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« Signing In | Main | Bredesen and the New Spoils System » November 15, 2005Take This Job and Sell It.By Donna Locke Looking toward Washington with some dread, we notice that a U.S. Senate committee has warned Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that if he fails to promptly secure the nation's borders, they WILL. Wow. Don't get too excited. So far, the Senate, led by our own Sen. Bill Frist, has shown little interest in securing the borders, stopping illegal immigration, or protecting American workers. In fact, a few days ago, the Senate figured out a way to kind of offset the wild spending by Congress and President Bush: by selling off an additional 350,000 American high-tech and other jobs annually to a combination of new immigrants, foreign guest-workers, and their families. This would happen via the sale of work visas and green cards to corporations in this country, which would import the additional workers and their families. The projected 350,000 or more includes the family members, who would be able to settle and get jobs here. Never mind that the U.S. Government Accountability Office says DHS cannot estimate how many people are already in the United States on H-1B visas, because of inadequate tracking systems. This legislation and the Senate vote for it were well-covered by news media in India. Not so covered here. No doubt, Microsoft, reportedly an initiator of this legislation buried in a budget bill, will be the first in line for those visas, even as Bill Gates continues to make the rounds of American schools and encourages kids to pursue the jobs they will not get. The so-called shortage of high-tech workers in this country is greatly disputed, especially by the American workers who were fired and had to train their foreign replacements. For a look at this legislation from the immigration control/reform perspective, read this press release by one of our lobbying organizations. Remember, the Senate passed this legislation. We'll see what the U.S. House has to say about it. By the way, Chertoff (above) supports the Bush guest-worker plan to make illegal aliens legal. In that event, there won't be anyone to arrest and deport, thus making Chertoff's job much simpler. Posted in Miscellaneous
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Amen Donna! Gates is getting ready to stick it to his own employees in Redmond. MS has invested $20m and the U.S. taxpayers $15m via the World Bank in a Chinese software engineering firm to train developers supposedly for the Chinese market. Most likely Gates is getting ready to offshore his Redmond development operation. As for Chertoff, what a loser. He said it all when he publicly proclaimed there would not be a border fence on his watch. If the Congress and Bobbleheaded Bush were so interested in U.S. workers, then why does the Labor Dept. refuse to make public the job positions Gates and others like him are seeking on the H1B visas? Could it be that H1B techies are paid 30% less than their U.S. counterparts according to a recent study or if they did make the position public then it wouldn't meet the criteria for an H1B visa? Posted by: Rick Forman at November 15, 2005 9:27 AMI've encouraged the immigration control movement to abandon use of the exclamation point, since we shouldn't be surprised at anything anymore. Posted by: Donna Locke at November 15, 2005 11:52 AMThanks for writing this story, every bit of it is true. It's unfortunate, that covering this issue is a job 'American journalists won't do' Posted by: Dan Williams at November 19, 2005 10:28 AMPost a comment
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