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Letters by Our Elected Officials on H-1B

• Sen. Barbara Boxer  8/5/2002 - from California says that doesn't want industry to be hindered by a lack of H-1Bs. 

• Rep. Judy Bigget -  8/16/2002 - from Illinois says that the shortage of high tech workers won't end anytime soon so we need H-1B.

• George Bush's H-1B Press Release was taken offline but it's archived here. Was it removed from the internet because he supports massive H-1B increases?

• A Letter To Clinton. 7/20/2000 - Clinton's administration didn't even care that the writer opposed H-1B, they sent the letter writer a form letter that thanked "you" for supporting the Clinton increase in the H-1B quota.

• Sen. Larry Craig - 1/12/2000 - republican Senator from Idaho, justifies immigrant farm labor with arguments that sound suspiciously like the shortage shouting to justify H-1B for white collar professionals

• Sen. Mike Crapo - 1/23/2003 - He says he "understands your concerns" but he obviously doesn't.

• Sen. Richard Durbin 2/9/2001 - and Fitzgerald end their letters in a folksy and congenial manner by inviting Illinoisans to have coffee with them in Washington D.C. Apparently the only ones that can afford the trip to D.C. are Illinois businesses that tell him that they "simply can't find skilled workers to fill available jobs." This letter written in February 2001 by Senator Durbin is quite astonishing because he had the audacity to say that there were 1.6 million unfilled high tech jobs. 

• Sen. John Edwards 5/13/2002 - acknowledges that he co-sponsored ACWIA in 2000 and said that special interests want to eliminate the yearly visa cap. He thinks that H-1B is a "necessary short term" solution until Americans are educated enough to take high-tech jobs. 

• Rep. Anna G. Eshoo, 3/30/2002 - Congresswoman from California's 14th Congressional District completely ignores the questions about the problems with NOVA in this letter. She seems to be very proud that she is an H-1B supporter.

• Rep. Anna Eschoo 12/18/2002 - returned 30 pieces of silver that was paid for her support of H.R. 2215. 

• Sen. Dianne Feinstein - 3/5/2002 - Senator from California, says that she is an original co-sponsor of ACWIA. 

• Sen. Peter Fitzgerald 10/23/2000 - from Illinois thinks H-1B should be increased because there are so many requests for visas.

• Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) 2/28/2003 - plans to introduce legislation to bring more "guest workers" into the country while providing temporary visas for illegal workers already present after "appropriate background checks." 

• Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) 10/12/2001 - expresses his support for H-1B.

• Rep. Dennis Hastert 5/30/2002 - from Illinois should have mentioned that he voted against worker protections and for an increase in the H-1B limits in 1998 

• Sen. Orrin Hatch Says H-1B is need to be Globally Competitive - 12/11/2001 - and then he says that ZaZona.com is outdated!

• Rep. J.D. Hayworth, (R-AZ) 10/19/1998 - congressman and ex TV sportscaster, thinks H-1Bs are useful because they pay taxes. See his stupid response to a letter from an American engineer that also pays taxes.

• Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) 10/12/2001 - thinks there is a shortage of high tech workers, and H-1B is needed to supply companies with qualified workers.

• Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) 12/2/2005 - reaffirms her support for H-1B, saying that we need to import workers to be competitive in the "global marketplace".

• Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) 9/28/2006 - Confirms her support for the Securing Knowledge and Leadership Act (Skil Bill). She brags that she is a co-sponsor.

• Rep. Jay Inslee 1/21/2003 - needs to get his facts straight about H-1B.

• Rep. Joe Knollenberg 7/30/2002 - from Michigan says that the U.S. needs H-1Bs to be globally competitive. 

• Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) - explains why he voted against Byrd's amendment that would have blocked the Senate from inserting an increase in the H-1B cap by 30,000 in the Omnibus Spending bill of 2005. Levin goes on to say that he supports the H-1B program to help the "competitiveness" of U.S. companies. Fortunately the effort to increase the visas failed in the House of Representatives, no thanks to Sen. Levin!

