Will H1-B immigration debacle be fixed?

By Thomas D. Elias



It's an open question now whether the egregious abuse of H-1B immigration visas by large corporations will ever be fixed.

That's because a small organization dedicated to helping American workers get jobs for which American companies are now importing foreign immigrants has uncovered a 2006 document demonstrating that letting foreigners take jobs Americans could fill is in fact the policy of the Bush Administration.

States the U.S. Department of Labor's Strategic Plan for the fiscal years 2006 to 2011, “H-1B workers may be hired even when a qualified U.S. worker wants the job, and a U.S. worker can be displaced from the job in favor of the foreign worker.â€