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Most Immigrants Create Jobs

H-1B visas are one of our best tools to attract international brain power

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The Average Unemployment rate for College graduates for 2009 to present is 4.5%. From 1992 through 2008 the average Unemployment rate for college graduates was 2.4%.

In fact, there are 322,000 more unemployed college graduates than there are unemployed high school dropouts.

In the aggregate, each 100 H-1B visas approved is associated with an employment loss of 90 jobs for 2001 to 2010.

Here is a short piece examining the Zavodny paper that Jacoby misqoutes and didn't bother to 'source' in this article.

http://immigration-weaver.blogspot.com/2012/01/radical-conservative-immigration-policy.html

weaver of CA 4:56PM January 08, 2012

"The unemployment rate for college graduates is 4.4 percent. And 60 to 70 percent of the students in American computer science and electrical engineering graduate programs are foreign-born. Like it or not, we're just not producing enough American scientists, engineers, inventors, or IT entrepreneurs to keep up with the pace of global innovation."

This is the dizzying methodology of a propagandist, trying to create an impression rather than by logical argument. First you tell us the unemployment rate for ALL college grads in America (this past year's grads? all years' grads in the workforce, not mentioning that the great majority of STEM grads never find jobs using their field of study; see Stein's piece in this debate); then you somehow link that with the percentage of foreign-born in US grad schools in EE & CS (including US citizens and permanent residents, but only grad students and only those in EE & CS, rather than all STEM); then you somehow conclude that America is just not producing enough American scientists, engineers, inventors, or IT entrepreneurs (now you're back to all STEM workers), when 1) only about a third of US STEM grads find jobs in those fields, 2) the US has shed hundreds of thousands of STEM jobs in the past 20 years, and 3) easier jobs pay better.

This reads like propaganda from an academic paid to churn out "research" for the cheap labor lobby to bamboozle the public.

Too many inconvenient facts are omitted: though the H-1B visa was created by a false claim that we wouldn't have enough STEM workers to maintain our scientific progress, the supposed remedy (creation of H-1B) will eventually create that very problem by destroying US STEM careers for Americans, glutting the STEM labor market, driving down wages, robbing new US grads of work experience & development in their field, and disincentivizing brilliant, hard-working US kids to study those areas if they want both a stable career commensurate with their learning & experience, and a reasonable family life.

If any readers seriously wish to understand the truth, read

1) Eric Weinstein's unfinished ms. "How and Why Government, Universities, and Industry Create Domestic Labor Shortages" at http://nber.nber.org/~peat/PapersFolder/Papers/SG/NSF.html ;

2) Chapters 8 & 9 of Washington science reporter Daniel S. Greenberg's _Science, Politics, and Money: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion_ explaining how the NSF's Policy Research & Analysis Division under Peter House produced demonstrably false models to support inference that America NEEDED to import foreign STEM workers to keep up;

3) Michigan Democrat Howard Wolpe's Congressional hearing of April 7, 1992, available on line at http://www.rescueaustinjobs.org/wwwroot/Wolpe/WolpeIndex.htm , esp. the opening statements of Reps. Wolpe (p. 4) and Boehlert (p. 9), statements of economist Barries (p. 410) and statistician Dr. Golladay (p. 421), the "shortfall" argument in brief (p. 537), and Dr Trumble's rvw (p. 434).

Ray921, PhD of TX 3:04AM January 08, 2012

The idea that most immigrants create jobs is hilarious. It's simply laughable. You could not begin to find a shred of evidence to support that claim.

D Holden of CA 4:55PM January 07, 2012

Nielsen Replaces workers (American need NOT apply!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h66IGgxog60

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJAnZUB6zyE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbWfr0sz8i8

What is your response to American Job Destruction?

EngiNERD of IL 2:45PM January 04, 2012

The unemployment rate for electrical engineers is 4.4% not all college graduates. And by historic accounts that number is the highest its ever been. Don't compare the unemployment rate for the general population to engineers, its a false comparison.

Paul Almeida of DC 12:01PM January 04, 2012

I hope the writer bothers to read my comment: You obviously have not spend any time in any IT departments lately, nor have you bothered ask the people who work in IT departments about their experiences.

Jane Highwater of KY 10:20PM January 01, 2012

The Occupy Wall Street movement is all about getting retribution from collaborators like this corporate shill and agent for the high-tech slave trade.

Rudy Torrent of CA 5:25PM January 01, 2012

In a "perfect" world we should be inviting the best the brightest [the truly gifted] to come to the USA. Actually we Do have a program for that and it is called the "O"- Visa... and there are unlimited number!

The problem we have is the H-1b program does NOT invite the best/brightest. These people are 'average' at best and too too many are scamming the system

Don't believe me then GOOGLE: H-1b fraud

You should find dozens of case of fraud, abuses in the program.

Seems to me a month doesn't go by and some one , some company is under investigation for abusing the H-1B visa process.

You'd think there should be a Congressional Investigation?

EngiNERD of IL 9:40AM January 01, 2012

Let me direct you to the following:

Jim Crow in Silicon Valley is Exposed

http://www.eiass.com/Article-JimCrowe.html

Where is the outrage ???

EngiNERD of IL 11:57PM December 30, 2011

Please keep in mind that the author is a paid corporate shill whom is paid to publish propaganda to lower wages, increase unemployment, and put money in the pockets of the corrupt. She Anti-American to the core. Thus, she claims the H-1b outsourcing visa is 'good' for America. A few years back she used to publish articles that every job shipped to China create 50 new jobs in the United States. How did that work out? End the H1b.

Pat of CA 12:24PM December 30, 2011

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