Thread: NUMBERS USA ALERT 3/19/08

Dear Faxer:


Blast Rep. Giffords for introducing a bill to DOUBLE the H-1B visa program

This new fax has been posted in your Action Buffet based on your answers to the Interest Survey.

You can find this fax by proceeding to
http://www.numbersusa.com/faxes?ID=9811

This is a special action request for NumbersUSA members who have selected "programmer" or "hi-tech" interests on their surveys.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz) has introduced the Innovation Employment Act (H.R. 5630), which would DOUBLE the current H-1B visa cap to 130,000 per fiscal year. H.R. 5630 would further raise the cap to 180,000 beginning in 2010 if the 130,000 cap is reached during the 2009 fiscal year.

Click here to visit NumbersUSA's page on hi-tech visas.

Please send this fax to Rep. Giffords and let her know your displeasure with H.R. 5630.

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Let me portray the 'other side' of the debate. There is much disinformation,
obfuscation and downright lying from the proponents of increases in the level of skilled worker importation.

Please review the examples below on the subject. They prove that the claims of shortages are overblown, while rampant discrimination based on national origin (eg. the United States) goes unanswered. In short, the skills are here, but salary levels have to be maintained to continue to allow the field to be desirable to current - and most importantly, FUTURE - generations of IT workers.


1. Sona Shah:

http://www.freerepublic(dot)com/focus/f-news/1714614/posts

Calls an employer about an IT job with US House listening in on conversation, reported the following exchange with the recruiter:

'Hi. I'm an American citizen. I'm looking for a job,'" Shah recalled. "They said, 'No, that job's been set aside for an H-1B employee.'" The staffers at the legislative briefing were stunned. "There were audible gasps," Shah said. Those are the kind of tactics the 34-year-old Montclair woman has used in her crusade to reform the H-1B visa classification, which she says U.S. employers have used to turn Indian immigrants into underpaid indentured servants -- and to deny American citizens jobs.


2. Kevin Flanagan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Flanagan

Kevin Flanagan was a computer programmer who worked for The Bank of America in Concord, California, USA.

Flanagan committed suicide in the parking lot of Bank of America's Concord Technology Center after he and colleagues were laid off in April 2003. The lay-offs were due to the company outsourcing many computer-related jobs to less expensive workers, mostly from India.


3. Larry Lebowitz, Attorney with Cohen & Grigsby (Pittsburgh PA)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR1Jke2NWTA

Saying during his presentation to employers seeking to avoid hiring Americans...."Our goal is clearly, not to find a qualified and interested US worker"...


Let me conclude with one final point:

How is it 'permissible' to refuse to hire Americans for IT jobs, when clearly,
discrimination by national origin is explicitly forbidden under US Civil Rights Laws (EEOC)? (Reference: http://www.eeoc.gov/origin/index.html )

I am extremely disappointed you have chosen to do the cheap labor bidding for ultra wealthy corporate CEOs over the interests of ordinary working people like myself. I will let all people I know in the industry of your failures in this regard as well. I, also, will work to see you are defeated should you choose to run again.

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Excellent Phrede! Don't cut her any slack.

Thank you for posting this action alert.

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