Once again, we get the idiotorials and biased research trying to claim immigrants are critical to the U.S. economy. Every single time, U.S. workers are ignored, the underemployment of U.S. citizens is discounted, and most of all, the wholesale, institutionalized age discrimination that fires workers over the age of 35 and replaces them with a steady stream of cheap young labor from other countries is endorsed.
the vast majority of these returnees were relatively young. The average age was 30 for Indian returnees, and 33 for Chinese…
Wadhwa is referring to the workers leaving the United States and returning to their home countries. Note the focus on the keyword young. The implication is if one is experienced, older, magically their talents are no longer worthwhile. This is age discrimination at it’s best and interwoven through the United States technology companies. Somehow, these companies now believe one loses their ability to even tie their own shoes when one hits age 35.
Senators and Congress Representatives: How would you feel if you were told you were over the hill and could not be in the U.S. Senate as a result? That…
Congress is back in session. Instead of taking up the financial crisis, the budget deficit, oil speculators, the energy bill, extended unemployment benefits or any legislation that puts U.S. citizens first for jobs in their own country….the very first thing they are going to try to do is, increase employment based Visas by over HALF A MILLION!
550,000 to be exact.
These are employment based Visas. Yet they want to bypass any pretense of considering American workers first and even the requirement to have a high school diploma in order to obtain one!
Just as a refresher, here is the classic caught in the act video of a law firm, making a lot of money, just to ensure an employer doesn’t have to even consider an American worker for a job when bringing in foreign labor on one of these employment based Visas:
Don’t believe us that this is about cheap labor? Yet again, this is another lobbyist written bill, pushed for by Compete America, one of the biggest corporate cheap labor lobbyists on the hill. Where are Americans being represented in Congress? Nowhere. American workers are pretty much on our own here through the valiant grassroots efforts of the few. Please…
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…
