New Skunk Inducted (PPIC)

Date: Monday, April 22, 2002 11:17 AM

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Get the Facts on H-1B at www.ZaZona.com

Skunks.org at: http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B/Skunks.htm is a page that
I
dedicated to the Shortage Shouters and Scofflaws that Shill for H-1B.
You
may be very surprised how many rich lobby groups there are besides ITAA
that
have worked to make H-1B what it is now. I made this page to "honor"
these
low-lifes. I never imagined the page would get so large and I'm
uncovering
more skunks on a regular basis.

I just found another organization that deserved to be inducted - Public
Policy Institute of California (PPIC)

*** New Inductee ***

Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) is a private organization
that
claims they are dedicated to independent, objective, nonpartisan
research.
PPIC, it should be noted, is funded by Wm. Hewlett, co-founder of
Hewlett-Packard. Most of the time their "research" seems to echo the
H-1B
advocacy of HP so their objectivity ends where HP's funding begins.

Professor Annalee Saxenian at the University of California at Berkeley
is an
adjunct fellow at PPIC. She is a typical shortage shouter that claims
that
H-1Bs are necessary because of a huge shortage of IT workers. She gives
lectures all over California in which she talks about the wonderful
economic
impact that Silicon Valley enjoys because it imports so many H-1Bs. A
study
she did with PPIC actually tries to make the case that that rather than
displacing U.S. citizens and permanent residents from jobs, the
high-tech
immigrants are creating jobs. They don't discuss what jobs are created
for
the Americans who have been replaced by the H-1Bs. [125]

Saxenian is one of the doomsayers that claim that restricting the
immigration of foreign skilled workers could have far-reaching
consequences;
affecting not only the supply of skilled workers, but the rate of
entrepreneurship, the level of international development and trade, and
economic growth in California. In other words the California economy
will
collapse without H-1Bs. [126]

Saxenian recently objected to Defense Deptment proposals to disallow
foreign
nationals from working on defense projects. She protested that this
would
cause a labor shortage in the defense industry and said that defense
department officials may be "boxing themselves into a situation where
they
will lose the best talent." she goes on to say that "There's probably no
company in Silicon Valley that doesn't have from 10% to 40% of their
work
force who are foreign nationals. Isn't that a national security concern?
[127]

So let's be objective and nonpartisan and analyze what the PPIC has said
about H-1B.

The economy of California would collapse without H-1Bs.

Silicon Valley is a hotbed of entrepreneurship because 40% of the
workers
are H-1B.

Our national defense will fall apart if we don't hire those brilliant
foreigners because there aren't enough Americans that know how to
program a
computer.

125 "Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage", by Dr.
Norman Matloff Section 9.9
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.html

126 "Foreign High-Tech Workers Benefiting Calif.", July 1, 1999, By Mary
Mosquera, TechWeb News
http://content.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990701S0015

127 "U.S. to Curb Computer Access by Foreigners" By CHARLES PILLER,
March 7,
2002, LA Times.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-030702ban.story

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