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It’s about time.  We all know that immigration attorneys are making huge bucks processing guest worker Visas and working every loophole for businesses.  Why on Google ads, which places automatically content appropriate ads onto your blog, I have banned hundreds of immigration law firm advertisers peddling their wares on how to not hire an American.   Obviously corporations are more than willing to pay huge attorney fees to skirt the law instead of  using  that money to hire entire divisions of American engineers.   Well, finally, the DOL is actually auditing one of these firms.

From the Department of Labor press release:

The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that it has begun auditing all permanent labor certification applications filed by attorneys at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP. The department has information indicating that in at least some cases the firm improperly instructed clients who filed permanent labor certification applications to contact their attorney before hiring apparently qualified U.S. workers. The audits will determine which, if any, applications should be denied or placed into department-supervised recruitment because of improper attorney involvement in the consideration of U.S. worker applicants

Additionally the DOL said, “The department’s regulations specifically prohibit an employer’s immigration attorney or agent from participating in…

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Remember when I wrote that the DHS rule change on the OPT program was illegal? Well apparently a powerful group of attorneys thought so too and decided to take legal action.

From ComputerWorld, , H-1B opponents challenge Bush administration in court:

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., by the Immigration Reform Law Institute and joined by The Programmers Guild and other groups, charges that the administration’s decision in April to extend the work period for students under the Optional Practical Training provision is little more than an effort to get around the H-1B cap limit

They did this with absolutely no legal basis,” said John Miano, founder of The Programmers Guild in Summit, N.J. He said the federal extension will hurt U.S. workers who are seeking job training because it will divert training resources to foreign workers. “We hear over and over again that U.S. workers do not have the skills to do the job,” he said.

Some of the occupational areas covered under the OPT program, believe it or not, are technician and web site design.   Considering we have people paying less than minimum wage for these skills, does anyone believe there is a shortage or that magically that’s in depth scientific…

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My, my, the economic theory hits just keep rolling from John McCain.   First he said that Americans couldn’t pick lettuce for $50/hr.   Of course he thinks more bad trade deals are great for the nation. That’s right, damn the evidence and the statistics as our US dollar tanks and the nation is hollowed out of manufacturing and service jobs.   Now he believes by denying US citizens jobs and opportunity, displacing them with foreign guest workers, one creates jobs!   Must one wonder if McCain is living in some sort of economic fantasy world!   Or could it be he will only listen to corporate lobbyists and present their public relations teams talking points?

Ars Technica reports Chuck Fish, former conglomerate Time-Warner executive and lawyer, representing McCain, claims:

For each H1-B visa hire, 20 domestic jobs are created

Ars Technica notes there is only one study that claims firing Americans and denying opportunity to Americans creates jobs.   When Ars Technica requested the source of John McCain’s claim that guest worker Visas is a massive job creation engine, there was no reply from the McCain campaign.

Even worse, Ars Technica is quoting a corporate lobbyist paper that has been heavily debunked.   Of course it is debunked, does anyone in their right…

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