Fema Employment
Are presidential candidates selling out the middle class by supporting raising the number of H-1b visas?
One criticism of the H-1B program has been over its role in replacing U.S. workers. The first documented cases occurred in 1994 when AIG (Livington NJ) and SeaLand (Elizabeth NJ), took advantage of a loophole in the law to replace their U.S. programming staffs with H-1B workers. These companies used contract job shops to supply the H-1B replacements. The companies could claim they did not apply for H-1B visas and the job shops could claim they had not fired any U.S. workers. Thus, the employer could openly and legally replace their U.S. workforce with H-1B workers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa http://www.h1b.info/ Representative Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) is sponsoring the Defend the American Dream Act (HR 4378). "My legislation faces the Americans who have high-tech degrees in one hand, and pink-slips in the other," says Pascrell. "In report after report, government investigators have found serious weaknesses and failings in the H-1B program," IEEE-USA President Gerard Alphonse said. "Contrary to the law's intent, the program can be used to fill any job at almost any wage, and the vast majority of employers are not required to recruit American workers first." The candidates supporting raising the number of visas are Guiliana, McCain, Romney, Clinton, Edwards, and Obama. You'll have to hunt for that info as it is not all in one place. They want to raise the number of H-1[B] visas to 115,000 from the current level of 65,000.
Public Comments
- those liberals love that!
- yes they are, at least there are a couple who dont support that like Fred D. Thompson! Someday unless the tred is reversed English will be a second language
