Skilled Immigrants Get Washington Cold Shoulder

This is about CEO bonuses

Should have been good for shareholders, taxpayers and customers, right? WRONG! If there were savings, those savings did not trickle to anybody but the CEOs. Higher CEO pay, hooray!!

H1B Promise

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Labor cost cut in half.

For every H1B, five jobs will be created.

H1B Result

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- Millions of Americans laid off/unemployed.

- Foreclosures up.

- Shareholders lost over 50% of their retirement/investment wealth.

- Taxpayers got higher R.E.-related tax bills.

- Customers pay more for less quality.

- Government collected less taxes (low-wage H1Bs=low tax bracket).

Common Sense of ME @ Oct 31, 2009 13:12:18 PM

Inflation

Wow. Slaves used to cost $12 before the Civil War. Now they cost $5K you say? The U.S. should be ashamed of itself for allowing slavery in 2009.

Google: founded by an immigrant (not an H1B not-so-bright import)

Microsoft: founded by a drop-out that learned how to twist the truth and steal other people's wealth (like the MNCs are doing by demanding more H1Bs)

Mi of CO @ Oct 31, 2009 12:52:08 PM

H-1Bs Aren't "Skilled"

...unless you mean "skilled" means any job requiring a college degree.

The H-1B "genius" working for Google or Microsoft is a myth. Most are doing routine coding in the back offices of corporate America. Many are not even in I.T. Go to www.endh1b.com and see all the H-1B applications for teachers, drafters, civil engineers, even a Public Relations Specialist that was hired by a California politician.

Dozens of Filipino H-1B teachers were imported and kept as virtual slaves by the Caddo Parrish school district. That is just one of many scandals that the media refuses to cover.

Other scandals involve H-1Bs that are supposed to work in lower-income states like Iowa and Florida, and are farmed out to NY and California to work at B of A and State Farm. Vision Systems, an Indian bodyshop, is now facing CRIMINAL charges for doing exactly that. This is how H-1Bs suppress the salaries of the local workforce.

Support the H-1B program, and you support a high-tech slave trade that is hurting America.

Shame on US News for helping put millions of Americans out of work by promoting this corrupt program.

Karma Police of CA @ Oct 31, 2009 10:48:32 AM

Unemployed in Detroit

Detroit was doing much better before H-1B visas and outsourcing. Now Detroit has more poverty. How does firing more Americans "lift" the country out of a depression? It doesn't, but it does put more money in the pockets of anti-American shills like Vivek Wadhwa, who I once read suggested that unemployed Americans be forced to give up their homes and hand them over to foreign guestworkers. Get real folks.

eeger of MA @ Oct 31, 2009 08:21:59 AM

Matthew Bandyk is part of the H-1B fraud

Matthew Bandyk, please stop embarrassing yourself in public. H-1B is no more than a tool to import slave labor to drive down the wage. Editors and writers are not immune. Microsoft can't access cheap labor? It is not the end of the world. After all, Microsoft was built by American workers, not the guest workers.

Kumar of IN @ Oct 31, 2009 00:43:07 AM

There Are Millions of Americans Unemployed

and no shortage of skilled laborers.

Obama should cancel the following visas: H1-b, L1, EB1, EB2 and EB3. These visas are used to discriminate against the Local workforce - American Citizens and Permanent Residents. Greedy companies used these visas to hire cheap foreign labor and layoff the local workforce.

The President is right, the United States needs to create 150,000 jobs each month to keep pace with out own skyrocketing population. According to the President we are only creating 50,000 jobs each month. This means that we are creating 100,000 too few jobs each month.

Things that Obama can do to give Americans jobs:

a. Cancel all temporary working visas like H1-b and L1. There is no labor shortage and we don't need cheap foreign labor to take and displace Americans out of their jobs.

b. Suspend all Green Card Based Employment Visas like EB1, EB2 and EB3. Companies should hire locally and not go overseas to hire somebody and pay them lower wages.

All the visas above are used by greedy companies to bypass the American Workforce. The American workforce are made of American Citizens and Green Card Holders (Permanent Residents). It's time America takes care of it's own people.

debug of CA @ Oct 30, 2009 23:22:27 PM

BS

Third world H-1B's are unable to compete with first class tech people in Germany and Japan. It is the massive third world immigration policies of the last 40 years that broke the back of US R&D. Thank Teddy Kennedy and cheapo businessmen for the industrial and economic decline of the US. In the 60's we led; now we follow Japan and Germany with our cadre of third world researchers doing third world level R&D.

Linda Re of KY @ Oct 30, 2009 11:46:33 AM

P Revere

@alex

wow. 5 jobs created for every 1 H-1B. Where are all these jobs? I'm curious because I've been hearing this lie over and over again. It is simply a means to import cheap, foreign labor. Why else would all these companies curtail hiring H-1B's as soon as there is the threat of fraud detection?

P Revere of MA @ Oct 30, 2009 11:11:05 AM