(I apologize if this message shows up twice in this thread: The first time
I sent it it seems to have gotten lost in the bit-bucket...)
Tom -
Did you watch either of the videos, particularly Chapter 2? I tried to
point out the
disingenuity of his statements in chapter 2. I heard nothing new from Mr.
Bill in his
March 12 speech to the House S&T Committee. He is simply echoing the words
of immigration
lawyers, industry associations such as the ITAA, and the high-tech
lobbyists.
Furthermore, I'm not particularly concerned about Microsoft using H-1B guest
workers.
However, the big Indian outsourcers (Infosys, Wipro, Tata, etc.) currently
get the lion's
share (I think it is more than 50%) of these visas - in fact, their business
models depend
on the use of H-1B guest workers, most of whom do NOT intend to stay here
and become
permanent residents or citizens.
More telling, the Indian commerce minister last year referred to the H-1B
visa as the
'outsourcing visa'.
See:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/12/business/visa.php
<snip>
"It has become the outsourcing visa," the Indian commerce minister, Kamal
Nath, said by
telephone this week while attending global trade talks in New Delhi, at
which India is
pushing the United States for a larger H-1B quota.
</snip>
It reminds me of what Perot said about NAFTA - a 'Giant Sucking Sound', as
jobs disappear
in the USA and vanish abroad to India and China.
- sjl
midrange.com
