Immigration bill would add visas for tech workers

San Fracnisco Chronicle ^ | 03/10/06 | Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

[Fred]

Buried in the Senate's giant immigration bill -- hardly noticed amid a fierce debate over a guest-worker program for unskilled laborers -- are provisions that would open the country's doors to highly skilled immigrants for science, math, technology and engineering jobs.

The provisions were sought by Silicon Valley tech companies and enjoy significant bipartisan support amid concern that the United States might lose its lead in technology.

[Fred]

Soon... we will all be picking grapes....

[prion]

If that's all we're fit for, so be it. If you can't keep up, get out of the way!

[Fred]

I will be sure to remind you of this when you are picking them...btw you must be on some congressional staff..... that is all that ever post to freepreublic any more... guess your boss supports the stealing of jobs from americans

[prion]

I'm a computer programmer for an engineering company. My job is at risk. But I'm very good, and I speak excellent English.

You?

[freeangel]

Gee, I hear there will be an extra few thousnad tech workers from the ATT/Bellsouth merger iover the next couple of years. Of course, they may not want to work at grape pickers salaries.

[Shermy]

"The provisions were sought by Silicon Valley tech companies and enjoy significant bipartisan support amid concern that the United States might lose its lead in technology."

LOL. It's to depress engineers' wages.

[grey_whiskers]

Ping!

[ikka]

L1 Visas allow overseas programmers, who do not have the crushing burden of US college tuition (typical Indian semester of college education: $140), to work over here, tax free, and this is somehow fair?

[mr_hammer]

"you must be on some congressional staff"

Your right! I call them the hired guns. I nail them every time. Perfect written English, always having some off the wall fact or try to take the argument off into some philosophical nowhere debate. The MO is always the same.

and if they cannot win the argument honestly they'll result to calling you names or criticize the author or the source of your facts as some leftist loon.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

My job is at risk.

That's good.

Keep me apprised of your career arc, so that when you get finally do get fired I can post a Thomas Friedman op-ed on the benefits of outsourcing juxtaposed against one of those Nelson Muntz graphics.

[WatchingInAmazement]

Do you realize that there are 3.6 million Visa overstays roaming around this country that Homeland Security can't find now? 3.6 MILLION.

That's the ones they admit to.

[WatchingInAmazement]

Do you realize that there are 3.6 million Visa overstays roaming around this country that Homeland Security can't find now? 3.6 MILLION.

That's the ones they admit to.

[DumpsterDiver]

ping

[Liberty Tree Surgeon]

Your mistake is assuming that the powers that be at your company understand the value of your technical and language skills. If they are listening to the street, or listening to McKonsultants, they will send your job overseas in a heartbeat, and not lose any sleep. And even if your company is too small and tightly held to consider outsourcing, you will have to deal with the newly jobless (or underemployed) voting with a vengence, and the resulting party in power might not be to your liking.

LTS

[1rudeboy]

Tax free? Don't think so.

[grey_whiskers]

If they are listening to the street, or listening to McKonsultants,

Check out my threads on outsourcing here and here too.

Note at the bottom of the first article, is a nice tidbit about McKinsey & Co...

The globalists are doing this to screw the US, the Indians as a jobs program, the Chinese to steal our secrets, the politicians for fat campaign contributions, the free traders to open our markets, the Democrats because they're hypocrites...

No Cheers, unfortunately.

[Liberty Tree Surgeon]

Amen on all counts. I unfortunately see this put into practice on a daily basis. It is weird sitting in a room where 9 out of 10 people are thinking the same thing I am, but we say nothing in the hopes that the crocodile will eat us last. Right now I'm trying to think of an industry I can focus a job search on that doesn't face this mentality. I'm having a hard time pinning down such an industry.

[operation clinton cleanup]

As unfair as it seems, if someone can do your job at 1/2 the cost, why would a profit making enterprise not choose the low cost alternative?

[1rudeboy]

I'll post this here before I lose it. You might wish to take a glance.

Publication 519 (2005), U.S. Tax Guide for Aliens

[Howlin]

Your home page pretty much tells everybody what they need to know about you:

The good ole days... When Freepers were REAL Freepers.... They shall return...