A
CALL TO SERVICE TO SAVE THE AMERICAN ENGINEER FROM CORPORATE GREED
THIS
SITE IS DEDICATED TO EXPOSING THE SYSTEMATIC, PREMEDITATED DESTRUCTION OF
AMERICA’S NATIVE ENGINEERING CAPABILITIES AND STRATEGIC TECHNOLGY
INTERESTS.
15 MILLION JOBLESS AMERICANS*. 450,304 H-1B Visas Approved in 2009
IF YOU ARE READING
THIS, AND YOU ARE AN AMERICAN ENGINEER:
YOU ARE THE RESISTANCE
(UNDER CONSTRUCTION –
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Preface:
This site and its contributors have nothing against, and have every respect for, the peoples of all races, nationality, color and ethnicity. In fact, this site wholly supports the intent of the original H-1B program: To hire exceptional foreign talent with ‘advanced’ (masters and Ph.D.) degrees in technical positions where no American is truly able to fulfill the role, or be trained for the role. However, the brazen replacement of highly educated, highly qualified Americans by cheap, inexperienced foreign labor has not only gotten out of hand, it has it has become pandemic, and poses a serious threat to U.S. national security.
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INTRODUCTION
This paper provides a study
of the effects of the 2,702,672 H-1B & PERM visas on the 1,600,000
American Engineer jobs, and relates how certain companies are using the H-1B Visa (and the
effectively infinite supply of foreigners fighting for them) to suppress wages,
supplant American Engineers, and ship America’ strategic technology advantages
overseas. The recently release 2009
Labor Condition Applications database, puts the number of FY2009 approved H-1B’s at 405,304.
Read it online here (264MB file!). If you haven’t
already lost your job to a foreigner, your wages have most certainly been cut
down by the macro-economic effect of a wide-open door to billions of foreigners
crawling over each other to take your job, your home and your livelihood.
The current H-1B program is
a warped exploitation of the original H2-A visa created to temporarily bring Sheepherders to the USA beginning in
the 1952. This gradually morphed into a
temporary worker visa program for multiple fields, as different industries
realized the potential gold mine of cheap and indentured labor.
In 1990, George H.W. Bush
expanded the ‘temporary immigrant worker’ program from 58,000/year to 140,000,
with an extension of the 3 year term to 6 years. The six year span enables H-1B’s to obtain a
Green Card, which requires 5 years residency.
The obvious result being, that foreign workers in ultra-crowed, poverty
stricken, corrupt and/or oppressive countries, would work like mad, to get a
shot at becoming a citizen of the USA.
It is not an unprecedented effect:
many millions of Americans owe their heritage to immigrants who came
over on similar indentured servitude programs.
However, those indentured-servant programs were shut down. The H-1B program, with its restrictions and
loop-holes, recreated a very similar same bondage relationship.
The immediate benefit to the
companies was clear: They could work
these immigrants like indentured servants, for scraps, under the constant
threat of expulsion – for 6 years or more!
There were several other benefits to the Tech Industries, realized from
the long-term effects of the H-1B program:
1.
With jobs limited, American engineers would have to undercut the foreigners
in pay, and work longer hours. Even with
equal pay and equal hours worked between Americans and foreigners, many
companies would prefer the foreigners, as they could easily jettison them at
the end of the (probationary) H-1B term.
Long term result: Engineering has become a dog-eat-dog
occupation.
2.
As well, the foreigners would become increasingly indentured and
servile, as their renewal term approached.
Long term result: All engineers had to adopt servile
attitudes towards their employer/owners.
3.
By basic Supply & Demand in free markets, the near infinite supply
of workers willing to toil for near free, in sordid work-environments,
basically pulls the plug on the entire engineering spectrum of wages. Long-term result: Engineering wages have been essentially flat for the last decade –
while companies’ revenues have skyrocketed – as a result of the phenomenal
inventions of the engineers they harness.
An EE-Time article reports that H-1B computer engineers are paid 23.3% less than the BLS
average.
4.
About 94% of H-1B immigrants are under 40 years old. Given the above factors, this creates an incredible bias against older
American engineers. The discrimination
borne out by this program, is reflected in statistics of lay-offs an
unemployment spans, and re-hire wages (ie 13% lower than younger staff –
according to the NRC, a pro-H1B organization).
5.
As these companies cycled through thousands of H-1Bs’ they would entice
the ‘free-agent’ H-1Bs to return to their home-country, to setup a base for
hiring and technology transfer. As
these bases matured, the company could completely ignore the H-1B visas and
hire directly in the foreign country.
Then, if they wanted a particular person in the USA, they would simply
use the unrestricted L-1 (intra-company transfer) visa. The only reason these companies don’t move
all of their operations overseas, is the obvious benefits of rule-of-law,
infrastructure and conveniences seen in the USA – as a result of Americans
dying to provide those benefits.
6.
America’s children are increasingly avoiding engineering fields. What at one time brought pride in building
and creating for America, now brings dread and aversion. Seeing their parents laid-off, or hearing of
the phenomenal work-loads, with little to no pay increases, America’s children
are looking for H-1B-proof jobs, with less of a stigma of slave-labor. This tendency is reported by various
unbiased professors, responding to the concerns of their students.
