When I heard that Moira Herbst of Businessweek wrote an article about Norm Matloff, I read it with extreme trepidation. Herbst is a skilled writer and journalist, but she is very much a corporate globalist who supports H-1B and outsourcing. Despite her obvious bias the article wasn’t as bad as I anticipated.

There are a few things in the article that I felt should be commented on.

To some opponents of H-1B visas, Matloff is something of a hero — and in a sense, the intellectual backbone of their movement.[ An Academic’s Labor Helps Fight H-1B Visas, BusinessWeek, June 28, 2009.]

That may be the most profound thing Herbst has ever written (which probably isn’t saying very much!). As far as I know, Norm Matloff is the first one to make the connection between H-1B and age discrimination. I first found out about Matloff many years ago when I was trying to figure out why I couldn’t find good engineering jobs. For many reasons I began to suspect my 40+ age was a factor (in one interview the manager asked me if I would have a problem riding go-karts with “the boys” on Friday). I stumbled into Matloff’s “Debunking” paper and much to my astonishment it read like my autobiography. The stories in that paper have been accused of being anecdotal, but they are the story of my ruined career. They aren’t anecdotal to me!

My journey into the H-1B issue originated from the wealth of information that Matloff provided on age discrimination in the computer/IT professions. (more…)

As most of you have probably heard by now, the DC Metro crash was possibly caused by a computer failure. [Computer Failure Could Be Cause of DC Metro Crash Killing ]That news got me and a few others interested if the DC Metro has been outsourcing work to India or bodyshops, and employing H-1Bs. The reasoning behind the research is that when employers are looking for the cheapest labor they often get what they pay for.

In the rest of this post allow me to share with you a surprising number of connections. They could be all coincidence at this point, and therefore have nothing to do with the crash.

Several previous posts have been published concerning President Obama’s appointment of Aneesh Chopra for Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Vivek Kundra for Chief Information Officer (CIO). Besides their obvious ethnic similarities, keep in mind that Aneesh Chopra led a large junket to India in 2006 to promote the outsourcing of Virginia state jobs. Read the previous newsletters on these two appointments to see how both of them have a long record of promoting the outsourcing of American jobs to India.Chopra and Kundra are definitely friends of India.

The following information isn’t in any particular order, and I think we should all be careful about what conclusions are drawn. Too little is known about the cause of the crash yet to blame any particular contractor so until more is known all of this should be considered circumstantial evidence. That said as a disclaimer, here is the stuff:

Primary contractor for the DC Metro is Optimal Solutions & Technologies(OST). Here is a link to the actual contract PDF

Vivek Kundra has many connections to OST. He was even on their board.

But that wasn’t the only reason Kundra put Optimal Solutions and Technologies in charge of nearly 100 subcontractors eager for a piece of as much as $75 million a year in technology contracts.

And what about the role of Optimal Solutions and Technologies, a D.C.-based company founded in 1999 by Vijay Narula?

Though allegedly Acar and Bansal violated city rules by regularly meeting and talking, Narula said his company, which has about eight employees assigned full time to the contract, was powerless to detect such behavior.[Federal Probe Casts Doubt on D.C. Contract Reform Effort - washingtonpost.com,  April 6, 2009]

Remember Sushil Bansal? He was the one that was arrested and jailed, and was the reason the FBI raided Kundra’s office. Acar has been charged with bribery.

OST is heavily involved in our transportation infrastructure. They even have an FAA Software Design and Development Services Contract. Vijay Narula is their CEO. OST’s contracts are some of the most important in the nation because they involve public safety, and yet it’s very difficult to find out where Narula was born–he is very much an enigma. Try finding his biography with Google, and get back to me when you find out something.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Awards an Information Technology Contract to Optimal Solutions and Technologies (OST, Inc.)

GRPA is another outsourcer that does business with the WMATA. They have offices in India, and perhaps they send some work there.

GRPA is a registered IT services provider to the state of Maryland, various counties, and other organizations like Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), the World Bank, and several Credit Unions, etc.[GRPA Web Page]

GRPA is considered a minority owned business, which gives them a large advantage over other companies that want to win state contracts. The company name explains their minority status: G.R. Patel & Associates, Inc.

