Thread: Florida shooting relation to H-1b and Family Court

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Florida shooting relation to H-1b and Family Court

Kim Berry: Florida shooting relation to H-1b and Family Court
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The firm that had fired the engineer, Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc. (www.rsandh.com), had filed 11 LCA to hire H-1b engineers in FY2008, and six in FY2007. LCA Records are here: http://www.programmersguild.org/docs/Reynolds_LCA.xls

FY2008

TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER

56493

INTERN ARCHITECT

52390.62

TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER

85000

GIS ANALYST

63000

INTERN ARCHITECT

43000

GIS ANALYST, PLANNER II

56472

TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER

50940

GIS ANALYST, PLANNER II

56472

TRANSPORATION ENGINEER

52500

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER

75600

ARCHITECT

62000

FY2007

Transportation Engineer

$60,000.00

Civil Engineer

$51,000.00

Transportation Engineer

$49,000.00

Civil Engineer

$48,000.00

Transportation Engineer

$51,000.00

Intern Architect

$48,968.61


This is yet another story of a U.S. engineer that could not find work for over a year, even as Congress allows foreign engineers to flood into the U.S. job market. (In the week prior to the shooting the state jerked him around about even getting his unemployment check.)

U.S. unemployment is now 10%. Yet congress has done NOTHING to stem the flood of foreign workers into the U.S. Congress has done NOTHING to stem the flow of jobs out of the U.S. President Obama has not addressed either of these key problems all year. Instead they argue about health care plans.

Perhaps if the job market were not flooded with H-1b (and the dozen related visas) willing to do anything to work in the U.S. the employer would have tried to find a suitable position for this engineer rather than terminating him. But the availably of $50k indentured servant engineers is hard to resist – and hard for American workers – both new graduates and people with 20 years of experience - to compete against.

For nine months his gross income was under $900 per month working at Subway. Among his debts was $11,085 in child support. (After the debt exceeds $5,000 it is a felony.) I believe that even bankruptcy court cannot clear a support obligation, nor the civil and criminal penalties associated with the debt.

The U.S. and state legislators did nothing to help this American, and everything to destroy him.

If he had been the female he probably could have obtained spousal support until he was able to find work. But family court rarely awards spousal support to noncustodial fathers, regardless of need.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/orl ... g.suspect/

Jason S. Rodriguez listed his assets at $4,675 and his liabilities at $89,873.31. His 2002 Nissan XTerra with 110,000 miles represented $4,000 of those assets.

He said his monthly income as a "sandwich artist" at a Subway Restaurant in Orlando, where he had worked for nine months, was $890.67, and he listed his monthly expenses at $815.

He faced an $11,085 claim of child support.

Orlando lawyer Charlie Price represented Rodriguez in his case. "It's not that atypical from most everyone I see," he told CNN in a telephone interview. "That's how it is right now. He's a very typical client. Of people that are suffering through the economy right now, there's nothing extraordinary about him ... except that."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/WireStory?id=9021428&page=2

Rodriguez told detectives that the company had fired him without cause and had made him look incompetent. He told them he was unemployed for a year and a half before getting a job at a Subway, where worked until recently.

He told them the shop couldn't give him enough hours, and he later filed for unemployment. He expected to get a check recently but when it didn't arrive he blamed Reynolds, Smith and Hills, thinking it was harming his efforts to qualify, police said. He told police he could no longer support his family.

After the divorce, Rodriguez seldom saw his son, but he called last week while the child was at Holloway's house and the boy asked his father why he did not come over, too.

"He said, 'Because I don't have any money. I don't have a job. I don't have anything to eat. When things get better, I'll come see you,'" Holloway said Rodriguez told his son.

Posted 7 Nov 2009 10:11 AM by H1B Scam

I know this as Gulf Stream Park in Hallandale Florida is expanding. It was once a horse racing track with races that had horses that would compete in the Kentucky Derby. Then it added a casino and now stores and a condo complex is being built on the property. Many of the top jobs in construction and management have gone to Canadians. The entire head of it has which was a Canadian resigned and they replaced him with an American. Even though I am originally from Canada I do not agree with what they have done and are doing.

There needs to be some kind of provision on theses visas, that is there is an American qualified for the position, no foreign worker can be brought in to fill that position.

Originally Posted by Floorguy

There needs to be some kind of provision on theses visas, that is there is an American qualified for the position, no foreign worker can be brought in to fill that position.

Actually there is a rule under NAFTA stating that there cannot be any Americans qualified to be able to bring foreigners in on visas. Once again the government ignores it in favor of big business. My daughter had a friend who was a computer genius and took programming in university. He changed majors as there were no jobs for Americans in it. All programs are either written in countires like India and Ukraine or by people brought here on visas. He ended quiting university and is working for a computer compnay dealing with programming problems. The main reason he got the job was he was from Russia and they needed someone to be able to communicate with the programmers in the Ukraine when there were problems.

Originally Posted by Floorguy

There needs to be some kind of provision on theses visas, that is there is an American qualified for the position, no foreign worker can be brought in to fill that position.

Early in the Bush administration this was true, but thanks to intense lobbying from the Indian government the Department of Labor changed its rules so businesses no longer had to look for qualified Americans. The H-1B visa program, which was supposed to bring in workers from all over the world, was turned into an Indian government program meant to export their poverty to the US at the expense of the American worker. There is no quality to the applicants seeking admission to the US and professional prostitutes and robbers from India have been caught getting computer jobs through the use of fabricated resumes.

Many of those from India are notorious for false resumes and fake degrees. They were doing that in Canada when I lived up there. There are alot of Canadians here on visas as well. Back in the 80's the hospitals in Ontario layed off nurses to save money and the hospitals here took them. It was great for the Canadians as they got jobs here that paid more than they made in Canada but less than what an American would be paid so both sides were happy. They hospitals still go up there to recruit. Microsoft goes up to my home town's university to recruit. Bill Gates goes in person to the University of Waterloo around graduation time to get computer grads. That university is up there with MIT for their computer grads. Other computer and related companies also hire from the University of Waterloo. A Canadian company won the contract to build a tunnel at the Port of Miami and you can bet alot of employees will come here on visas as well. In Broward County a company from Spain won the contract for road repairs for I-595 and they too will bring people over on visas.