7. LEGAL IMMIGRANTS: Each year, millions
immigrate to the United States legally, meeting all the requirements
established by our government, and to meet the immigrant’s criminal history,
and “health requirements”.
They
are welcomed to join us, and to become “legal citizens” “if” they meet the
requirements at the end of the 5 years period of time.
If
at the end of Five years they have not qualified to become citizens, and do not
want to become citizens, they will be asked to leave, or be deported.
Join
us, or leave. I will realize that some are guests for certain employment in the
United States; that will still be allowed.
Certain
people, as employees of some foreign company, sports figures, actors/actress’s
etc.
I
want to re-establish the requirement that these immigrants be limited from
obtaining any Welfare, or other assistance for at
least 10 years, as was originally established by our
government for immigrants. We offer them a chance to become citizens, but not a
free handout. Someone must sponsor these immigrants again, so they do not
become a burden on our country.
How many immigrants shall we allow to enter our nation?
Well everyone agrees immigrants are just trying to find a better life, so why
should we keep people out. We are told that it’s the right thing to do, since
there are many people living such terrible lives that the best thing we can do
is let everyone come here. I figure there are only about 2 Billion poor people
in other nations that need our help.
Come
one, come all. Is that OK with you? Move over Americans, and get second
jobs (sorry the immigrants will need those jobs), taxes are going to go up, to
support that many people. We have told Congress there must be limits, but do
they listen to us? NO. You wouldn’t want the aliens to get jobs would you? That
would be cruel and unusual punishment. Just take them in to your home, and
share your good fortune, and food with them. Out numbered? Hey 2 Billion versus
.3 billion Americans,
what’s to worry.
However,
now we have another problem, we have allowed businesses to import temporary
workers from foreign countries, under the H-1b
Guest Worker Program. Then paying them the wages they would never have received
in their home country, cheaper than hiring Americans. This is WRONG.
The American Dream is: Come to America, work hard, educate yourself,
and enjoy your new life, assimilate, that was better than anywhere else in the
world. That use to be our creed, but now you work hard, try to get ahead, and where
are the jobs? Overseas.
We must turn this around.
You are finally seeing this happen, 30 Million Americans unemployed.
Employers claim they have to hire non-citizens because they can’t find
citizens with the education needed to fill the job. What they really mean is
that they can’t find an American citizen that will work for what they want to
pay, so they want to bring in non-citizens to work for less money.
If our citizens are not getting the education in our schools, we need
to make sure education is available in every community to get this education.
“If” there are no Americans able to fill the position, then we need
better education in this country so there are citizens qualified to fill these
jobs at American wages.
In
2007 in just two days, there were 133,000
applicants for H-1b Visa’s, for alien’s
that will work for less money than American citizens. This again is wrong.
That
is 133,000 American’s not working to earn a living wage at American standards
of living.
That’s
most likely 133,000 families without the income to support their family.
In
2008, there were 808,000 Visas accepted, so foreigners can do the job you don’t
know how to do. You are out of work, while they allow these foreign workers to
take your job?
I
will see to it that not ONE H-1b Visa is issued, “hire Americans or else”. That
includes Microsoft’s Bill Gates: who is now opening a company office in
Vancouver, Canada to hire more alien programmers. Don’t bring the results of
that office in to America, Bill. Do you wonder why Mr. Gates is worth at least
$80 Billion? January 09, and Mr. Gates wants to lay off 5000 Americans, but not
one H-1b immigrant.
On
TV recently was the video of a company instructing employers how to beat the
Federal requirements of hiring an American for job offers.
Giving Them Hell: John Miano on the H-1B Visa
By James Maguire IT Management, December 5, 2007
You might call John Miano the “Lou Dobbs of
the tech industry.” Miano, a onetime programmer who’s now a lawyer, is a fierce
advocate for American software developers against what he sees as the
encroaching tide of low-cost foreign software developers.
The H-1B visa
program, which allows skilled foreign workers to work in the U.S. temporarily,
is “a complete and total mess,” he says. The program is the ultimate managerial
tactic to drive down wages, by his account: it provides lower cost, lower
skilled workers who displace American IT professionals. In the never-ending
battle between management and labor, the H-1B visa is management’s sharpest
tool.
In short, Miano’s not happy. And he’s doing
something about it.
One of his
chief thrusts is a campaign of legal action taken in partnership with the
Programmer’s Guild. As he tells it, many U.S. tech companies strongly favor
H-1B workers over American workers, knowing that pay levels for H-1B workers
are lower.
Miano launches
legal action for American workers who claim they’ve been discriminated against
in the hiring process. It’s illegal to discriminate based on immigration status.
“They tell me
they’ve applied for a job. At the end, the company writes back to them. ‘Oh, I
didn’t realize we couldn’t hire U.S. citizens for this job.’ It’s quite
flagrant. I have thousands of these ads. It’s quite open what’s going on here.”
Before hiring
an H-1B worker, American firms must make a good faith effort to hire a U.S.
worker. Yet apparently this doesn’t always happen. The Programmer’s Guild
(Miano is a board member) links to a controversial “You Tube” video that
allegedly reveals how U.S. firms go through the motions of considering American
workers – placing ads, even interviewing – yet actually are only willing to
hire foreign workers. (The company depicted in the video disputes the Guild’s
interpretation, saying its footage has been misused.)
The results of
Mr. Miano’s legal action vary based on how egregious the violation is. In most
cases, “They tend to settle,” he says. He claims that about 100 firms have had
to change their hiring practices in response to suits he’s filed. “At one time
we had 300 [lawsuits] in the queue. And we started filing them and at one point
the government said, ‘Please stop.’”
So far, Mr.
Miano’s suites have only been against smaller companies, firms he refers to as
“H-1B body shops.” These are firms who hire low-cost H1-B workers, then turn
around and sub-contract them out to larger IT companies.
These larger firms are complicit in H-1B abuse, he claims. These bigger
companies use preferred vendors lists (which in itself is a common industry
practice that is not illegal). Yet when hiring contract workers, some companies
limit their preferred vendors lists to firms that only hire H-1B workers, the
so-called “H-1B body shops.”
These larger
firms might find themselves in legal hot water, Miano says. “You know that when
we do discovery on them, we’re going to find some email from somebody who says,
How come you guys are only sending us people from companies that are sending us
H-1B workers?”
Apart from the
legal issues, Miano says that the preferred vendor list system has become
highly constrictive, establishing a near-stranglehold on contract IT hiring – a
large part of the tech industry.
“Sometimes when
a manager knows somebody, they will say, ‘Okay, I’d like to hire you, but you
have to go over to this company, and then work through them,’” he says. “And
they’re the ones who support the H-1B workers. They kind of wink and nod that
they don’t do it.” But the effect is to block U.S. tech talent.
“We’re starting
to get evidence against companies that are using preferred vendors lists to
limit the hiring though H-1B body shops.”
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