ShareThisIn a rare show of bipartisanship last month, Congress approved a $600 million border-security bill to help cut off the flow of illegal immigrants.
The bill is to be financed in part by doubling the cost of an H-1B visa. This is the category that allows foreigners with the technological, scientific and medical skills our economy needs into the country for up to six years, during which time they can apply for permanent residency.
That's how badly skewed politics has made our immigration policy: We are keeping the people we don't want at the expense of the people we do want. Congress regularly adjusts the number of H-1B visas to placate employers who want the quotas increased or to mollify groups who say foreign technical workers are taking jobs from American workers.
That last seems doubtful, especially when it comes to engineers. The Financial Times reports on an Indian outsourcing firm, Cognizant Technology Solutions, that complains that it can't find enough American engineers to fill the jobs it has available in the U.S. The company is being forced to import Indian engineers from its Indian operations on work visas to fill its U.S. vacancies.
"If you look at the core of what we do, the technology work, the U.S. simply doesn't have the talent base today," Francisco d'Souza, the company's CEO, told the Times.
The newspaper cited the National Center for Education Statistics to the effect that Indian undergraduate universities produce about 600,000 engineers a year compared to 84,000 a year in the U.S.
It's simple: We need foreign expertise. And we need their offspring. One consultant cited in the story notes that 70 percent of U.S. Ph.D. students are foreign-born.
Congress should quit trying to spin the immigration issue for political advantage and concentrate on us being able to import the brainpower we need until we're able to raise our own in sufficient numbers.
(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.scrippsnews.com)
This article is hogwash! "70
This article is hogwash!
"70 percent of U.S. Ph.D. students are foreign-born"
You have not made the case that jobs requiring Ph.D.'s are plentiful and pay well. Why would a smart U.S. citizen pay to get a degree when corporations are not hiring Ph.D's at a salary that would pay back the loans?
The U.S. already graduates more engineers than the marketplace can absorb. The way to get U.S. graduates to apply for those Cognizant jobs, instead of them quitting the field and going back to law school or getting into the finance industry, is for Cognizant to keep raising the salary to make it worth it.
We do not "need" bogus diploma mill "expertise" from fake universities in a third world country.
Shame on you.
Engineer Shortage bunk!
AND here's the mantra:
"The goal is NOT to Find and American worker!"
http://www.youtube.com/programmersguild
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx--jNQYNgA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2IQ4XFNyiU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqGBIHmv7jo
http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2007/06/20/our-goal-is-clearly-not-to-find-a-qualified-and-interested-us-worker/
http://www.aea.org/employment.htm ;
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Law-Firms-Video-a-Blatant-Disregard-for-American-Workers/
http://www.creators.com/opinion/paul-craig-roberts/self-serving-lies-destroyed-the-american-dream.html
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/lou-dobbs-on-worker-displacement/2dfb0ef98820747c150b2dfb0ef98820747c150b-199339606856?q=cohen%20%20grigsby&FROM=LKVR5>1=LKVR5&FORM=LKVR12
Glenn Beck -- Cohen&Grigsby seminar 6/26/2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqGBIHmv7jo
Cognizant fined for violations
Why is Cognizant on this list?
http://www.laborlawyers.com/showarticle.aspx?Show=13201&Type=1119&cat=3386
Article is cr@p
2010-06-10: The H-1B work visa is fundamentally about cheap labor
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html
2008-08-30: Foreign workers take jobs away from skilled Americans
http://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/nelsong/august-21-2008/foreign-workers-take-jobs-away-skilled-a.html
2008-06-30: CIS: "H-1B Visa Numbers: No Relationship with Economic Need"
http://www.cis.org/node/222
I could cite many more studies, but the spam filter will not allow it.
Dishonest article
How about this.
Before a US employer can hire that H1b from India, the government can hand them a list of unemployed US workers with that degree. If the US citizen doesn't have every single "skill" listed on the job description, the company can train him/her or let them learn on the job.
After the unemployment list is exhausted, then and only then should corporations be allowed to bring in an H1b.
That would seem fair to me and would address corporation's concerns of there not being enough US citizens for those jobs!
Back away from the keyboard....
Maybe the author of this editorial missed the reports of companies being overwhelmed with resumes for open positions? In my 8 months of unemployment, the indian firms that got hold of my resume and contact details would send an email and follow up with a call about positions on the OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY. I mean, really?! Sure you can't find any qualified applicants if you intentionally canvas potential employees that aren't local to the opportunity. Viola - we can't find any engineers! Mark, absolutely - If there is a qualified unemployed US engineer available for a position, the guest worker should be excused, sent home and the American takes over. That's what the program was designed for in the first place - to supplement a 'supposed' shortage (but that's another story).
