Outsourcing expert Ron Hira on H-1B reform bill's impact

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70% of the 65,000 h-1b visas are taken by foreign IT offshoring firms

We don't need to raise the cap, we need to stop the abuse of foreign IT offshoring companies. Foreign IT offshoring companies are using 70% or more of the h-1b Visas, in order to train workers and ship them back home.

The h-1b program is taking more jobs away from the U.S. each year, than it could ever hope to bring in.

This program is in bad need of a complete reform, before it guts this countries IT industry.

Don't believe me, read up, here are the links:

Businessweek: The h-1b program is a "conduit to offshoring"

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/feb2007/db20070208_553356.htm

MSNBC: "Work visas may work against the U.S."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17048048/

Bill gates doesn't give XXXX about the U.S. worker, read up on how he sticks it to his own Microsoft employees:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/03/30/EDGRJN7CFB1.DTL

70% (or more) of the 65,000 available h-1b visas are being used by foreign offshore outsourcing companies. These foreign companies are using the Visas to train their workers in the U.S., and then ship them back home to continue the IT offshore outsourcing process.

Companies are using the h-1b program to help them setup foreign offices, development groups of all sizes, and divisions. H-1b workers are paid 20% less than their U.S. citizen counterpart. That's less tax money, then the company sends the worker back to India (usually), where he doesn't pay a dime in U.S. taxes, and proceeds to build a offshore development group that further removes U.S. jobs.

Companies such as Microsoft and Oracle are actually just trying to escape the high infrastructure cost (8 trillion dollars worth) of the United States. Half an engineer's salary is taxes. Taxes that pay Social Security to help our senior citizens, that keep the roads up, that assist our farmers, and taxes that are being used to defend the rest of the world from harm.

The U.S. department of labor has stated that companies can hire an h-1b worker over a U.S. citizen, even if the U.S. worker is just as qualified/capable as the foreign worker.

In open testimony before the U.S. congress, a job applicant called an agency to see if she could apply for a programming job on the east coast. The congress members were shocked to hear that the agency would not consider her for a job, because she could not be sponsored with an h-1b visa. The George Bush Department of Labor took no action against the company, even though most americans would consider this a clear act of bigotry against the U.S. citizen.

And the reason is clear, most h-1b visas are used to offshore U.S. jobs, not to create U.S. jobs.

All over the IT workplace, U.S. citizens are facing open discrimination, simply because their point of origin happens to be the United States. There is an onslought of bigotry being perpetrated by industry against the working U.S. citizen.
So even if you complained about your company prefering to hire a h-1b workers, you wouldn't have a leg to stand on in court. And Even if you applied for a job and were the best candidate, it could "legally" be taken by a worker from another country, and you "the american citizen" can stay on the unemployment line.

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