The H1-B Abuse Continues To Put Capable And Able Americans Out Of Jobs.

 This insanity has to stop.

  Bernie Sanders has addressed it and so has Donald Trump...

“A number of U.S. employers, including some large, well-known, publicly-traded corporations, have reportedly laid off thousands of American workers and replaced them with H-1B visa holders.

To add insult to injury, many of the replaced American employees report that they have been forced to train the foreign workers who are taking their jobs”

“We respectfully request that you investigate the unacceptable replacement of American workers by H-1B workers to ascertain whether SCE or any other U.S. companies that have engaged in this practice, or the IT consulting companies supplying those companies with H-1B workers, have violated the law.”

Hertz is laying off over 200 IT employees, outsourcing the work to IBM India Private Limited, which has filed paperwork for H1-B visas to bring in replacements from overseas. This sounds pretty similar to what Disney did a year ago.

 Last month, Qualcomm said it would cut roughly 15 percent of its global workforce, about 4,700 workers.

 It employs 15,000 in San Diego alone.

“There are large, multistory apartment complexes in Kearny Mesa and Clairemont Mesa full of Qualcomm engineers from India,” said Gail Anderson, a commentator on the Union-Tribune’s digital editions. “I’d say send them all back.”

 Qualcomm, which dominates segments of the smartphone industry, has received about 2,900 H-1B visas since 2009, a period of rapid expansion. 

Although some are probably renewals of three-year visas — federal agencies don’t break out those numbers for individual companies — the total works out to 19 percent of the 15,000 people the company hired over the last six years.

 The H-1B program for temporary workers is clearly popular with employers. Federal officials in April received a record 233,000 applications, or nearly four times this year’s tech slots.

 Criticism of the program comes from two directions: Many H-1B workers don’t become U.S. citizens, so hiring them ultimately transfers skills to foreign competitors. 

 Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, has said that, although some foreign workers are needed, the H-1B and other guest worker programs help business owners with cheap labor at the expense of workers.


“What right-wing people in this country would love is an open-border policy,” Sanders said last month.

In broad terms, this view is shared by Donald Trump, the Republican contender who last week issued a policy paper advocating a temporary halt to all immigration.

On H-1B visas, Trump favors boosting the prevailing wage for foreign workers until employers find it more efficient to hire Americans. 

He said Republican rival Sen. Marco Rubio’s bid to triple the number of such visas would “decimate women and minorities.”


Recent immigrants long ago came to dominate low-wage jobs in hospitality, farming and landscaping.

 Then they moved into middle-wage jobs in construction and manufacturing. 

Now natives increasingly encounter competition from young, hungry recent graduates in professional and technical services.

PUT AN END TO THE UNAMERICAN H1-B PROGRAM VOTE FOR SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS THE AMERICAN WORKERS PLIGHT!

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