shoddy report by NPR

Date: Friday, May 12, 2006 6:37 PM

<<<<< JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER No. 1476 >>>>>

National Public Radio did a terrible report about H-1B on "All Things
Considered". This was not necessarily the worst report I have heard on NPR
concerning H-1B but it comes just when the Senate is once again debating
the Specter and Skil bills that have massive increases in H-1B and
employment based Green Cards, as well as creating a new F-4 visa.

Listen to the 8.5 minute sound clip of the report at this link:
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5399279

I included two letters of complaint to Jennifer Ludden, the author of the
show. Now it's your turn to send them a piece of your mind!

Your letter should be sent to two places:

1) email Jennifer Ludden jludden@npr.org

2) Send online message to the NPR staff.

Go to http://www.npr.org/contact/
Click the button that says "NPR Program"
Select "All Things Considered" from the dropdown list

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Job Destruction Newsletter
> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 6:02 PM
> To: 'jludden@npr.org'
> Subject: Shoddy report on H-1B

Jennifer,

I am a fan of NPR but that report on legal immigration may really change my
mind about NPR. That report was so obviously biased you should be ashamed
to have your name associated with it.

Everyone speaking but Mark Krikorian was an advocate of H-1B and expansion
of employment based Green Cards. In a report of 8:20 minutes you only have
Krikorian 60 seconds.

You gave free reign to the shills at AILA even though you must know they
are nothing but self-interested lawyers that think H-1B and Green Card
visas are just a way to make easy money. Darryl Buffenstein gives seminars
to lawyers on how to replace American workers with cheaper H-1Bs, and how
to cheat H-1Bs out of benefits, and yet you never questioned his integrity.
What kind of journalism is that?

It appears that somebody at your show was in Silicon Valley to interview
that H-1B visa holder named Gatindar that was moaning about the fact it's
taking too long to get a Green Card, so why didn't you spend some time
talking to the victims of H-1B that have had their careers destroyed
because they were replaced with H-1Bs?

Don't tell me you don't know where the victims are because they are easy to
find. I send a regular newspaper to dozens of them in Silicon Valley and to
many others throughout the country. They are in complete economic despair -
many of them losing homes because they can no longer get jobs. You could
find many of them just by doing a simple Google search. I'm sure you never
bothered to ask Krikorian to find an H-1B victim because he knows plenty of
them.

You and the NPR staff owe your listeners another show. This time why don't
you talk to the victims that have had their career ruined by these
high-tech Braceros?

> Rob Sanchez
> Job Destruction Newsletter
> www.ZaZona.com

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Jennifer -

I am a regular listener of All Things Considered on NPR.

I find it reprehensible that you would publish such a biased program as the
one aired yesterday. You are usually quite balanced in your coverage of
issues, but in this program you sounded like the industry lobbyists who are
helping destroy the jobs of Americans in high-tech jobs.

The only shortage of workers that exists in America today is a shortage of
workers who will work for SLAVE wages! Largely due to you and other biased
reporters, lobbyists, and our Congress (who are owned by the lobbyists),
enrollment in Computer Science programs is declining...why would any
student go into an occupation where he is always in fear of either his
position being off-shored OR losing his job to an onshore H-1B or L-1
worker who will work for substantially less money?

As an ower of a computer consulting company based in Dallas, over the last
eight years I have laid off over 100 programmers who made salaries ranging
from 60,000 to 90,000 per year, chiefly due to American companies who have
chosen instead to employ cheap foreign labor.

In 1998, my company had 120 employees - today we have THREE!

You need to present the OTHER side of this issue...funny that I don't ever
hear interviews of business owners like me...

In Disgust,

Steve Landess
Austin, Texas

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