More propaganda from the corporate public relations machine
Bull Crap! A million US STEM workers have lost their jobs in the past decade because of the H1B visa! How many STEM workers do you want to put out of work?!?
As the article says,
As the article says, Cognizant has 57 full-time recruiters in the US to recruit local talent available. Although the article talks of Cognizant being an Indian outsourcing company, the fact is it's a US headquartered and listed company. The bulk of their leadership is global leadership. In fact there is only one Indian among the six direct reports to the CEO, Francisco. That's the heterogenity of the company unlike Indian companies.
Further, a computerworld report quoted that in 2008, Cognizant had applied for the maximum number of permanent residents in the US after Microsoft. This clearly indicates that Cognizant is keen on retaining people within the US.
The lies about the H-1B are
The lies about the H-1B are without end. The users of the H-1B are overwhelmingly Indian companies. These companies have no interest in the success of US IT workers, and game the system to ensure that "shortages" are found. We have 18% unemployment (U6), and there are thousands of IT workers who have been laid off since 2007. These US workers have committed one unpardonable sin which makes them unemployable - they are old and smelly. If you are over 35 in IT, look out. You are going to be determined to be "out of skill" and some incompetent desi will be slotted into your job.
We need to end the H-1B program.
glut of STEM applicants
* In 1997, American Management Systems, received about 50 resumes per day, but talked with fewer than 9%, interviewed a fraction of those, and made offers to only one-fourth of those interviewed, for a hire rate of about 2%.
* In 2000, Cisco received 20K applications per month but hired only 5% of the applicants. Inktomi hired only 1%, MSFT 2%, Qualcomm 5%, Red Hat Linux 1%.
* Qualcomm reported in 2001 May that they were receiving over 1K per day, and in 2003 February they were receiving 200 job applications every day.
* MSFT received resumes from about 100K graduating students in 2004, screened only 15K of them, interviewed only 3,500 and hired just 1K, said their spokesman. In 2005 MSFT received about 60K resumes monthly for its 2K open positions of every kind.
* 2004-06-23 The largest corporations receive up to 25K resumes per week. 'Hiring managers are being bombarded with... up to 1,200 or 1,300 resumes per job.', said Jason Krumwiede, a founder of PeopleBonus.
* "many skilled IT workers now find themselves in a group of hundreds -- sometimes thousands -- of candidates for any particular job... 'I know one recruiter for a large insurance company who is receiving 10K resumes through the web per month.', John Challenger, CEO of staffing firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, told NewsFactor..."
* Google was receiving 1,300 resumes per day in 2007 June [39K per month].
* "A vice president at a major bank (not affected by the mortgage market) said that the bank is receiving over 2000 résumés for every open position.", reported Diane Gubin in the summer of 2008 (late July/early August).
* "on-line agencies receive as many as 80K resumes a month.", reported Mike Qauilia 2008-08-20.
* "Northrup Grumman... gets 30K resumes a week", reported Peter Pae 2008-12-23 in the Los Angeles Times
* 2010-01-14: GE received 18K applications for 1200 jobs near Ann Arbor, MI.
* 2010-05-20: Google gets more than 3K applications a day, over 90K applications per month (cited by Laura Petrecca in USA Today)
http://www.kermitrose.com/econ1997.html#19971130
http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200009.html#20000912
http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200105.html#20010527
http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200302.html#20030205
http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200406.html#20040623
http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200410.html#20041015
http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200511.html#20051116
http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200706.html#20070626
http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200808.html#20080820
http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200812.html#20081223
http://www.kermitrose.com/econ201001.html#20100114
http://www.kermitrose.com/econ201005.html#20100520
There was no shortage of talented US citizen STEM workers.
There is no shortage of talented US citizen STEM workers.
No credible evidence of impending shortage of talented US citizen STEM workers has been produced.
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http://www.kermitrose.com/econSummaryAnalysis.html#Media
during a 10 year long
during a 10 year long recession with no job growth in the 4 million technology jobs, america imported SIX MILLION INDiANS with FAKE DEGREES
Waitasecond! six million indians for only 4 million jobs?
Whats left for americans?
Answer: NOTHING!
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Dale McFeatters represents
Dale McFeatters represents some of the worst expressions of fifth column journalism. Rather than discussing the impact of Congress legislating for the past 10-15, a legalized invasion of cheap, scab, indentured foreign labor -- currently about 20 per cent of the high tech labor force in the U.S. -- Dale's "iditorial" reads like something like a press release from billionaire/millionaire high tech executives (e.g., Whitman, Fiorina) or Compete America or the Chamber of Commerce. This isn't journalism; this is unabashed advocacy of transnational corporations. Remember the East India Company? Remember what that led to? Time to start the revolution. Put a stop to screwing American citizens working in our OWN country!
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