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May 15, 2008
Back Door Efforts to Increase Immigration Congress adopted a major increase in legal immigration in 1990 to cut down on 1. remove fashion models from the H-1B (professional worker) visa category – this would make more visas available to high-tech workers; An article on this ‘stealth’ effort in Computerworld notes that “…it remains to be seen whether she can jump over the legislative stalemate created by [Hispanic Caucus] lawmakers who want comprehensive immigration reform or nothing at all.” Comments
H-1B fashion models? Heh. Another job Americans won't do? Congress never gives up, never learns, never listens to the overwhelming majority of Americans who say we are going in the wrong direction, when we say NO MORE. Democrat, Republican, no matter. We are governed by a one party system. The incumbent party. One party of greedy open borders internationalists. The only way to end their tyranny is with term limits, or vote them all out. So while we wait on term limits, vote 'em all out anyway. Good, bad, kick 'em all to the curb. Vote third party whenever there is an honorable candidate. Posted by: jeebie on May 15, 2008 05:38 PM THE ROOT CAUSE IS JEALOUSY? Are a good number of the liberal arts majors jealous of science majors making approximately 50% more salaries; and there's more of them than scientist and math types; so their "hair brained plan" is replace us with cheap foreigners in a jealous rage? Posted by: Softwarengineer on May 15, 2008 07:01 PM Zoe is fully in the pockets of the tech lobbies and the H1B beneficiaries of CA. It will take HUGE pressure and backlash from the citizens to stop her 'stealth' initiatives to flood the country with workers from all over. CALL, CALL, CALL... Posted by: MS on May 15, 2008 07:54 PM THESE CORPORATE SLAVE POLITICIANS WILL STOP AT NOTHING TOO SELL US OUT... THEY USE SECRET MEETINGS, AND SMOKE AND MIRRORS, TOO TRY AND PLEASE THEIR CORPORATE MASTERS, WITH CHEAP H-1B FOREIGN, AND ILLEGAL ALIEN LABOR... NOTHING WILL CHANGE UNTIL THESE TRAITORS ARE THROWN OUT OF OFFICE FOR GOOD... ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Posted by: American Me on May 15, 2008 08:36 PM This is like the movie Groundhog Day....the same damn thing over and over and over again. Well, I guess we'll have to keep stopping these morons til they get it right!! Posted by: Mary on May 15, 2008 08:40 PM i think that BUSH has made it abundantly clear that he intends to give amnesty this is no secret Posted by: impeachbush on May 15, 2008 10:14 PM It never stops! The open borders crazies just do care about American citizens. They want to import foreign labor to take American jobs and keep wages low. Posted by: Rick S on May 15, 2008 10:16 PM This is a very bad development. Anti-American sentiment is rampant among many of the H1B visa people from Asia. If more of them are allowed to obtain permanent legal residence then the situation will only get worse for those Americans who are still working in the STEM fields. Qualified adult Americans are being pushed out of the STEM fields at an alarming rate to make room for cheap young workers from Asia who think that America only exists for their benefit. These practices are also discouraging promising young Americans from entering any field that has anything to do with science and technology. What’s more, there is nothing to stop this agenda from spreading to other professions also. Zoe Lofgren is pushing for the destruction of what’s left of the American middle class. Posted by: Karl on May 16, 2008 09:22 AM Rep. Zoe Lofgren is a lawyer. Notice she is not doing to lawyers what she is trying to do to the STEMs. Members of the press who justify the attack on the STEMs have their college degrees in the non-STEM fields. What hypocrites! Posted by: Richard A. on May 16, 2008 10:16 AM I remember back in the 70's the people in California brought proposition 13 to a referendum and voted to cut their property taxes in half. Does any one know if it would be possible to bring a national referendum before the people of the U.S. that if passed would force the Goverment to cut legal immigration to the U.S. by at least half and end all these increases in special interest H1-B visa's? Posted by: Brian H. on May 16, 2008 11:31 AM After reading the Fair legislative page and seeing that our feckless Congress is now waffling on making e-verify mandatory, I am sickened that our country has been cheapened to this degree! http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=leg_update051208#1 Posted by: takn on May 16, 2008 12:02 PM OK fellow bloggers what is our plan- we know our corporate whore government is hell bent on our middle class destruction- do we go up into the "perverbial hills" and regroup into commando groups to hit the supply lines that the corporations are using to exterminate us or just hope and pray that just maybe we will get representation in government again. The big earthquake of McCain, Obama, or Clinton is just about to hit the middle class- what is our plan for survival. Posted by: Future Day Laborer on May 16, 2008 03:38 PM Richard A. that is an excellent point, and anyone California that has watched Zoe Loftgren for any length of time, knows, KNOWS, she is a traitor to Americans best interests. Why mince words when it comes to these a--holes that work against the citizenry? Posted by: Bobby on May 16, 2008 05:22 PM mmm lets see...fight the Irish, fight the mexicans, fight the illegals, fight the legals, fight the East Europeans...and the list doesnt seem to end. There is something call pick and choose the battles and spend the resources there, and pick