• Sen. John McCain's Letters on Why He is Proud to Co-Sponsor H-1B  - 6/21/2001 and 6/12/1998 - McCain sells himself as a patriotic Vietnam war vetern and POW. While he hides behind the flag he is also proud that he betrayed American Labor. Read his callous response from an unemployed American. In a recent letter McCain explains why he thinks raising the H-1B quota was a good idea. 

• Rep. John Porter  6/15/2000 - from Illinois thinks increasing H-1B limits is a good idea.

• Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) - 11/4/2005 - Says that we need to do a better job of training Americans so that they can compete. He repeats the myth that American workers are protected because employers must look for U.S. workers first.

• Rep. Bob Stump - 10/4/2000 - Bob Stump, republican congressman from Arizona, puts principle above big money in these two letters. He describes the fraudulent nature of H-1B and explains why an increase in the quota is a bad idea.

• Rep. Heather Wilson, New Mexico congresswoman, 10/30/2001 - thinks that importing H-1B medical personnel fills the need.

This archive contains newspaper articles that are of major importance to the H-1B debate.

• Indentured servants for high-tech trade: For a rich fee, companies called "body shops" supply waves of unwitting immigrants to the nation's computer industry. Baltimore Sun Feb. 21, 2000
• How many visas? Uh, we don't know - Counting errors prompt an outside audit at INS. Baltimore Sun Feb. 21, 2000
• Cashing In: Former immigration officials siphon millions from a program to entice foreign investors with the promise of green cards. Baltimore Sun Feb. 21, 2000
• Visa Program Open to Abuses - The sordid story of an H-1B prostitution ring. San Francisco Examiner Jan 22, 2000
• Getting in on H-1B - About 60% of all H-1B visa professionals are being grabbed up by only 20 companies. How do you get in on the action? Try these shortcuts around the red tape Computer World November 8, 1999 
• New H-1B Visa Cap Increase Sparks Debate - The new version of the law increases the cap from 65,000 to 115,000 in 1999 and 2000. PC Week November 16, 1998 
• White-Collar Visas: Back Door for Cheap Labor?- Washsington Post Saturday, October 21, 1995r
• H1-B safety net fails IT workers: AIG fiasco described by Linda Kilcrease PC Week November 18, 1998 
• IT pro's age puts him at unfair disadvantage in job hunt: Interview with Gene Nelson - November 16, 1998 
• "Cheep Labor": Programs place Americans low in the pecking order - Mother Jones
• 11th-Hour Victory For Tech - disgusting story detailing how Silicon Valley and Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif bought off Al Gore to support H-1B. Senator Harkin's heroic battle against H-1B was no match for Boxer's money machine and the lobby power of the ITAA. San Francisco Chronicle October 16, 1998 

Collections of various documents 

• New Hampshire I-129 - Petitions filed for L-1 visas in the State of New Hampshire

• Arizona LCA - Labor Condition Application posted at an Arizona state office for an H-1B to work in the Arizona State Parks Board in a museam for $17.19 per hour.

• H-1B Visas: Bonus or Bogey - a debate between Rob Sanchez and Srikant Sharma on the H-1B issue.

• CNN Moneyline "Exporting America" - Lou Dobbs reports on H-1B and said that working men and women in America are "simply screwed". 

• CBS News, "60 Minutes" 'North of the Border' - Lesley Stahl, reporting, October 3, 1993. Stunning admissions that H-1Bs are replacing American workers.

• India Caucus of the 108th Congress - A list of it's 182 members. They are the Benedict Arnolds of the American middle-class.

• India Caucus of the 108th Congress - Mission Statement and By-Laws. Their mission is to thwart all attempts to stop the offshoring of jobs, and to increase the number of NIVs that India can send to the United States.

• Letters to USINPAC - letters to the US-India PAC from Democratic presidential candidates. They assure USINPAC that they believe in offshoring jobs to India and they voice support for H-1B.

