Essential Links
Organizations that Oppose Work Visas |
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Numbers USA - Send free faxes to your politicians to protest H-1B. This organization takes up all aspects of legal and illegal immigration. They devote substantial parts of their website to H-1B and other temporary visas. |
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Center for Immigration Studies - This is a think tank that has archives of studies about worker immigration issues. There are many academic papers that are heavy on analysis and statistics. This site is great for serious researchers. |
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Americans For Better Immigration have an excellent resource online to see the H-1B voting records of our politicians. They grade each politician and show their voting records. Consider this site a must to see where your representatives stand on immigration issues. | |||
| H-1B Abuse American Style - authored by an H-1B who has suffered abuse by greedy American Corporations. This is a tough, hard hitting, and angry site that is a must read to get the other side of the H-1B story. | ||||
FAIR - go here to do serious research on all aspects of H-1B and immigration |
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American Engineering Association - An organization for engineers that is concerned with immigration, unemployment, loss of our manufacturing base and many other professional issues. They dispute the ITAA assertion that there is a massive shortage of engineers. |
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A guild of professional programmers. They have huge archives detailing the politics behind H-1B and why this program is destroying the scientific infrastructure in the U.S.
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| Technology Employment and Engineering Manpower Newsletter - A site run by the AEA that includes engineering and information technology employment issues. Check out the "Critique of Department of Commerce Report on Shortage of IT Workers". | ||||
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - This organization has been on the frontline of the controversy on H-1B. Sometimes, though, it is difficult to tell whose side they are on. |
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| The Coalition for the Future American Worker - This organization is on the H-1B battle lines. They help sponsor ads to inform people of the H-1B scam. | ||||
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Project USA - a group that wants mass immigration to be controlled |
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| VDARE- is an interesting collection of writings about immigration and H-1B. | ||||
| Face Intel - Employee abuse by Intel. Discusses how Intel misuses H-1Bs. Documents the blatant age discrimination that H-1B enables. | ||||
| Coalition for Fair Employment in Silicon Valley - John Templeton conducted a “sting” operation, sending real resumes of well-qualified minority programmers and engineers to Silicon Valley firms that hire large numbers of H-1Bs. Templeton found that “Not one of the companies responded to the resumes.” | ||||
| SoftPac was the original H-1B activist site. Larry Richards battled H-1B in the early days and inspired the H-1B Hall of Shame. See the LCA that he got approved from the DOL for 20 programmers for $5 an hour. | ||||
| No More H-1B - The purpose of this site is to educate US Citizens on the true issues of the H1-b program. | ||||
| Carrying Capacity Network - A population stabilization organization. They are against using immigration to lower wages. | ||||
| American Policy Regarding Foreign Workers - Doron Tal's site gives a view of worker exploitation from the other side. | ||||
| Population-Environment Balance, or BALANCE - is a grassroots membership organization committed to stabilizing our population in order to safeguard the carrying capacity of the United States. | ||||
| Hire American Citizens - This new website has the motto "Be American… Hire American! Replace H-1B Workers With Citizens!" | ||||
| When Americans Aren't Good and/or Plentiful Enough at the Cabell-Wayne Association of the Blind - Interesting protest site using LCA data from the LCA Database. | ||||
| Automation Matrix Presents - This website does some interesting statistical analysis of the LCA Database | ||||
| Meeting the Need for Skilled Workers ASCE Resolution 477 - The absence of effective safe-guards has permitted employers to replace U.S. workers with temporary foreign workers who are paid far less. American Society of Civil Engineers August 2001 | ||||
| CWA Local 4250 Has a Rather Blunt Warning: - "Scabs from India will have access to every AT$T 4E and 5E switch in the United States to perform the work of CWA strikers". | ||||
| Sign The Petition To Stop Immigration Now! - This petition will be presented to various leaders and decision makers in Washington D.C. Let your voice be heard! | ||||
| GNP.org - New York attorney's web site that fights back against anti-competitive corporate mergers, unfettered free trade, downsizing, declining wages and corporate greed! | ||||
| Unemployed IT Professionals - This site has a cool survey with questions about H-1B. So far most survey takers don't think H-1B is their main problem. | ||||
| Techs Unite - an interesting site that explores issues that face technical workers. They show why it's necessary to unionize in order to unite against H-1B and other globalist abuses of American labor. | ||||
| H-1B Visa Report to Congress - Contains an interesting paper on the constitutionality of H-1B | ||||
| T.O.R.A.W.- The Organization for the Rights of American Workers is a grass-roots initiative demanding that U.S. jobs be preserved first and foremost for U.S. citizens. | ||||
| Americans for Higher Education Reform - A site that reveals how foreigners use our education system at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer and American workers. | ||||
| Stop the Invasion - Among other things, the Job Destruction Newsletter is being archived there. | ||||
| American Worker Coalition - in addition to chat rooms there is a growing archive of H-1B related articles. | ||||
| American Champions - archived video clips concerning H-1B, outsourcing, and job destruction | ||||
| Hannatroup - a website run by Mike Emmons, the Siemens employee in Florida who was replaced with L-1 visa holders | ||||
| TalkToTheCamera.com - a collaborative project to make an archive of video clips concerning H-1B, L-1, and offshoring | ||||
| American Labor First - a Colorado organization opposed to H-1B | ||||
| National Association for the Employment of Americans - is a unified voice to speak for the merits of the American workforce and to denounce those forces that would reduce the United States to economic depression and foreign domination. | ||||
| Information Technology Professionals Association of America - political issues from the point of view of IT professionals | ||||
| H1B.Info - Oppose the H1B technical visa program!. This site has an up to date LCA database. | ||||
| Coalition for National Sovereignty and Economic Patriotism - They support complete withdrawal from NAFTA, WTO, GATT, GATS and termination of anti-American visa programs such as the H1B visa program. | ||||
| Terry Anderson Radio Talk Show - His motto is: "If you ain't mad, you ain't payin' attention!" - and he is damn mad about H-1B, L-1, and guest-worker visas! | ||||
| The Social Contract Press - A huge collection of writings from some of the best know writers on immigration subjects. | ||||
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| "Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage", by Dr. Norman Matloff, the guru of H-1B and age discrimination, is the best study on H-1B and age discrimination on the web. He also has links to all sorts of material for the serious researcher. |
| High-Tech Trojan Horse - H1-B Visas and the Computer Industry By Norman Matloff - "the authors of these bills have secreted a Trojan horse, which would flood the labor pool with unlimited numbers of mediocre workers, instead of the "geniuses" they have promised." |
| On the Need For Reform of the H-1B Visa - the 99 page study by Dr. Matloff is an exhaustive study of the H-1B visa. |
| Embedded Visas - Free trade agreements mean a flow of workers across national borders. Learn more about visas such as H-1B, L-1, TN, H1B1 and how they are supported by GATS, NAFTA, and the WTO. |
| Changes in China -- Global Developments Impact the U.S. - how China is affecting global labor and guest-worker visa policy. |
| Common Sense on Mass Immigration - some well known writers contributed to this very slick booklet. It covers a wide variety of immigration and guest-worker visa issues. |
| "How and Why Government, Universities, and Industry Create Domestic Labor Shortages of Scientists and High-Tech Workers" By Eric Weinstein is the classic paper on how the NSF created the "shortage of scientist and engineers" myth. |
| "Issues of Legislation and Merit in Scientific Labor Markets" by Eric Weinstein - Has some interesting tidbits on how Basque sheepherders have more in common with H-1Bs than you might imagine. |
| "H-1B Temporary Workers: Estimating the Population" By B. Lindsay Lowell Georgetown University. This study has many statistics on the numbers of H-1Bs in the USA and where they come from. |
| "The H-1B Visa Debate in Historical Perspective: The Evolution of U.S. Policy Toward Foreign-Born Workers" By Margaret L. Usdansky and Thomas J. Espenshade, Princeton University Working Paper No. 11 May 10 th , 2000 - Paper on the history of U.S. legislation regarding employment-based immigration and the admission of foreign-born temporary workers. |
| A Missed Opportunity - Pro-Industry Report Defends Temporary H1-B Visa Usage, Fails to Deal with Fact that It Will Be Permanent By Norman Matloff CIS March 2001 |
| Piled Higher and Deeper - The alleged shortage of highly educated workers in the U.S. is a myth. In fact, we're suffering from a chronic surplus of Ph.D's. "I call it the vampire industry," said a congressional staffer who worked on the H1-B issue. "Every day they need fresh blood." Fall 1999 Hudson Institute |
| Making Engineers Low Priced Commodities - Dr. Unger discusses how H-1B is affecting all engineers. He is a candidate for board of directors of IEEE. |
| "Captive Workers A Disturbing Trend in Immigration Policy" by Mark Krikorian, 1998 has an interesting analysis on how H-1B evolved from old labor laws. |
| "US Guest Workers: Experience and Issues" by Philip Martin University of California, Davis, 1999 is a great reference for the history of different types of nonimmigrant visas. |
| A geographical analysis of h-1b visa holders - This study uses the LCA database and has some useful information. Unfortunately the author ends the study with muddied diversity talk that seems to support H-1B. |
| How to Avoid Becoming a Chronically Unemployed Older Engineer - "there is now a big business in destroying the careers of our older engineers as part of a well paid for effort to destroy the market for software and other engineering. IEEE by Steve Richfield |
| The Programmer Shortage - "American programmers remain unemployed while IT companies lobby to increase quotas for H-1B visas. This option would usher less expensive, less experienced workers into the candidate pool, allowing employers to avoid hiring or retaining more expensive, and therefore less attractive employees. Stanford University |
| Information Technology, Migration and Border Control, "International migration and information technology are becoming increasingly interrelated ", by Rey Koslowski, Rutgers University-Newark, April 25, 2002 |
| "Threats to Sustained Economic Growth: Science, Engineering and Information Technology Labor Shortages in the Massachusetts Economy", by Paul E. Harrington and Neeta P. Fogg Center for Labor Market Studies, 2000. This pro-business study claims that the threat of labor shortages can only be solved by using H-1Bs. |
