[NormsRevenge]

Whatever happened to Invest in America (and Americans)?

[thoughtomator]

Every H1-B visa is an opportunity for a skilled high-wage job a US citizen doesn't get.

[peyton randolph]

You can't bring in tech workers right now.

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Good. Sick and tired of seeing friends in tech get downsized because Hadji, Sudhir, Mohammed, and Farquad will work 10 hours more per week for 25% less comp. per year.

[NormsRevenge]

The provisions for highly skilled workers enjoy support in both parties in the Senate and in the Bush administration after a raft of high-profile studies have warned that the United States is not producing enough math and science students and is in danger of losing its global edge in innovation to India and China.

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Whose gosh-dammed fault is that? The same Congre$$ that sits on its dead arse while we are invaded across 2 borders constantly, yet rewards all comers with benefits and then wonders why it can't teach Johnny to read as it cares for a fifth of Mexico's and other countries donor "migrants" to the US ? It's called Priorities.. this country needs to get some before it has no options left... nor any elected officials willing to go to bat for America FiRst and not the global vision thing.

[America's Resolve]

Ah! Now I understand what an immigration bill is all about. Silly me, I thought it was meant to restrict immigration. Instead, it means, LET EM IN! AS MANY AS WILL FIT TO GIVE AWAY OUR PARENTS LEGACY AND OUR INHERITENCE!

Our politicians SUCK! EVERY FARKIN ONE OF EM!

I think the Dems are right. Big Business and their country own and run this country, NOT, "We The People". We don't count for squat!

[AZRepublican]

Why would anyone in this country want to become skilled anymore if the jobs are going to be given out to cheaper skilled workers from another country?

[stylin19a]

Anecdotally, I see a increased demand for IT workers. And the workers aren't there.

I just left a consulting job at an Insurance Company in central Illinois. They have an IT dept. of approx 10,000 people. And it ain't enough.

Boomers are going to be retiring in droves soon.
Unemployment is sitting @ 4.8 %.
Where are these workers going to be coming from ?

Nobody really has this answer.

[elmer fudd]

And they wonder why Americans don't study science and engineering. It's basic economics folks. When you artificially drive down a professions wages that profession becomes less attractive to prospective workers. If they want American IT professionals and engineers then they need to make sure those fields are lucrative and attractive to college students.

[DancesWithBolsheviks]

I'd be happy to take a lower 'quality of life' (if its only measured by how much plastic cr@p we can buy) if it meant I no longer had to listen to the constant negativity and complaining about the US I hear from various H1B holders I encounter in the course of my day.

[ikka]

THROW THE FRICKIN' DOORS OPEN! WHO CARES ABOUT AMERICAN VALUES ANYWAYS!!

[dr_who_2]

Oh, horror.

[A. Pole]

US Congress is likely to take up a giant immigration bill this month, which recommends nearly doubling the number of H-1B skilled-worker temporary visas to 115,000.

The measures include not just increasing the number of visas but also add an option of raising the cap 20 per cent more each year.

[...]

"We're in a bad crunch right now," said Laura Reiff, head of the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, a business umbrella group backing more immigration. "We are totally jammed on immigrant visas, the green card category, and totally jammed on H-1B visas. You can't bring in tech workers right now."

Bump

[Cedar]

Just about every American male teenager/20-something can fix computers, network anything, knows all software, can get rid of spyware-malware, some even hack if necessary (hackers helping FBI fight hackers)....all without a college degree.

There are plenty of 'em that can work in IT departments--if hired for their capabilities and not a paper certificate.

No need to let more foreigners come in.

[joesnuffy]

Democracy...that must be where 'we the people' tell our leaders what to do....and then they do the exact opposite...

[BnBlFlag]

The Globalist "One Worlders" are encouraging "outsourcing" all the jobs they can and those that can't be outsourced overseas they bring in cheaper labor and they take the domestic jobs.
The HB1 visa types for the high paying upscale jobs and for the rest its the illegals.
It's called destroying our middle class and lowering our standard of living so that we may be merged more easily into what they hope will be a world government.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Over the past couple of years I've searched for that GAO report on the impact of H1B, offshoring, and all things affecting our workforce and economy. I've found articles reporting that the task is impossible. No way to collect the data and resistance from companies that use foreign workers. Maybe the report is out there but I have not found it.

http://news.com.com/Aging+computers+hobble+Homeland+Security/2100-7348_3-5995856.html

This news article reports on the computer systems and procedures inherited and used by Homeland Security after various immigration enforcement offices were combined.

It apparently is impossible.

It's a wonder that HS doesn't give Taleban radicals H1B visas and H1B visa applicant are cleared to enroll in undergraduate studies at Yale.

So a limit of 65,000 or no limit -- no one can tell. I think that's the preferred option.

(And these same agencies are going to manage the "guest worker" programs?!)

[kalee]

ping

[kittymyrib]

This is the Big One. Harriet Miers and Dubai were just the opening acts for the battle over immigration. Conservatives better be ready because every business lobbyist on K Street has been saving up to bribe Republican congressmen on this one. Happily, this is an election year, and we have considerable clout if enough conservatives make the point that there will be no trip to the polling place to re-elect Republicans who allow criminal trespass into our country or who allow the further destruction of American jobs by importing cheap foreign workers. Lobbyists can hand out cash, but they can't make the base turn out to vote. There aren't enough millionaire votes to get anyone into office.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

I didn't know giants wanted to immigrate to America?

Wouldn't they be ideal for the NFL and NBA?

[OKIEDOC]

STOP H1B VISAS NOW..........................
This is not good for America.

Turn some of these liberal arts do nothing IVY league colleges into science and math, now.