and choose only those battles where the chances of victory are more. You cant win them all guys..so give it up and choose a few! One thing for sure, you cant hope to win battles against legit bills, like visa number recapture for legal immigrants. These are the visas that the USCIS has "lost" because of administrative delays in granting the benefits. These green cards (visas) are not rolled over to the next year, they are just "lost" because no bill/law exists that would roll them over. This new bill being introduced by Lofgren is only trying to recapture what was lost, and not creating anything new...just giving you some details as many of you dont know what you are fighting for...just my two cents..fighting against such bills is only going to waste your resources... so once again, pick and choose your battles.. Posted by: boreal on May 16, 2008 10:38 PM Last month A.C. Nielson, at their plant in the Tampa Bay area, the television program rating people, laid off several hundred workers. About a hundred were American IT Workers. Elaine Chao, U.S.Secretary of Labor, has taken to bad mouthing American Workers and building up Indian workers. It makes you wonder if she knows what her job is. But then you remember she's a Bu$h Political Appointee and it all becomes clear. Also McCain was asked if he supported the H1-B program and his response was he would support both H-1B and green card immigrant visas. Obama of course supports H1-B and green card immigrant visas. And so does Hillary. I don't think Congress or any President has done one thing to help the American Worker or the American People in at least the last 20 years. It’s all about Big Business these days. Posted by: Derek on May 18, 2008 02:38 PM America is suffering from talent starvation. There may be unemployed Americans but that is no reason to assume those people are qualified for the jobs of the 21st century. Forget about training the under-performers who lack drive anyway. It would be too expensive. And unnecessary given the abundance of foreign born talent. Even though this is an election year, Congress needs to take action on this issue. Many superior students educated at American universities currently have to leave the country because of arcane limits on visas and green cards. I personally think that all international students in the STEM disciplines should have green cards stapled to their degrees as soon as they graduate. Time and opportunity are both slipping away. Here's hoping Congress displays political will and leadership and sees the way clear to pass these types of measures into law this year. Posted by: Purpose Driven Exec on May 18, 2008 09:56 PM The government-sanctioned dispossession of American professional workers (via the H-1B and green card programs) and the government-sanctioned illegal alien invasion are both symptomatic of serious fundamental problems in the U.S., namely: 1) Government of, by, and for the corporate elitists. 2) Intentional disinformation routinely dispensed by politicians and the corporate media. 3) Members of Congress repeatedly caving in to big-spending campaign contributors and lobbyists and taking actions that they know are wrong and are harmful to American citizens. It would be sweet justice if Zoe Lofgren and all the other hypocritical traitors in Congress were made to experience the same kind of misery that they are foisting on the American citizenry. Posted by: Steph on May 19, 2008 08:37 AM AMERICAN PEOPLE, PLEASE CALL TO YOUR SENATORS,PLUS YOUR REPRESANTATIVES AND TELL THEM TO STOP THIS AMNESTY!! DO NOT GIVE UP, AMERICAN PEOPLE, SAVING YOUR COUNTRY, GOD HELP US ALL TO BLOCK THIS AMNESTY!! GOOD LUCK, AMERICAN PEOPLE IN STOPPPING AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS. Posted by: jack on May 19, 2008 09:00 AM "“…it remains to be seen whether she can jump over the legislative stalemate created by [Hispanic Caucus] lawmakers who want comprehensive immigration reform or nothing at all.” Why should the agenda of highly skilled immigrants be held hostage for the sake of these llegal alien cockroachs? If anyone should be getting preferential treatment, its us! Posted by: Raj, future American on May 19, 2008 02:02 PM America is suffering from Idiots like Purpose driven Executive types". Posted by: Bobby on May 19, 2008 04:06 PM THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION OUTRAGE, IS A BI-PARTISAN OUTRAGE! Posted by: Independent Voter on May 19, 2008 04:31 PM Bobby, you're right. Lufgreen is a sack of excrement. You only have to watch her committee work on c span for a minute to figure that out. Posted by: art on May 19, 2008 08:01 PM It would not be wise to be fooled by the postings of Raj, boreal, legalimmigrant or anyone associated with the Immigration Voice group. They are an unsavory group of mostly Indian H1B holders whose sole purpose is to convince the Feds to issue more green cards for the benefit of themselves and their friends and family members back in their home country. I work with several members of this group and they regularly talk about remaking America in their image by pushing American citizens out of their jobs and careers. On their website blog last year, they mentioned that they were planning to take steps to “blow FAIR and NumbersUSA out of the water”. They will sometimes pretend to be outraged by the prospect of amnesty for illegals in order to gain sympathy for their cause. In reality they don’t give a damn whether of no America is overrun with illegals as long as they get those coveted green cards. In fact, many of them actually like the idea of illiterate illegals because that makes the rather ordinary skills of most H1B visa