| Economic Policy Institute - is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy. The website contains a wealth of data on employment trends, labor markets, globalization and trade, and education. |
| H1B Resources - A huge list of companies that hire H-1Bs and reviews by the H-1Bs that work there. |
| Get Your Visa Online - You can get an H-1B visa online for $1350 |
| Rajiv S. Khanna - An H-1B lawyer who probably is very rich by now. This is actually a very good source of legal information regarding non-immigrant visas. |
| Y-Axis - They claim they are the " World's Most Favorite H-1B Community." |
| American Immigration Network - Do it yourself kits for H-1B, L-1, and K-1 visas |
| Immigration Lawyer Joel Stewart - Gives legal advice on how to reject Americans in favor of H-1Bs. He says "even in a depressed economy, employers who favor aliens have an arsenal of legal means to reject all U.S. workers who apply." |
| Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) - helped create the "desperate shortage of technical workers" myth. President Harris Miller is one of the criminals of the H-1B fiasco. ITAA consists of 400 direct and 26,000 affiliate corporate members throughout the U.S., and a global network of 41 countries' IT associations |
| ITAA Calls for New Collaboration on IT Workforce Challenge to Address Persistent Shortage- Dispels Myths Before Blue Ribbon Panel. Some older Harris Miller quotes. |
| Visa Jobs - Siskind, Susser, Haas & Devine. More people link to my site from here than anywhere else. Lots of legal information on work visas. |
| Immigration Permit for University Degree Professions - Law Office of Joseph C. Grasmick has all sorts of useful advice on how to get work visas for any career you can think of. |
| Immigration Law Center - Assistance in processing permanent and temporary visas |
| GetUSAVisa is run by the Law Offices of James Scott Yoh. They are immigration lawyers that claim they will assist anyone who has problems or issues concerning immigration law, visa, and naturalization process (citizenship). |
| H-1B Sponsors has an depressingly large list of U.S. companies that sponsor H-1B Visas in IT and NON IT fields |
| Dittus Communications- Ever wonder how all those H-1B editorial letters get written? Or why pro-H-1B groups seem to have no problem lobbying? You just hire this "grassroots shop" and they will "deliver policy victories primarily through grassroots media relations - generating media coverage in policymakers' backyards." Their clients include the infamous American Business for Legal Immigration (ABLI). |
| The American Immigration Lawyers Association represents a group of lawyers that will do anything to maximize profit for the H-1B body trade. They give advice to immigration lawyers on how to use and abuse all the loopholes that H-1B provides. |
| New H-1B Bill FAQ - Law Offices of Carl Shusterman. H-1B lawyer Shusterman's site is a great for information on all types of visas, but don't kid yourself, he is a very rich, militant lawyer getting rich on work visas. He says, "To paraphrase a famous American: "We have just begun to fight!" So just WHO is Shusterman "fighting?" Quite militant, I'd say! Perhaps Shusterman is declaring war on American workers so that his H-1B clients can take their jobs. |
| U.S Immigration and Citizenship: Your Complete Guide Allan Wernick - This book has all you need to know including "You can even get H-1B status if you are or have been in the United States illegally". |
| The Firm - Austin Fragomen is a big name in immigration lawyer. He has been a major influence in Washington in making it easier for companies get work visas. |
| Immigration Attorney Sheila Murphy - You will appreciate her patriotism when you see the scrolling statue of liberty on her site, that is, until you notice the messages promoting H-1B. Murphy said, "Unless we suddenly manage to graduate hundreds of thousands of engineers, I don't know how we are going to be able to cope with the ever-increasing demand for computer professionals in America". |
| Margaret W. Wong & Assoc is another AILA lawyer that can't get enough H-1Bs. Her biography is very moving and is supposed to convince us that all immigration is good. At least she has an interesting recipe for 'Kiwi' (New Zealand) Dessert |
| Path 2 the USA - Things you need to know to get an H-1B and come to the USA. Advice includes how to send money to India, getting a credit card and bank account, car and house loans, and how to handle traffic tickets |
| Monsters Global Gateway is a search engine you can use to see which jobs are available for foreigners. Enter any country coming to the U.S. You will see ads that are coded with statements about having a visa etc. Don't bother applying for these jobs if you are a U.S. citizen! |
| Foreign Nurses Information - what immigrants need to do to become an H-1B nurse |
| MyH-1B - Makes getting an H-1B visa cheaper and easier than ever before. |
| Sacks & Kolken Immigration Lawyers - This site has huge archives of useful H-1B information as well as a wide variety of other visas. Click the drop down menu to get to their visa library. |
| MyVisaNow - an immigration service with useful information on how to obtain various visas |
| "OIG’s Audit of ETA’s Foreign Labor Programs - The Department of Labor's Foreign Labor Certification Programs: The System Is Broken and Needs To Be Fixed". Final Report No. 06-96-002-03-321 This is the most revealing look into the fraud and abuse of the H-1B visa that has ever been published. If you have any doubts about how bad H-1B is, read this study that was done by the one agency that should know - The Department of Labor. |
| OIG Semiannual Report to the Congress April 1, 2000–September 30, 2000. This is a stunning follow-ups to the previous OIG investigation because it shows that nothing has been done to correct the fraud and abuse in the H-1B visa system. |
| GAO Report - H-1B FOREIGN WORKERS- Better Controls Needed to Help Employers and Protect Worker Report to the Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives September 2000 |
| Immigration Benefit Fraud - Focused Approach Is Needed to Address Problems - This Januray 2002 GAO study says that the INS is beginning to study the extent of fraud in the H-1B program. The report said that "Immigration benefit fraud has been a long-standing problem for INS that has grown more intense and serious as criminal aliens and terrorists have used the application process for illegal activities, such as crimes of violence, narcotics trafficking, and terrorism." |
| Leading Employers of Specialty Occupation Workers (H-1B): October 1999 to February 2000 U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service June 2000 - This is the latest Top 100 list from the DOL. |
| Analyze the Impact of Programs Designed to Maintain a Skilled Workforce and Ensure Employers Have the Workers They Need - the U.S. General Accounting Office will study to answer a question posed by the U.S. House Science Committee: Do companies show a preference for retaining H-1B workers, and if so, why? |
| Fiscal Year Statistical Yearbooks for Nonimmigrants- statistics and demographics of nonimmigrants. These UCIS statistics are loaded with information about H-1B and other work visas. Go to these pages for the best source of statistics you can find, and pay special attention to Table 26. |
| American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998. This document contains the amendments to the H-1B visa law where the loopholes were written to allow companies to exploit the H-1B law. Read Page 112 STAT. 2681-650, 651 to see why the Dept. of Labor rarely investigates H-1B fraud. |
| Proposed DOL H-1B Regulations - If you enjoy studying detailed government legal documents this one is for you. |
| Enforcement of H-1B Labor Condition Applications - a huge document that describes the DOL enforcement procedure for LCAs. |
| NONIMMIGRANT VISA FRAUD - HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND CLAIMS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION MAY 5, 1999, Serial No. 12 |
| "THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR'S FOREIGN LABOR CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS: THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN AND NEEDS TO BE FIXED" |
| Labor Condition Applications & Requirements for Employers is a another huge government guide to the LCA. |
| Public access; retention of records - Describes how employers must put their LCAs in a public place. |
| I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker - The Immigration and Naturalization Service uses the I-129 in a similar fashion as the LCA. |
| U.S. State Department - Tips for H-1Bs and other temporary workers. Our government Shamelessly at work spending our tax dollars. Shame on Them! |
| National Employment Statistics - Worker demographics and statistics by the Department of Labor. |
| Occupational Employment Statistics - Go here to find out were the DOL comes up with their prevailing salaries by using wage salaries. The OES program produces employment and wage estimates for over 700 occupations classified by the nation as a whole, for individual States, and for metropolitan statistical areas (MSA). |
| 106th CONGRESS 1st Session HR 1573 IH - To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt elementary and secondary schools from the fee imposed on employers filing petitions with respect to nonimmigrant workers. |
| USDOL: Office of the Inspector General, Semiannual Report to the Congress (April 1, 2000-Spetember 30, 2000) ...OIG audits and investigations have routinely shown that the individuals allowed into the United States under [the Foreign Labor Certification (FLC)] program typically lack the specialized skills necessary for meeting the requirements for H-1B visas. |
| STATEMENT OF CONSULAR OFFICER DIRECTORATE FOR VISA SERVICES DEPARTMENT OF STATE JILL M. ESPOSITO BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND CLAIMS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MAY 5, 1999 - The company that had filed a petition turned out to be the donut shop owned by the applicant's sister and brother-in-law in the United States. |
| H-1B Temporary Profession Worker Visa Program and Information Technology Workforce Issues Hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, 106th Congress, 1st session, 2000 |
| General Agreement GATS/SC/90 15 April 1994 On Trade In Services (94-1088) The United States Of America - This WTO page shows that H-1B is written into GATS, the General Agreement on Trade and Services of the World Trade Organization. This is a very important document because it shows that GATS doesn't allow Congress to reduce the H-1B quota. To view this document enter 94-1088 for document number and then click search. |
| Dept. of Commerce Survey - Question 6: What barriers have you faced in obtaining IT jobs (e.g. lack of education, certifications, experience, specificity of skill requirements)? A huge number of people said H-1B was the barrier. |
| "Nonimmigrant Visa Fraud Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims of the Committee On the Judiciary House of Representatives May 5, 1999" - A storefront office was manufacturing fraudulent H–1B visas, as well as INS entry stamps and INS employment authorization stamps, and was inserting them into passports supplied by the subject's customers. |
| U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 106th Congress - 2nd Session (2000) - Find out who voted for the massive expansion of H-1B. |
| INS 2002a. “1st Quarter FY 2002 H-1B Processing, INS Statement, March 1, 2002. |
| Fred II - This isn't a government site but it compiles some very useful statistics on employment, income, and other important parameters. Click on their "Employment & Population" page. |
