Thread: Immigration: it doesn't always sneak in from the South

Here is another way US law is being ignored and twisted for the good of - well, not us. This article is an excellent summary of why we aren't seeing all these white collar jobs people say there are, how we are being undercut as to salary, and how qualified US candidates are being screened out before they can even walk through the door. It also helps explain what we see in the LCA database - batch filings for dual locations.

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/ ... 25imm.html

Quote: "Vaughn LeBlanc became swamped in late 2004, when applications for foreign high-tech workers unexpectedly poured into his Maine Department of Labor office.

"I had no room in my office. We would fill a box every other day, they were stacked five or six high, going down the hall," said LeBlanc, a foreign labor specialist for the department until he retired in early 2005.
"I felt something was wrong," he said. "I personally found it hard to believe we needed 1,000 more software engineers in Maine."
In almost two decades of handling foreign labor requests in Maine, LeBlanc had dealt with the seasonal need for housekeepers at York County resorts, Canadian lumberjacks in the northern forests and chefs for Chinese restaurants throughout the state.

But he had never experienced anything like that flood of paper.
LeBlanc was seeing a demand for skilled foreign labor that didn't square with industry needs in Maine. "

Bodyshops are bringing people in by the thousands, and shipping them to where the jobs were, but at much lower (i.e. Maine) salary levels.

ah yes.....insourcing. Happening big time. I just don't know what they think is going to be left for Americans to do.