This blog is dedicated to exposing: 1) Corporate abuse/misuse of non-immigrant visas (B-1, H-1B, L-1, etc) 2) Discrimination against American workers in favor of hiring cheap foreign labor 3) The corruption and backscratching that occurs between corporate lobbyists/industry associations and Federal legislators.
In case you didn't know, Senator John Cornyn loves sponsoring H1-B visa increases. His opponent in the upcoming November elections is Rick Noriega. I don't know if Noriega's position on illegal immigration and visas is any different. It'll be worth a look to find out.
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Senator John Cornyn aka Cornhead is selling out workers again by sponsoring three different bills to increase the number of H1-B visas in the US. I'm going to have to go research Rick Noriega to see if he has any sane position on this.
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From Norm Matloff's newsletter on this Nature article:
One of these new points is striking: In absolute numbers, the U.S. has more top-scoring kids in math and science than any other country studied--by far. The authors point out that it is mainly these kids who become the innovators later as adults, and we've got an excellent supply of them. This is completely counter to what one constantly sees in the popular press.
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December 15, 2006:
Engineers stole trade secretsSAN JOSE - Two engineers were moments away from boarding a flight to China when they were singled out for what appeared to be a routine customs inspection. They didn't know FBI agents were waiting nearby, ready to examine their luggage.
The contents, investigators said, were startling: Thousands of pages of trade secrets stolen from four Silicon Valley companies, including microchip blueprints and other closely guarded documents, many marked "Proprietary" or "Confidential" or both. The men were arrested and their homes raided.
Documents seized there allegedly revealed a plot to smuggle trade secrets to China to start a microprocessor company backed by Chinese government entities.
Fei Ye, 40, a U.S. citizen from China, and Ming Zhong, 39, a permanent U.S. resident from China, pleaded guilty this week to the rare charge of economic espionage to benefit a foreign nation. Legal experts said Friday that the convictions - the first of their kind - were crucial victories for federal prosecutors.
November 2, 2006:
United States has the best democracy money can buy!
...Whether the Democrats or Republicans take control of the House and Senate, corporate America has just bought a license to outsource more middle-class jobs to cheap foreign labor markets, to continue unabated so-called free trade and the destruction of more manufacturing jobs, and most likely to promote amnesty for the 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens living in this country.
Immigration And Usurpation: Elites, Power, And The People's Will
by Fredo Arias-King
Foreign Alums cope with visa troubles (from the Yale Daily News):
H-1B's
for Sale: Free training! Guaranteed job placement! Caveat: You MUST be a foreign
student that has recently graduated from an American University to qualify for
this special offer. (I didn't think that the "best and brightest" needed to be
trained - DUMB ME: I guess I was wrong...)
September 23, 2006 - Dallas-area businessman found guilty of wire and mail fraud in connection with scheme to defraud Indian H-1B workers.
United States Attorney Richard Roper announced that former Dallas area resident
Suman K. Varanasi was found guilty on Monday, September 18, 2006, of mail fraud
and wire fraud following a trial before the Honorable Jane J. Boyle, United
States District Judge. Specifically, Varanasi was found guilty of six
counts of mail fraud and six counts of wire fraud, and faces a maximum statutory
sentence on each count of twenty years, a $250,000 fine, and restitution.
Varanasi is in federal custody and is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Boyle
on December 14, 2006.
Varanasi, a citizen of India present in the United
States on a non-immigrant H1-B employment-based visa, founded Zenstra Solutions,
an placement service for IT professionals, in April 2003. Zenstra did
business at 14001 Dallas Parkway, Suite 1200, Dallas, Texas, through November
2004, when the business closed.
According to the evidence presented in court,
from October 2003 through November 2004, Varanasi executed a scheme to defraud
Indian IT professionals in the United States on H1-B employment-based visas by
offering to hire them for a permanent position with the company and, in exchange
for a fee, to file forms with the Department of Homeland Security Bureau of
Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that would enable them to obtain
lawful permanent residence
...
September
15, 2006 -
Washington,
DC—Secretary Chertoff told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Committee in testimony on September 12, “We have also fully deployed our
biometric US-VISIT program…” Either he was misspeaking, misleading Congress, or
declaring the administration’s intent to leave a permanent loophole in the
program.
The fact is that the US-VISIT program for electronically collecting
information on all arriving and departing foreigners is not fully deployed.
Information on most foreigners entering from Canada and Mexico is still not
being collected, and the system is only capturing information on a miniscule
portion of departing foreigners. The significance of the enormous loophole that
remains is that the government cannot match entry and exit data to know who is
staying illegally in the United States. In addition, at present anyone of any
nationality who presents a Canadian drivers’ license or Border Crossing Card can
easily enter the country by land with no identity check or check against any
terrorist-watch database.
September 19, 2006 (VDARE)The good news: the Senate immigration bill will probably not be
H-1B is her No. 1 battle
SeptemberGeorge
Bush Brokers Deal deal to bring 15,000 Saudi Arabian students to the United
States
Reports, studies shatter myth that H-1B visa holders are paid same wages as U.S. citizensWASHINGTON (6 September 2006) -- U.S. industry spokespeople say repeatedly that
Programmer's Guild files lawsuits against H-1B employers
TheAugust
18, 2006 - A group representing IT workers has begun filing about 380 lawsuits
against U.S. companies who advertise, in violation of the U.S. law, that they
prefer to hire foreign workers with H-1B temporary work visas.
One of the canards H-1B supporters use is the claim that H-1B is not used to depress wages because the law requires employers to pay the prevailing wage. Yet, whenever the government releases salary figures for H-1B programmers they are significantly less then what Americans make. The following is a real example of how the system can be manipulated to pay H-1B workers significantly less than Americans...Part 2, from Norm Matloff:
Sun, 25 Jun 2006 ...As I've explained many times, the answer to the hearing's theme question, "Is the Labor Department doing enough to protect U.S. workers?" is that there is almost nothing that DOL can do. The law ITSELF is the problem, not lax enforcement. If the law were to allow drivers to go 80 mph in a residential neighborhood, you wouldn't blame the police for lax enforcement, would you? The law itself would be the problem, not the police. The official legal definition of the required _prevailing wage allows figureswhich are well below market levels. In other words, the organizers of the hearing are fundamentally incorrect in their implicit theme that the problems of the H-1B program are due mainly to lack of aggressive enforcement of the law. It is basically a loophole problem, not an enforcement problem. So when the GAO report presented at this hearing says that the law is being obeyed 99.7% of the time, that's an irrelevant statement, because the law is so riddled with loopholes that it is useless...
Dallas Morning News James M. O'Neill: Visa policies rob U.S. of a valuable labor source 06:03 AM CDT on Monday, August 7, 2006
Compete America - See this web page of links to "Editorials" that they have sponsored (planted) in newpapers across the U.S.
Public Citizen has a good web page that discusses Global Trade and Free Trade Agreements
More information about Trade Agreements can be found on the Texas Fair Trade Coalition site
WTO (World Trade Organization)
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)Why should Americans care about GATS? See GATSWatch for more information
Wikipedia article about NAFTA.
The TN visa was created under NAFTA.
CAFTA (Central America Free Trade Agreement)
FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas)