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[If you care about immigration, be sure to watch the video to see how lawyers are helping business cheat Americans out of jobs.]
One of the ways foreign workers can work in the USofA is through the use of an H-1B visa. The visa ostensibly exists because there is a “shortage” of Americans who can do the job.
For years and years, those of us in Corporate IT have known that there is not a shortage of skilled, capable technology workers, despite the lamentations of the business lobby. The claims of a shortage is a sham designed to allow more H-1B visas.
The business lobby has countered that there are “rules” designed to protect the American worker and that H-1B visas are only granted with an American worker cannot be found.
About 2 months ago I found the website of Professor Norm Matloff. Long a critic of the H-1B system, Dr. Matloff has documented the system abuses at some length. His lengthy report (entitled On the Need for Reform of the H-1B Non-Immigrant Work Visa in Computer-Related Occupations and written at the request of the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform) provides extensive documentation of the lack of a shortage and the abuses of the system to just hire cheap labor and discriminate against older American workers.
[If you or someone in your family is directly affected by this, I strongly encourage you to at least skim the report and check out his website. It is an eye-opener. In my view, Dr. Matloff's data shows that contrary to claims, it isn't America's decline in technology which requires us to use these visas. Rather, it is the prevalent use of these visas which is, in part, responsible for the decline!]
His various reports and documents have confirmed what I have known for some time.
Now, a YouTube video has done even more. This video provides excerpts from a law firm’s seminar in which a panel explains how to technically comply with the law all the while skirting the intention of the law. In particular, they explain how to advertise for Americans but ensure that they will never find one.
Take the 5-minutes to watch this to learn how the system really works.
As you listen to the debate on immigration reform, and as you listen to the business lobby cry in their soup about the lack of qualified Americans, remember this video. There are plenty of qualified Americans. Business just doesn’t want to hire them and is scamming the system, the government and the American public.
