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This online library contains material directly related to H-1B issues. All pages are archived onsite so you will not link to another web. New material will be added to this library on a regular basis.

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Letters by Our Elected Officials on H-1B

• A Letter To Clinton. Clinton's administration didn't even care that the writer opposed H-1B, they sent the letter writer a form letter that thanked "you" for supporting the Clinton increase in the H-1B quota.

• John McCain's Letters on Why He is Proud to Co-Sponsor H-1B  - McCain sells himself as a patriotic Vietnam war vetern and POW. While he hides behind the flag he is also proud that he betrayed American Labor. Read his callous response from an unemployed American. In a recent letter McCain explains why he thinks raising the H-1B quota was a good idea. 

• J.D. Hayworth, Arizona congressman and ex TV sportscaster, thinks H-1Bs are good because they pay taxes. See his stupid response to a letter from an American engineer that also pays taxes.

• Peter Fitzgerald, Illinois senator, thinks H-1B should be increased because there are so many requests for visas.

• John Porter, Illinois congressman, thinks increasing H-1B limits is a good idea.

• Heather Wilson, New Mexico congresswoman, thinks that importing H-1B medical personnel fills the need.

• Bob Stump - Bob Stump, republican congressman from Arizona, puts principle above big money in these two letters. He describes the fraudulent nature of H-1B and explains why an increase in the quota is a bad idea.

• Larry Craig - republican Senator from Idaho, justifies immigrant farm labor with arguments that sound suspiciously like the shortage shouting to justify H-1B for white collar professionals

This archive contains newspaper articles that are of major importance to the H-1B debate.

• Indentured servants for high-tech trade: For a rich fee, companies called "body shops" supply waves of unwitting immigrants to the nation's computer industry. Baltimore Sun Feb. 21, 2000
• How many visas? Uh, we don't know - Counting errors prompt an outside audit at INS. Baltimore Sun Feb. 21, 2000
• Cashing In: Former immigration officials siphon millions from a program to entice foreign investors with the promise of green cards. Baltimore Sun Feb. 21, 2000
• Visa Program Open to Abuses - The sordid story of an H-1B prostitution ring. San Francisco Examiner Jan 22, 2000
• Getting in on H-1B - About 60% of all H-1B visa professionals are being grabbed up by only 20 companies. How do you get in on the action? Try these shortcuts around the red tape Computer World November 8, 1999 
• New H-1B Visa Cap Increase Sparks Debate - The new version of the law increases the cap from 65,000 to 115,000 in 1999 and 2000. PC Week November 16, 1998 
• White-Collar Visas: Back Door for Cheap Labor?- Washsington Post Saturday, October 21, 1995r
• H1-B safety net fails IT workers: AIG fiasco described by Linda Kilcrease PC Week November 18, 1998 
• IT pro's age puts him at unfair disadvantage in job hunt: Interview with Gene Nelson - November 16, 1998 
• "Cheep Labor": Programs place Americans low in the pecking order - Mother Jones
• 11th-Hour Victory For Tech - disgusting story detailing how Silicon Valley and Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif bought off Al Gore to support H-1B. Senator Harkin's heroic battle against H-1B was no match for Boxer's money machine and the lobby power of the ITAA. San Francisco Chronicle October 16, 1998 

Collections of various documents pertinent to H-1B

• Pigging At the Trough - See this letter from the Association Business for Legal Immigration (ABLI) that was sent to all of the House of Representatives. The ABLI and 418 companies plead the House to increase H-1B quotas.

• How and Why Gorvernment, Universities and Industry Create Domestic Labor Shortages: An Introduction to the Real NSF 'Shortage' Study by Eric Weinstein. Absolutely one of the best studies that detail why the H-1B mess occurred in the first place.

• Admitting Immigrants to the US for Economic or Employment Reasons by Philip Marting for SoftPac

• Cases where Americans were replaced by H-1Bs - by Larry Richards for SoftPac

• Air Force Pharmacist Application - Air Force only wants pharmacists that are under age 40. Would they be discriminating this way if they didn't have H-1B pharmacists to choose from?

• Dun & Bradstreet Memo - Corporate memo that tells American employees to consider their H-1B replacements as part of the team. They name Wipro and Cognizant as their bodyshops of choice.

• H-1B Job Advertisements - U.S. citizens need not apply for these jobs

• Labor Condition Applications - See applications for H-1Bs made by major American Companies

• H-1B Statistics from LCAs - Take a look at statistics compiled by the database of 69,032 LCAs

• Visa Types - A list of the immigrant based "temporary" work visas.

• Robert Schaerfl,  director of US Employment Services in 1994, wrote a letter that explained that companies don't have to prove need to hire an H-1B or to give preference to American workers, contrary to popular opinion!!! 

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• We Ask for the Scientific Method, But We Get Political Science - Matloff blasts the latest NRC report on H-1B and age discrimination. The NRC committed a real travesty when they made this report and Matloff says why. This page will include updates as Matloff sends more newsletters on this subject.
• SPECIAL REPORT---FRADULENT TESTIMONY TO SENATE - Matloff uses the H-1B Visa Database for the first time, and discovers fraud at WomenConnect.com.
• H-1B Bills and Shamless Big Buck Politics - This is one of my favorite Matloff newsletters. His is really on a roll this time. He even mentions Lofgren's all time classic when she said that Einsteins in California deserve to be paid $60,000.
• Qualcomm Lobbies for Increased H-1B Quotas - and then Gets Sued for Age Discrimination
• Lawyer helps high-tech firms find, retain foreign workers
• Is the H-1B a Temporary bill until U.S. workers get trained?- Matloff discusses the High-Tech industry claim that they need H-1Bs until U.S. Workers get adequate training. His commentary is followed by an excellent article "H-1B Redux" by Stephanie Neil of ZDNet.
• Training Budgets and the Job Skills Issue - Companies complain that there are not enough Americans with specific software skills.  Insincere employers use the skills issue as a pretext for seeking cheap labor.
• What could be worse than H-1B? The T1Visa - Matloff discusses Lofgren's horrible T1 visa bill that will allow unlimited numbers of foreign workers into the U.S. He again mentions Lofgren's classic about geniuses make more than $60,000.
• Boeing Strike - The Economist magazine claims that the Boeing strikers are the old guard who are outdated. They cite the same flawed ITAA study used to justify H-1B. Fortunately Matloff disagrees with the Economist.
• Campus Recruiters from Nortel pull a publicity stunt to Promote H-1B - Nortel and similar recruiters claim that there are tons of jobs for the best and brightest. If you recently graduated you might wonder whether you are dumb or whether these recuiter claims are not true.

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• Gene Nelson's Testimony Immigration and Claims Subcommittee August 5, 1999
• Problems With The H-1B Visa Expansion And T-Visas by Linda Kilcrease
• Older engineers claim discrimination runs rampant in the high-tech world - San Francisco Examiner 1999
• National Science Foundation (NSF) data demonstrates that there is a massive glut of information technology (IT) expertise instead of the "shortage"