"Be Real Act of 2003" Part 4

Date: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 12:38 PM

JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

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Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo has been one of the few politicians that we
could rely on to fight the H-1B invasion. That has all changed with his
"Be Real Act of 2003" that was sent to the House on Nov. 19th. This
legislation makes a Faustian bargain - American jobs for American
citizens are sacrificed for promises of better border enforcement, the
elimination of amnesty. and to make nonimmigrant visas truly temporary.

This newsletter is Part 4 of a series that examines how his bill
impacts the American workforce.

The bill can be examined by going to the following website and
entering:
http://thomas.loc.gov/
H.R. 3534

Since Part 3 was quite long, I decided to mention this aspect of the
database in a separate newsletter so you wouldn't miss it:

SEC. 142. EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY VERIFICATION SYSTEM
(A) IN GENERAL. The Secretary of Homeland Security
shall establish a verification system through which
the Secretary (or a designee of the Secretary,
which may be a non-governmental entity).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This loophole is a slap-in-the-face to every unemployed Computer/IT
worker in the United States. Tancredo didn't specify that the
developers of the database must be government employees and didn't
mandate that U.S. citizens do the work. All of you know what that means
- it could be offshored to a foreign nation like China or India, or it
could be done in the here by low salaried nonimmigrants working for
bodyshops like TATA.

No mention is made about the maintenance of the computer system or
where the support staff will be. You know what that means - it will go
to the lowest cost provider in India.

Tancredo and his staff might try to explain this deliberate pandering
to sweatshops as a simple oversight but don't believe it. High-tech
workers in Colorado as well as the rest of the nation have talked to
Tancredo's office for years about how bodyshops come here and underbid
U.S. contractors, so whatever excuse he makes, ignorance should not be
accepted.

There are many other problems with Tancredo's bill, and they will be
discussed in further installments of this series.

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