• Why Indian H-1Bs Are Not Superior And Aframericans Are Not Cry Babies by Tony Brown. Blacks, Latinos, women, and Americans over 40 are all being discriminated against when owners of US companies utilize the H-1B program.

• Pigging At the Trough - See this letter from the Association Business for Legal Immigration (ABLI) that was sent to all of the House of Representatives. The ABLI and 418 companies plead the House to increase H-1B quotas.

• Admitting Immigrants to the US for Economic or Employment Reasons by Philip Marting for SoftPac

• Cases where Americans were replaced by H-1Bs - by Larry Richards for SoftPac

• H-1B Programmers - For $5 An Hour. Larry Richards of SoftPac showed just how few protections US workers have when he got an this LCA approved.

• Motorola Memo - Motorolan's are forced to take mandatory vacation. All Motorolan's except the H-1Bs.H-1Bs are protected by federal law.

• Dun & Bradstreet Memo - Corporate memo that tells American employees to consider their H-1B replacements as part of the team. They name Wipro and Cognizant as their bodyshops of choice.

• Adea says that they want to recruit H-1Bs that have been recently laid off. They never mention in this article whether they would hire a US worker.

• H-1B Job Advertisements - U.S. citizens need not apply for these jobs

• Labor Condition Applications - See applications for H-1Bs made by major American Companies

• AZDES Inquiry - see why labor certifications for work-based green cards are a farce.

• Robert Schaerfl,  director of US Employment Services in 1994, wrote a letter that explained that companies don't have to prove need to hire an H-1B or to give preference to American workers, contrary to popular opinion!!! 

• Four Hard Years, Thousands of Dollars - This advertisement was run in Michigan to alert Michigan voters that Sen. Spencer Abraham was selling them out by supporting huge increases of H-1Bs and easing worker protections. He was toppled in the election.

• Fake Diplomas, Legal Visas - Investigative documents about an individual who was proven to have a fake diploma and falsified job experience. He is now working in the U.S. on an H-1B visa.

• Reverse Brain Drain - Edwin S. Rubenstein discusses various aspects of the H-1B program

• Can Immigrants Save Social Security? - Edwin S. Rubenstein discusses how many foreigners, including highly-skilled employees here on H-1b visas, avoid paying social security and income taxes. 

• Stanford University Flyer - a flyer was sent around campus to protest H-1B, but some students complained that distributing it was a racist "hate crime".

• City of Tempe, Arizona Contract to buy TaxMantra . Sales Tax and Licensing System. No competitive bids were allowed for this $1.3 million contract with the Indian-owned bodyshop Tata Infotech.

• City of Peoria, Arizona Contract to buy TaxMantra. Sales Tax and Licensing System. No competitive bids were allowed for this $830,000 contract with the Indian-owned bodyshop Tata Infotech. This is page one of a six part contract.

• WHO IS AMERICA FOR? Issues and Facts About the Economy, and Actions You Can Take To Fix It by JJ Kuhl July 2003. This paper contains some excellent research on the sordid voice vote in 2000 to raise the H-1B cap to 195,000 H-1B visas.

• Congressional Record House - H8663 October 3, 2000. This is a companion document for "Who is America For". Pertinent passages are marked in yellow highlighter.

• Gopi Vedachalam vs. Tata International - 2/14/2006 A class action lawsuit alleging that Tata Consultancy (TCS) bilked their nonimmigrant workers by withholding too much US and state income tax.
  Sona Shah, et al., Plaintiffs, VS. Wilco Systems, INC., Defendant - lawsuit filed on 12/13/03. Wilco is accused of discriminating based on national origin.

• Class Action Complaint by Shah and Barrett vs. Wilco - 6/18/02. This document describes in detail how Wilco discriminated against American citizens. This complaint shows how On April 1, 1998 Sona Shah, and American citizen, was replaced with a foreign worker. Kai Barret, a British national, was paid less than prevailing salaries at Wilco. Wilco management claimed that American workers don't make quality workers, they're stupid, and they're e too expensive and difficult to control.