| Joe Guzzardi - an instructor in English at the Lodi Adult School, has been writing a weekly column in the Lodi News-Sentinel since 1998. Some of his hardest hitting articles about immigration and guest workers is archived at Vdare. Guzzardi isn't afraid to be politically incorrect and tells it like it is. |
| Diane Alden - Her 5 part online series includes "H-1B: Bombing the Middle Class". It's an excellent study that explains how H-1B ties in with the "free-trade" globalist agenda of the WTO. |
| Michelle Malkin - Malkin's hot selling book "Invasion" explains why H-1B is a threat to national security. She has many archived articles that are worthwhile to read. Malkin's syndicated columns are archived at several sites. |
| Samuel Francis is a conservative syndicated columnist who writes a twice weekly column covering some of the most controversial issues of the day. He takes a hard stand against H-1B and illegal aliens. |
| Dan Stein is the president of FAIRUS. His Stein Report is one of the best sources for breaking news on all facets of immigration. |
| Ilan Mercer is an editorial-page columnist. Her archived articles explain immigration from a Libertarian perspective. Mercer explains why H-1B is being used to "Displace Americans". |
| Good Jobs First - monitors subsidies to corporations and how many jobs those subsidies create. |
| Stop the FTAA - Opposes the Free Trade Areas of America treary, which is far worse than NAFTA. |
| Conceptual Guerilla's - strategy and tactics on how to beat the cheap labor conservatives |
| The ZaZona.com debunked - A rather lame and amusing attempt at debunking this website by Ingo Pakleppa. Ingo's ranting diatribe is very loose on the facts, uses statements taken out of context, chooses to ignore facts and provided citations for reference, and illustrates his profound ignorance of the law in regards to nonimmigrant visas. Pakleppa is a wannabe immigration lawyer that gives psuedo-legal advise on alt.visa.us. Pakkleppa's advice is nothing more than chat as the disclaimer on his site says it all: "I am not a lawyer. I have no legal training. Please, if in doubt, be sure to use the services of a professional lawyer whom you trust." Doubt this guy at all times because he knows just enough to be dangerous! |
| Oracle makes India its development hub - "Oracle Corporation, has decided to make its development centre in India the prime centre for its global software developmental initiatives", by Savio G Pinto in Mumbai, IndiaTimes, November 22, 2002 |
| Immigrant smugglers sentenced - "Three men convicted of forcing 700 illegal workers into slave labor in Florida's citrus groves", By Kelly Wolfe, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer, November 21, 2002 |
| Motorola to invest $13 million in India tech unit - "Motorola Inc. said on Wednesday it is investing $13 million to set up a software development center in Bangalore", By Reuters , November 6, 2002 |
| Should companies be allowed to employ inmates at federal and state prisons? - "To make a long story short, FPI takes jobs away from working Americans and gives them to almost-free prison labor, then forces its own government — via the American taxpayer — to buy their goods", By Tom Adkins, Insight, 9/16/2002 |
| Intel holds job fairs for 'redeployed' employees, while hiring overseas - Intel announced that they will continue to fire Americans and move their operations to Bangalore, Portland Business Journal, by Aliza Earnshaw, August 30, 2002 |
| Intel to start fab plant in China - "by the year 2005 there's likely to be an Intel fabrication plant located in mainland China", By Mike Magee, 07 August 2002 |
| India to provide clinical services to the U.S. - "India will soon provide emergency room services and clinical process outsourcing (CPO) to hospitals in the U.S., SiliconIndia, July 19, 2002 |
| China: Bursting with brainpower - "Single-degree engineers in China generally make between $4,800 and $8,800 a year", Michael Kanellos , ZDNET, Jul 10, 2002 |
| Web titans woo India's tech experts - "The courting is particularly competitive in India, where by some estimates more than 10 percent of the world's programmers work for some of the industry's lowest wages.", CNN.com, July 4, 2002 |
| Lahore Calls For Business - Forget political tensions: A California company is outsourcing call-centre operations and graphic-design work to a back office in Pakistan, By Peter Lagerquist/LAHORE, Far Eastern Economic Review, June 20, 2002 |
| Fairchild is constructing a new 800,000 square foot state-of-the-art assembly and test facility in Suzhou, China which will manufacture a broad range of discrete, analog, interface and advanced logic products.", SemiSeek News, June 7, 2002 |
| China is foundation for global Universal growth - Universal Instruments Corp is opening a new US $1 million research and training technology centre in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, ElectronicsTalk, June 4, 2002 |
| Senate Approves Trade Authority - "Bill Adds Billions for Workers Hurt by Foreign Competition", By Helen Dewar, May 24, 2002, Washington Post |
| Congressman Sanders on US Corporate Welfare Giveaways - "The Export-Import Bank: Corporate Welfare At Its Worst" |
| Vietnam's IT industry eyes huge foreign contracts - "Vietnamese programmers charge less than half what their counterparts in India make", May 12, 2002 Associated Press |
| Smug in a no-think existence - "Intel, IBM, Motorola, Lucent Technologies, GE and Microsoft were among the first to set up R&D labs in China, where skilled researchers can be hired at one-third the U.S. wage.", Paul Craig Roberts, Washington Times, April 25, 2002 |
| Agilent to outsource back-end operations - Agilent Technologies of US, has decided to outsource its internal back-end financial processing as well as its worldwide Intranet development and maintanence operations to its Indian subsidiary located at Gurgaon. by Ashu Kumar, ZDNet News India April 15, 2002 |
| Indian IT leaders in US - "The main goal of the delegation is to woo the US-based banking and financial services companies to outsource their software and applications development and back-office processing work to Indian companies", April 5, 2002, NRJOL |
| IT giants turn to Vietnam - "The US government last week signed its first deal to outsource software development to Vietnam", By James Middleton 3/28/2002, vnunet |
| Workers in Pakistan are bulk of firm's staff - "An Evanston software company has succeeded in the tough dot-com industry, thanks in large measure to a work force made up largely of software developers in Pakistan.", by Sandra Guy, Sun-Times, March 6, 2002 |
| NAFTA & Globalization is Killing Mexico's Farmers - "Mexican farmers take to streets to protest free trade", By Brendan M. Case, August 9, 2001, The Dallas Morning News |
| Sun shifts core Java unit from US to Bangalore - by Satya Prakash Singh, February 09, 2002, Times News Network |
| Industry braces for outsourcing fight - IT issues awaiting as Congress readies for a new session - "Outsourcing is just one of several issues left unresolved by lawmakers" By Gail Repsher Emery, Washington Post. 01/21/02 |
| US Scrutinizes Bermuda Tax Shelters - "Well-known U.S. companies like Stanley tools and Ingersoll-Rand are sharply lowering their tax burdens by setting up shop in Bermuda. Congress and the Bush administration are raising questions", by Curt Anderson, 3/13/2002, Rep Bernie Sanders web site |
| A New Giant Sucking Sound - "The "giant sucking sound" Ross Perot used to talk about is back, only this time it is not Mexico sucking away American jobs. It is China sucking away Mexico's jobs." by William Greider Nation, December 31, 2001 |
| What's hiding behind visa scandal? - The universities are making so much money out of foreign students that they don't care what dangers they pose, what fraud is involved, or whether the students exit the United States when their visa expires. Townahll.com by Phyllis Schlafly December 12, 2001 |
| India and Iraq set up joint working group on Communications, New Delhi Offers Iraq Help in Manufacturing Consultancy and R&D in Telecom Sector, Andhra News, July 5, 2001 |
| Report: NAFTA Largely A Failure for Workers Notes job loss, lower wages and labour standards in 3 nations Toronto Star 4/11/2001 |
| $2M jobs program deemed a success - "Two years and $2 million later, the Berkshire County Regional Employment Board Inc. has successfully completed its H-1B Technical Skills Training program to boost the county's skilled labor force", By Donna Roberts, North Adams Transcript, February 03, 2003 |
| Judge imposes conditions on man in export case - "A federal judge in San Jose insisted Thursday that the friends and family of a Chinese businessman accused of shipping missile technology to China provide $250,000 in cash and property to secure his release", By Rachel Konrad, Associated Press, Jan. 31, 2003 |
| H-1B visa awards drop in '02 - "The U.S. issued 79,100 H-1B visas last fiscal year, a sharp decline from the previous year and far short of the 195,000 cap or limit set by Congress", by Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld, January 28, 2003 |
| Not guilty plea in China export case - "A Chinese citizen with an L-1 U.S. visa, he is being held without bail as a potential flight risk pending a hearing next week", by Vanessa Hua, SF Chronicle, January 24, 2003 |
| Spies have Silicon Valley spooked - "Qing Chang-jiang, who will be arraigned today, is at least the fourth Chinese-born person indicted since October on charges involving the shipment of equipment or trade secrets to China", Taipei Times, Jan 24, 2003 |
| Who is the Cheap Labor Lobby? - " an increasingly large sector of corporate America just wants to take the lazy road of importing cheap labor to work for them", By Ellen Almer, FrontPageMagazine.com, January 24, 2003 |
| United States leaving first world - "Will your occupation be destroyed next? If software engineers can be imported, so can electrical, chemical, mechanical and civil engineers. If nurses can be imported, so can doctors", by Paul Craig Roberts, Townhall, January 22, 2003 |
| The ticket to our future: Immigrants - "Even with consistent inflow of immigrants, we will suffer severe labor shortages by 2010, especially among technical professionals", by Judy Olian, Scripps Howard, January 17, 2003 |
| Nursing Shortage In Critical Stage - "hospitals are hiring staffing companies like his to find qualified nurses from English-speaking countries, like Ireland, India and the Philippines", by Lesley Stahl, CBS News, Jan. 17, 2003 |
| CBS’ 60 Minutes Fires First Shot In New H-1B Battle - "Abandon all hope of working in Silicon Valley. Those jobs are reserved for the best and the brightest; the graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology. That’s the gospel according to Lesley Stahl", By Joe Guzzardi, Vdare.com, January 13, 2003 |
| Time for another look at H-1B - "A more cynical view would suggest that the barons of the industry want to maintain H-1B levels as high as possible to help keep downward pressure on wages", By Charles Cooper, ZDNet, January 10, 2003 |
| Outlook: More Jobs, Not Enough Workers - Ed Potter, president of the Employment Policy Foundation, said that we are about to have the biggest labor shortage in history and the solution is to "build in immigration", by Thad Peterson, Monster, 1/8/2003 |
| L1s Slip Past H-1B Curbs - Michael Emmons didn't wait to be replaced by a worker from Tata Consultancy Services holding an L1 visa, By Lisa Vaas, eWeek, January 6, 2003 |
| Outlook: More Jobs, Not Enough Workers - Roger Herman, author of Impending Crisis: Too Many Jobs, Too Few People claims that a severe labor shortage will start in early 2003. Ed Potter, president of the Employment Policy Foundation, said that we are about to have the biggest labor shortage in history and the solution is to "build in immigration.", by Thad Peterson, Monster Staff Writer, January 6, 2003 |
