A fellow insurgent is circulating an outstanding letter that I urge all Americans to send to their congressmen:
The Honorable xxxxxx
United States Senate
112 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-0505
Re: Americans should get the first crack at jobs this country creates.
To: Senator xxx:
I encourage you to take steps to reform and reduce the H-1B visa program, which has been widely abused.
The purpose of the H-1B program was to bring in a limited number of skilled, temporary workers for positions that could not be filled by domestic workers. Utilization of specialized talents to improve business and technology initiatives is a positive strategy. However, the issue is twofold:
1. Corporate America has been using H-1B workers as source of cheap labor to displace highly capable Americans.
2. When a H-1B holder gets into a managerial level, they tend to hire within their own culture exacerbating the importation of more H-1B workers.
It has seriously damaged the American information technology sector, discouraging future students from entering technological disciplines.
With unemployment over 9 percent for 20 consecutive months, it is unconscionable that businesses are importing foreign workers instead of hiring qualified American workers.
A new study from the GAO admits that no one knows the total number of H-1B workers in the U.S. at any one time. Industry advocates like to mention the 65,000 annual cap because that figure seems small, but they conceal the total number of American jobs displaced by this program.
Millions of Americans have lost jobs during this recession. I hope you will support efforts to track the total number of workers who arrive on these visas and stay in this country, as well as efforts to reduce the total number of these visas.
Sincerely,
xxxxx
Here's a MS Word version.
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