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Here's a link to Professor Matloff's research:

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.real.html

Matloff's main focus is to document that there is no shortage of 'high-tech' or engineering people in America. He documents meticulously that this idea is a fraud. Matloff also shows convincingly that this H1b will succeed at discouraging young americans from entering these types of work. That is a disaster.

Another aspect of H1b that people forget is that an H1b person has his payroll taxes withheld, but that these taxes don't get deposited into the social security and medicaid funds as with other workers. Instead, all the money goes direct to the home country's government to encourage them to continue educating and training people for the american market. So, for every H1b hired from India the indian government makes about $45,000 that would otherwise go to the social security fund. H1B results in taking about 8 billion a year from the social security fund.

People also forget that H1B includes a lot of workers who are not high-tech and non-software, non-engineering. It includes accountants, doctors, physical therapists and many other categories. Check the database on the link provided above, you'll see cooks in restaurants, personal attendants, horse exercisers, stable attendants and many others. I found a fellow working as a construction manager for a general contractor, he was H1b.

There is no job category that can't have its wages smashed downwards through h1b. FormerLurker you are 100% correct in that we should all vote against all politicians who vote for this program. That means voting against George Bush, voting against 90% of all republicans and democrats both. That is what I'm going to do.

There is no job category that can't have its wages smashed downwards through h1b.

That is quite true. Although there isn't as much attention given to other fields as there is in relation to computer related jobs, the same thing IS taking place. In those other areas it seems more of a slow, insidious malignancy, where although not immediately obvious, is there nonetheless.

FormerLurker you are 100% correct in that we should all vote against all politicians who vote for this program. That means voting against George Bush, voting against 90% of all republicans and democrats both. That is what I'm going to do.

I'm going to vote against any politician who supported this affront against the American people. Our current breed of politician talks a good game, but when it comes down to that which matters most, they betray the trust of those who they are supposed to be representing. The sad thing is, it might be difficult to find a politician that DOESN'T support this anti-American agenda.

Here's a link to Professor Matloff's research:

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.real.html

Matloff's main focus is to document that there is no shortage of 'high-tech' or engineering people in America. He documents meticulously that this idea is a fraud. Matloff also shows convincingly that this H1b will succeed at discouraging young americans from entering these types of work. That is a disaster.

Thanks for posting the link. I've read Matloff's study, and there's a few discussions on FR in relation to it. It is a highly disturbing report and has proven itself to be true. While industry lobbyists were greasing the palms of politicians and spewing nonsense about this non-existant labor shortage, Matloff was trying to warn everyone what was really in the works. Unfortunetly, Matloff's report wasn't mentioned in the press as far as I know, and I've only come across it this year...