Master Contract, Master Contractor Details, GRPA

Master Contractor Name: G.R. Patel & Associates, Inc. (GRPA) Minority Business Enterprise: Yes Name: G.R. Patel Title: President

Contracts to G.R. PATEL & ASSOCIATES, INC.(FY 2000-2008)

If you want even more connections go here–it’s too complicated to describe: FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee

Some of the high tech workers on the WMATA engineering and computer/ITsystem have similar ethnic backgrounds. It is not known at this time what their visa status is:

• Anurag Mehta Enterprise GIS Architect at WMATA (DC Metro) Washington D.C. Metro Area
• thesis help !!! Anurag Mehta mehtaag at ucunix.san.uc.EDU
• Anurag Mehta, amehta@wmata.com
• Pradip (Roy) Sr Electrical Engineer at WMATA Washington D.C. Metro Area
• Naheed Monower Deputy Chief, Operations and Maintenance at Washington Metropolitan AreaTransit Authority Washington D.C. Metro Area
• VENKAT SUBRAMANIAN Founder, President & CEO, ANGARAI Location Washington D.C. Metro Area Founder, President & CEO at Angarai Past Managing Trustee at Angarai Foundation Program Manager at WMATA President & CEO at Angarai Technology Group, Inc.

At its core, NAFTA was less a trade pact than a political, immigration, and investment agreement.

Pat Choate, Dangerous Business, 2008

A Dallas, Texas TV station (WFAA) did an excellent news report recently. In it, they tell how NAFTA TN visas were used to replace 100 American airline mechanics with cheaper ones from Mexico. It all happened at a company called San Antonio Aerospace (SAA).[Loophole allows for easy immigration for aircraft mechanics, WFAA.com, June 17, 2009]

This newsletter has discussed the TN (Trade NAFTA) visa many times. It is used to import the same types of foreign professionals as H-1B, except that the TN visa has far less protections for Americans, and the number of visas is unlimited from Canada and Mexico. It’s a recipe for disaster!

I wrote a paper in 2003 about TN visas. Nothing has changed since then so you can read about it here:

Embedded Visas by Rob Sanchez, Social Contract Press, 2003

The WFAA research and investigative journalism is first class, and the video report on their website is stunning and very scary. My only problem with the article is that they blamed what happened on loopholes in NAFTA. After close examination I just don’t think the loopholes they allege exist. Let me explain: (more…)

Arizona State University posted a notice that they will be hiring a postdoctoral biophysicist on an H-1B visa. The H-1B worker will be paid just over $39k/yr (before taxes) for 3 years and will receive full benefits such as health insurance.

Now you know what a PhD in biophysics is worth.

For a copy of the actual document click here. Text version below. To find out more about public postings of Labor Condition Applications go here. (more…)

In a new article by Frosty Wooldridge an essay I authored was mentioned: “Displaced Americans” was published in a 2006 pamphlet titled: “The Ethics of Immigration Policy“.

The essay was very short because it had to fit into a pocket sized pamphlet, so it lacked detail. In this newsletter I will discuss in further detail a comparison of the situation that caused the riots in France with the powder keg that is just waiting to explode in the U.S.

In France, Muslims from Africa were imported for several generations by using a temporary guest worker program. These cheap laborers were in theory temporary, but in practice many of them stayed either legally or illegally. France gave most of the early guest workers citizenship and welcomed their families also. It was the French version of Comprehensive Immigration Reform. BLECH!

The French government vowed to make sure that all of the immigrants that stayed permanently would go through assimilation programs, but for many of them that never happened. Due to budget cuts and indifference the French government didn’t follow through on their promises, and the truth is that many of the Muslims had no intention of changing their loyalty to France. Instead of assimilating, the immigrant laborers were isolated into slums around major cities such as Paris. The population of angry Muslims began to swell.

In addition to the guest workers there was a growing flow of illegal immigrants from Arab countries into France. Unemployment rose most dramatically among the youngest age groups who were typically second or third generation French citizens. Muslim communities transformed into large populations of disenfranchised people who had no real stake in the success of the country and who grew desperately poor. It was a perfect formula for social unrest.[L’Intifada en Los Estados Unidos, The French riots and us, By Mark Krikorian]

The result: riots broke out in 2005. Sporadic violence has continued ever since. One of the main factors driving the civil unrest is youth unemployment, which surpassed the 20% level in 2005.

Hopefully the U.S. doesn’t follow France’s example, but if unemployment was a major factor in the riots in France then we had better prepare for the same thing here. That’s because in the U.S. the unemployment rate of young American minorities is rising far above the levels that sparked violence in France. The situation has deteriorated considerably since I wrote that essay in 2006. To see just how dire the situation is, here are some quick stats from the BLS:

Non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rates vs. age range and year

group			year	2006	2009
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blacks		16-19		33%	7%
Hispanic  	16-19     	22%	43%
all		16-19		5%	10%

blacks		20-24		17%	28%
Hispanic	20-24		18%	28%
all		20-24		9%	18%

blacks -- African American
Hispanic -- Hispanic or Latino
all -- all race groups combined

Folks, look at the numbers and you will begin to understand why the U.S. is sitting on a powder keg! Our young people aren’t getting jobs and that’s a formula for unrest — and violence. In the years since 2006 the unemployment numbers have worsened. The situation is especially bad for blacks and Hispanics because they compete directly with illegal aliens for jobs. Comparing unemployment rates in France and the U.S. may be somewhat erroneous because the methodologies are probably quite different, but at some point the fuse to the bomb is going to ignite in the U.S. Rates of unemployment over 20% are a disaster waiting to happen. Even when whites are factored in the rates are hovering near 20%.

