Thread: U.S. slowdown squeezes Mexico's migrant worker bounty

L Visas: Big Business's New Loophole for Displacing American Workers


Despite mounting concern about a deteriorating economy and ensuing layoffs, Congress, in response to prodding by business interests, has introduced legislation to import more foreign born workers. While much of the media coverage has focused on the H1B visas, the L1-visa has emerged as a growing avenue for employers to bring in foreign specialized workers instead of hiring Americans. Press reports indicate some international companies may be misusing L-l visas to circumvent the worker protections in the H-lBs and displace American workers.

The L visa program was created to enable multinational corporations to temporarily transfer their top level executives, managers or employees with “specialized knowledgeâ€

It's thoroughly disgusting how so many of them benefit at the expense of legal American citizens. Illegal aliens have started their own construction businesses where they hire all illegal alien employees and pay them cash. Legal Americans in this business are unable to get construction bids because the illegals are doing it so much cheaper without paying taxes, worker's comp, etc.

"Contrary of what some people think in the United States, we aren't looking to get more remittances sent to us, nor are we betting on it," Calderon said last week.

whatever........

Amnesty 1986 1989 and still aren't legal
If they havent sucked off enough money to make their lives better there in 22 years. Tough. We are hurting now. Send them back for family reunification. Take that tractor that cost 37,000 dollars and do some work with it. Take the marching skills you learned here in the U.S and march in your own country. Kick out the elites who are holding the general population down. Stand up and be counted in your own Beloved Mexico and countries further south. You are a people who deserve to thrive in your own countries.

To hattiecat
That practice has to stop we need to hold EMPLOYERS AND SUBCONTRACTERS ACCOUNTABLE and STOP the practice of the L VISAS
They act like they don't care if their own citizens can operate their businesses legally. The only way to stop this is Americans need MORE PATRIOTISM and NOT hire Contractors that hire illegals. Maybe in adds they should put the American Flag and state only legal citizen who work here and you'll get quality work.

Originally Posted by miguelina

Some researchers think Mexico's falling birth rate could also affect the flow of remittances. The average size of Mexican families shrank dramatically in 1970s and 1980s.

That's odd, mexicans living in the US are having babies in record numbers.

Maybe too many young men came North, leaving women and children and old folks behind. Result, lower birthrate.

Those who managed to have their wives join them are here, expanding their families. Back there, separation is common.

Just speculation.

Also, falling birth rates go with economic uncertainty. With NAFTA wiping out the Mexican economy, terrified workers hesitate to start families.

Also just speculation.