eye on the high-tech workers admitted to the United States under a special visa program, congressional investigators said Thursday.
The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said the new department should keep track of when foreign workers admitted with what are known as H-1B visas enter and leave the country, and develop rules for how long workers who lose their jobs are allowed to remain in the country.
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Because the fat asses in DC have no respect for you and your daughter. No respect for the work she does. First they shipped out a lot of factory and working class jobs. Now it's the high tech jobs under attack.
ACTION PLAN TO PROSECUTE INDUSTRIAL TREASON AND ESPIONAGE
27 AUG 2003
THE FOUNDERS OF THE NEW ALLIANCE
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THE CORPORATE US NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT OF 2003
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Given:
* The various strikes against the West and our allies, including the EP-3 attack, 9/11 and others, it has become abundantly clear to truly discerning analysts that massive conflict between the Trans-Asian Axis and ourselves, as described by such authors as Jan Sejna, Anatoliy Golitsyn, J.R. Nyquist, Yossef Bodansky, Col. Lunev, and Dr. Alexandr Nemets, is inevitable.
* That in addition to overt threats posed by terrorism and WMD against the West and allies, there are dangerous behaviors that we, in the West and truly allied nations, theoretically have ultimate control over. What we are specifically referring to are behaviors demonstrated by certain corporations based in the US, or operating in the US, which, ultimately, based on the observation in the first paragraph, serve to undermine the security of the West and our allies.
* That certain corporations have, for some years, done, and continue at present, to do, the following things:
A. Sell dual use items and technologies to customers in nation states whose goals include the destruction of the West and our allies.
B. Conduct operations in nations whose goals include the destruction of the West and our allies.
C. Recruit, hire and employ citizens of nations whose goals include the destruction of the West and our allies, both for assignments in their own nations, and, in the West and allied nations.
D. Source supplies and services from nations whose goals include the destruction of the West and our allies.
* That Based on the apparent geopolitical timbre of the times, these behaviors not only constitute a long term threat, due to the likely future supply and business interruptions, of corporations themselves, but may actually constitute treason, espionage and violation of the Patriot Act, among other statutes.
We set forth the motion that:
In order to prevent any further damage to Homeland Security, the following explicit actions shall be mandatory for all US based corporations, and, foreign based corporations' US subsidiaries, under penalty of prosecution via the provisions of the Patriot Act and Treason Act:
1. All employees of corporations based in or operating in the USA and abroad shall be thoroughly investigated by the FBI, US Attorney, Homeland Security, and others as applicable, for treason, espionage and terrorist activity or support. This must include all managers and executives in order to be maximally effective.
2. All operations in, export to and sourcing from, the following nation states shall be ended or proscribed by no later than January 2, 2004:
* The People's Republic of China
* Russia and other former Soviet states
* The Democratic People's Republic of Korea
* Laos
* Vietnam
* Myanmar
* Bangladesh
* Pakistan
* Iran
* Syria
* Sudan
* Zimbabwe
* South Africa
* Angola
* Brazil
* Venezuela
* Cuba
* Libya
3.Focussed investigations shall be made by the CIA and DIA regarding corporate operations involving Moscow Center for SPARC Technology (nee "Elbrus Computer") in Russia, the Russian government and governments of Soviet states, the government and army of the PRC (and companies partly held by them) as well as the government of Pakistan.
4.Aggressive prosecution shall be set forth, for any crimes described herein, of employees, management, executives, partners, board members and others having specific relationships with offending firms.
We surmise that only by taking aggressive action in these regards may we prevent further compromise of our Homeland Security and our position in coming military conflicts.
The penalty for violation of this act, applicable to responsible leaders, key decision makers and applicable authorities in corporations meeting the criteria set forth herein, shall be a minimum fine of US $ 1,000,000,000 and 50 years in Federal maximum security prison and shall not be limited up to and including death.
And realistically, it has a snowball's chance in hell of surviving.
But the mere proposal of it might be enough to shake the ground underneath some people.
Nafta allows them to stay and visit even when they lose their H1 visa. They can't work of course, unless they find another H1 sponser. But they needn't leave either.
The department told the GAO that it is in the process of changing the systems used to track the foreign workers.
Guess who is changing the systems (I bet)? :>)
On a real serious matter I ran across another government report about national security issues of exporting technology. While there are some rules for exporting technology there appears to few rules for using H1B workers where they acquire knowledge that effectively transfer forbidden technology when the workers return to their home countries.
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