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According to the Stanford Daily, a group of Stanford students posted fliers throughout east campus graduate student residences at the beginning of March. These flyers explained that the flood of international students is making it tougher to get into grad school and that H-1B and L-1 visas are making the job search more difficult for U.S. citizens Flyers provoked many graduate students to label the complaints as racist and ignorant. Accusations were made that distributing these flyers was a "hate crime." | |
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Warning!! On Sept. 30 of this year, Congress will vote on whether to continue allowing 195,000 H-1B visa’s to be issued each year, or reduce this number to its former 65,000 H-1B and L-1 Visa programs each account for almost 300,000 skilled American workers being unemployed EVERY YEAR! Scientists, Engineers, Businesspeople and Computer Scientists, LISTEN UP! You are being the hardest hit! In the year 2001, despite record unemployment amongst engineers and scientists (almost 5%), the INS issued 97,000 new H-1B visas, while granting extensions for 215,000 more! Unemployment continues to grow, and 5% is already the largest unemployment figure for engineers in history. Having trouble getting into graduate school? International students (primarily Indian and Asian) now make up 49% of the graduate student population in the US. These students are funded by American academic dollars, then move directly into the workforce to compete with American students via a conversion of their visa from student to work status. This is NOT about race! American jobs should go to Americans first, be they black, white, Indian, Mexican, Asian or anything else! GO TO THE GOVERNMENT LINK BELOW, AND WRITE TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES! Help us reduce this burden on the American people! Listed below are some of the jobs that H-1B/L-1 visas are being issued for: · Accountants and Administrators · Executives, Managers, Administrators · Software programmers and computer scientists · All engineers and Technicians · Research Associates and Scientists · Lawyers and Tax Analysts · Teachers and college professors · Post-docs and Fellows · Sports Instructors and Physiologists · Doctors, Nurses, Med-Techs, Therapists, Pharmacists · Surgical and Dental Assistants · Fashion models, Secretaries, Clerks · Architects, Musicians, and Artists · Youth Counselors, Day Care, and Cashiers · The List Goes ON and ON and ON and ON .................. Contact Your Government! http://capwiz.com/ieeeusa/home/ Want to Learn More? http://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/issues/H1bvisa/index.html Contact us and voice your opinion:
h1b_movement@yahoo.com Special: Where Did The Jobs Go? http://www.local6.com/orlpn/news/stories/news-198433420030217-160237.html
Thousands of Americans in the information technology industry have reportedly been replaced by cheap foreign labor since a cap was raised on an immigration program, according to an exclusive Problem Solvers report. Local 6 News reported that two types of visas, the H1-B and L-1 visa programs, allow foreigners to come to the United States for employment and work in specialized fields like computer programming and software engineering. H1-B visas allow U.S. companies, including federal contractors, to hire skilled foreign workers on a temporary basis to supply workers where they cannot find qualified Americans. However, the technology workers, who are mostly from India, are not filling empty jobs but actually replacing qualified Americans, according to the report. "H1-B's are allowed to come over and work but they're not supposed to displace Americans," Central Florida Siemens' worker Mike Emmons said. Emmons said he was forced to train his foreign replacement before being laid off. "These people are putting Americans out of work," Emmons said. "They brought the employees into a room and told them what was going happen and that they were going to train them and they held a carrot out and said if you don't stay and train them you won't get your severance….. HIRING
HUBBUB Miller notes that many H-1B candidates are indeed here in the United States -- as students on college campuses. American graduate schools are full of students from overseas pursuing science, math and computer-related degrees. So employers in search of top grads each semester would be foolish to overlook foreign-born applicants, he says. For example, in 1999, the most recent year for which figures are available, 49 percent of the students earning doctorates in engineering at U.S. universities were non-U.S. citizens on a student or other visa. International students also accounted for 47 percent of the math doctorates that year and 41 percent of doctorates in the overall physical sciences, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Belkis Muldoon, director of global immigration services for Motorola, says many of its H-1B employees are recruited out of U.S. colleges, then brought on staff with a kind of temporary visa that must be converted to an H-1B……. Initial H-1B visas approved annually: (Source: U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service)
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