| Immigration Daily - "Former House Speaker Gingrich, Rep. Tancredo (R-CO) and the White House are all apparently at work on a guest worker program which might embrace more than a million people, including those currently undocumented.", ILW.com, 1/6/2003 |
| Lobbyists detail top tech policy items - "High-tech companies may lobby to increase the level of visas that enable highly skilled foreign workers into the United States for six years", By Bara Vaida, GovExec, January 3, 2003 |
| Reversal of Fortune - "I suspect there are firms who have hired H-1B workers because they're cheaper. But no data I know of shows that that's the general practice", IEEE Spectrum, 1/3/2003 |
| US rolls out the red carpet for [H-1B] nurses - "Things may have just got a bit easier for US-bound Indian nurses", by Urmi A Goswami, Indiatimes, January 03, 2003 |
| Multiethnic multiplex in Fremont will close - "a theater fueled and ultimately snuffed by the fortunes of the H-1B visa program that brought thousands of South Asian high-tech workers who reshaped Silicon Valley", By Matthai Chakko Kuruvila and T.T. Nhu, Mercury News, Jan. 01, 2003 |
| Cap On, Cap Off, Issue of CIO Magazine - The NACCB says that, "despite the recent economic downturn, the future demand for highly-skilled IT professionals is projected to continue to outstrip the supply of qualified U.S. workers.", CIO Magazine, Jan. 1, 2003 |
| Immigrants needed again - "Experienced IT entrepreneurs with Asian roots could be Pittsburgh's ticket to prosperity", By Ashok K. Trivedi, December 31, 2002 |
| A short circuit for US engineering careers - "Faced with foreign competition and an ever-faster pace, many engineers are dropping out of a once-safe field", By Terry Costlow, Christian Science Monitor, December 26, 2002 |
| Failure to draw immigrants may threaten local economy - "Back in the early 1990s, when high-tech companies around the country were recruiting foreigners, traditional Pittsburgh firms were hesitant. But they finally came around", By Marisol Bello, Tribune-Review, December 22, 2002 |
| Study Says IT Job Market Is Stabilizing - Another optimistic report by the ITAA. Harris Miller has been hard at work for about 6 months lobbying Congress for an increase in H-1B yearly limits. He made it clear that he wants the 195,000 limit to last for eternity, By Mitch Wagner, TechWeb News, Dec 20, 2002 |
| Sun accuser suffers setback - "The judge in a Labor Department case involving Sun Microsystems threw out much of the evidence submitted by a former employee who claims Sun illegally laid off U.S. citizens while retaining foreigners working under temporary, H1-B visas", By Ed Frauenheim, CNET News.com, December 17, 2002 |
| Sun visa complaint gets new hearing - "The Department of Labor began an administrative law hearing Monday into whether Sun Microsystems violated regulations concerning the employment of foreign workers in the United States on temporary H-1B work visas", By Ed Frauenheim, CNET News.com, December 16, 2002 |
| Law Firm's Owner Convicted of Bilking Illegal Immigrants - "Kooritzky's firm submitted thousands of applications for labor certifications without telling the businesses they were being used", By Tom Jackman, Washington Post, December 12, 2002 |
| Federal Agents Raid a Software Company Outside Boston, Seeking Links to Al Qaeda, "the government had received from former Ptech employees suggesting that one of its investors was Yasin al-Qadi, a Saudi millionaire who is on a Treasury Department list of "blocked persons" because of suspicion of terrorist ties.", By Pam Belluck with Eric Lichtblau, New York Times,December 7, 2002 |
| Immigrants Account for Half of New Workers - Report Calls Them Increasingly Needed For Economic Growth, By D'Vera Cohn, Washington Post, December 2, 2002 |
| Jobless & American? Blame H-1B - "The role of H-1B visa workers in increasing unemployment is generating heat in the upper echelons of US politics", by Gurbir Singh, IndiaTimes, November 30, 2002 |
| H-1Bs now can stay longer - "Sometimes it seems like lawmakers have their heads in the sand", By Margaret Quan, EE Times, November 18, 2002 |
| Where H means away-from-home - "Signed at the dawn of Diwali, the new law comes as a gift to specialty workers and physicians in the US on H-1B and J-1 status", by Sudhir Shah, IndiaTimes, November 17, 2002 |
| Dil da maamla or Bill da maamla? - "Microsoft became a haven for Indians.", by Chidanand Rajghatta, IndiaTimes, November 13, 2002 |
| HR-2215 And What It Means For Our H-1B Clients - "H-1B status can be extended accordingly in one-year increments. Pretty cool eh?", By Jose Latour, US Visa News, Monday, November 11, 2002 |
| US Bill to make life easier for H-1B visa holders - "It will also make it possible for more Indian doctors to live and work in the US once their academic programme is over", by Urmi A Goswami, IndiaTimes, NOVEMBER 07, 2002 |
| US eases H-1B visa rules for geeks and medicos - "On November 2, US President George W Bush signed the Department of Justice Authorisation Bill which will make extension for H-1B visas easier.", by Urmi A Goswami, Indiatimes, November 06, 2002 |
| President Signs H-1B 7th Year Extension Bill - President Bush "signed H.R. 2215, 21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act, into law. This bill includes a provision that allows H-1B visa holders to extend their stay beyond the statutory six-year period", ACIP, 11/06/2002 |
| Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy - Conference Report on H.R. 2215 - "will help underserved and rural areas with a critical shortage of medical doctors by allowing foreign doctors who are educated in the United States to remain here ... these are all non-controversial provisions", September 30, 2002 |
| H-1B issues going to court - U.S. WORKERS SAY THEY ARE FEELING BETRAYED - "Now, for the first time, U.S. workers are filing formal complaints with the government and in court, charging that foreign guest workers are replacing them during the downturn.", By Jennifer Bjorhus, Mercury News 9/25/2001 |
| Demand for U.S. IT workers remains soft, survey shows - "some IT professionals say offshore outsourcing is having a more significant and longer-term impact on U.S. IT workers.", by Thomas Hoffman, 9/23/2002 |
| GAO to study impact of H-1B program on hiring - "the U.S. General Accounting Office embarks on a study to answer a question: do companies show a preference for retaining H-1B workers, and if so, why?", By Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld, 9/11/2002 |
| Remember 9/1l By Doing Something About Software Terrorist Threat - "In a quest for cheap labor, corporations have been importing hundreds of thousands of foreign computer programmers into the United States on guest worker visas. They receive little scrutiny of credentials and no security checks.", By John Miano, VDare, 9/10/2002 |
| H-1B statistics support argument for abolishing annual cap - "Lawyer Wants to Eliminate H-1B Quotas", By Mark A. Topoleski, Indus Business Journal, 9/1/2002 |
| Help wanted - Peter Bennett believes many listings are attempts to circumvent H-1B rules governing permanent labor certification and temporary visa extensions by "H-1B body shops", By Alan Joch, EWeek, 8/26/2002 |
| Congress May Bear Brunt of H-1B Anger - "An article that features ZaZona.com ", By Patrick Thibodeau, ComputerWorld 8/19/2002 |
| Does the U.S. still need H-1B programmers? - "With the current over abundance of native workers, it might be time to cut back or even abolish H-1B visas.", By Kim Berry |
| The Great American Tax Dodge - "In addition to their willingness to work for lower salaries – as much as $25,000 lower – many foreign recruits, at least when they first come to this country, enjoy another advantage over American workers competing for the same jobs: They don’t pay U.S. taxes.", by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele |
| Number of H-1B visas issued has fallen by half, By Jennifer Bjorhus, Mercury News, Aug. 10, 2002 |
| High Tech Employees Losing More Than Just Their Jobs - "they do compete against Americans for work, but Litwin says that's good for business.", by Len Ramirez, KPIX.com, 08-07-2002 |
| "Former lawyer sentenced for fraud: A disbarred Washington lawyer was sentenced yesterday to six years in prison for an immigration fraud scam", Washington Post, August 3, 2002 |
| Va. Men Charged In Visa Scheme 2,700 Fake Papers Filed, U.S. Says, - "There's every reason to believe this is going on all over the country" said Ben Ferro, a former INS district director in Baltimore, By Tom Jackman, Washington Post, July 25, 2002 |
| H-1B Is Just Another Gov't. Subsidy - Milton Friedman scoffs, "There is no doubt that the [H-1B] program is a benefit to their employers, enabling them to get workers at a lower wage, and to that extent, it is a subsidy." by Paul Donnelly, Computerworld, July 22, 2002 |
| Indian techies hit by Australia visa rule - "The Australian government has decided to suspend priority visa processing for IT workers", Sify News, July 18, 2002 |
| Engineers' jobless rate targeted, Organization Wants Congress to Investigate Cause of Climb, By Jennifer Bjorhus, Mercury News, Jul. 13, 2002 |
| The H-1B Debate Continues As U.S. EEs Face Uncertain Employment Future - "Many observers have questioned the latest ITAA predictions, saying that the economy isn't expected to rebound quickly enough to create more than a million new IT jobs by May 2003.", by Terry Costlaw, IEEEUSA, July, 2, 2002 |
| Debate over Scarcity – and Skills – of IT Workers - "An army of unemployed domestic tech workers is eager to land new jobs without the added competition of candidates from abroad.", Wharton, 7/1/20 |
| Justice probe of Sun could spur new look at H-1B visas, "Some sources believe the industry will fight to maintain the higher cap on H-1B work visas simply to avoid hiring Americans who command a higher wage.", By Margaret Quan, EE Times, June 28, 2002 |
| Tech: Don't shrink cap on visas - "American companies are using the H-1B program to import foreign workers whom they pay less than American workers", by Robert Mullins, Silicon Valley Business Journal, June 28, 2002 |
| Storm Clouds Rise Over H1-B - "Santiglia's claims are fueled by the perception that he lost his job while, he said, some H1-B visa holders—brought into this country ostensibly because there were no domestic workers to perform their jobs—retained theirs.", By Lisa Vaas, eWeek, June 28, 2002 |
| Gekas seeks curbs to legal immigrants - "Allow officials to require those coming on non-immigrant visas to post a bond. If they violate the terms of their visas, a bondsman would be responsible for bringing them in.", By Stephen Dinan, Washington Times, June 27, 2002 |
| Sun investigated for discrimination - "Santiglia claims that the four people laid off in his group of 26 support workers were all Americans, even though there were H-1B workers there as well.", By John Geralds, VNunet 06/25/2002 |
| U.S. is examining firings, Sun says: Preference for foreign workers charged - "The Justice Department's civil rights unit has asked for the citizenship status of every Sun employee before and after the firings", Bloomberg News, June 25, 2002 |
| Sun accused of worker discrimination - "U.S. citizen employee says he was canned in favor of foreigners", Benjamin Pimentel, San Francisco Chronicle, June 25, 2002 |
| Layoffs at Sun prompt inquiry over work visas, "The Justice Department is investigating whether Sun Microsystems has discriminated against U.S. citizens in favor of foreign workers here on temporary H-1B work visas.", By Jennifer Bjorhus, Mercury News, Jun. 23, 2002 |
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Tulsa: The American Dream Turned Nightmare -
"they were told they would receive H1-B temporary work visas for skilled workers ... however, it was revealed that they actually had been issued B-1 visas for temporary business visits.", by Russell Cobb, ThomasPainne.commonsense, Jun 11 2002 |
