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"brit am" <brit_am@home.net> wrote in message
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> http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty52.htm
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> H-1B VISA SCAM ON AMERICAN WORKERS
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> By Frosty Wooldridge and Dr. Gene Nelson
> April 23, 2005
> NewsWithViews.com
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> Our elected officials in Washington, DC take an oath of office to 'defend
> and protect' American citizens. Senators and Representatives pledge their
> honor to work for the benefit of their American constituents who voted
them
> into office. However, today, after one decade, 890,000 high tech American
> citizens were forced to train foreign workers and then were fired via the
> H-1B visa program. In 2000, not satisfied with 115,000 visas per year,
> Congress increased the annual quota to more than 195,000 visas. That visa
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> why you hear a foreign voice with broken English when you call for high
tech
> help.
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> It's your clue that another American citizen is out of work.
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> Millions of college�-trained American citizens have suffered unemployment
> via Congressional actions. While employers raise the false claim that
> positions are being "offshored," in reality, immigrants from nations such
as
> India, China, and Russia are displacing American citizens while eroding
> American wage scales. Simultaneously, the economic elite, who capture most
> of the value added by these professionals, are experiencing unprecedented
> increases in their personal wealth - as working American's economic
> stability teeters on the brink.
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> Hundreds of thousands of American citizen recent college graduates are
> unable to find work. Instead, they are being forced to take low-�skill
> positions that make scant use of their training. Is this the America we
> aspire to? Many still live, uninsured, with their parents. Employers covet
> the "fresh cheap young blood" from Third World nations, instead.
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> Government leaders trumpet "rising productivity" and continue to suggest
> that job creation will eventually catch up with population growth. The
grim
> reality is that millions of jobs have been cut since 2000. Those visa
> holders are "officially" working only eight hours per day. Thus, having
> millions of these people working as indentured servants in exchange for
> potential employer "green card" sponsorship results in tens of millions of
> hours per year of uncompensated overtime � an employer windfall worth
> billions.
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> Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman described the H-1B visa program as
> another government subsidy (to employers) in 2002. How many more subsidies
> can we afford? Highly skilled and experienced professionals with PhDs and
> two decades of "high tech" employment are told by employers they are
> "overqualified." This thinly--disguised illegal employment discrimination
on
> the basis of age and national origin has meant that many Americans have
been
> seeking full � time employment since 2001. (One employer, Genuity, Inc.
> retained its special visa holders while axing the jobs of hundreds of
> American citizens.)
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> It should be clear by now that these special visa programs, which are a
form
> of corporate welfare, often as a quid � pro � quo for generous campaign
> contributions, are destroying America as a participatory democracy.
> Plutocracy is becoming the power behind many government leaders.
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> The Press will not be free to tell lies. That is not freedom for the
people
> but a tyranny over their minds and souls.  -- Sir Oswald Mosley
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