H-1B visa limit reached.
No new petitions for first-time employment in 2004 will be accepted starting Wednesday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said this week. The cutoff means that the annual cap of 65,000 new workers has been reached less than five months into the fiscal year, which began Oct. 1.
Good! Now maybe the companies hiring foregn tech workers will hire Americans.
The news prompted a quick response from American Business for Legal Immigration, a coalition of 200 corporations, universities, research institutions and trade associations.
"Our goal is to keep the U.S. economy growing and keep U.S. jobs in America. Sometimes this requires hiring a limited number of highly educated foreign professionals to fill technical or specialized positions," Sandy Boyd, chair of the group, said in a statement on Wednesday. "Reaching the 2004 visa limit less than halfway through the fiscal year is clear evidence that the system needs to be fixed."
Technology industry leaders, though, defend the H-1B program as a tool to keep U.S. employers competitive. Backers of the guest-worker visas warn that even more IT work would move offshore if they were eliminated.
Bullshit!....We have enough technically trained Americans to fill those positions. In fact there are plenty of them who are unemployed (because their jobs have been outsourced) and are available to work IMMEDIATELY!
And the argument that we need to bring in foreign workers to do the work here so that the jobs aren't outsourced is bizarre!
Let me see if I get this straight. The companies who would like to outsource more American jobs have discovered that there are some jobs that must remain here in the US but instead of hiring Americns to do those jobs they want to bring in more foreign workers?!
I'm so angry right now I'm almost apoplectic! And I'm an unemployed tech worker! And anyone who responds to this and trys to tell me that the outsourcing and H1B BS is a good and necessary thing will quickly find my boot up their ass! Remember, I'm unemplyed and have plenty of time to find your ass so I can kick my boot up into it!
Full article here:
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5161069.html