| ITAA's job stats doubted, questions raised about H1-B quotas - Outraged over the number of H1-B visas granted to foreign workers, many U.S. IT professionals allege a powerful lobbying group is manipulating lawmakers with bogus employment statistics", By Kate Evans-Correia, 27 May 2002, Search400 |
| Qwest sued over hiring, retirement fund moves - "The suit cites Qwest's new IT director, Al-Noor Ramji, as hiring friends and former co-workers, and alleges that foreign nationals were brought in "long before the workers even applied for a work visa.", By Jeff Smith, May 18, 2002, Rockey Mountain News |
| Out of Silicon Valley, and Looking Homeward - H-1Bs go home to India and China once a year to share technology secrets with their colleagues. This is called "Brain Circulation", By Richard Morin and Claudia Deane, May 14, 2002, Washington Post |
| The Big Secret - "The ITAA, meanwhile, undercut its own good news by predicting that more than half of these new jobs will go unfilled due to a 'skills imbalance,' which, by the way, is what employers and proponents say is the driving force behind H-1B hires." By Patricia Keefe, May 13, 2002, ComputerWorld |
| Fair Trade on Jobs? - "Tom is now being required to help train a group of 30 Indian programmers. HR support is to be shipped offshore to two Indian companies", By Lisa Vaas, May 13, 2002. eWeek |
| Qwest's overseas hires irk workers - "Some employees think Qwest is taking advantage of the H-1B visa program", By Jeff Smith, May 11, 2002, Rocky Mountain News |
| Washington We Have a Problem! - Unemployment Up, and H-1B Visas Continue - "Clearly, we have a problem -- a problem that is being ignored by those in direct control of the H-1B program.", By Richard Armstrong 05/06/2002, Sierra Time |
| Scientist pleads guilty to lying in economic espionage probe - "A Japanese scientist pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying to the FBI about the alleged theft of research materials", By Joe Milicia, May 2, 2002, Associated Press |
| Lakireddy Couple’s Sentences Handed Down - The Lakireddy family used H-1B in a scheme to bring young girls to the United States to perform as sex slaves. The courts gave them a light slap on the wrist. By NATE TABAK, Daily Californian, April 30, 2002 |
| Emotions Run Hot on H-1Bs - "It would be easier to separate sheets of wet tissue paper pounded flat by a hammer than to separate fact from fiction in the H-1B debate", by Brian Sullivan, April 29, 2002, ComputerWorld |
| Hard times Tech workers trying to find jobs face a bleak future, "The mere mention of the federal H-1B program, designed to enable foreigners to supplement the U.S. workforce, often triggers extreme emotions.", By Julia King, ComputerWorld, April 29, 2002 |
| Tech job training risks getting sacked - White House Seeks to Process H-1B Visas "The White House wants to gut a technology training program for U.S. workers, spending the money instead to speed up paperwork for foreign workers.", By Jennifer Bjorhus, Mercury News, Apr. 15, 2002 |
| Fears of a Security Brain Drain - The Indus Entrepreneurs, a powerful group of South Asian business leaders often referred to as "the curry network" scoffed at the DoD's new policy to not hire H-1Bs, By Annalee Newitz BusinessWeek.com, April 12, 2002 |
| Are California students cyberslackers? - The study notes that graduate degrees in tech fields are in high demand, as demonstrated by the large population of employees with H-1B visas Are California students cyberslackers?, By Lisa M. Bowman, ZDNetNews, April 10, 2002 |
| Firm recruits nurses from overseas - British company seeks foreign professionals for Colorado hospitals, By Michael Perrault, Rocky Mountain News April 12, 2002 |
| Technology: Fresh trade-secret indictments in networking case - "The three Chinese nationals accused of stealing trade secrets from Lucent Technologies also targeted four other companies, according to a new indictment against them returned Thursday.", By JEFFREY GOLD, Associated Press, April 11, 2002 |
| Hush, you must not speak it! - "In a society that fails to train its own citizens to do its work and imports foreigners instead, what happens when a shift occurs and the need for such workers evaporates? If the foreigners don't return to their home countries, will they compete for the conventional jobs that Americans now fill? By Elizabeth Wright, Issues and Views, April 11, 2002 |
| Bush seeks to cancel job-training program - Budget calls for shift of funds from grooming Americans to clearing way for foreign workers By Julia Malone, Cox News Service April 10, 2002 |
| Lobbyists urged council to fire Indian firm BRI - An Indian-owned company was "understandably upset" after Charleston County Council fired it without explanation just days after it signed a $17.2 million contract to run the county's computer system, a county official said Wednesday. Charleston.net by Arlie Porter April 4, 2002 |
| South Florida Facing "Worst Nursing Shortage Since 1989" - "Nurses are dropping like flies out of the profession. Americans don't want the job, period." by Jose Latour USVisaNews 4/2/2002 |
| Rural doctor source cut off - USDA eliminates visa-waiver program, citing security risks "Since 1994, 3,000 foreign-born doctors have been placed nationwide through the program." By Michael Riley, Denver Post April 01, 2002 |
| Import to avoid skills shortage - "AUSTRALIA should be importing migrants with IT skills now to avoid another skills shortage when the economy recovers, the chairman of Fujitsu Australia says" by Caitlin Fitzsimmons, Australian IT MARCH 20, 2002 |
| AEA: Recession is Not Over - "During 1998, more than 90 percent of our representatives, in both parties, turned their backs on the American people and passed additional 'wage busting' legislation to increase the number of foreign workers authorized under the H-1B provisions." By Richard F. Tax CHICAGOLANDCONSTRUCTION.COM March 20, 2002 |
| A passage to the Internet - economic health, public policy and the networked world, Harris Miller said "They're out to get me", IndiaMarkets, Bangalore, March 15, 2001 |
| High tech training program on ropes - I've stated many times that the training programs funded by the H-1B user fees don't do anything at all to achieve their stated purpose, i.e. to reduce H-1B usage..... the whole thing was a sham from the beginning, just a ruse to deflect Congress' and the public's attention from the real issue: The industry wants to hire labor from abroad to save on salary costs and to get compliant, indentured servant workers. Article by Gail Emory and comments from Professor Matloff March 9, 2002 |
| Rolling Stone vs. American Workers - American labor history has many shameful chapters. But there has never been an era when contempt for the law and the tacit approval of worker exploitation has been so celebrated in the mainstream media" by Joe Guzzardi Vdare.com 3/17/2002 |
| Pentagon Seeks Curb On Foreign Workers - "If approved, the plan would affect untold numbers of Defense Department staffers working on "sensitive but unclassified" projects as well as legions of workers at technology firms with contracts to maintain agency databases or revamp military e-mail systems. By Carrie Johnson, Washtech March 8, 2002 |
| Only Navy to limit foreign workers - "The Pentagon confirmed yesterday that it has proposed that "all persons, including contractors and foreign nationals, employed in specified IT sensitive but unclassified positions be subject to an appropriate investigation."by Carrie Kirby, San Francisco Chronicle March 8, 2002 |
| U.S. to Curb Computer Access by Foreigners - "The planned policy--slated for adoption within 90 days--extends restrictions on foreign nationals handling secret information to "sensitive but unclassified positions," which include the swelling numbers of contract workers who process paychecks, write software, track supplies and maintain e-mail systems. " by Charles Piller, Los Angeles Times March 7, 2002 |
| Hiring of Foreign Workers Frustrates Native Job-Seekers - "At a time when few technology companies are hiring and many have laid off hundreds of thousands of workers, the government issued tens of thousands of coveted H-1B visas that allow foreign workers to hold jobs in the United States for up to six years." By Carrie Johnson, Washtech February 27, 2002 |
| Where Does H-1B Fit? - "While many blame the H-1B visa program for taking jobs from American workers, particularly during the recession, hiring managers say it's not that simple." Information.com By Diane Rezendes Khirallah, Feb. 4, 2002 |
| Do We Still Need As Many H-1B Visas? - A debate between Harris Miller of the ITAA and Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado. Optimize February 2002 |
| Legislators Voice Concerns About H-1B Visas - "Some members of Congress, however, are still unhappy at how the bill was slipped through the House of Representatives late at night, with little debate." Information.com Feb. 4, 2002 |
| Actions legal but not right - "housekeeping employees in October and November 2001. There was no stated reason and no warning. One worker was sent packing just a week after she was named employee of the month. The workers say foreign employees replaced them Indiana Daily Student February 4, 2002 |
| The Bush Budget Request for H-1B Training Programs - "The Bush budget proposes to eliminate a program designed to train American workers", AFL/CIO, 2/5/2002 |
| Clarification - "due to the limitations of available data, there was not then, nor is there now, any way to establish conclusively whether there is, or is not, an overall IT worker shortage." by Phillip J. Bond Undersecretary of Commerce for technology ComputerWorld 01/28/2002 |
| U.S. Immigration Reform: Positive or Negative? - "The business community will be pressing for a number of reform proposals such as creation of a "quick entry" program for employers who meet certain qualifications.", by Stephen Barlas, SemiConductor Magazine, January 2002 |
| The H-1B Controversy - Jeff Lande, a vice president of ITAA, says that there is a shortage of 800,000 IT workers.", by Laurie Mason, CalCPA, Jan 2001 |
| H-1B visas jump in 2001 - "The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) received 342,035 applications for H-1B visas between Oct. 1, 2000, and Sept. 30, 2001--a 14.4 percent increase from fiscal 2000. The recession hasn't necessarily dented demand for controversial H-1B visas." CNET January 22, 2002 |
| New Project Encourages IT Talent - The National Science Foundation is launching a $5 million pilot project this year to increase the ranks of high-tech workers." CIO Magazine 1/15/2002 |
| Worker Visas Under Fire - "A forwarded e-mail launched by an unemployed Silicon Valley engineer blames layoffs of American workers on the H1-B visa program" CIO Magazine 1/15/2002 |
| Immigration reform coalition halts efforts - "A national coalition of business groups and immigration attorneys that gained national attention lobbying for eased immigration standards in the months before Sept. 11 has put its work on hold." Las Vegas Sun January 09, 2002 |
| H-1B visa limit debate reaches the Rockies - "In November, a bill was introduced to reduce the number of H-1Bs issued annually by more than two-thirds. Its sponsor is Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) from the state’s Sixth District" - Potomac Tech Journal 1/8/2002 |
| H-1B Visa Application Process Slowed Significantly Following Sept. 11 in Face of Increased Filings - "the number of applicants seeking H-1B visas and the number of those approved have increased significantly over the last year: Applications for H-1B visas were up 14 percent as of September 2001 compared with the whole of fiscal 2000,... Furthermore, in fiscal 2001, 48 percent of all H-1B applications were approved compared with 38 percent in fiscal 2000, according to the INS. GenomeWeb Article Date: 1/4/02 |
