We need H-1B guest worker Visa reform and no, we do not need what Corporate lobbyists want.

Dr. Norm Matloff, probably the most definitive expert on H-1B guest worker Visas, has written a new paper, Fixing Our Badly Broken H-1B Visa and Employer-Sponsored Green Card Programs. This is a must read.

what the industry lobbyists say is taken at face value, no questions asked. Yet the industry has a huge monetary incentive to push for more H-1Bs, which obviously can and does color their remarks. Thus their claims must be viewed with skepticism, indeed very severe skepticism in light of their record.

 

Here is a bulleted summary of Matloff’s paper.

• The industry claim to need H-1Bs to remedy a labor shortage is false. Their claim that the H-1Bs are “the best and the brightest,” needed to keep American firms innovative, is also false in the vast majority of cases. Instead, the employers’ goal is use H-1Bs as a source of cheap labor.
• Government officials and industry representatives have explicitly stated that the goal of H-1B is the importation of cheap labor.
• The abuse of H-1Bs for cheap labor is widespread, actually standard. It extends throughout the industry, including the large, household-name American firms.…

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