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    Stop the H-1B Feeding Frenzy of Corporate Greed

    USA Today editorial

    Opposing view: A corporate 'feeding frenzy'
    Visas push is about helping companies rather than workers

    By Dan Stein

    Today we are watching an amazing spectacle: Many in Congress — including allegedly labor-friendly Democrats — are pushing to increase the importation of foreign labor just as the USA slips into what may be its worst recession in decades.

    Why? Because the greed of a handful of multinationals is demanding more and more access to "skilled" foreign labor.

    Sure, we hear bogus "studies" that claim garden-variety foreign programmers will save the U.S. economy. But former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently admitted the real agenda: "Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers … would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality." In 2007, he further opined that, "Our skilled wages are higher than anywhere in the world. If we open up a significant window for skilled (foreign) workers, that would suppress the skilled-wage level and end the concentration of income."

    Thanks, Alan! Having shipped so many good jobs overseas, we now find that U.S. workers who acquire job skills are overpaid!

    Since 1990, Congress has allowed U.S. and multinational businesses to use foreign "nonimmigrant" visa programs to drive down wages and displace American workers. What began as a short-term fix for a supposed "short-term" shortage of programmers has turned into another elitist feeding frenzy for greedy people at the top of the food chain.

    The use of foreign workers has exploded at a time of rising economic insecurity. Since 1985, the number of foreign worker admissions has increased by 426%, while the U.S. civilian workforce has only increased by about 29%. This is a "temporary" shortage? The main culprits are the H-1B and L-1B visa programs with meaningless labor protections now filling more than a million jobs.

    Sens. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Richard Durbin, D-Ill., are making a valiant effort to curb the excesses. But as with most other bloated immigration programs that become oversubscribed, Congress' first reaction is not to eliminate the loopholes. It's to just raise the numbers.

    Don't get me wrong. My organization supports competing to attract the world's best and brightest. Jacking up the level of H-1Bs won't get us there.

    Dan Stein is president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which advocates reducing legal immigration levels and aggressive illegal- immigration enforcement.

    Posted at 12:21 AM/ET, March 25, 2008 in Immigration - Editorial, Reforming Washington - Editorial, USA TODAY

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    Read "skilled" in this article as "cheap."
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    Yes thats how I interpreted it also, this has to stop! no wonder Americans are hurting!!
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    Re: Stop the H-1B Feeding Frenzy of Corporate Greed

    "Our skilled wages are higher than anywhere in the world. If we open up a significant window for skilled (foreign) workers, that would suppress the skilled-wage level and end the concentration of income."
    Bill Gates thinks that paying Americans workers more than the world average is a "concentration of income", yet HIS $50 billion is NOT a "concentration of income"? Then I guess he won't mind us taking say $49 billion of that to support illegal aliens!
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    Bill Gates thinks that paying Americans workers more than the world average is a "concentration of income", yet HIS $50 billion is NOT a "concentration of income"? Then I guess he won't mind us taking say $49 billion of that to support illegal aliens!
    lol...so true. Hey if Gates thinks income should be spread around then hiring american workers would actually help to redistribute his own income.....since american workers are paid more. And give those workers health insurance and other benefits. Maybe Gates could also pay for all the freebees for illegals so that americans can access programs that they are now denied. Education for americans could use a boost. Gates is a smart guyand I think he is onto something here. And why should he only give up 49 billion? Why does he need a billion for himself? He can make it on far less than that. When will he be writing the checks?
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