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Is John Edwards Getting it on H-1B guest worker Visas? Chris Dodd too?

December 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Earlier I wrote a piece exposing Edwards history for promoting more labor arbitraging guest worker Visas, yet in a recent NPR debate he sounds like he might be realizing Americans are being displaced, or at least is feeling the heat.  H-1B for Dummies
This is a good thing, certainly most of Edwards positions are more in line with working America (see Clinton on H-1B and yes Obama is about as bad).

From the December 4, 2007 Iowa, NPR debate:

SIEGEL: A question for Senator Edwards. If you’re elected president, you’ll hear competing claims about H1-B visas for highly skilled workers. People like Bill Gates will tell you we should have much, much more of them to bring in more highly skilled workers. Critics of that will say no, the United States is training other countries’ engineers and in fact those workers are working for less than American-trained specialists and engineers would.

What would you do as president? Expand H1-B visas or scale them back?

MR. EDWARDS: Well — well, the first point is, why is America not educating and training American workers to do these jobs? I mean, that’s the starting point —

SIEGEL: Well, there are Americans who say that they are being trained for those jobs…

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