| Government: Demand exceeds supply of skilled IT workers - The Department of Labor, traditionally rather sympathetic to critics of the H-1B program, has gone to the dark side. ComputerWorld December 21, 2001 |
| Feinstein's Rule - H-1B workers are eager for U.S. jobs that pay three times what similar jobs pay at home. But they are subject to deportation if they're fired and are vulnerable to exploitation in a number of other ways that, together, create a system approaching indentured servitude. The American Prospect December 17, 2001 |
| Anti-immigrant rhetoric wrong - Xenophobic legislators in Washington, touting their anti-immigration agenda as "reform" -- a vital national security response to Sept. 11 -- are now targeting the H-1B visa program for skilled foreign workers. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 12/17/2001 |
| Work visa program is inviting target for abuse - this year the number of information technology job openings is down, yet visa usage is up. You don't have to be a rocket economist to see that the lobbyists have been playing fast and loose with the truth. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 12/17/2001 |
| Tancredo wants to limit visas for workers - Tancredo, a longtime proponent of immigration limits, argues the premise [H-1B] is flawed and has not only displaced American workers during a weak economy, but put national security at risk. Denver Business Journal 12/14/2001 |
| Importing Foreign Labor: A How-Not-To Guide - Construction employers may resume their efforts to revamp the current H2-B visa program to make it better serve contractors. We support such efforts. ENR.com 12/10/2001 |
| Visas put U.S. jobs at risk, critics say Higher cap lets more workers in - As millions of Americans lost their jobs in an economic slowdown, U.S. companies hired a record number of skilled foreigners under a special visa program. Atlanta Journal-Constitution December 10, 2001 |
| Incoming IEEE chiefs tackle unemployment, education INS aide as saying there could be many as 130,000 to 190,000 H-1B visas issued in 2001 that were not subject to the cap — in other words, they were issued to workers going to non-profit organizations, educational institutions or research centers rather than corporations. |
| Double jeopardy - Out of work can mean out of country Houston Chronicle Dec. 6, 2001 |
| Blueprint for bosses: dump workers and head for Delhi - Australian companies should consider moving operations to India to exploit lower wages The Sydney Morning Herald December 4, 2001 |
| Conspiracy to create 'Cisco of China' - "Prosecuters claim former Lucent scientists Hai Lin, and Kai Xu hatched a plot with former Lucent consultant Yong-Qing Cheng to become the "the Cisco of China" by stealing data related to Lucent's PathStar system." - By John Leyden, The Register, 12/04/2001 |
| Incoming IEEE chiefs tackle unemployment, education - INS aide says there could be as many as 130,000 to 190,000 H-1B visas issued in 2001 that were not subject to the cap — in other words, they were issued to workers going to non-profit organizations, educational institutions or research centers rather than corporations. EE Times 11/29/2001 (If the page hangs on you click your stop button to view the test) |
| Brave New World - not: "The first attempt to flood the market with cheap software programmers came in the mid ’Nineties, as industry groups successfully lobbied Congress to raise the annual cap on specialized H-1B visas", November 16, 2001, Newspaper Guild |
| Rep. Tancredo on National Security: I suggest, Mr. Speaker, that it is time for us in this body to revisit the whole idea, the whole issue of H-1B, and I have, in fact, introduced a bill to abolish H-1B visas. ILW.com |
| High-tech workers' visas -- A bad idea gets worse - "In something that approaches indentured servitude, many are employed by "bodyshops," the biggest of them foreign-owned, that operate like the coyotes that supply workers to agricultural employers", by Peter Schrag, Sacramento Bee, October 31, 2001. |
| Despite Economy, H-1B Visa Record Set - "Continued reliance on foreign workers angers many unemployed IT professionals" ComputerWorld October 29, 2001 |
| Rethinking H-1B visas - Economic slowdown, not events of Sept. 11, to impact quotas -"... the vast majority of H-1Bs won't be affected by any type of screening process that might be geared toward locating terrorists.'' Pittsburgh Business Times October 26, 2001 |
| H-1B workers fear prejudice after attacks - H-1B visa workers are expressing concerns about discrimination, and some are worried about a broader backlash against foreign professionals. ZDNET India October 25, 2001 |
| IT companies unlikely to meet fiscal 2001 H-1B visa cap - The shilling for H-1B by Harris Miller and the American Council on International Personnel has to be read to be believed. ComputerWorld, Octber 24, 2001 |
| U.S. Businesses Exploiting Cheap Labor Imported Under State Department Cultural Exchange Visa Program - "USA-IT would help companies hire the the foreign "trainees" by getting organizations such as the YMCA of Greater New York to sponsor their 18-month J-1 visas." Labor Research Organization Oct 24, 2001 |
| H-1B workers fear prejudice after attacks - "Ultimately, H-1B workers say, the terrorist attacks could mean restrictions on the number of foreigners who can work on American soil". There is a good discussion thread on this one. ZDNET News October 24, 2001 |
| Tech visa workers feel heat from attacks, layoffs - "Though federal law requires firms to pay H-1B workers as much as Americans for comparable work, many firms get around that, immigration lawyers say. Enforcement is slack. And many firms hire through "body shops," which subcontract the H-1B workers to other firms." USA Today 10/17/2001 |
| Iowa draws thousands of foreign tech workers - Skilled people from abroad take jobs left unfilled by Iowans. Des Moines Register 10/07/2001 |
| Taxing times: Nasscom pitches for totalisation deal with US, UK , this agreement will allow Indian H-1Bs to avoid paying social security taxes, by Ashu Kumar and Rajeev Jayaswal in New Delhi, FinancialExpress, October 04, 2001 |
| Labor, H-Visas, Students - The J-1 cultural-exchange program grants several types of visas, including four-month cultural-exchange visas or summer work-travel visas. About 2,500 young foreigners held summer jobs in 2001 in Ocean City, Maryland, making them 20 percent of the seasonal workers in the area., Migration News, Oct 2001 |
| Employment Visa Fraud Attracts Concern - "The company that referred to itself as the "corporate body" is a doughnut shop in Maryland, owned by the prospective worker's sister and brother-in-law.", by Marjorie Valbrun, Wall Street Journal, 9/20/2001 |
| No More Terrorist Welcome Mat - "Eliminate the J-1 and M-1 visa programs for suicide pilots." - TownHall.com Columnists 9/19/2001 |
| Immigrants now `vital' to service sector - Restaurants push for more workers, Chicago Tribune 9/4/2001 |
| Landscape shifts for laid-off foreigners - New twist for tech sector after easing visa restrictions CBS MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2001 |
| Immigration Glut? - Thousands of foreign-born workers holding H-1B visas have lost their jobs and thus their right to remain in the U.S. Many must now return to their home countries. At the same time, thousands of workers are still receiving new H-1B visas, allowing them to come to the U.S. for employment. Computerworld August 13, 2001 |
| Justice Bans Foreign Nationals From Its Info Tech Work - "The Justice Department has banned contractors from using foreign nationals on projects involving the department’s information technology systems unless the workers are granted waivers by the agency." Washington Technology 08/27/01 |
| New teachers from India get warm welcome - "The first wave of Cleveland's new teachers from India stepped off United Airlines Flight 1210 last night unaware of the commotion their arrival has caused" The Plain Dealer 08/20/01 |
| MyH1B Introduces New Age of H-1B Visa Submission -- Eliminating the Need for Costly Third-party Agents CNET News 8/8/01 |
| The H-1B Visa: Friend or Foe? - Will America’s high-tech workers, particularly minorities, be affected by the increase in H-1B visas? The jury is still out. Graduating Engineer 8/7/2001 |
| H-1B applications rise despite slow job market - "Applications are up from last year, making it likely that employers will hit this year's increased maximum number of temporary H-1B visas, perhaps by next month." EETimes 07/27/01 |
| Symbolic victory in H-1B visa case - A California court has dismissed an appeal involving an Indian computer programmer and a U.S. recruitment firm, handing a small but symbolic victory to H-1B visa workers. ZDNET News July 17, 2001 |
| "Our Addiction to Foreign Workers" AFL-CIO official, Paul Almeida, commenting on the INS announcement that there will be a grace period for H-1Bs. Washington Post July 5, 2001 |
| INS to Grant Immigrants Some Grace - Laid-Off Visa Holders Get Time to Find Jobs. If you thought H-1Bs would be deported after 10 days of unemployment like the law mandates, think again. Washington Post 6/27/2001 |
| Speedier H-1B visa program under fire - A new program to speed the H-1B visa process for an additional fee is under attack from immigrants and likely to rile Americans who fear the growing ranks of foreigners in the U.S. technology industry. CNET News June 9, 2001 |
| Bush praises high-tech workers from India - "The United States President, George W Bush, has praised the contribution of skilled immigrants from India and other countries and said that the US technology advantage rests on their contribution." - The Hindu 6/1/2001 |
| Are IT skills shortage schemes being abused? - Given the increases in U.S H1-B visa allocations and the introduction of the Fast Track Visa system in the UK to solve 'skills shortages', are such schemes being abused?" Contractor UK 07/01/02 |
| The Rich Pay To Get to Front of the Line for US Visas Rich? Famous? America Wants You - Many immigration specialists said the program would create a disturbing two-tiered system by giving special access to wealthy foreigners and large corporations. International Herald Tribune 6/1/2001 |
| The beginning of salary fall? - A large number of existing IT professionals both in India and abroad will have to take a salary cut or live through a year of emoluments stagnancy. And the trend is just beginning. Times of India 28 May 2001 |
| Meeting Aims to Stir Up Solutions for Postdocs - "About half of the country's postdocs are non-U.S. citizens." Harvard Web Weekly May 21, 2001 |
| 3 Accused of Stealing Lucent Secrets for China Venture - "There has been targeting by foreign companies, if not foreign governments, of the trade secrets of American high-tech companies." Washington Post May 3, 2001 |
| The Invisible University - "supply-and-demand economics has turned postdocs into a highly educated, cheap labor pool--academic braceros caught in a holding pattern" Harvard Web Weekly May-June 2001 |
| The limit on H-1B visas should be raised by George W. Bush. Press Release on his official website makes his view on H-1B frighteningly clear. |
| In the Eye of the H-1B Visa Storm - Immigration lawyer Navneet S. Chugh is the self-appointed defender of those infamous H-1B bodyshops. He is shameless but far more honest than our politicians that allow him to get away with the bodyshopping. CNET News April 26, 2001 |
| New Indictment Expands Charges Against Former Lucent Scientists Accused of Passing Trade Secrets to Chinese Company, ComTriad 4/11/2001 |
| Statement of Congressman Lamar Smith, Chairman of the House Immigration Subcommittee On the introduction of a new bill (H.R.4227) to increase the number of H-1B visas: April 11, 2000 |
