-Caveat Lector- ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: "Linda Muller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Mon, 24 May 1999 09:43:30 -05:0 Subject: [BRIGADE] Hiring Americans First Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Brigade, An important message follows on the H1-B - Foreign Worker Import bill. I've also included one of Pat's columns from last year on this issue. Norm mentions that many companies now use H1-B's as their first choice in hiring - - passing over American workers in pursuit of cheaper, imported labor. I know this to be a fact, here in the Northern Virginia area. GO PAT GO!! Linda -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date sent: 22 May 99 16:23:24 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Mendlovitz) Subject: OUTRAGE!!!! Linda, This article was forwarded to me with comments by Prof. Norm Matloff at UC Davis, who leads the fight against the H-1B visa system and its abuse. H-1B has greatly hurt American workers. The article follows his comments: To: H-1B/age discrimination mailing list In yesterday's Wall Street Journal there was an op-ed by Bob Mc Teer, head of the Dalls branch of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank. I was shocked to see that he called for an increase of the H-1B quota to 200,000, outrageous for a federal official. But I was even more shocked when he called for eliminating what little protections American programmers and engineers against employers who frauduently sponsor foreign nationals for green cards. Here is the relevant section (about half of the piece overall): The second step we should take is to change our current immigration policy, which hampers groth by making it diffcult for foreigners with valuable skills and training to work in this country. Economic research shows that skilled immigrants have little negative impact on the employment or wages of Americans, and that they pay far more in taxes than they receive in government benefits. These workers can also help develop and spread technologies that improve lving standards. Since 1990, immigration laws have set aside 110,000 permanent-resident visas each year for professionals, academics, scientists, managers and other skilled workers. But 70,000 of these visas are subject to cumbersome labor-certification rules that require employers to file extensive paperwork and complete an elaborate domestic recruitment process. As a result, many of these visas go unused. We should scrap these certification rules, which do little to protect American workers, and allow employers to hire foreigners workers who meet specified skill, experience and education criteria. Also, our high-tech sector needs greater access to temporary foreign workers. Last fall, Congress and the president temporarily incresed the number H-1B visas for skilled temporary workers---such as scientists and computer programmers---from 65,000 to 115,000 for this year and next year, and 107,500 for 2001. But even with the higher limit, the quota is filled well before the end of the year. We should raise the H-1B limit further to at least 200,000 and make the increase permanent. Ironically, in the other part of Mc Teer's article, he calls on Congress to make it more attractive for retired Social Security recipients to re-enter the workforce. By the way, I hear that the pitch the industry lobbyists have been making to the press (and, presumably, to Congress) is that the impending exhaustion of this year's H-1B quota is "proof" that there truly is a labor shortage. But as John Miano has pointed out, all it "proves" is that employers have become addicted to H-1Bs. It is the first resort, not the last, for many employers, and the more H-1Bs they are allowed to hire, the more they will want. Norm Norm Matloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------- A LABOR DAY LAMENT by PATRICK J. BUCHANAN September 4, 1998 The GOP is frozen in the ice of its free-trade, open-borders ideology. When this writer opposed doubling the annual quota of high-tech immigrants (H1- Bs) to 115,000 a year, Sen. Spencer Abraham and Jack Kemp hit the Washington Times with letters charging me with everything but mopery, not excluding "paranoia"... S ince the Great Depression destroyed the Republican coalition forged by the Harding-Coolidge tax cuts and immigration reforms, only twice has the GOP put together a great governing majority -- Richard Nixon's 49-state sweep in 1972 and Ronald Reagan's 49-state sweep in 1984. In the last two presidential elections, the GOP share of the vote was the smallest sliver since Alf Landon's heyday in 1936 -- 37 percent and 41 percent. Who left the GOP? Reagan Democrats -- in the millions. Oddly, it is the economic issue where Reagan was so strong that caused Middle America to defect to Ross Perot and Bill Clinton. Reagan Democrats still like the GOP on tax cuts. What they abhor are sweat-shop Republicans who haul water for transnational companies whose profits depend on moving U.S. jobs overseas and keeping wages down here with record levels of immigration. The GOP is frozen in the ice of its free-trade, open-borders ideology. When this writer opposed doubling the annual quota of high-tech immigrants (H1- Bs) to 115,000 a year, Sen. Spencer Abraham and Jack Kemp hit the Washington Times with letters charging me with everything but mopery, not excluding "paranoia." Now, one ought not be churlish and suggest a linkage between Spence's enthusiasm for computer braceros and the upsurge in Silicon Valley soft money sluicing into the GOP. But it is worth noting that where high-tech companies gave $551,000 to the party in 1996, in this election cycle, that has shot up to $823,000. Years back, there was a scandal called ABSCAM, in which FBI agents in wingtips posed as Arab sheiks and handed members of Congress thousands of dollars for pledges to support special bills that would put the faux-Arabs on a fast track to citizenship. What is the difference between that and raking in $823,000 to bring in foreign workers to displace native-born Americans? Brother Kemp says there are "350,000 vacant jobs" in high-tech industries and America needs those foreign workers pronto. Now, perhaps Jack heard that at a board meeting of the Oracle computer company. But Norm Matloff, a University of California at Davis professor of computer science, contends that U.S. computer companies turn away 25 to 50 applicants for every one they hire. The Internet is ablaze with the enraged comments of laid-off American workers who, on applying for new jobs with computer companies, are asked if they "would feel comfortable working in an Asian environment." If there are 350,000 vacancies, why did Applied Materials just cut its work force by 2,000? Why are Motorola, Rockwell and small rivals like Novellus Systems and Lam Research laying off? According to one San Jose research firm, revenues in the semiconductor manufacturing industry will plummet 28 percent this year -- because of the recession in Asia, excess capacity and the movement to sub-$1,000 PCs, which squeezes profits. Do our high-tech firms need 60,000 new foreign workers, or do they just prefer pliable Asian guest workers to middle-aged Americans? Last year, college enrollment in computer studies exploded by 40 percent. How does the Republican Party expect to win over these kids if we give away their jobs to foreign workers before they get there? How does the party expect to bring back Reagan Democrats losing jobs in defense plants, if, when they try to transfer to civilian high-tech jobs, they're pushed aside for workers imported from India and China? Why should these folks support Republicans if the party keeps killing their family dreams for soft dollars? Are Republicans suicidal? Our manufacturing sector is already showing signs of a slowdown. Exports are falling, and the Asian import tsunami has not yet hit. If the economy turns turtle just as 115,000 guest workers start replacing Americans in high-tech jobs and shouldering aside our college graduates, the GOP will be risking in 2000 a repeat of '96 and '92. How many times does the elephant have to get hit with a two-by-four? The Senate is a lost cause on this issue, but the House can still kill the quota hike. Besides tax cuts, the Republican Party must find an agenda to get the wages of American workers and the median income of the American family rising again, as they used to do in Reagan's day. My thoughts on the eve of Labor Day. --------- end ------------------ Help Pat and the Brigade in our Battle for the White House... 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