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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Apr 26, 2008 3:00:06 GMT -6
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Post by judes on Apr 26, 2008 9:49:54 GMT -6
and:
3. How H-1B visas suppress American wages
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Post by jeffolie on Apr 26, 2008 15:36:10 GMT -6
H-1B visas are very bad for America.
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Post by bluebudgie on May 17, 2008 16:11:00 GMT -6
The following was pointed out in the Rob Sanchez jobdestruction newsletter: Leading Republican on the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas shows an amazing double standard here. news.medill.northwestern.edu/washington/news.aspx?id=86933 “For months, the Democratic majority and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus have prevented the House of Representatives from voting on critical immigration legislation, including a border security bill and an emergency increase in H-1B visas for American high-tech companies,” Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas said in a statement. “They have held this legislation hostage to their demand for a massive amnesty for 12 million illegal immigrants, a demand that the Senate has already rejected.” So the Congressional Hispanic Caucus is holding the high tech companies hostage - amazing and pretty funny - Bill Gates must be wetting his pants! As for Lamar Smith, the typical freaking out over "amnesty" for illegals (not the cheap labor aspect), however the demands of the H-1B cheap labor lobby are a dire "emergency".
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on May 17, 2008 17:35:39 GMT -6
An "emergency" increase in H1B visas is an idiotic concept to begin with. Once again, it demonstrates that the underlying motivation of many Republicans is unrelated to protecting American workers, nor preventing wage suppression by legal and illegal immigrants.
This is why every single bill to combat illegal immigration has a multi-year delay before Employer sanctions are enforced.
Illegal immigration could be stopped in its tracks if we prosecuted employers for illegal hiring.
But few in Congress are sincerely interested in protecting American workers from low-wage job competition. They're more concerned with ensuring the continued flow of cheap labor to their big Corporate donors like Bill Gates and Tyson Foods.
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Post by bluebudgie on May 18, 2008 19:24:27 GMT -6
Lamar Smith was clearly aware of the infamous Cohen and Grigsby law firm "how not to hire and American worker" Youtube seminar. And yet and H-1B increase is now suddenly an "emergency" -impending recession and all? This Youtube video news report shows Lamar Smith being critical of H-1B and reports that he (and Sen. Grassley) sent a letter to Cohen and Grigsby. The video is at least 10 months old.
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Post by proletariat on May 30, 2008 6:02:58 GMT -6
citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2008/05/bhagwati-channe.htmlBhagwati channels Dean Baker on immigration I knew this day would come. My friend and former boss Dean Baker has been taunting the neoliberals to embrace his idea of free trade in health care and immigration. This was good politics, so long as no neoliberals did so. It served to show their hypocrisy for subjecting steelworkers to unrelenting low-wage competition, while not opening up the immigration floodgates to low-wage doctors. It also showed that our trade policy is not a random inevitability, but structured by real people to benefit real favored interests at the expense of others. The problem with the strategy is that neoliberals have actually long been much warmer to this idea than Dean let on. As early as the 1970s, corporate lobbyists were trying to figure out ways to put immigration and social services under emerging neoliberal institutions. By 1994, the Clinton administration offered up health insurance and our H-1B visa programs to WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services coverage. And as our report shows, this move by Clinton has hurt the prospects for his wife's health care package. Many corporate lobbyists (and some WTO nations) want to create a GATS visa that would put the whole of U.S. immigration policy under WTO jurisdiction. This pretty much the gist of the Bhagwati and Madan piece in the WSJ that Dean praised today: Mode 4 concerns doctors and other medical providers going where the patients are. It offers substantial cost savings, since the earnings of foreign doctors are typically lower than those of comparable suppliers in the U.S. Now, while it may be interesting to think about the economics of liberalizing immigration, it is something altogether different to think about the constitutionality and institutional aspects of doing so through the WTO. We've found that those in favor of more... The WTO has no mandate to negotiate migration policy, nor should it... We reject the guest worker model, which inevitably ties migrant workers' right to stay and work in a country to employment with a specific employer, making them vulnerable to extensive abuse that sometimes borders on indentured servitude and undermines domestic and international labor standards. ...and of less immigration... A WTO-imposed guest-worker scheme would be even more devastating as the global bureaucrats would have sanctioning ability to force our submission to their sovereignty-destroying whims. ...prefer to duke it out on the national stage, where with power comes accountability, rather than at the WTO, where there is no popular accountability. I hope that Dean will clarify that he means he is for free trade for professionals in theory, not in WTO practice.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Jun 2, 2008 0:54:34 GMT -6
We need to get out of the WTO entirely. The job loss is moving right up the income ladder. It was bad when steelworkers, shipyard workers, and other manufacturing workers lost jobs due to NAFTA and globalization. It was worse when IT and computer technology workers lost jobs to outsourcing and globalization.
It will be even worse when job loss and wage suppression are extended to every other profession as well.
As Dennis Kucinich advocated, we need to "cancel" both the WTO and NAFTA.
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Post by graybeard on Jun 2, 2008 4:04:32 GMT -6
There was a funny going around about outsourcing the President's job. I tried to find it to post here. Seems like the Prez and Cong have long been working for foreign countries.
Thanks for the Obama quotes, UC. They're better arguments against him than the lies from others.
GB
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Post by Cactus Jack on Jun 2, 2008 9:13:37 GMT -6
Not long ago, I became afoul of some farm worker groups pushing cheaper labor for my small scale agri-business, who wanted me to prescribe to applying for H1B visa workers, and then transfering those slots to them to shelter probable illegal aliens. I refused, and the threatened to block any needs I would have when it comes to harvest time (hiring workers needed to bring in crop).
Little do they know, that I don't have trouble hiring farm workers -- mainly b/c I pay a fair wage (usually tied to a percentage of the harvest price when marketed). Over the past several years, I've had to turn workers away b/c there was too many wanting the few jobs I had.
Oh, did I mention, all my workers must be able to speak English, and if they choose to speak in another tongue, it has to be that in which my wife speaks -- her native Vietnamese -- which I also converse with her in. So far no takers ... ;D
..so much for the rationale that Spanish-speaking foreign nat'ls only do the jobs Americans don't do (when the work done is paid for at a fair wage).
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Post by graybeard on Jun 2, 2008 12:15:32 GMT -6
You should email Lou Dobbs. He might interview you.
GB
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Post by Cactus Jack on Jun 3, 2008 7:41:18 GMT -6
i got better things to do than that ... this feedback hopefully will inspire others to do the same
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