One thing you can count on is that when the riots break out the mainstream media will conclude that racism is the cause, not immigration. I’m using France to foretell our future of course, but consider this written by the Canadian TV in 2007:

Media accounts of the riots that spread across France in the fall of 2005 lay the blame squarely on a racist society that has marginalized the children and grandchildren of North African immigrants.[France riots Understanding the violence,CBC News, Last Updated Nov. 28, 2007]

The entire article is worth reading and it gets quite amusing when the delusional author explains that riots won’t happen in Canada because they are so much smarter than France. LOL!

So, what is President Obama doing about this impending crisis?

This week the Obama administration has been working hard to roll back e-verify which is used to guarantee that employers hire those who are in the U.S. legally. All indications so far are that Obama and the globalists in Congress are hell-bent on passing amnesty, which will encourage even more immigration into the U.S. In other words, Obama is exacerbating a very dangerous situation! Stimulus money isn’t going to help the problem unless we start demanding that all unskilled labor and entry level jobs go to our young people instead of immigrants and illegal aliens.

As the Boston Globe said:

It is ironic that at the same time that the nation was electing its first African-American president, it was displacing record numbers of black men from the ranks of the employed.[A job crisis for young black men, By Ron Marlow and Andrew Sum, Boston Globe, April 22, 2009]

That’s quite a profound statement, but the authors avoid one of the most important reasons why so many young black men are unemployed. The Globe came up with the top four things to do in order to turn this worsening unemployment situation around and yet they never mention anything about immigration. How stupid can they be to not see their own set of ironies?

There has been a lot of speculation about whether Sen. Specter’s switch from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party will change the equation on immigration. A press release by immigration attorney Morley J. Nair attempts to answer that question, [Senator Specter's Switching Of Party Affiliation Boosts Chances For Immigration Reform Legislation April 29, 2009]but only proves that immigration lawyers have way too much money to waste on superfluous press releases. Nair claims that the switch puts the Democrats only 1 vote short of enough votes to have a filibuster proof majority, and therefore Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) is almost a done deal. He is right about the voting block in the Senate, but wrong about how Specter’s switch of allegiance will change the dynamics on immigration.

In short, Specter’s action will have NO effect on CIR whatsoever, even if amnesty is a done deal.

The reason? For starters, Sen. Specter votes the Democratic Party line on all immigration issues. He is globalist who is pro amnesty, pro H-1B, pro guest worker visas, and pro open borders. Switching parties will not affect how he votes.

Assuming all Democrats vote for amnesty, Specter’s change won’t change anything, because he almost always votes for higher immigration. Take a look at his miserable report card.

Specter is as bad as it gets on immigration. To give one of the most hideous examples: In 2006 Specter became the primary sponsor of the McCain/Kennedy amnesty bill. The new Specter bill became known as Comprehensive Immigration reform or S. 2611. Specter’s S2611 inherited the SKIL bill — a frightening escalation in the H-1B program and other guest worker visas. Specter struck down all attempts to get rid of the SKIL portion of 2611.

In reality, Obama already has a super majority in Congress because without question at least a few Republicans like McCain will support new amnesties. Specter doesn’t change the equation at all.

For now, the only question about CIR is when the next attempt will be made to pass it, and whether the Democrats in the House will follow the Senate in support of it. There is nothing the Republicans can do to stop CIR if the Democrats continue their monolithic enthusiasm for CIR.

There are rumblings on the amnesty front. The Senate Judiciary Committee, will be conducting a hearing today, Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 2:00 PM EST. The topic for the hearing is: “Comprehensive Immigration Reform in 2009, Can We Do It and How?” Link to the notice about this hearing with this link. They have a webcast of this hearing online.

So, now allow me to speculate on why Specter had to change parties. He knows that the Tea Party in his state represents the grass roots movement to unseat him — and he wants to run away from these angry voters as fast as his arthritic joints can move![What's Next For Tea Party Movement?] What’s Next For Tea Party Movement?/a> By Lowman S. Henry, The Bulletin, April 23, 2009] He acknowledges that he can’t even win his own Republican primary. One thing that he will never admit, and the mass media will never publicize, is that Specter is in trouble because of his support of increasing taxes and amnesty. Immigration, or the “3rd Rail”, is at the heart of Specter’s problems. It’s really that simple!

