Posted on 04/24/2009 11:11:32 PM PDT by Steelfish
Bill Gates is a big supporter of the H1B visa program, allowing foreign student graduates to stay in this country for 6 years after graduation. Companies use this program to drive down wages for technical talent, as the H1B folks will accept lower than market wages for the privilege of remaining in this country. The justification, as Gates says, is that we don’t have sufficient talent in this country. While that may be true at some point in the future, I don’t believe it to be true now.
As I look to move from self-employed back into a technical position in industry, I have refused (so far) to apply to companies offering to help secure an H1B visa for applicants. They might as well advertise “Americans need not apply....”
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Ted K is one of the prime causes for the immigration mess including the so-called lottery visas. He has single- handedly destroyed this nation especially by his virulent opposition to SC nominees like Judge Bork.
As a legal immigrant who arrived in this country after waiting for two years, I can guarantee you I had to have a medical, submit biographical data, have a criminal background check, have fingerprints taken, have a COLLECT phone call from the US. consulate in Vancouver to advise me when I could come to Vancouver to complete an interview (there are only two Consulates in all of Canada which issue financee Visas) and pay $2,000 in fees as well as exactly $95 fees in U.S. dollars before even entering the U.S. Consulate in Vancouver I was also not allowed to take my 1/3 inch insulin needles into the Consulate with me. Upon arrival at the Rooseville border crossing in MT, I had to use the bathroom, but was not allowed out of the vehicle to use their porta potty until their border official decided I could do so. We were finally allowed inside the office and sat there for over two hours while the customs official did the paperwork to accompany the K-1 (fiancee) visa on July 23, 2002. We married July 26, 2002 and I officially became an immigrant in the U.S. Until I said “I do” I was only a tentative immigrant, in the eyes of of the old I.N.S. Now, according to the director of the Health and welfare dept in Idaho the holder of a K-1 Visa is only allowed into the U.S. for a period of 90 days to marry a U.S, citizen. It is so nice to know he can use google to find that information. (sarcasm intended)
Only a half-million illegals per year?
Dream on, Newsweek.
...and even more generous with illegal immigration as well.
We should have special immigration quotas for journalists to immigrate here to replace stupid sh!ts like the Newsweek stooge who wrote this
“Every year since 2000, the U.S. has attracted more than 1 million legal immigrants, including more than 1.1 million last year, and another half million illegal migrants. The walls are not as high as we thought.”
WRONG. Where do they get their figures?
According the the US Government.......Add them up.....legal entries are over 2 million every year. The Obama Administration wants MORE legal immigrants and wants to amnesty 12 to 20 million more illegal aliens!
http://uscis.gov/graphics/publicaffairs/DayinLife_050629.pdf
Some of the DAILY work of USCIS according to their own document:
* Conduct 135,000 national security background checks
* process 30,000 applications for immigrant benefits
* Issue 7,000 permanent resident cards (green cards -PER DAY)
* Welcome 2100 new citizens. PER DAY
* Welcome 3500 new permanent residents. PER DAY
More than 1 million people became citizens in 2008, with 780,000 taking the oath of allegiance in the first 10 months, according to preliminary figures from the Department of Homeland Security. In 2007, 660,477 people were granted U.S. citizenship.
Leading countries of birth of new citizens were:
Mexico (122,258), India (46,871), Philippines (38,830), China (33,134) and Vietnam (27,921)
Largest number of people naturalizing lived in:
California (181,684), New York (73,676) and Florida (54,563).
SOURCE: Office of Immigration Statistics, Department of Homeland Security
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/WestVolusia/wvlHEAD03WEST012209.htm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hispanics made up nearly half of the more than 1 million people who became U.S. citizens last year, according to a Hispanic advocacy group. The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials said the number of Latinos who became Americans in fiscal year 2008 more than doubled over the previous year, to 461,317. That’s nearly half of the record 1,046,539 new citizens overall in 2008, a 58 percent increase from 2007. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gQKI-mUtzRTYIm7MjslLxEoz2zVgD97DFPI01
Study: Illegal Immigrants Having More Kids In US Associated Press ^ | April 14, 2009
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/money/19175382/detail.html
Growing numbers of children of illegal immigrants are being born in this country, and they are nearly twice as likely to live in poverty than those with American-born parents...
Overall, illegal immigrants’ children account for one of every 15 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. In 2008, California had the most illegal immigrants at 2.7 million, double its 1990 number, followed by Texas, Florida, New York and New Jersey.
“In the next eight years, the violent collection of criminal drug cartels could overwhelm the state and establish de facto control over broad regions of northern Mexico,” McCaffrey’s report said. “A failure by the Mexican political system to curtail lawlessness and violence could result in a surge of millions of refugees crossing the U.S. border.”
http://www.star-telegram.com/state_news/story/1245213.htm
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Not only is it not true now, it was never true -- unless you revise Bill's words just ever-so-slightly: "... sufficient talent in this country willing to work for third-world wages."
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