The American Engineering Association
An association that promotes American leadership in engineering, science, and related fields by endorsing stabilized and rewarding employment conditions for its practitioners.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform
FAIR is a national, non-profit organization of citizens united in their belief that the mass immigration of the past thirty years into the United States should not continue.

The H-1B Hall of Shame
Here are found testimonials from people who have been laid off, a library of information on the topic, and a feedback forum on the H-1B issue.

Hire American Citizens
This site features a comprehensive set of well-documented arguments against the H-1B Visa Program. It also describes in detail the abuses visited upon citizen and alien alike made possible by the by the gross imbalance of supply and demand created by the program. Its page of links is among the most comprehensive on this issue. The site invites its visitors to use its Congressional locator and write their Congressmen.

Immigration's Human Cost
A comprehensive showcase of how Americans have had their careers and futures destroyed or damaged by excessive immigration allowed by Congress.

The National Association for the Employment of Americans
The mission of NAEA is to secure and advance the general employment opportunities of the people of the United States through political action on any legislation that directly affects their job markets.

NumbersUSA
NumbersUSA.com is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that favors traditional numerical levels of immigration. Its website provides full immigration voting records for each Member of Congress and opportunities for action to influence Congress.

Programmers' Guild
An association of computer programmers dedicated to their mutual aid, and to the maintenance of professional standards and general furtherance of their field.

Stop Immigration Now
A comprehensive electronic petition that permits the user to click on several issues, all immigration-related, to be submitted to Congress.

T.O.R.A.W.
The Organization for the Rights of American Workers is a grassroots initiative demanding that U.S. jobs be preserved first and foremost for U.S. citizens.

The National Science Foundation
The H-1B Visa Program is the brainchild of the N.S.F. This government agency is the principal designer of the visa program, has argued in favor of the it before Congress, and receives the lion's share of the revenues collected from H-1B Visa fees.

The National Science Foundation:
Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2002
Here is the Budget Request from the N.S.F. has transmitted to Congress.

The National Science Foundation:
Budget Request for F.Y. 2002:
H-1B Nonimmigrant Petitioner Receipts $144,000,000
This is a page from the Summary Budget Request from the National Science Foundation to Congress for Fiscal Year 2002. It shows where and how H-1B Visa fees are spent, and that the money the N.S.F. farms from the H-1B Visa Programs constitutes 3.2% of its 4.4 billion dollar annual expenditures.

U.S. Department of Labor:
Employment & Training Administration
This is the agency that handles the approval of Labor Condition Applications, a necessary step to the dispensation of an H-1B Visa.

U.S. House of Representatives
The House of Representatives, together with the U.S. Senate, are directly responsible for the existence of the H-1B Visa Program.

U.S. House of Representatives:
Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims
This is the part of the House of Representatives where immigration law is debated and blue-penciled. On this site are found also testimony on the H-1B issue before the Subcommittee.

U.S. Senate
The U.S. Senate, together with the U.S. House, is directly responsible for the existence of the H-1B Visa Program.

U.S. Senate:
Committee on the Judiciary
This is the part of the Senate where issues of immigration are debated in committee. On this site is testimony before the Committee on the H-1B issue.

Bureau of Labor Statistics
The BLS is a division of the U.S. Department of Labor.

Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Mass Layoff Statistics
Here are found current and recent data on mass layoff actions of American employers, namely instances where 50 employees or more are separated from their jobs for more than 30 days.

Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Occupational Employment Statistics
The size and change in size of various industries may be found at this site produced by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage
Professor Norman Matloff's landmark study. Here are found hundreds of facts about the real nature of the H-1B visa program and its effects on technical workers both foreign and domestic.

The Department of Labor's Foreign Labor Certification Programs: The System Is Broken and Needs to be Fixed
In May of 1996, the Inspector General for the Department of Labor issued this report which concluded that the "Labor Condition Application" process administered by the Department of Labor was no more than a rubber stamp and provided no meaningful protections for American workers.

H-1B Foreign Labor: Better Controls Needed to Help Employers and Protect Workers
This report by the Government Accounting Office issued in September of 2000 details problems and abuses of the H-1B Visa Program. (PDF file, 1.2 MB.)

The Immigration and Naturalization Service
The I.N.S. website contains the text of the statute law authorizing immigration into the United States, statistics on numbers of immigrants and non-immigrants admitted, and special reports on the H-1B and other visa programs.

The L.C.A. Database
The L.C.A. Database is the single most important website for seeing the true scope of the H-1B Visa Program in the United States. An "L.C.A." is a "Labor Condition Application", filed with the U.S. Department of Labor, requesting permission (usually granted) to hire foreign labor into the United States. Over a million of these "L.C.A."s are posted on the site, thus showing who is hiring H-1B labor when and where. Several search criteria are available, but most people search on company name to see the hiring practices of their employer (or, former employer) or to search on a company's name that has just announced another massive layoff of its workforce.

Layoff Summaries for Years 2000, 2001 and 2002
An 8-page compilation of summaries from Challenger, Gray and Christmas. The report originally appeared at http: //users.rcn.com /miyagawa /ny /gdp /other /jobcut .pdf [sans spaces].

OpenSecrets.org
Here is found a complete database of who has been contributing to political campaigns, and who has been receiving the money.

OpenSecrets.org:
Hard Drives
This article by Jennifer Shecter details the political contributions of the computer industry into Congress's 1997-98 election cycle. It was in October of 1998 that Congress raised the annual H-1B visa allotment from 65,000 to 115,000, and this despite layoffs in the high-tech industry of 98,000 in the first eight months of that year.

OpenSecrets.org:
An Update on the Computer Industry's Political Giving
A look at the money that was given to Congressmen before they voted in October of 2000 to expand the H-1B Visa Program from 115,000 to 195,000 visas annually. The article was written by Holly Bailey using the Open Secrets database shortly before the houses of Congress voted for the increase.