110,000+ tech jobs have already been lost in this country since the beginning of the year. The tech sector like the rest of the economy is struggling. Yet, despite all the job losses and the calls to stimulate the economy the clowns in Washington are at it again.
Dozens of lobbyists calling for more foreign H-1B Visa holders to be allowed to enter our market have been seen on Capitol Hill and at the White House this week.
H-1B visas are granted to foreign nationals with a college degree to work in specialty occupations in our country. Those specialty occupations are often technology and engineering positions. Large tech firms and our Colleges and Universities are the biggest employers on H-1B visa holders. They routinely overlook qualified American workers in order to employ cheaper foreign labor. Universities also prefer the cheap foreign labor because they add an additional “diversity benefit”.
The U.S. has and continues to produce more than enough able tech and engineering workers. Our higher education institutions produce over 200,000 tech/engineering graduates annually ABOVE the number of tech and engineering jobs available in our nation. Yet, despite these numbers, greedy tech firms and colleges claim that they cannot find enough tech workers. I know dozens of tech workers that lost jobs to H-1B visa holders, including two IT graduates from the University of Pennsylvania that were turned down for tech positions at the University. The University then proceeded to hire two H-1B visa holders that struggled with the English language. This Ivy League school cannot claim that their own graduates are not qualified.
Like President Bush, President Obama is on record supporting an increase in the number of H-1B visa approved to work in the U.S.The current annual cap on H-1B visas is 65,000. President Obama voted in the U.S. Senate to increase the cap to 180,000 cheap foreign tech workers a year and on another occasion he voted to remove the cap entirely to allow an unlimited amount of foreign tech workers to flood our market.
Every single member of Obama’s cabinet thus far supports increasing the number of H-1B visa holders. Homeland Security Sec. nominee Janet Napolitano has been one of the most vocal supporters of the H-1B visa program in the country. During the campaign, Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Richardson, Biden, McCain, Romney, Rudy, Huckabee and even Ron Paul all made statements in support of more H-1B workers. Our leaders seem intent upon making us completely dependent upon foreign workers and foreign companies to run our incredibly important and vital tech and engineering sector.
As you are reading this, new bills are being written to expand or even remove the H-1B visa cap. A prominent Philadelphia based immigration attorney Morley J. Nair even released a press release expressing his optimism that the H-1B visa cap will be raised or removed under a new Obama administration.
The H-1B program is broken and corrupt. Many H-1B visa holders do not have college degrees and many of them stay in the U.S. illegally after their visa expires. Colleges and Corporations often falsely claim that they cannot find willing U.S. tech workers. Immigration Law firms help teach them how to do this. I have a video of a Pittsburgh based Immigration law Firm telling clients that the goal is to NOT find willing and able U.S. tech workers. I will attach the video below in the comment section in the near future for those of you that have not already seen the video.
The new stimulus plan that will likely grow to at least $900 Billion if not $ 1Trillion dollars has no provisions in regards to funds going to firms that hire foreign workers (either illegal or visa holders). It is expected that many of the research/green tech/education stimulus funding will go to firms that hire a large number of foreign visa holders. And of course the infrastructure spending will likely go to companies that hire illegal immigrants since those companies have an unfair cost advantage and can place lower bids than the companies that play by the rules. Thus, much of the stimulus funding will not go towards hiring more U.S. workers. Instead, it will go towards hiring the cheapest foreign labor those firms can find. And those foreign workers will in turn send a percentage of that money (your future tax money) back home to their native countries. Not only will stimulus funding go towards foreign workers, but foreign companies will also be cashing in. For example, a large wind energy company based in the Philadelphia suburbs was recently bought by a foreign company and they are already making plans to get their hands on some of the stimulus funds.
Just as a lot of the bailout money went to U.S. banks that in turn invested it into Chinese banks, so too will the stimulus funds be funneled out of this country. The largest transfer of wealth in the history of the world is not only continuing, it is accelerating at a frightening pace. We are at war and most people haven't realized it yet. And I am not talking about Iraq and Afghanistan. It is going on all around you - open your eyes.