| More Bangalore For Their Bucks - Last year's expansion of the H-1B visa program lets U.S. tech companies recruit even more workers from India. Indian companies are also in on the action. EBusiness 4/9/2001 |
| The H-1B Controversy - 'I am a U.S. citizen." Once companies learned that, he said they stopped calling.", 2001, by Laurie Mason, CalCPA |
| The End of Ellis Island -Bush Abandons the American Immigrant Ideal while Democrats Dither by Paul Donnelly, American Prospect 4/5/2001 |
| Taxes, but No Social Security for Indian H1-B Visa Holders - "But for workers like Ajay Sehgal the laws [social security] reek of discrimination, especially since the largest contingent of H-1B visa workers in the United States are from India and China.", by Aseem Chhabra, Rediff, April 2001 |
| Even the INS Unsure Over H-1B - "Unsure about the status of laid-off workers on H1-B visas? You're not the only one." Wired News March 23, 2001 |
| Congress is involved in wage busting by using H-1B says the American Engineering Association. Finally an engineering association made it perfectly clear where they stand on the H-1B issue. TechnoTimes March 21, 2001 |
| VISAS IN THE VALLEY - Amid huge tech layoffs, continued use of H-1b work permits for foreign workers called into question. SF Gate March 21, 2001 |
| High-Tech Visa Approvals Down From Last Year - at the height of H-1B, when things were going crazy, the INS was processing 15,000 applications a month." That pace does seem to have slowed, according to the INS. Washington Post March 21, 2001 |
| Proposal to Divide INS in Two Could Ease Visa Headaches - Employers may be able to hire foreign workers faster if the Bush administration carries out its plan to split the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) into two divisions ComputerWorld March 19, 2001 |
| Has demand for foreign workers fallen? - Despite an economic slowdown that has led to layoffs, some H-1B opponents and proponents alike are saying they do not expect to see a dramatic decline in the number of foreign workers. H-1B visas become even more attractive to employers in an economic downturn CNet March 16, 2001 |
| Sad Plight of Fired H-1B Workers - Companies are not obliged to provide the visa holder with any sort of prior notice before firing them -- but they are required to give them an air-ticket home. Wired March 12, 2001 |
| The New Immigration Wave - Throughout much of the 20th century, the industrial barons of Pittsburgh relied on immigrants and the sons of immigrants from all over Europe to work its steel mills, coal mines and railroads. Today, as the city builds its reputation as a 21st-century high-tech center, its companies still rely on the skills of immigrants. Computerworld March 12, 2001 |
| Guilty Pleas by Berkeley Landlord's Relatives -They admit to aiding illegal immigration Lakireddy Bali Reddy, the H-1B pimp that imported young girls to be used as sex slaves, his brother, and brother's wife, were scheduled to plead guilty yesterday as part of a deal with federal prosecutors. But Reddy decided to postpone his hearing until Wednesday to avoid jail. San Francisco Chronicle March 6, 2001 |
| Cleveland looking to India for teachers - Cleveland area schools are hiring as many H-1B teachers as they can, and they are proud of it. The Plain Dealer Feb. 28, 2001 |
| More Guest Workers? Not What We Should Pick - "It's heartening to see Bush and Fox engage on some of the major issues that confront our two countries. But, whatever final form their new framework for migration takes, the American president would do well to resist the siren song of legalized foreign labor. It may look attractive in the short term, but in the long term, it threatens to undermine the commerical viability of American agriculture." Washington Post Feb 25, 2001 |
| A profitable business: Tech-worker imports - Central Jersey has become a hotbed for the industry. "It's a very profitable business," said Hari Polavarapu. H-1B workers earn their bosses monthly profits of $1,000 to $3,000 each said a body shop operator in Iselin. Philadelphia Enquirer February 25, 2001 |
| Abraham Letter Re H-1B Counting Methodology - Spencer Abraham complains that the method that the INS uses to count total H-1Bs makes the number to high and says this will ruin the American economy. February 25, 2000 |
| Living in Limbo - H1B immigrants ask: Should I stay or should I go? Companies may want to keep H-1B as is in order to keep their foreign employees under their thumb. Electronic Business 2001 |
| Engineers' organization rebuts shortage claims - American Engineering Association calls ITAA's forecast inaccurate. EETimes 2/23/2001 |
| If high tech says there's a labor shortage, there's a labor shortage. Companies have a fiduciary responsibility to keep labor costs low. Red Herring 2/23/2001 |
| What Americans Should Know About Immigration and President Fox of Mexico - The Mexican government has announced that it will ask for more visas for Mexican workers. In a recent visit by American senators led by Phil Gramm, Fox and his U.S. collaborators cooked up a massive "guest worker" scheme which, incredibly enough, Gramm asserts will end illegal immigration. FrontPage Magazine Feb. 12, 2001 |
| IT Labor Shortage: A Myth? Geniuses Wanted - US programmers claim they're passed over for cheaper foreign workers Is it conceivable that there really isn't a shortage of high-tech workers at all, but simply an excess of technology firms that would rather bring in foreign programmers for half the salary of experienced Americans? tnbt.com January 31, 2001 |
| Theft of the American Dream - "It's a pretty good scam. Fire the Americans, hire immigrants to take their jobs, and make the companies immune from prosecution under the new "trade" laws. Sound far fetched?... Welcome to the H1B immigration program. im-ur Magazine Feb 10, 2001 |
| Programmer shortage slows wireless development - Actually There are no any special skills and tool kits (except for several market buzzwords) to develop wireless applications similar to the fact that there are no special TV sets to accept air, wire (cable) or satellite transmissions. Author JULEKHA DASH is just another H-1B advocate. Computerworld Feb. 5, 2001 |
| Why H-1B Visas are Bad for America - America's generous immigration laws are increasingly being corrupted and taken advantage of by self-aware economic interests. Former Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich stated the H1-B program "has become a major means of circumventing the costs of paying skilled American workers or the costs of training them". Frontpage 1/24/2001 |
| INS Emphasizes: No Grace Period for Dismissed H-1B Employees - "how soon a foreign worker in the U.S. in H-1B status must leave the U.S. when his or her employment ceases. The bold answer by INS: IMMEDIATELY." USVisaNews 12/26/2001 |
| Computer Worker Shortage Hearings 'Totally Unbalanced,' Says FAIR: Congress -- led by subcommittee chair Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI) -- is caving in to the immigration demands of high-tech firms that want to maintain a "sweat shop, college grad" working environment similar to the early days of the industry's culture. TechMall Feb 24, 2000 |
| New U.S. Immigration Law Roil Visa Foes - Many believe that regardless of economic conditions, corporate America will seek broader access to foreign staffers. "Their activities go on as if there had never been any layoffs," said Bill Reed, president of the American Engineering Association, Fort Worth, Texas. "There's no bad time to import workers.” Planet IT Jan 18,2001 |
| Why H-1B Visas are Bad for America - AMERICA'S GENEROUS IMMIGRATION LAWS are increasingly being corrupted and taken advantage of by self-aware economic interests. FrontPage Magazine Jan. 24, 2001 |
| H-1B opens Pandora's Box - "As the US government contemplates hiking H-1B visa quotas, the debate on the pros and cons of H-1B visas looks like it will never end." IndiaInfo.com 2001 |
| The H-1B Controversy - The only thing that seemed to stand between Ghandi and his dream job was his American citizenship. "I look like an H-1B visa person, and they called me up because of my name," the native of India explains. "Then they asked me, 'What is your status?' and I said, 'I am a U.S. citizen." Once companies learned that, he said they stopped calling. "It made me frustrated because I went all through the interviews, and then my final [citizenship] status comes into the picture." CalCPA ONLINE Jan 2001 |
| The H-1B Boom - "Predatory culture of fraud, abuse emerging in India" Mercury News 11/19/2000 |
| The H-1b Visa Scam - "The booming software manpower trade has spawned layers of middlemen, some of whom cheat gullible job seekers. An investigation into the workings of the body-shopping networks." FirstandSecond.com 20th Nov 2000 |
| The H-1B Boom - Predatory culture of fraud, abuse emerging in India. San Francisco Mercury News Nov. 19, 2000 |
| Labor contractors of all stripes abound in Bay Area and the nation - "There are no definitive counts of H-1B labor contractors, but people in the industry reckon there are hundreds in Northern California, and perhaps over a thousand across the United States." Mercury News Nov. 19, 2000 |
| Whether shortage exists, workforce is turning global - "Independent studies have been unable to find conclusive evidence of a U.S. shortage of IT workers, something the Information Technology Association of America has insisted is the case since 1997. Mercury News Nov. 19,2000 |
| New rules ease worker shortage, but fraud and abuse remain - "the ability of the INS to detect and prevent fraud is limited and won't improve with the added workload that comes with the higher cap on H-1Bs." Mercury News Nov. 18, 2000 |
| Middlemen thriving in lucrative industry - "The high-tech industry's voracious demand for workers has spawned a lucrative new middleman industry, complete with its own hierarchy, opportunity and abuse." Mercury News Nov. 18, 2000 |
| HOUSE MEMBERS HOODWINKED ON H-1B VOTE" - a letter to the editor by U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland. San Francisco Chronicle Nov. 13, 2000 |
| ZDNet News Talkback Central 2001 - "It is amazing how the H-1B Non-Immigrant workers who are MERE guests in the United States can be so arrogant as to be anti-American. |
| Tech industry doubles campaign contributions - "Congress may be gridlocked on major issues ranging from overhauling bankruptcy laws to adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare, but the technology community got what it wanted on H-1B visas", Business Journal October 13, 2000 |
| Law Shouldn't Allow High-Tech Industry To Indenture Immigrants - If H1-B workers are fired for objecting to illegal conditions, for organizing a union to change them, or simply because their employer no longer has work for them, they not only lose their job, but their immigration status as well. San Francisco Chronicle 10/29/2000 |
| ITAA Links with Labor Department to Promote High Tech Workforce - this article describes the dealings with ITAA and our government a partnership, perhaps they should have used a term like collusion. Business Wire Oct 23, 2000 |
| The scourge of Silicon Valley - A Salon.com interview of Norman Matloff and yours truly. Salon.com Oct.. 19, 2000 |
| Coming to America - "Raising the cap on H-1B "will guarantee this 'shortage' will go on forever," he says. "It's going to be a self-fulfilling prophecy because wages are not going to go up." TechWeek Oct. 16, 2000 |
| Vishwa Bharat vs. Akhand Bharat - Read about their visions of using H-1B to take over the world. The Times of India, October 10, 2000 |
| H-1B Visas: Our Asians Will Beat Their Asians" - Right now 115,000 immigrants a year enter the country to work, not in stoop-and-squat agricultural jobs (H-2A visas), but as the well-educated, high-tech talent of enterprises like IBM, Hewlett Packard, Yale and Deloitte & Touche. Hartford Courant Oct. 6, 2000 |
| "Indians
Jubilant As US House Clears H1-B Visa Bill" By Ashish Kumar.