• Melendez v. Quantum Business Engineering - In this case, William Melendez claims that his former employer, Quantum Business Engineering, discharged him because of his age and because of his national origin. He alleges that Quantum hires illegal aliens and sometimes uses fraudulent H-1B visas. 

• Melendez v. SAP Andina - This is a discrimination case in which William Melendez claims that his prospective employer, SAP ANDINA, failed to hire him because of his national origin and age. This complaint was filed in the US District Court of Puerto Rico.

• Watson v. EDS and Bank of America, US Dept. Of Labor ARB. Department gives a description of two cases: Watson v. EDS and Watson v Bank of America. Mark J. Watson alleges that EDS displaced him with an H-1B worker and then hired another H-1B worker without first offering him the job. He alleges that Bank of America refused to interview him because they hired three H-1Bs for positions he was quaified for. The DOL describes their rational for declining to investigate all of the complaints, and to dismiss all charges. Basically they claim that they don't have jurisdiction.

• Watson v. EDS, Dismissed with prejudice, July 20,2005. Watson’s case is dismissed. If that’s not bad enough, the court demands that Watson pay EDS $1,348. EDS says that they want money from Watson as retribution for charging them with discrimination based on national origin.

• Watson v BofA Dismissed – June 14, 2005 Court dismisses case against BofA.

• Watson Petition for Writ of Certiorari, June 8, 2007. A federal claims court in Texas dismissed the Watson case and wouldn't allow appeals. Watson now moves his battle to the Supreme Court.

• Bernard Ficq v. Texas Instruments - June 18, 2002. Bernard Ficq was an engineer in the company’s Wireless Business Unit. He filed this lawsuit because he believes that Texas Instruments replaced him by a foreign worker on an H-1B visa. TI continued to hire additional foreign workers while the company was having mass terminations. A large disproportionate number of U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents lost their jobs because they were also replaced with H-1Bs. Ficq claims that he was unlawfully terminated on the basis of his "status as a U.S. citizen".

• Bernard Ficq v. Texas Instruments - Dismissed with Prejudice. Appeal filed in 2004.

• Ishai Biran against JP MORGAN CHASE & CO., September 11, 2002. Biran, a software developer with more than 18 years experience and a United States citizen, alleged that consulting firms used by JP Morgan abused the H-1B visa program, and that the employer and the consulting firms disproportionately hired H-1B visa holders, thereby discriminating against United States citizens of comparable skill and experience, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(b). Chase's motion to dismiss the complaint was granted on the basis that there is no legislative history of the Immigration and Nationality Act to support the proposition that Congress intended to create a citizens private right of action.

• Shanti vs. Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States, February 16, 1999. The "Fine Indian Cuisine Restaurant" in Minnesota tried to hire an H-1B named Ms. James from Bangladesh who had a business administration degree from Tejgoan College, at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh.and eight years experience. The petition for the H-1B was denied on the basis that the position of "restaurant manager" didn't qualify as a specialty occupation. The court upheld the denial of the H-1B.

• Jane Chako vs. Texas A&M University, 1977. In 1997 Jane Chako, a Canadian, was hired as an H-1B for the position of "Student Specialist". She commenced work but was sent home after a staffmember complained about hiring "foreigners." The point in question is that there was never an opportunity for this position to be offered to an American citizen as the position was never posted or advertised and that by arranging for this H-1B visa there was another U.S. citizen that could possibly have been qualified for the position out of a job at $ 23,000 a year. Chacko alleged that she had been discriminated against on the basis of her national origin. Chacko's case was dismissed with prejudice.

• Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) vs. Hewlett Packard and Tata Consultancy, 1997. On October 4, 1993, CAPS alleged that the bodyshop Tata had committed acts of unfair competition by engaging in statutorily prohibited conduct and unfair practices. The second cause of action alleged that H-P was aware of Tata's unlawful and unfair business practices and was liable for conspiring with Tata to violate California law. The court found CAPS had failed to raise a triable issue of material fact as to H-P's knowledge of or participation in the alleged unlawful practices, and denied all the charges against Tata on technicalities. The 1997 document lists the details of the case.

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• We Ask for the Scientific Method, But We Get Political Science - Matloff blasts the latest NRC report on H-1B and age discrimination. The NRC committed a real travesty when they made this report and Matloff explains why. 
• NRC Followup - Matloff sheds some light on the obviously deliberate bias of the NRC committee.
• SPECIAL REPORT---FRADULENT TESTIMONY TO SENATE - Matloff uses the H-1B Visa Database for the first time, and discovers fraud at WomenConnect.com.
• H-1B Bills and Shamless Big Buck Politics - This is one of my favorite Matloff newsletters. His is really on a roll this time. He even mentions Lofgren's all time classic when she said that Einsteins in California deserve to be paid $60,000.
• Qualcomm Lobbies for Increased H-1B Quotas - and then Gets Sued for Age Discrimination
• Lawyer helps high-tech firms find, retain foreign workers
• Is the H-1B a Temporary bill until U.S. workers get trained?- Matloff discusses the High-Tech industry claim that they need H-1Bs until U.S. Workers get adequate training. His commentary is followed by an excellent article "H-1B Redux" by Stephanie Neil of ZDNet.
• Training Budgets and the Job Skills Issue - Companies complain that there are not enough Americans with specific software skills.  Insincere employers use the skills issue as a pretext for seeking cheap labor.
• What could be worse than H-1B? The T1Visa - Matloff discusses Lofgren's horrible T1 visa bill that will allow unlimited numbers of foreign workers into the U.S. He again mentions Lofgren's classic about geniuses make more than $60,000.
• Boeing Strike - The Economist magazine claims that the Boeing strikers are the old guard who are outdated. They cite the same flawed ITAA study used to justify H-1B. Fortunately Matloff disagrees with the Economist.
• Campus Recruiters from Nortel pull a publicity stunt to Promote H-1B - Nortel and similar recruiters claim that there are tons of jobs for the best and brightest. If you recently graduated you might wonder whether you are dumb or whether these recuiter claims are not true.
• Designer Immigrants - CED report singles out the Mexican immigrants as "undesirable" and a factor indicating "need" for Designer Immigration. 
• AFL-CIO - Do These Labor Unions Support H-1B? - When the first bill to increase the H-1B quota was pending in 1998, the AFL-CIO did campaign against the increase. However, it withdrew its opposition and told Clinton he could do whatever he wanted with the bill. 

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• Visa Glut - Over 17 Million nonimmigrant visas have been issued since 1985. This table shows the quantities broken down by visa type. 
• An American Scam - How Special Interests Undermine National Security With Endless "Techie" Gluts
• H-1B Numbers - A condensed version of "Visa Glut" that focuses on H-1B visas.
• Space Shuttle Contractors that use H-1Bs - Contractors using H-1Bs for cheap labor built the Space Shuttle Columbia. We got what we paid for.
• NIH Awardees that use H-1Bs - the National Institutes of Health gives grants to institutions who hire H-1Bs. This table lists them by the total award amount and the number of H-1Bs they hire.
• Gene Nelson's Testimony Immigration and Claims Subcommittee August 5, 1999 regarding the US high tech workforce.
• A Brief History of H-1B - A discussion of how H-1B was created from the 1976 "Eilberg Amendment"
• Problems With The H-1B Visa Expansion And T-Visas by Linda Kilcrease
• Older engineers claim discrimination runs rampant in the high-tech world - San Francisco Examiner 1999
• National Science Foundation (NSF) data demonstrates that there is a massive glut of information technology (IT) expertise instead of the "shortage"
• Immigration - The "Hidden Tax" - Gene Nelson discusses the cost of unlimited immigration and the long term social consequences of H-1B.