holders seem special by comparison. None of these people have any intention of putting in for U.S. citizenship after they get their green cards, as far as I can tell. None of the green card holders that I work with show any interest in citizenship either. One Indian project manager at my company is associated with Immigration Voice. His wife is on an H4 visa and as such is not allowed to work. He has made a deal with a second Indian project manager to fire one of the Americans in that second manager’s group and replace that person with his wife just as soon as he can get an H1B visa or a green card for her. The goal of Immigration Voice is to expand the EB green card program to drive Americans out of their chosen professions. They have hired professional lobbyists to achieve this goal and actually influenced Zoe Lofgren’s immigration bills. White collar citizens better get their heads out of the sand because I can guarantee that none of us will like what the hacks of the Immigraion Voice group have planned for us. Posted by: Victor on May 20, 2008 07:54 AM ========== hahaha Victor, how stupid !! No, we dont need to look good by comparision with the illiterate illegals...We have ppl like you to compare against, so why bother with illegals!!! People like you are naive and dumb enough making American corporations go to the farther nooks of the world to bring us in here. And, i really, really, thank you and your fellow dumb 'hi-tech' folks from the bottom of my heart because if not for lazy, less-skilled ppl like you, we wouldnt have been here... (Btw, maybe you should go back to Russia or whereever hell your parents or grandparents came from too, making more room for more skilled folks like us!) LMAO!!!! Posted by: boreal on May 20, 2008 12:26 PM Victor, don`t pay any attention too morons like boreal... He can`t accept the fact that H-1B is a big scam, for greedy big business to hire cheap foreign labor... Everyone knows it, but delusional people like him and his ilk, will never believe the facts, they`ll just keep on making up their own lies, and spewing their racism... I think we have enough cab drivers, and 7-11 store clerks anyways. THE H-1B SCAM FOR ALL TOO SEE! http://youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU http://youtube.com/watch?v=bOqOxYr4F18&feature=related Posted by: American Me on May 20, 2008 03:15 PM Boreal, How do you know what my skill level is? Would you even know me if you saw me? Are you saying H1Bs are so gifted they can read minds from miles away? Why do you automatically characterize anyone who’s opposed to your presence here as ‘stupid’, ‘ignorant’, and ‘unskilled’? Are you really that ignorant or do you just have a fragile ego? As for me, I am a Network and Systems Admin for a Fortune 500 company on the West Coast. I am certified in both Microsoft and Sun Technologies. Part of my job is to monitor the corporate network and make sure it is configured and utilized in an efficient manner. Yes, I can actually see the web surfing habits of your fellow H1B visa holders. The general public would be amazed and outraged if they knew just how much time these so called ‘best and brightest’ employees spent browsing non work related websites while on the job. Many of the web sites they browse are related to their home countries. Several of the H1Bs surf to the immigrationvoice.org web site on a regular basis to correspond with their fellow green card seeking activists while on company time. I have informed management about this inefficient use of the corporate network and they also receive automatically generated web usage reports. But they have never taken action against the offending H1B employees, even though their actions are clearly against company policy. You see, the dirty little secret about the high tech industry is that while companies preach to the public about skill and efficiency, what they really care most about is having cheap, compliant employees. And that’s what H1B provides them with. I doubt if very many Americans would like the results if the internet and high tech infrastructure in this country controlled by the likes of Boreal and other obnoxious foreigners, but that’s exactly what will happen if the H1B visas and EB green cards continue to be issued. Posted by: Victor on May 21, 2008 08:09 AM Oh, what a creep boreal is! You know, I've been involved with Fair and NumbersUsa for several years now and I'm active in fighting both the illegal alien mess and H1B and employment greencard scams, since all of the above affects me and other Americans in a big way. I think Fair does an excellent job of reporting on the immigration outrage in this country, and I read all the articles with great interest. But I have to say that the articles about the H1B and employment greencard scams are the most interesting, because of the rebuttal postings from boreal and his ilk, we get to see firsthand evidence of the arrogant parasites that are being imported into this country. Please keep posting boreal, you are giving us plenty of fuel for the fire. And to Dan Stein, keep on reporting about H1B and the employment greencard scams that are replacing American workers. You're doing the country a great service. I'll do my best to keep the monthly donations coming. Posted by: Karl on May 21, 2008 11:20 AM |
backlogged cases. Now there is an effort in Congress to adopt legislation that represents a ‘stealth’ approach to further increasing employment sponsored immigration. This strategy is unfolding in the House Immigration and Claims Subcommittee where California Rep. Zoe Lofgren, an immigration lawyer, is the chair. Among the bills Lofgren is pushing are the following: