The H-1B guest worker program is not used to immigrate the "best and brightest" PHDs, scientists, nuclear engineers or mathematicians. There is no "shortage of engineers" in America. These catch phrases are part of the "Big Lie". H-1B visas are already unlimited. H-1B and L-1 visas are primarily the vehicles of offshore outsourcing of American jobs.
The same companies hiring H-1B temporary workers, or more importantly, hiring sub-contractors who hire H-1Bs, are the same companies writing BPO [Business Process Offshore] contracts with Satyam, Tata, and Infosys.
Exporting America
The average H-1B alien, who now number in the millions (4 million since 1985), is a young, male computer programmer. Over 400,000 H-1B visas are issued each year. Forget about the "65,000 visa cap" rhetoric propagandized in the media and propagated by corporate CEOs. It's a lie.
H-1B Big Lie (.pdf) See page 3.
Unemployment among computer analysts and engineers is in the double digits, primarily because of the H-1B cap increases of 1999 - 2004, and its sister job killer, the fraud laden L-1 visa. Over 300,000 L-1 visas are issued each year, mostly in computer science occupations.
L-1 Visa Fraud(.pdf)
A recent study by Duke U. states that 73% of surveyed companies have offshoring as an important part of their growth strategy. Note that Duke offers classes to CEOs on how to offshore jobs.
Duke Offshore Survey
That's the ball game, folks - Death to America. If you are looking for terrorists, take a close look at American corporation executives who have consistently lobbied for these job visas and who lay off American workers by the thousands and move their operations overseas and their tax bases to the Cayman Islands. I don't care what school of "thought" proposes Globalization, it is obviously another corpernment fraud on the American people.
SAS, Goodnight
"SAS is a global company, and we should put resources anywhere on the globe where it makes sense." -- Goodnight
Now, for my H-1B unlimited claim:
H-1B visas are not limited to "65,000" per year. Over 400,000 H-1B visas are now issued each year. Plus there are some categories which are unlimited and issue tens of thousands of additional white collar visas. I am not talking about farm worker visas. I am talking about visas for accountants, teachers, business managers, administrators, clerks, truck drivers, pilots, train conductors, and boat captains - anything goes. If you are an alien with a bachelor's degree in anything - or six year's work experience equivalency - you get passage to America. Here's a break-down:
- 6,800 H-1B visas per year for people from Chile & Singapore [H-1B1]
- 20,000 H-1B visas per year for people with advanced degrees from US colleges & universities
(sub-total 26,800)
- 58,200 H-1B visas per year for people with bachelor degrees from anywhere
(sub-total 85,000)
- an unlimited number of H-1B visas per year for those employed by non-profits
- an unlimited number for those employed by local, state and federal governments
- an unlimited number for those employed by US colleges & universities (so much for US citizens working their way through and getting some practical experience)
(sub-total: unlimited)
And the substitutes:
- 10,500 E-3 visas (for similar skills under similar terms & conditions as the H-1B) for those from Australia
(sub-total: 95,500 plus unlimited)
- an unlimited number of L visas for employees (and their families) of multi-national companies
- 65,000 TN visas per year for those from Canada and Mexico (NAFTA)
- F visas with a work rider (current "amnesty" immigration bills - "SKIL" Bills - with F-4 student visa proposal contains the worst features of F-1, H-1B, and L-1, combined with a huge expansion in green cards expected to exceed ONE MILLION white collar visas per year.)
Subtotal: Unlimited
(Thanks, BatmanG8)
These visas are used to drive down wages and to offshore American jobs. White collar jobs are now going the way of American manufacturing. NAFTA
Your job is next. Time to wake up and get real. Do some research. Don't be a lemming. Stop listening to liars and traitors. The corporate CEO spoiled brats you are worshipping are leading you into slavery. They don’t know any better. They are inbred morons who get their "vision" from Socialists. "One World Order"! "Globalism"! Does this sound like Democratic ideals?