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At a time of high unemployment and with a struggling economy, why on earth would Obama go out of his way to push to extend the H-1B Visas of foreign workers while millions of American engineers are without jobs? That is the question being asked by Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly. According to Schlafly, when pressed on this issue, Obama feigns shock that any American engineer was out of work, saying that there’s such a high demand for engineers. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that, counting only U.S.-born individuals, there are 101,000 with an engineering degree who are unemployed, another...

HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — Foreign students working at a candy warehouse protested conditions and pay Thursday, chanting on Chocolate Avenue under streetlights shaped like Hershey's Kisses, arguing that they were employed under the guise of a cultural exchange but toil away in what amounts to a sweets sweatshop. The State Department said it was investigating. More than 100 students gathered in touristy downtown Hershey, home to the nation's second-largest candy maker, complaining of hard physical labor, steep pay deductions for rent that often left them with little spending money, and no cultural enrichment.... *** The students earn about $8 an...

LABOR DEPARTMENT SEEKS TO REVERSE CHANGES MADE DURING BUSH ADMINISTRATION The Labor Department is trying again to roll back Bush administration regulations that made it easier for farmers to hire temporary foreign farm workers. The agency Thursday said it is proposing new rules that would boost wages and increase safeguards for thousands of seasonal workers brought in each year to help farmers pick their crops. It also would require that growers make greater efforts to fill those jobs with American workers. If the rules are adopted, they largely will reverse regulations finalized shortly before President George W. Bush left office...

When Congress passed the economic stimulus package in February, the bill included a provision restricting companies that utilize TARP money from hiring foreign workers. The measure was meant to protect American workers, but several Wall Street firms are still hiring foreign workers and simply moving their jobs oversees.

Major U.S. banks sought government permission to bring thousands of foreign workers into the country for high-paying jobs even as the system was melting down last year and Americans were getting laid off, according to an Associated Press review of visa applications. The dozen banks now receiving the biggest rescue packages, totaling more than $150 billion, requested visas for more than 21,800 foreign workers over the past six years for positions that included senior vice presidents, corporate lawyers, junior investment analysts and human resources specialists. The average annual salary for those jobs was $90,721, nearly twice the median income for...

533,000 Jobs Lost in NOV -- But the Feds Imported Another 140,000 Foreign Workers the Same Month!   By Roy Beck, Friday, December 5, 2008, 10:17 AM With the federal government reporting another giant loss of jobs for November, isn't it time to stop the massive importation of foreign workers?Non-farm employers in the U.S. eliminated 533,000 jobs in November. At the same time, in a typical month the feds give out approximately 140,000 new work permits and green cards to foreign workers.How can this make any sense for the American people's own government to be recruiting more competitors for a...

An Islamic parliamentarian in Bahrain has called for the expulsion of Bangladeshi immigrant workers after one of them was accused of a gruesome killing. "We need to expel all the Bangladeshi workers that are in our country," said Abdel Halim Murad of the hardline Salafi bloc according to a report in the local newspaper Akhbar al-Khalji. "We cannot tolerate the way in which these people continue to repeat crimes," he said. Murad said this during a political debate on Sunday after a Bahraini citizen was allegedly killed by a foreign worker from Bangladesh who worked as a mechanic. The victim...

Homeland Security Department officials have discovered widespread fraud in a religious worker visa program that allows thousands of foreigners a year to enter the U.S. and remain here. Last year, the officials found that 33 percent of the visas that investigators examined were granted based on fraudulent information, USA Today reports. "We found that the program had been compromised and the fraud rate was excessively high," Emilio Gonzalez, head of Citizen and Immigration Services at Homeland Security, told USA Today. The visa program was established in 1990 to allow churches, synagogues and mosques to hire qualified foreigners to fill open...

More than a million foreigners have been allowed to come to work in Britain in just three years - and given the right to remain indefinitely. The numbers of migrants, who are also entitled to bring their families and settle, have been revealed in new figures released to MPs by the Home Office. They reveal for the first time the full impact that officially sanctioned immigration is having on the UK work force. They show that the issuing of work permits to people from non-European Union countries continued to accelerate even after the expansion of the EU in 2004, which...

Arab Racism, Arabism, Arabization, Islamism - Islamofascism, Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, etc. Arab Racism, Arabization, Islamism - Islamofascism, Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, etc. On Blacks, Africans * Kurds * Berbers * Israelis * Jews * Afghanis * Iranians, Farsi * Pakistanis * English * Asians * Europeans * Marsh Arabs * Nubians * Al Akhdam * Iraqi Arabs vs Ahwazi Arabs * by "palestinians" (on others) General Arabism Equals Racismhttp://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24912 FrontPageMagazine.com October 13, 2006 ThereÂ’s an expression, "The pot calling the kettle black." It refers to someone claiming a sin in others that is at least as prevalent - if not...

  Finishing lunch at Kuyaba, a restaurant on the beach in Negril, Jamaica, 2,000 miles away from the reality of work, freezing temperatures and a fresh snowfall, a waiter extended a pen to sign the bill.    Reality crept in: the insignia on the pen advertised The Chatham Wayside Inn, Main Street. Wondering if the pen was left from the previous day’s dinner, the question of its origin is posed to the waiter.            “No mon, that’s my pen,” responded Hopeton Lee.            For the past two summer seasons Lee has worked the bar and restaurant at the centerpiece Main Street inn,...

There once was a job. It wasn't much of a job, neither great nor awful; just a job in an assembly plant, putting engines together. The CEO of the company that owned the Job decided that it would be better off if it were overseas. And so the CEO sent the Job to China. He said: "I don't like doing this, but we have to be competitive. We have no choice." Only one person missed the Job, the Employee, but even she told herself that she should have moved on long before. The local Politician pretended to worry that the...

Ogunquit's Meadowmere Resort swells each summer with Vacationland visitors, tourists enjoying the coastal hotel's Roman bath, jacuzzi, spa, pools, pub and other luxuries. For 21 weeks, guests pack the resort's 145 rooms, and the Meadowmere doubles the size of its staff. The resort needs at least 35 additional workers to bring extra towels poolside, serve gin and tonics at the pub, or run the room service cart up and down the halls. The Meadowmere normally can fill half of those open seasonal positions with local help, and traditionally has turned to temporary foreign workers to augment its labor force. This...

No to Bush Amnesty by James R. Edwards, Jr. Posted Jan 9, 2004 Just in time for his trip to Mexico, President Bush has proposed another mass amnesty of millions of illegal aliens. The White House is willing to overlook Mexico's opposition to us on Iraq, in the United Nations, on communist Cuba, on returning Mexican fugitives to face justice in America, on policing the border against illegal immigration, on opening its socialist oil company to private investment and its aggressive lobbying in American domestic affairs. The Bush amnesty-guestworker proposal would do a lot more than connect "willing workers" with...

Finance Ministry sees 11% unemployment by year-end Unemployment will fall only in 2005. The ministry sharply criticized the Bank of Israel's interest rate policy. Zeev Klein 29 Oct 03 16:08Unemployment will reach 11% of the civilian labor force by the end of 2003, amounting to 286,000 people, states a macroeconomic forecast published by Ministry of Finance chief economist Dr. Michael Sarel today. The unemployment rate is currently 10.6%, or 265,000 people. Sarel emphasized that no decline in unemployment was expected in 2004, and unemployment would begin to fall only in 2005. He said a fall in unemployment depended on scrupulously...

For much of the past two decades, predictions of an impending shortage of scientists and engineers in America have gained increasingly wide currency. The country is failing to produce scientists and engineers in numbers sufficient to fulfill its economic potential, the argument runs. The supposed causes are weaknesses in elementary, secondary, or higher education, inadequate financing of the fields, declining interest in science and engineering among American students, or some combination of these. Thus it is said that the United States must import students, scientists, and engineers from abroad to fill universities and work in the private sector—though even this...

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli police raid a house in an upmarket Tel Aviv suburb, searching under beds and in closets until they find what they are looking for -- a tearful, frightened maid from the Philippines. As the suspected illegal worker is led away to face deportation, she cries out that she has a daughter at her dwelling in Israel waiting for her. Her employer faces a fine of 10,000 shekels ($2,200). The raid, broadcast on Israeli television, is part of a government campaign to send tens of thousands of foreign workers packing as the country wallows in a...

Special Visa's Use for Tech Workers Is Challenged Richard L. Harbus for The New York Times A flier from the Organization for the Rights of American Workers, which wants to restrict visas that allow companies to transfer workers to the United States. By KATIE HAFNER and DANIEL PREYSMAN AN FRANCISCO, May 29 — With the economy in a slump, a growing number of American technology workers say their jobs are going not only to lower-cost foreign workers abroad, but also increasingly to workers who enter the United States under a little-known visa category known as L-1. In the nearly three...

GOPUSA.com poll asks if bringing in more foreign guest workers is a good idea. There are two polls at the page; this particular poll is on the right hand side.... http://gopusa.com/arizona We're in a recession, we've losts hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs, and jerks like Kolbe think we need these so-called 'guest workers'. The aren't guests, and they don't go home.

No, this is not just about Kalpana Chawla, the immigrant from India who perished as a member of Space Shuttle Columbia's crew when that craft was lost during re-entry on Saturday morning. And this is not just about NASA and immigrants (A search on Google today showed over 200 documents on the NASA website connected to immigration, NASA's 212(e) waiver policy is at http://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/library/displayDir.cfm?Internal_ID=N_PG_1371_0001_&page_name=main The fact is that immigrants from India, China, and many other countries are found in large numbers throughout the scientific and technical community in the US. These immigrants help ensure that American science and industry continue...