Thread: H1Bs coming to US are already double the allowable limit!

The H1B (high tech worker) visa cap is currently 65,000 per year, and corporations like Microsoft have been lobbying hard for Congress to at least double this number. Now we find out that the US has not been enforcing this cap and the true numbers approved are already double the cap! Un-freaking-believeable!

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Partial transcript from Lou Dobbs Tonight, Jan. 26, 2007

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... dt.01.html

DOBBS: The United States citizenship and immigration service finally released its report to Congress on the H1B guest worker visa program. But Congress still hasn't seen fit to release that report to the public, perhaps because the numbers are much higher than the government has authorized.

Bill Tucker reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): The number of H1B visas an existing guest worker program for skilled workers is capped by Congress at 65,000. Another 20,000 foreign students who graduate from American universities with advanced degrees are also eligible for the visa.

That's 85,000 visas a year. But the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service approved 116,927 applications in 2005. It approved 130,497 in 2004.

The reports in 2004 and 2005 were not released until November 20th of last year. A release date that activists find disturbing.

JOHN MIANO, ATTORNEY: I think it's odd that it occurred after the election. Somewhat suspicious that while there were bills pending to have an H1B increase, that the information about the actual numbers of H1B visas was not available.

TUCKER: A spokesman for USCIS admits the reports were late, but he calls the oversight "honest," explaining that in the transitions from INS to the Department of Homeland Security they neglected to file the reports.

"We notified the oversight by a member of Congress. They quickly produced the reports."

Some critics see a pattern.

RON HIRA, ROCHESTER INST. OF TECHNOLOGY: There's been a pattern by the administration to -- to keep, you know, this data that they don't particularly want out bottled up, and we've seen this with the Commerce Department offshoring report, and we've seen it in other areas like NASA (ph) and the like.

TUCKER: And there is intrigue. These reports were obtained by LOU DOBBS TONIGHT, not off a Congress Web site, not from the House Subcommittee on Immigration, but off the Internet, where activists are distributing them by e-mail. (END VIDEOTAPE)

TUCKER: The reports are real. USCIS acknowledges publishing the reports and giving them to Congress in late November. But USCIS says it's not their job to distribute the reports to the public, that's up to Congress.

And, you know, Lou, it may serve in the congressional interests to not make the report widely available to the public, because there are some disturbing facts in that report, and Congress is about to take up debate on doubling that program again sometime this next couple of months.

DOBBS: Well, if they are going -- permitting -- I mean -- I mean, it's just mind-boggling. The program is under such intense criticism.

TUCKER: Right.

DOBBS: Just allowing employers to go over by 40 percent over the quotas, more than that, in point of fact, 40 to 70 percent, without effect -- the USCIS does not explain why it's not enforcing it, doesn't have the information, and is holding information back. And now Congress as well?

TUCKER: It gets better, actually, Lou, because when you talk to USCIS, they say, "It's not our responsibility to issue the visas. That falls to the State Department. We just approve the petitions."

DOBBS: And the relationship, of course, between the petition and the -- I mean, this is -- if the American people have not figured out that there is a corporatist agenda at work in this administration and throughout the bureaucracy, then I don't know what more we could possibly report.

And this Congress, whether Democratically controlled or not, has an absolute responsibility to ask, why aren't immigration laws being enforced? Why aren't the laws passed by this Congress being enforced? And the American people need to ask why does neither Congress nor the executive branch fulfill their duties, their constitutional duties?

It is remarkable what is happening in this country. It is on the verge of tragic.

Bill Tucker, thank you very much.

Disobeying the H-1B cap is only thing that the federal government is doing to disobey the laws of the land. When you don't hire responsible/qulified people and hold them accountable for their actions you have a federal government out of control.

The Senate doesn't want you to know that the H-1B count is number of arrivals per year. They get to stay 6 years, a 7th year extension is easy, and after that they just forget to return home to Bangalore (to become illegals like their border crosser brothers). So, Senator Cornyn will now demand double the present H1B arrival count, bringing the figure to 232,000 arrivals per year.

John Cornyn's favorite website, http://www.immigrationvoice.com
continues to demand very high numbers of additional H-1B arrivals. What more do they want?

Originally Posted by H-1B

We want it all! You owe us your jobs!!!

How many H-1Bs could Bangalore, Chennai, Bombay, Calcutta (Kolkata), Hyderabad, Pune, and Dehli send to the US if John Cornyn has his way? Consider unlimited. The number is limited only by the sealift and airlift it takes to bring em over here. Delta is adding new flights from Bang-town to US cities to help Tata send more and more H-1Bs.

Ratan Tata, The most powerful man in the world?
Millions of Americans have lost their jobs to Tata employees
(H-1Bs, L-1s, and Tata employees domociled in India)

John Cornyn wants to double American technical layoffs in favor of Bangalore, India.

TREASON ALERT!!


NOT ENFORCING THE LAWS OF THE LAND.

Coto, any chance you can get your hands on the report?

Not only some Republicans like Cornyn, but also key Democrats like Hillary Clinton, support this massive influx of foreign tech workers to displace Americans from decent-paying middle class jobs. Just think folks, our possible next President supports this......she is no different than George Bush!!!!

This is shameful, shameful, shameful.

No increase in visas unless and until we have a way of expediently deporting the 50% that will over stay. Not to mention the ones that will bring in a spouse and drop an anchor baby. NONONONONO!!!!!!!!!!!!

They want to let 1.5 million in on the new AG bill they are trying to pass, with path to citizenship after working 150 hrs a year for 3 yrs. nice deal huh!! gag me I'm going to be sick. We need to stop these insane people in congress.
HOW IN GODS NAME ARE THEY GOING TO PROCESS ALL THESE PEOPLE THEY WANT TO GIVE CITIZENSHIP TO, this is so unbelieveable its like one hand does not know what the other one is doing, I have never seen anything like it!!!!

They are not happy giving all the low income jobs to the illegal aliens they want the middle class jobs too. The stupid thing about that is the middle class are the major consumers in this country if we have no jobs we cannot buy anything. They give all those middle class jobs to these people with work visas and all the money goes out of the country. What idiots

Hi lsmith1338,

Need to be aware of the propaganda "they" will throw back at us.

"They" includes globalist politicians, corrupt CEOs (or simply anti-American CEOs), body shop leadership from Bang Town, Hillary, John Cornyn, and the liberal press to name a few.

Company officials will whine that they just can't be competitive without the H-1Bs. But they never offer specifics, like competitive against who?

If two competiting companies lay off their H-1Bs and hire Americans, their expensives are still relatively the same. Sadly, they're too infatuated with their H-1Bs to do that. Could it be the indentured servitude that the H-1Bs bring?

Time to inform John Cornyn that his goal (to double the H-1B arrival count) was met and exceeded 3 years ago, and persists today.

This voter says,

Senator Cornyn, let's stop this childish nonsense.

DEPORT THE H-1B OVER-HIRES IMMEDIATELY!

DEPORT ILLEGALS, DEPORT H-1B OVER-HIRES!
What part of DEPORT are you having difficulty understanding, Senator?
then CLOSE DOWN THE H-1B program and DEPORT.
Send the H-1Bs back to Bangalore,
and put AMERICANS back to work.