H-1B Visas Take American Jobs

Townhall.com ^ | March 20, 2012 | Phyllis Schlafly

[EEGator]

If I spent all this time doing engineering and I can’t get a job because of some foreigner, I will be pissed.

[G Larry]

Liberal school curricula undermine our student’s ability to compete for these positions.
Get the liberal social agenda’s out of school and get back to basics on the courses offered and promoted.

[Always A Marine]

Well-sourced and well-written article by Mrs. Schlafly, exposing yet another way that America is intentionally killing itself, exchanging short-term profit for long-term ruin.

[khelus]

Liberal school curricula undermine our student’s ability to compete for these positions.
Get the liberal social agenda’s out of school and get back to basics on the courses offered and promoted.

Red Herring Alert!
There are hundreds of thousands of experienced, proven, American engineering professionals, and IT professionals who are unable to get work because of imported 'guest workers' who frequently pay no or partial taxes, working at salaries upon which that Americans can't both pay full American taxes and eat!

In addition these 'guest workers' on shore enable off shoring to countries where one can live well on a salary of $5K - $ 10K. Try that in the US!

[erkyl]

Just another example of how this president views himself—not as an American citizen but as a citizen of the ‘world.’ His every action is to bring Americans down.

[babble-on]

they took our juuuuuuhb!

[babble-on]

they took our juuuuuuhb!

[khelus]

Thanks for the post.

[onedoug]

More muslims

[Le Chien Rouge]

I am looking forward to the day when most media jobs along with law firm positions are outsourced or H1-B’ed.

[Vigilanteman]

I worked in Japan for 14 years. Their equivalent of the H-1B's was simple: Import all the foreign workers you want. But if they are as great as you say they are, you will be required to prove it by paying them at least a 10% premium over the going wage for the industry. And, by the way, they are free to move to another company willing to pay them more.

The result was a lot fewer and better paid foreign workers. I got frequent calls from other companies and changed once. When I was no longer worth the premium wage, then it was time for me and my family to come back to the United States.

[EEGator]

Was Japan expensive? Did you like it there?

[The Sons of Liberty]

There are some, even on this forum, that defend the H1B program, but I can tell you that it definitely takes American IT jobs, - took mine! When you go to interview you must interview with an Indian guy and if you’re not another H1B, you’re wasting your time and being humiliated in the process.

[EEGator]

[SharpRightTurn]

Thanks. Good article to post for the “while I’m against illegal immigrtion, I’m all for legal immigration” crowd.

[IronJack]

Because years ago, the first Bush administration made a deal with India to export as many jobs as India wanted if they would be our military ally in Central Asia. That was later expanded under Slick to include China, which is kind of odd because China was the threat we were trying to neutralize in allying with India in the first place.

[Wurlitzer]

I have seen first hand the games played by organizations who use a revolving door of Indian engineers (hardware and software) to keep the wage scale depressed for American engineers.

The bean counters never want to pay for the highly diverse skill set and training (WAY more than any MBA)required to be a good engineer capable of developing systems for anything from skate boards to rockets so to keep the wage scale in line they use these H1Bs.

Never let your children become an engineer. To be really good you must not only have a great foundation in lets say electronics and software but you MUST continually keep abreast of the ever changing technology which comes much faster than the latest MBA scam for improving the bottom line by avoiding taxes, suppressing wages, tracking the age of the staff (see note 1 at end), stealing rebates from your customers (see note 2 at end) etc.

And, unless you work for an Engineering Firm, you will always be a spare tire. By that I mean, the mahogany row crowd will only call on you when they need something otherwise stay hidden in the trunk less you be seen by one of the MBA types at the golf outing.

One thing I found as Corporate Director Of Engineering for a $50B/year company was you tend to believe these H1B people understand English as they sort of speak it, but believe me there is a huge disconnect.

NOTE: I caught the HR department tracking the age of every member of the office staff so as to make sure they never reached retirement. In 16 years, in an office of 200+ only one person retired the rest were pushed out.

NOTE: One division (of 50+) was caught twice stealing major portions of customer rebates for consumables which were agreed upon in the contract. They were the division’s largest customer. They left. The mahogany row crowd had already been promoted because of the huge contribution to the bottom line, (with stolen money). The spare tire remained in the trunk.

[momincombatboots]

We hear how Americans are just not smart enough... Just look at our scores compared to the world. We bought the lie, educators get more cash and companies do not have to pay those high employer taxes. What a bargain for us illiterate Americans.

[khelus]

Just another example of how this president views himself—not as an American citizen but as a citizen of the ‘world.’ His every action is to bring Americans down.

Both parties have been equally complicit in flooding the country with 'guest workers' to replace those pesky well-paid middle class Americans. The H-1B began in 1990 under Bush I.