At least 4 million H-1B visas were certified
by the INS between 1998-2001.
Many H-1B workers are paid minimum wage as their official salary,
and the rest of their salary is paid as "U.S. Living Expenses"
that are non-taxable.(2003 Data)
L-1 workers are considered employees of a foreign company
and paid by the foreign company. This means that they do not have
to pay U.S. taxes. (2003 Data)
Students from India are given an exemption from paying
taxes. (IRS Circular E, Employer's Tax Guide, page 14)
At least 800,000 highly-skilled U.S. workers are now
unemployed as a direct result of the H-1B visa legislation, which
failed to include protection for U.S. workers. (2001 Reporting)
How to manipulate the system and underpay an H-1B worker [Click
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1 in 5 American workers lost a job during
the last three years. Two-thirds of workers received less than 2
weeks notice and no severance pay. Three-fourths did not maintain
any health benefits. 35% of these workers are now underemployed.
(August 2003)
Since 1985, over 17 million visas have been issued to allow aliens
to work in the United States and glut the labor market. These
NON-immigrant visas, or NIV, are company-sponsored visas that use
a variety of different names including H-1B, H-2A, H-2B, J-1, L-1,
and TN. These are not immigrants. These are temporary workers.
Employers hire foreign workers even when qualified and equally
qualified Americans are available, and lay off Americans while
retaining H-1Bs in the same job category -- even though the H-1B
program was created solely to fill a "labor shortage" of jobs that
could not be filled by American workers. (2003)
"Siemens management mandated Americans to train their
foreign replacement workers; in Lake Mary, FL" After training, the
Americans were laid off while the foreigners live and work in Lake
Mary, FL (2003)
Senator Hillary Clinton cut the tape for the new Tata
Consulting Buffalo office. Tata Consulting is the largest importer
of cheap foreign H-1B workers. They are currently under
investigation for immigration fraud. (2003)
Quote from Colorado Republican Tom Tancredo, on the house
floor, June 18, 2003 -- "When my colleagues get a letter from a
constituent who has been displaced by foreign workers, they should
write back to them and say, 'It is the policy of this government
to displace you, to move you into a lower economic income
category, because we believe in cheap labor and we believe the
politics of open borders helps our party.'"
America is the only developed nation that does not have
protectionist legislation that provides disincentives for
companies that use imported and offshore cheap foreign labor.
(2003)
Each year more than $10 billion is sent back to India by
foreign workers who are in the U.S. in the form of remittances.
That is $10 billion drained from our economy when it could have
been paid to U.S. Citizens who would have spent the vast majority
of that money within the U.S. economy. (Fox News 2003)
Immigration from 1925 to 1965 averaged
178,000 per year. Now, we're taking in approximately 1.1 million
legal immigrants and up to 700,000 illegal aliens annually.
Homelessness has now risen above the levels
seen during the Great Depression. (July 2003)
At least 9 million Americans are unemployed. At least 17 million
skilled, educated Americans are now "underemployed" in low-wage
jobs - many part-time without benefits. (June 2003)
By the end of January 2003 more than 70% of laid-off technology
workers had exhausted (used up) their unemployment benefits.
Unemployment for technology workers has continued to rise, giving
little hope for re-employment.
The total number of US technical jobs is around 8.5 million and we
have imported around 3-4 million temporary foreign technical
workers.
In the year 2001, 9 out of every 10 new job openings for
computer/IT were taken by H-1Bs, and despite record unemployment
the INS issued 312,000 visas in 2002.
3.3 million jobs are expected to be offshore outsourced to India
and China over the next several years. (2003 Business Week)
Missouri residents who call a 1-800 number with questions
about their welfare, food stamps, and benefits are being routed to
a state call center in India!
66% of Americans say their biggest worry today is whether or
not they will have a job tomorrow. (20-June-2003 Fox News)
Special interests have imported more than 17 million noncitizens
to glut the labor market between the years 1985-2002. (1985-2002
Reporting)
Bank of America workers who were laid off in favor of cheap
foreign labor were asked to sign a waiver stating that they would
not talk to the media in order to get their severance benefits.
H-1B is used to import workers for jobs that American
employers claim can't be filled in the "tight American labor
market". Their claim is a lie because there are more than enough
Americans to fill these jobs. L-1 visas have no yearly quota and
may one day surpass H-1B as a means of importing skilled workers.