Given these obvious
macro-economic and flat-earth equalizing effects, it makes perfect business
sense for companies to wail about their desperate need for ‘the best and the brightest’,
while at the same time innocently and coyly professing to using a very small
number themselves. Their intent is
obvious: Increase the supply of H-1B’s in order to depress wages, and turn all of
America’s engineers into docile, meek servants.
As Dr. Norm Matloff summarizes:
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The bottom line is that the industry wants H-1Bs as
a source of cheap, compliant workers who will gladly work 14-hour days. |
Of course, the authorities
and media will not be interested in H-1B abuse.
That’s why it took two high-school students to uncover a conspiracy of sex-slave trading using the H-1B visa to import
young Indian girls. This is just one of
many horror stories.
SUMMARY POINTS
This thesis collects
evidence that certain companies:
I.
Admit to firing Americans and almost immediately attempting to hire
foreigners.
II.
Admit to using the H-1B Visa to suppress American Engineer’s wages.
III.
Admit to gaming the ‘temporary’ intent of H-1B by immediately applying
for Green Cards.
IV.
Pool their massive resources in a cartel of lobbying companies to
increase the flow of H-1B workers.
V.
Share wage and hiring practice information through the guise of
industry ‘polls’.
VI.
Admit to hiring exclusively H-1B foreigners at many Universities, and
exclusively H-1B grads.
VII.
Admit to training foreigners with American technology, and then asking
them to return home.
VIII.
Blatantly deceive congress – i.e. claiming that any hi-tech skilled
engineer is guaranteed a job.
IX.
Benefit from hundreds of millions in tax-breaks, while simultaneously
firing 1000’s of Americans.
X.
Claim to only need a very small number of H-1B’s, while lobbying for
200,000 more per year.
XI.
Claim to only need a small number of H-1B’s, while petitioning to allow
75% H-1B staff.
XII.
Have effectively lowered their H-1B visa wages since 2001, while
massively increasing profits.
XIII.
Aid and abet dictatorships in oppressing freedoms through enabling
censorship and spying.
XIV.
Admit to a total lack of patriotism towards U.S. Citizens in their
hiring practices.
XV.
Mislead the public about the true number of H-1B’s used in their
engineering departments.
XVI.
Admit to having a preference for young engineers, while predominantly
firing older staff.
THESIS: H-1B =
FLAT EARTH EQUALIZER
Many claim that business has gone
global, competition is global, and thus hiring should be flat-earth
global. However, many of these U.S.
companies forget that hundreds of thousands of American Citizens have died to
provide them safe-haven for their successes.
While these (H-1B abusing) companies claim to represent America’s
competitiveness, they are replacing Americans with cheap, indentured foreigners
who have no allegiance to the United States.
In effect, many of these companies represent nothing but their
share-holders. Quite a few of the worst
H-1B abusers are openly foreign leaning – with a significant majority of their
staff based in foreign countries. Such
companies are only in America to gain from her business friendly environment,
and the infrastructure and protections brought by multiple generations of
American’s hard work and fair-play values.
The H-1B abuser’s disregard for
American values is apparent in their preferences for foreigners over
Americans. While U.S. Citizens must have
a perfectly clean legal record, must have excelled at 16 years or more of
schooling, including U.S. history, civics and culture and language, and US men
must at least sign up for the Selective Service – these companies are hiring
foreigners of unknown background and allegiance. In most of these developing countries, there
is no trustworthy assimilation of background data on people. The immigrants are often hired simply on the
merit that they have a paper stating they have degree in engineering – regardless
of its veracity, and regardless of their political leanings – be it
communist, fascist, terrorists or Tibetan Monks. Furthermore, there is very little regard for
the immigrant’s English-language limitations, or their temptations to acquire
U.S. intellectual property and take it overseas. Although this appears Xenophobic, these
truths remain. The H-1B program does
absolutely nothing to honor Americans for their service and citizenship, and
does nothing to protect America’s intellectual assets. In fact, it is called the ‘outsourcing visa’,
but should be called the IP exporting visa.
The following thesis presents the
sources supporting and motivating these statements, as well as other evidence
regarding the Anti-American nature of (the current form of) the H-1B visa
program in general. Although grave
damage has been done to the American Engineer, and to the allure of engineering
in general to American students – who see wages falling and their parents
getting replaced, it is hoped that the concerned reader will consider the proposals by
Senators Durbin and Grassley:
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The H-1B visa
program should complement the U.S. workforce, not replace it,” Durbin
said. “Congress created the H-1B visa
program so an employer could hire a foreign guest-worker when a qualified
American worker could not be found. However, the H-1B visa program is plagued
with fraud and abuse and is now a vehicle for outsourcing that deprives qualified
American workers of their jobs. Our
bill will put a stop to the outsourcing of American jobs and discrimination
against American workers. |
If you are motivated to protect
America’s native engineering base, please contact Senator
Durbin, or Senator Grassley, or sign up at the Programmer’s
Guild.