Congress Set to Import More Foreign Workers: H-1B Visas

Eagle Forum Action Alert E-mail ^ | 4/18/2008

[anymouse]

Take Action!

[devere]

We have the best government money can buy, and it does!

The only remedy I can think of is direct democracy — a giant nationwide town-meeting on the internet. Congressional statutes should be subject to approval of the people before they take effect.

[Man50D]

Increasing the number of H-1B visas has adversely effected the IT industry considerably. It is another method to essentially erase our borders.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

The republicans want businesses to make more money, the dems want more dem voters. Both are hurting us real bad. Both parties are crooked.

[proxy_user]

I have posted this proposal before:

1. Instead of the first 85,000 applicants, admit the 85,000 applicants with the highest salary. You want high-skilled, you’ve got them.

2. Allow the visa holders to resign from the sponsor’s job and take another position after 3 months. They are paying market salaries, right?

These two changes would show what this program is really being used for.

[freeangel]

Rumor has it that AT&T is ready to axe about 3,000 workers. In the past it is stated that it cannot get good technical workers—I wonder if the forthcoming announcement has anything to do with the governments latest push.

[Man50D]

Rumor has it that AT&T is ready to axe about 3,000 workers. In the past it is stated that it cannot get good technical workers—I wonder if the forthcoming announcement has anything to do with the governments latest push.

A local talk radio show host discussed this one morning. An AT&T worker in the area called and and disputed the AT$T President's claim the company not being able to find enough qualified workers while at the same time laying off people. I called into to explain in detail the problem IT workers have had for some time finding work and decent pay because of the H-1B visas.

There was an organization in Connecticut that formed a few years ago to pressure Congress not to increase the H-1B visas and had limited success but the organization ran out of money late last year because big businesses were spending more money through their lobbyists than the IT group could match to lobby their cause.

[org.whodat]

The influx of H-1Bers depresses the "prevailing wage" for all computer techies and engineers

Hell, they import h-ibers for every damn think some halfas= attorney can make a big enough lie about. Welders, truck drivers, etc, etc. It's all about lowering wages and making the corporate president a bigger salary.

[B4Ranch]

HOOVER AND EISENHOWER

Here is something that should be of great interest for you to pass around.
I didn’t know of this until it was pointed out to me. But, back during the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of all illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work.

And then again in 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower deported 13 million Mexican nationals! The program was called “Operation Wetback” so that American WWII and Korean veterans had a better chance at jobs. It took 2 years, but they deported them!

Now, if they could deport the illegal back then, they can sure do it today!! If you have doubts about the veracity of this information, enter Operation Wetback into your favorite search engine and confirm it for your self.

Reminder. Don’t forget to pay your taxes... 50 million illegal aliens are depending on you!

[freekitty]

Let’s clean out congress

[central_va]

And they ask me why I am not a Republican anymore....

[Wpin]

Truth be told, we send hundreds of thousands of very talented college educated in our system back to their home countries every year because the H1B quotas are so low. These are productive folks who have more American spirit than the average Joe who thinks it is all owed to him.

I have a small business that is trying to keep two wonderful young men at our employ by getting them (we hope) H1B visas.

Some criticize when we have these discussions of raising the H1B quotas and then complain bitterly when the jobs follow these young educated people to their home countries. Particularly, India...think about it for a while. The conservative position is to increase the number of visas available so that there are not artificial barriers to the market...

[tokenatheist]

What skills do they have that you have been unable to find in native workers.

[Oatka]

Some criticize when we have these discussions of raising the H1B quotas and then complain bitterly when the jobs follow these young educated people to their home countries.

It's cheap wages, fella, whether here or in India. It's a lose-lose situation for ITers - suppress the wages here or train your competition ove there.

[NVDave]

Bingo!

The H1B program is nothing more or less than indentured servitude writ large and modern.

[CORedneck]

I gotten laid off back in late January. I have not for the life of me been able to secure employment since. This is a real sore spot with me - importing high tech workers from India. I have had calls from people who are very interested in hiring me and then suddenly they disappear. I put myself on Monster.com and got some of those calls but when I tried to log in today, my account was deleted !

A friend of mine works for Key Bank up in Boulder and they put him on "Performance Improvement Plan" which is a precursor to kick him out the door without even a semblance of a severance package. Both he and I discussed that our common problem is not that we are capable and competent to do our work but it seems that corporate politics are much more important.

On corporate politics, I worked for one manager who was such an @$$hole. I left him back in Oct 2005 for a different position within the company but when the money dried up on the contract, I got pulled out and told to find a new job. I found out that he was on the staffing committee ! When I was pulled out, I was told in no uncertain terms that I have no future in Colorado and if I want to stay with the company, I had to do a full relocation to the East Coast ! That includes selling the house - required for relo package !

That manager had a crappy attitude towards taking vacation. Unless you were one of his favorite snot nosed kids, you were not permitted to get advance approval for time off. Approval was at the earliest given several days before your departure. A guarantee to make plane tickets very expensive. He told me that vacation is a company benefit that benefits the company, when and how you got to take vacation was considered a privilege. You also had to get separate approval to leave town ! You were expected to be on-call during vacation and have to come back on a moments notice. None of the other managers had that attitude on that given project. their attitude was it is part of your compensation package, go enjoy the time off you earned. That manager was also former IBM as well.

[Antonio C]

There’s nothing wrong with immigration. In fact, the levels should be increased substantially.

[DFG]

What state do you live in? Obviously not one that borders Mexico.

[Antonio C]

Wrong. I live in Texas.

[TigersEye]

Near record low unemployment and on the verge of a recession. Perfect time to bring in thousands of skilled foreign workers. /s