Nair gushed: “I’m proud to be an American!” The source of Mr
Nair’s pride was the Senate’s unanimous decision to approve an
increase in the number of H-1B visas that can be issued annually by the
Immigration and Naturalization Service for the next three years.
Nair's statement is an insult! It's time to WAKE UP AMERICA! H-1B's are temporary guest workers, not American citizens! Immigrant Support Network Oct. 5, 2000 |
| Doggett Annoyed by Stealth House Vote - "The speed -- and stealth -- with which the House voted Tuesday to increase visas for skilled foreign workers left one lawmaker shaking his head. Cox Washington Bureau 10-04-00 |
| H-1B Visa and Black America's Immigration Dilemma - African-American and older Americans did a test of Bay area companies that hire H-1Bs. Resumes of skilled applicants were obtained within a few days and submitted to 100 applying companies. Not a single company responded to the applicants, despite making an attestation that it could not find American workers. BlackElectorate.com Oct 3, 2000 |
| "Do high-tech firms really need imported workers"' by John Miano, USA TODAY. "What should outrage Americans is the industry's solution to its mythical labor shortage: the H-1B visa program." USA Today Sep. 21, 2000 |
| "High Tech's Passport to Nowhere" - Lured to U.S. jobs with special visas, immigrants often face substandard pay and uncertain status. LA Times Sep. 21, 2000 |
| U.S. Border Control - A question of fraud - Silicon Valley pushes for more foreign workers despite federal probes. San Francisco Chronicle Sep. 21, 2000 |
| Importing Foreign High Tech Workers: H-1B -- Pay 'em less, and the heck with older U.S. workers. The title says it all. Adversity.net Sep. 16, 2000 |
| H1B: A Balanced View - H-1B is a good thing according to this Indian author, By Prem Anand, September 15, 2000, The Indian Programmer |
| Will more H1-B visas solve your staffing problems? Yes according to this recruiter. Opinion Sound Off Aug. 1, 2000 |
| Grassroots effort wages Net war against H-1B increases - Electronic Engineering Times interviews the creator of the H-1B Petition. EETimes June, 12, 2000 |
| Huddled Masses Yearning to Write Java - "many charge that the U.S. labor shortage is a fiction exploited by business to the detriment of American programmers". The Standard May 1 ,2000 |
| Legal Rejection of U.S. Workers lawyer by Joel Stewart - Stewart tells the truth when he says, "When employers feel the need to legalize aliens, it may be due to a shortage of suitable U.S. workers, but even in a depressed economy, Employers who favor aliens have an arsenal of legal means to reject all U.S. workers who apply." Immigration Portal April 24, 2000 |
| "A road to nowhere" - "But, though the problem is real, I don't think H-1B visas are the solution. In fact, like the traffic-generating effect of building more freeways in Southern California, continuing to increase the number of H-1B visas, I believe, will only make the situation worse." ZDNet News March 24, 2000 |
| Letter from Harris Miller to DOL Secretary to former U.S. Department of Labor Alexis M. Herman. Tech Law Journal Feb. 3, 2000 |
| The Great H-1B Debate - "Despite questionable claims of an IT labor shortage and INS gaffes, foreign IT professionals working in the U.S. with H-1B visas will continue to vie with domestic IT contractors for jobs." FreeAgent.com - 2000 |
| NPR Talk of the Nation on 9/26/2000. Host Juan Williams hosts a discussion where John Miano of the Programmers guild takes on Harris Miller on the H-1B issue. This is a Real Audio clip. |
| Sorry, This Job Reserved for a Foreign Worker. A TV ad that was used against Congresswoman Heather Wilson of New Mexico. AmericanWorker.org June, 2000 |
| Bipartisan Support of H-1B Program Threatens Americans - "If you like the illegal aliens now pouring across the borders of Arizona and points west to work as cheap labor for agribusiness, you'll love the most recent measure concocted by the Republicrats to import even more foreign workers to take high-tech jobs from Americans.", by Sam Francis, TownHall, June 09, 2000 |
| Hate the Web Master? He, Too, Can Be Replaced, "Like Nike's Air Jordan's, the designs will be done in the U.S., but the digital scutwork will be performed by binary braceros overseas", by Michael Schrage, 1/24/2000, Fortune |
| Chicago Makes Deal With Feds To Hire Foreign Teachers - "The INS has agreed to provide, as a block, up to 50 H-1B temporary visas each year to allow teachers to work in Chicago public schools.", By Ann Bradley, January 19, 2000, Education Week |
| Audit of H-1B visa miscount due this month - Auditors from Big Five accounting firm KPMG International will continue to spend time this week at the Immigration and Naturalization Service's visa processing centers, trying to determine how many extra H-1B visas the INS may have granted in fiscal 1999. Computerworld Jan 3, 2000 |
| High Tech Migrant Labor - Abundant anecdotal evidence indicates that some American technology workers, especially older ones, have a hard time finding steady work in their fields. American Prospect Dec. 20, 1999 |
| H1-B Visa Debate Simmers - The battle over foreign technology workers exposes business, labor, and political concerns. What they are grabbing up, says CIS' Kirkorian, are "indentured servants." Office.com 11/1/1999 |
| Is There an "Alarming" Shortage of IT Workers? The numbers are funny, but there's no mystery about what's happening to programming as a profession. ... and it's clear that the industry's motivations aren't altogether altruistic: H1-B workers accept lower wages, and the industry's trade journals have expressly advocated further increases in H1-B caps as a great way to keep labor costs down. LinuxJournal 5-Oct-1999 |
| Industry lobbyists have 'real clout' - Harris N. Miller, head of the Information Technology Association of America (whose members include AOL, AT&T and Microsoft) is rated #35 in the nation for his lobbying to support H-1B. Broadcasting & Cable Sep 6, 1999 |
| Sen. Gramm to Introduce Bill to Raise H1B Visa Cap - Bob McTeer, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, wrote that "we should raise the H1-B limit further to at least 200,000 and make the increase permanent. The U.S. cannot afford to let a lack of workers take the steam out of its remarkable economic expansion." Tech Law Journal June 3, 1999 |
| House Immigration Subcommittee Holds Hearing on H1B Visa Fraud - William Yates of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) stated that the INS did a study of 3,247 cases referred to an American Consulate in India. He said that "they were unable to verify the authenticity of close to 45% of the claims made on the petitions. Twenty-one percent of the work experience claims made to the INS were confirmed to be fraudulent in this investigation." Tech Law Journal May 6, 1999 |
| The Return of Bracero - "Big farmers have long dreamed of reviving Bracero, and they have a great deal of clout." This article is a must read because many of the same organizations pushing H-1B are pushing for more immigrant farm workers. It's no coincidence. CounterPunch 1999 |
| Give Me Your Skilled Laborers - If you’re looking for a job with a high-tech firm in the United States, you may be facing some new competitors. ABC News 1999 |
| Technology firms deny bias against older workers - No programmer ever has successfully filed suit against a company for age discrimination. "I haven't found any empirical data to support Mr. Matloff's charges" Business Journal 8/21/1998 |
| NPR on "All Things Considered", May 12, 1998. Gene Nelson and others debate the legislative background that led to the doubling of H-1B. Nelson talks explains why H-1b leads to age discrimination. Real Audio sound clip. |
| Too old to write code? The software industry's labor shortage may be a myth. Online U.S. News 3/16/98 |
| Exploit of the Indian Techie - This is a horrifying story of an H-1B that was tricked into indentured servitude. Little India 1998 |
| Shortcut to U.S. jobs - written by world famous reporters Barlett and Steele, authors of America: Who Stole the Dreams. Read this article and you will discover that nothing has changed since 1996. They explain, "At a time when countless Americans have lost their jobs due to imports and corporate layoffs, U.S. companies have been recruiting tens of thousands of workers from around the world. All with the blessing of Congress. As a result, too many workers are chasing too few good jobs. This, in turn, has helped force down wages in many fields, held increases to a minimum in others, and contributed to the overall decline in the standard of living for many middle-class families." The Philadelphia Inquirer 1996 |
| Scientists' Heated Debate On Immigration Mirrors Issues Argued Throughout U. S. - Gene Nelson advances economic-security arguments, as well. "They're being trained in a number of important technologies, technologies that . . . allow them to go back to their home country and eat us for lunch economically by out-competing," he warns. "If World War III is going to be an economic one, we're just training the opposition, and we're using our tax dollars to do it. The Scientist 1995 |
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