(2000 Data)
Fraud within the H-1B non-immigrant visa system has become
so rampant that an entire industry of "body shops" has sprung up
in America. The body shops sponsor foreign workers' visas and
then place them in jobs with American companies for significantly
lower wages than American high tech workers.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 59
percent of all foreign graduate students receive government-funded
financial aid, and 40 percent receive direct grants as opposed to
loans which must be repaid. (2003)
The legal "caps" or limits for H-1B visas issued have been
exceeded every single year since 1987, but the INS does not have
an accurate count for any year. Their reporting only indicates the
number of H-1B applications, even though any one application can
authorize up to 999 visas!
Even though they are legally mandated to do
so, the Immigration and naturalization Service (INS) has publicly
and willfully refused to deport H-1B workers with expired visas.
Although the law says that H-1B visa holders must leave the
country immediately after being laid-off or fired, the INS has
told them that no one will be forced to leave, and to keep looking
for new jobs.
The INS estimates that roughly 3.2 million
of the estimated eight million illegal immigrants living in the
U.S. (or 40 percent), originally entered the country on
non-immigrant visas (such as H-1B, L-1, etc.). These 3.2 million
non-immigrants have become illegal immigrants by overstaying their
visas. Because of its failure to implement an entry-exit system
as required by a 1996 law, the INS has no way to identify or
locate them. As more H-1Bs and other non-immigrant visa holders
lose their jobs in the recession, and remain in the country until
they find work, this number will no doubt be significantly higher.
In addition to making a major contribution
to illegal immigration, the Non-Immigrant Visa (NIV) program as it
now functions has a noticeable impact on the U.S. labor market
that is largely unfettered. In 2001, more than 715,000 foreigners
were issued NIVs to fill U.S. jobs, and another 110,000 visitors
received permission to work here after arriving.
There is no limit on the total number of
non-immigrants who can enter the U.S. each year, although some
categories are capped. The H-1B visa category for skilled
workers, many of whom work in the computer and technology field,
is nominally limited by statute. The law caps the number of
certain new approvals at 195,000 in 2001, 2002, and 2003. Unless
changed by new legislation, it will revert to 65,000 in 2004.
However, only between on fourth and one half of the people
approved as H-1B workers are actually subject to the cap.
Congress excluded those working for educational or non-profit
organizations and those extending their stay or changing jobs from
being counted against the cap.
What is the INS's policy toward illegal
immigrants in the U.S.? According to INS manager Nina Moniz, "Our
job is to explain to people why they are here illegally, help them
change that, and help them to get benefits." 7/23/2001
Interview on Denver's KOA radio.
INS commissioner James Ziglar's only law
enforcement experience is serving as the Sergeant-at-Arms for the
Senate.
The H-1B program (for temporary high-tech
work) admits about 500 "fashion models" visas for employment in
the U.S. every year.
QWEST, a telephone company that serves a 14
state region in the U.S. makes it a policy to fire American
computer consultants, and replace them with cheaper H-1B
consultants. To add insult to injury, they first force the
American computer consultants to provide on-the-job training for
the H-1B that is replacing them. This same company replaced one
of their Sr. IT executives with an H-1B. The new executive
promptly cancelled numerous software development projects that
American citizens were working on, and fired them. Then the
executive hired TATA Consultancy (an infamous H-1B body shop), to
restart the cancelled projects under new names using H-1B workers.
Companies who are laying off H-1B visa
holders frequently inform the INS that the person's status has
changed to "unpaid leave" rather than "unemployed." The H-1B
worker is then free to search for another job indefinitely (and
compete with American workers in the high-tech job market) without
fear of deportation.
Illegal immigrants who enroll in the
University of California system are charged in-state tuition.
According to several universities, the INS
routinely takes 6 months to respond to notifications from their
registrars that foreign students are not attending classes.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had
openly declared that he will not enforce U.S. immigration laws.
"...those people who are undocumented do not have to worry about
the city government..."
The Department of Justice's Office of the
Inspector General could not find any evidence that the INS was
capable of locating visa violators still in the country.
Washington Times 11/07/01
The INS spent $31.2 million on a computer
system to track visa holders that overstay their visas. The
system still does not work, and the INS says that it needs an
additional $57 million for the system.
State Department form DS-156 -- the official
nonimmigrant visa application -- asks the following question: "Do
you seek to enter the U.S. to engage in export control violations,
subversive or terrorist activities, or any other unlawful
purpose? Are you a member of a terrorist organization as
currently designated by the U.S. Secretary of State?" The
footnote to the question states that "A YES answer does not
automatically signify ineligibility for visa." Read this
application
HERE.
