BILL GATES FIRES
EMPLOYEES AND THEN DEMANDS AMNESTY TO KEEP THE MEX HORDES JUMPING OUR BORDERS!
by Little John
We believe it borders
on insanity to train intelligent and motivated [foreign] people in our
universities—often subsidizing their education—and then deport them when the
graduate. Many of these people, of course, want to return to their home
country—and that’s fine. But for those who wish to stay and work in computer
science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let’s roll out
the welcome mat. -- The New York Times 7/10/14, by Sheldon Adelson, Warren
Buffet and Bill Gates.
Fact Check: Here this
trio of billionaires repeats the tired old line that there aren’t enough
Americans to fill jobs in science and technology, so we need to invite
foreigners to do it. More and more evidence, however, shows otherwise. Someone
with a good grasp of this evidence is Michael Teitelbaum, a senior research
associate with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard University. Writing in
Forbes magazine, Teitelbaum notes that respected research organizations such as
the National Bureau of Economic Research, the RAND Corporation, and the Urban
Institute have not been able to find “any evidence of indicating current
widespread labor shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering
occupations. . . .”
He also notes that
“U.S. higher education produces far more science and engineering graduates
annually than there are S&E job openings—the only disagreement is whether
it is 100 percent or 200 percent more. Teitelbaum adds that if there were
really a shortage of workers in these fields, the wages level in in them would
have risen significantly, but mainly they are stagnant or show growing.
Far from too few
Americans qualified in STEM professions (science, technology, engineering, and
math), statistics from the Census Bureau indicate an oversupply. Only a third
of Americans with an undergraduate STEM degree have a STEM job. More than five
million of them work in other fields, and 1.2 million more are either
unemployed or out of the workforce.
Companies perpetuate
the myth of a labor shortage because they prefer to hire foreigners, either
ones trained here or ones trained abroad and admitted through the H-1B visa
program. The foreigners, for a number of reasons, are more willing to accept
lower wages than Americans and put up with more with difficult working conditions.
What the companies are
doing, so that billionaires like Bill Gates can get richer, is deny jobs to
Americans that can provide a middle class living. As Ron Hira, a public policy
professor at Howard University, observed, “STEM degrees . . . have been
pathways to the middle class. It’s been a traditional path for working class
kids to study. . . . By cutting this off, we cutting off that path to upward
mobility for so many of the working class kids.”
As long as the labor
shortage myth persists, Americans who seek jobs in science and technology will
suffer a shortage of employment.
BILL
GATES FIRES EMPLOYEES AND THEN DEMANDS AMNESTY TO KEEP THE MEX HORDES JUMPING
OUR BORDERS!
BILL GATES FIRES
EMPLOYEES AND THEN DEMANDS AMNESTY TO KEEP THE MEX HORDES JUMPING OUR BORDERS!
OPEN BORDERS AND
ENDLESS HORDES OF IMMIGRANTS POURING IN IS ONLY ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED
To
cite just one example, if there is a shortage of U.S. engineers, are 1.5
million Americans with engineering degrees either unemployed or working in
other fields? In all too many cases, U.S. tech companies prefer foreign workers
on temporary visas because they are cheaper and more exploitable than
Americans.
“Tech tycoons like Larry Ellison and
Mark Zuckerberg have gotten rich while wages in the technology sector have
stagnated.”
THE WAY OUR GOVERNMENT AVOID THE BELOW
IS WITH OBAMA’S OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS TO PERMIT HORDES OF ILLEGALS TO
JUMP OUR BORDERS AND JOBS… then the American middle class gets the tax bills
for the staggering cost of Mexico’s looting.
There are ample resources to guarantee every worker and young
person a job at decent pay, a high quality education, decent housing and
nutrition, access to culture, and a secure retirement—the basic social rights
which every person should enjoy.
BILLIONAIRES partner with MEXICO,
OBAMA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to assault the AMERICAN WORKER….
Amnesty, it’s all about keeping wages depressed and passing along the real cost
of all that “cheap” mex labor to the American middle class.
OPEN BORDERS AND
ENDLESS HORDES OF IMMIGRANTS POURING IN IS ONLY ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED
To
cite just one example, if there is a shortage of U.S. engineers, are 1.5
million Americans with engineering degrees either unemployed or working in
other fields? In all too many cases, U.S. tech companies prefer foreign workers
on temporary visas because they are cheaper and more exploitable than
Americans.
Inside the $8.7 million Florida mansion Bill Gates
has bought to help teenage daughter Jennifer compete on showjumping circuit
- Four-acre home is in winter
equestrian capital of Wellington
- New neighbors include Mayor
Bloomberg and Bruce Springsteen
June 25, 2007
High-Tech Titans Strike Out on Immigration Bill
WASHINGTON, June 24 — Bill Gates and Steven A. Ballmer of Microsoft have led a parade of high-tech executives to Capitol Hill, urging
lawmakers to provide more visas for temporary foreign workers and permanent
immigrants who can fill critical jobs.
Google has reminded senators that one of its founders, Sergey Brin, came
from the Soviet Union as a young boy. To stay competitive in a “knowledge-based
economy,” company officials have said, Google needs to hire many more
immigrants as software engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists.
The top executives of
these and other high-tech companies have been making a huge effort to reshape
the Senate immigration bill to meet their demand for more foreign workers. But they have
had only limited success, as is often the case when strong-willed corporate
leaders confront powerful members of Congress.
The Senate plans to
resume work on the bill this week. Much of the debate will focus on proposals
for granting legal status to illegal immigrants. But the sections of the bill
affecting high-tech industries could prove to be very important as well.
