Impending Disaster

Date: Thursday, February 27, 2003 1:35 PM

H-1B and JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

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Impending Disaster Over New "Guest-Worker" Proposals?
by Glenn Jackson

I am stunned by some new proposals that are floating around Capitol
Hill these days. Advocates for a proposed new guest worker program are
already preparing for defeat at the hands of the open-borders lobby in
Washington.

While I may be new to the immigration battleground, I am a veteran
combatant of big government power grabs. All citizens should recognize
by now that once you go down a particular path, once even a tiny
portion of a big government program is accepted, the remainder will be
rammed full bore down America's throat. If...IF...any new
"guest-worker" proposals are accepted whole, it will not end the
process but will pave the way for more foreign workers and illegal
immigrants to come to the U.S.

The problem here is that someone has not connected all of the dots in
the immigration picture. The U.S. already has a "guest" worker program
and it is called H-1B, L-1, and several other variants. Limits to the
H-1B visa program were originally set at 65,000 skilled workers
annually. That limit has increased to over 195,000 annually over the
last 5 years, despite dotcom busts and massive high-tech lay-offs since
2000. Lobbying is already underway on Capitol Hill to either increase
the annual limit or to hold it at its already high levels. Give an inch
and we'll take a mile -- that is the elites' motto.

I have put food on my table for over 20 years working in the
high-technology industry. My last gig was as a senior manager over a
group of applications programmers. I have now been out of work for over
a year. The application responsibilities of my old team are now with
Infosys in India, and even more foreigners are breaking into line ahead
of me on their H-1B visa fast track. Guest worker programs are a
collosal failure. Nothing illustrates that more than the current state
of America's technical, engineering, nursing, healthcare, research, and
educational employment areas. H-1B visa holders are crowding out
Americans, and the shell game only gets worse.

The bottom line to the guest worker program is pure and simple - Wall
Street and stock valuations. Lower cost without lower prices equals
increased margins. Trying to raise the worlds standard of living on the
backs of American workers will kill this nation. Nothing will be
accomplished by compromising on a guest worker program. Normal
political considerations are no longer part of the process (ask Trent
Lott). Compromise will not move us one inch closer to winning. This is
a war for America's national survival.

Glenn Jackson is chairman of the American Reformation Project. He can
be reached at grjackson@mindspring.com.

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