Topic: HOW LAME IS THIS?
Nearly HALF of all illegal aliens in the United States entered legally at first with a visa.
As dumb as it seems, though, certain members of Congress are rushing to expand the H-1B visa program, which imports foreign workers to take American jobs, many of whom overstay their visas and become illegal aliens.
Apparently the Software Business Association's been spending some major folding money on the Hill in one way or another, because expansion of the H-1B visa program makes no sense when American workers are staring right down the barrels of a recession. Does it?
Some of the culprits? (Click on their names to get information on how to show them the error of their ways, please!)
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz) has introduced the Innovation Employment Act (H.R. 5630), which would DOUBLE the current H-1B visa cap to 130,000 per fiscal year. H.R. 5630 would further raise the cap to 180,000, for five years beginning in 2010, if the 130,000 cap is reached during the 2009 fiscal year.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has introduced the Strengthening United States Technology and Innovation Act (H.R. 5642), which would TRIPLE the current H-1B visa cap to 195,000 in 2008 and 2009.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) is calling for a bill that would make Rep. Smith's increases permanent.
House Chief Deputy Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) recently made the erroneous statement that H-1B visas are "not tied up to the larger issue of illegal immigration" (when half of illegal aliens are here now on expired or otherwise invalid visas).
Representatives Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas) have introduced a bill that would practically staple a green card to the diploma of every foreign student who gets their Ph.D. from an American University.
These people can stick whatever name they like on their bills, but "strengthening United States Technology and Innovation" by opening the flood gates to unemployed foreign workers while Americans qualified and "overqualified" for the same jobs are unemployed is a strange way to go about the process.
It strikes me as more honest to force the authors and/or sponsors of these bills to label them honestly
- "The Taking Jobs Away From Taxpaying American Technology Workers Act" would be a fine description for any of them, as would
- the "Importing Sudden Jihad Syndrome Sufferers Bill."
It's no stretch to see that when the big spenders in Silicon Valley bring in their hundreds of thousands of information workers from Pakistan and points further out in Radical Islam-land, their catch will include folks who identify intensely with Al-Qaeda and other Islamic radical organizations.
Even if they refrain from terror acts themselves (the Sudden Jihad Syndrome), too many will send money home to fund terror schools and increase the danger to our homeland.
We have all the technology workers America needs - they just can't be underpaid and bullied around the way that visa holders can by their sponsors. Bringing in workers from overseas during a recession is both stupid and immoral. It just makes no sense.