High-tech companies want
to be able to hire larger numbers of well-educated, foreign-born professionals
who, they say, can help them succeed in the global economy. For these
scientists and engineers, they seek permanent-residence visas, known as green
cards, and H-1B visas. The H-1B program provides temporary work visas for
people who have university degrees or the equivalent to fill jobs in specialty
occupations including health care and technology. The Senate bill would expand
the number of work visas for skilled professionals, but high-tech companies say
the proposed increase is not nearly enough. Several provisions of the Senate
bill are meant to enhance protections for American workers and to prevent visa
fraud and abuse.
High-tech companies were
surprised and upset by the bill that emerged last month from secret Senate
negotiations. E. John Krumholtz, director of federal affairs at Microsoft, said
the bill was “worse than the status quo, and the status quo is a disaster.”
In the last two weeks,
these businesses have quietly negotiated for changes to meet some of their
needs. But the bill still falls far short of what they want, an outcome
suggesting that their political clout does not match their economic strength.
Stephen W. Yale-Loehr, a
co-author of a treatise on immigration law, said: “High-tech companies are very
organized. They have numerous lobby groups. When Bill Gates advocates more H-1B
visas and green cards for tech workers, everyone listens.
“But that supposed
influence has not translated into legislative results,” Mr. Yale-Loehr, who
teaches at Cornell Law School, continued. “High-tech companies have been lobbying
unsuccessfully since 2003 for more H-1B visas. It’s hard to get anything
through Congress these days. In addition, anti-immigrant groups are well
organized. U.S. computer programmers are constantly arguing that H-1B workers
undercut their wages.”
The Republican
architects of the Senate bill, like Senators Jon Kyl of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, thought they were doing a
favor for high-tech companies when they proposed a “point system” to evaluate
immigrants seeking green cards. The point system would reward people who have
advanced degrees and job skills needed in the United States.
But the high-tech
companies were upset because the bill would have stripped them of the ability
to sponsor specific immigrants for particular jobs.
The companies flooded
Senate offices with letters, telephone calls and e-mail messages seeking
changes to the bill. Mr. Ballmer, the blunt-spoken chief executive of
Microsoft, Craig R. Barrett, the chairman of Intel, and other executives pressed their concerns in person.
These advocates have
made some gains, which are embodied in an amendment to be proposed by Mr. Kyl
and Senator Maria Cantwell, Democrat of Washington.
Edward J. Sweeney,
senior vice president of National Semiconductor, based in Santa Clara, Calif., said, “I’ve
spent many hours in Washington talking with senators to get their support on
this amendment.”
Likewise, William D.
Watkins, the chief executive of Seagate Technology, the world’s largest maker of computer disk drives, said he met
with five or six senators two weeks ago.
Under the Kyl-Cantwell
proposal, 20,000 green cards would be set aside each year for immigrants of
extraordinary ability, outstanding professors and researchers and certain
managers and executives of multinational corporations. The original bill would
have eliminated the existing preference for such workers.
In addition, the
amendment would give employers five years to adjust their hiring practices to
the new “merit-based” point system for obtaining green cards.
“For the first five
years, employers would still have a say,” Ms. Cantwell said in an interview.
“They could recruit the best and the brightest.”
The number of green
cards for employer-sponsored immigrants would gradually decline, to 44,000 in
the fifth year from 115,000 in each of the first two years. No green cards
would be set aside for employer-sponsored immigrants after that.
Many high-tech companies
bring in foreign professionals on temporary H-1B visas. The government is
swamped with petitions. On the first two days of the application period in April,
it received more than 123,000 petitions for 65,000 slots.
The Senate bill would
raise the cap to 115,000 in 2008, with a possible increase to 180,000 in later
years, based on labor market needs.
Many high-tech
businesses want to hire foreign students who obtain advanced degrees from
American universities, and many of the students want to work here, but cannot
get visas.
Under current law, up to
20,000 foreigners who earn a master’s degree or higher from an American
university are generally exempt from the annual limit on new H-1B visas. The
Kyl-Cantwell proposal would double the number.
The amendment would also
establish a new exemption, providing 20,000 additional H-1B visas for people
who have earned advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering or
mathematics from a university outside the United States.
The technology companies
face a serious challenge from a different direction, as lawmakers of both
parties worry about possible abuses in the H-1B program.
Senator Richard J.
Durbin of Illinois, the Democratic whip, and Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, have a proposal that would
overhaul the H-1 B program and give priority to American workers. Their
proposal would also define, in great detail, the wages that must be paid to
workers who have H-1B visas.
Mr.
Durbin contended that some companies have used foreign workers to undercut the
wages of American workers. And in some cases, he said, foreign workers come to
this country for a few years of training, then return home “to populate
businesses competing with the United States.”
“The H-1B visa program
is being abused by foreign companies to deprive qualified Americans of good
jobs,” Mr. Durbin said. “Some companies are so brazen, they say ‘no Americans
need apply’ in their job advertisements.”
High-tech companies said
that the wage standards in the Durbin-Grassley proposal would, in effect,
require them to pay some H-1B employees more than some equally qualified
American workers who are performing the same duties.
One company, Patni Computer Systems, agreed this month to pay more than $2.4 million to 607 workers
with visas after Labor Department investigators found that they had not been
paid the wages required by federal law. The company’s global headquarters are
in Mumbai, India, and its American operations are based in Cambridge, Mass.
Laurie J. Flynn
contributed reporting.
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