LH US Immigration Law Sold To The Highest Bidder
Like so many people in Congress and in the Administration, our laws, tax code and immigration policy are for sale.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, half High Tech STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) graduates from our major universities are not finding work, two thirds of our high tech jobs are going to foreign workers and/or foreign guest workers (2) and it is no accident.
The US Census Bureau paints a picture that is far worse saying that 74% of STEM graduates are not finding work in STEM fields.
A member of my production staff used to be a field engineer for Hewlett Packard and he tells of companies such as HP, Whirlpool, Peoplesoft and others who are firing their American workers in droves in order to replace them with temporary workers from India and other countries. "They are flown in, crammed in cheap apartments, stay here for two years and go home. Most are lucky to make $9.00 an hour even though each one has a masters degree from a university from their home country" he says, "The end users are not pleased because most can barely speak English, but they come cheap".
Is it any wonder that information technology (IT) wages have stagnated since Bill Clinton was President?
Since we are all political people here at Red, White, and Lori I asked my producer if he wrote his representatives, "Congressman Roemer and Senator Bayh never bothered to write me back. Senator Lugar sent me a rather flip letter advising me that I should retrain and do something else. This was after I had spent nearly $30,000 in IT training."
High tech companies have spent millions lobbying Congress in order to preserve and widen loopholes in our immigration laws. The latest immigration bill that passed the Senate, but failed in the House, tried to make this problem even worse.
PBS - The Bogus High-Tech Worker Shortage: How Guest Workers Lower US Wages:
U.S. colleges are graduating more than twice as many science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) graduates than the number of STEM openings generated by our economy each year. In short, there is little justification to support the escalating numbers of new guest workers called for in the Senate’s S744 legislation. Why then did it pass?
US News and World Report says, "Those who claim there's a STEM skills shortage are ignoring the evidence". That evidence and those workers are being ignored deliberately.
Law firms such as Cohen & Grigsby put on seminars to teach companies how to exploit the loopholes in our immigration law in order to "NOT FIND a qualified and interested U.S. worker". The video below is of one of those seminars. This is something that you simply MUST see for yourself: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU]
This economic treason is going on in other sectors. While the Obama Administration is forcing Americans out of the military they are recruiting illegal aliens and foreign nationals with high tech skills.
There are few in the Congress who are standing up for the American worker. Breitbart News reported that Republican Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) "issued a challenge to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and other Democrats who voted for the Senate's comprehensive immigration bill: Prove that there is a shortage of American high-tech workers". So much for the Democratic Party's alleged support for the working man.
With unemployment high and family income plummeting the Obama Administration, with the blessing of many in Congress, has brought immigration levels to a record high:
The U.S. immigrant population has reached a record 41.3 million, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data crunched by a group that advocates for a low immigration rate.
The Center for Immigration Studies said in a report released early Thursday that 2013 census data indicate one in six adults in America is either a legal or illegal immigrant.
What do these numbers mean? In short, if we didn't have an immigration policy that is designed to work against the middle class many of our unemployment woes would vanish and median household income would be going up instead of down.
Find out if your Congressman or Senator is a part of the problem and take action.