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March 25, 2008

Business Lobby Claims Visa Shortage Harming New York

"New York officials have long taken pride in the city’s status as a global gateway. But lately, senior executives of some of the country’s biggest corporations, like Alcoa, have been complaining that American immigration policies are thwarting New York’s ability to compete with other world capitals. Every big employer in the city, it seems, can cite an example of high-paying jobs that had to be relocated to foreign cities because the people chosen to fill them could not gain entry to the United States," the New York Times reports. "Indeed, companies are capitalizing on more open visa policies elsewhere to recruit some of the leaders educated and trained in New York. Gaurav Gaur, for example, an Indian who earned his M.B.A. from Cornell in 2004, said he seized the chance to leave New York last year for London to work for Barclays, though it meant turning his back on opportunities at Bloomberg L.P. and other American companies."

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Comments

This is the standard "Bull S--t" expressed by these companies. There is no concern for American workers or wages. They are trying to turn the US into a third world country to satisify their greed!

Posted by: Rick S on March 25, 2008 12:53 PM

Yeah, the business lobby. Now there's a group of people with integrity. They have just about brought the nation to the point of utter ruin.

Posted by: Bobby on March 25, 2008 01:59 PM

MAKE SURE ALL YOU KIDS GO TO COLLEGE

And load them up with big loans too, cosign those loans too, for your kids' grim futures.

But don't clean out their bedrooms just yet, that H-1B mass just took juniors' jobs.

Posted by: Softwarengineer on March 25, 2008 02:06 PM

Why don't these anti-American business interests just pack up and leave? Surely they would have it so much better in a third world dump. Cheap help, no benefits, just what they need.

Posted by: jmac on March 25, 2008 02:14 PM

It is incredible ,that companies can find workers in America , especially , that their is more than 200 millions people in America , yes , I know the total is 300 millions, but you discount 50 millions illegals and 50 millions childrens ,the remainer is 200 millions . So my point is , there is alot of people in America to be looking out side of our nation. The reason , they are looking outside our nations is because they want cheap labor ,to enrich their pockets...

Posted by: AMERICANCITIZENSFIRST on March 26, 2008 01:33 AM

We have got way too many H1B and L1 job thief visa pukes, and way too many student visa vampires, not to mention the illegal scum that has trashed every major city in America. WE WOULD BE BETTER OFF IF THEY ALL WENT HOME!

All modern day immigration – legal and illegal – is just a form of TYRANNY forced upon the citizens by the cheap labor-loving big business crime bosses and their crime syndicate partners in the Federal government.

WE NEED A LONG TERM MORATORIUM ON ALL IMMIGRATION!!

Folks, remember, remember always …

IMMIGRATION IS KILLING OUR NATION!!!

Posted by: Marc on March 26, 2008 02:28 PM