[FlyingA]

Main Family Injustice Site

http://www.familyinjustice.com/h1b/

[dirtboy]

d) The disproportionate use of H-1B by Indian companies and hiring managers demonstrates that the legislation has been implemented in a discriminatory manner

This is a VERY, VERY loaded statement - it is basically the logic used by proponents of affirmative action. India produces a tremendous number of computer science professionals - so of course they are going to be over-represented by H1B.

Hey, I agree that H1B is being abused, and the pretext for H1B is a lie. However, IMO it is NOT unconsitutional, whereas your argument on this specific point is promoting an unconstituional concept of a reverse racial quota.

[B4Ranch]

Can You Change America? Part 2

[boris]

I am not a lawyer.

I hate unions.

I hate illegal immigration.

However, the implicit assumption that you have a "right" to a job--and that that "right" is a good (like property) which can be "defended" is idiotic.

Your employer can fire you at his pleasure.

You can quit and find a better employer.

Deal with it.

--Boris

[doc30]

Just to give some people a sense of optimism, the cry that American IT workers are being diplaced by non-Americans has been heard by the INS and the DOL. I am an H1B holder (research in Chemistry, not IT) and learned something interesting from my company's HR department. FOr 2002, there were 195,000 H1B's available, and at this time 65,000 have gone unfilled. THe INS and the Department of Labor are scrutinizing H1B applications from the IT sector very closely and are rejecting a greater number. If you want to know more about who is sponsoring H1Bs, the Dept of Labor website is the best place to go. THere is a section for H1B disclosure. THis is the site:

http://edc.dws.state.ut.us/casesearch.asp

It is searchable by state, employer and job function.

[Wolfie]

Does anybody really believe that "constitutional" is even a consideration anymore?

[dfwgator]

It's not the H1-Bs that are the biggest worry, it is the moving of technical jobs offshore that's an even bigger threat.

[1rudeboy]

Can't we develop a just economic system that allows for the division of labor, but prevents the bourgeoise from exploiting the worker? Oops . . . wrong forum.

[Dog Gone]

Once a citizen has chosen and holds a profession, it becomes a constitutionally protected property right. “A law which prohibits a large class of citizens from adopting a lawful employment, or from following a lawful employment previously adopted, does deprive them of liberty as well as property, without due process of law.'' Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 36, 116, 122 (1873) (Justice Bradley dissenting).

You can't use a dissenting opinion as proof of what the law is, since it's the view the court did NOT accept.