In case you haven’t heard, Obama appointed Aneesh Chopra to be the nation’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Now we have two Indian-Americans in two positions that will make decisions about which government jobs are outsourced to India, and which ones are displaced by H-1Bs. The other one of course is Chief Information Officer (CIO) Vivek Kundra, who has been mentioned several times in this newsletter. If Kundra’s name doesn’t ring a bell go here to read about him: Obama’s “Kunundrum”, By Rob Sanchez

I’m not sure why President Obama is bent on appointing Indians to key technology positions so much. In politics it’s always a good idea to follow the money trail, and doing so might help to explain that Obama’s prejudicial hiring practices might have a lot to do with the enormous amounts of cash and political influence that India is wielding in Washington DC. Or, perhaps Obama just feels that non-Indians don’t have the right genomes to handle technological issues. It’s an attitude that many policy makers seem to have nowadays. If you can think of a better reason for Obama’s most recent appointment, then let me in on it.

The most likely alternative explanation for Obama’s hiring behavior is that he is cooperating with India’s desire to plant their shills strategically in places that will help them to take over our country’s technological infra-stucture. If that sounds like a far fetched conspiracy, keep reading while I try to convince you that what is happening could turn into an international conspiracy and scandal.

These are just a few of the reasons that everyone should be concerned that Chopra and Kundra are now the nation’s new CIO and CTO:

• These two positions aren’t trivial. Chopra and Kundra will have the decision making authority to throw billions of dollars wherever they want. They will also have a major role in determining which technology jobs are outsourced to India, and which Americans will lose their jobs to H-1Bs from India. Of course that will also give them power to determine which U.S. tech companies will survive. They will also make decisions about our education system even though neither one of them have technical career backgrounds. Folks, this ain’t good!
• All of you know how tough it is to get jobs. Employers nowadays scrutinize everything about your education, experience, who you worked for etc. You could meet 9 out of 10 requirements and still they won’t hire you because you didn’t have the newest version of a technical skill they claim they need.

So, how come Obama hired a CTO that has no technical experience at all? Neither Chopra or Kundra are career technologists (although Kundra did get a degree in IT, psychology, and political science). Chopra never received an education in science, technology, engineering, or math. Chopra probably doesn’t know the difference between a transistor and a transformer, an Apple and a PC, and he definitely has never written one line of computer code. Chopra’s claim to technical virtuosity is that he got a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University.

So, why did Obama shun the technical giants of Silicon Valley to hire these unqualified cronies to lead our nation’s technology? Could it be that most of those that built Silicon Valley were non-Indian?

• * Speaking of cronies, these two are very bad examples of political cronyism in action. While Kundra served in Washington DC as the chief technology officer (CTO), Chopra was Virginia’s Secretary of Technology. They were friends and business partners, and they both worked very hard to make sure that lucrative government contracts were sent offshore to India. There are other connections — like for instance Aneesh Chopra is a Harvard project partner with Vivek Wadhwa. I won’t dwell on Wadhwa in this newsletter since I have mentioned him dozens of times before, and because I have mixed feelings about who’s side he is on. Go to this web page to see one of the many Wadhwa projects that Chopra was involved in. It’s not hard to find them using by Google.
• TechAmerica hailed President Barack Obama for appointing Chopra. They call it a “breakthrough for technology policy,” In case you haven’t heard of TechAmerica — they are a merger between some of the worst H-1B and offshoring lobbyists in the history of the attack on American middle class technology workers: AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association), and Harris Miller’s Information Technology Association of America (ITAA). It’s safe to assume that anybody they endorse is a champion of H-1B and offshoring.
• Mr. Aneesh Chopra is hailed as a leader of the Indian American community and an active member of the USINPAC Leadership Committee. USINPAC is the obvious connection all of these guys have to the big money bags in India. If international conspiracy is involved, USINPAC is the U.S. command center, while NASSCOM and CII in India are puppet masters. Chopra and Kundra are their prized plants.
• Aneesh Chopra may not call himself a lobbyist for Indian offshoring, but that’s what he is. Read this, but don’t be surprised:

“Not surprisingly, he is an avid supporter of opportunities for globalization and was well received when he led a Virginia trade delegation to India in 2006.”

If none of those reasons sway you, consider this: chances are Chopra is involved in the fraud and bid rigging scheme being investigated by the FBI. It’s just a matter of time before Kundra is connected with the two accused criminals Sushil Bansal and Yusuf Acar, and next in line would be Chopra. Inviting Chopra to the administration just gives the FBI another big target to investigate. If the FBI fingers either Kundra or Chopra, and it may be just a matter of time before that happens, Obama is going to have a scandal of epic proportions on his hands. Obama is taking a considerable political risk by allowing these two to be associated with his administration. The question is why?

Rush Limbaugh recently raised the hackles of many Indians with his remark about outsourcing. The brouhaha began when Limbaugh told a caller that it is futile to wait for outsourced jobs to come back if the job is being done by a slumdog in India.

Not only is the Indian media assailing Limbaugh for saying this, the Indian community in the U.S. is also at Limbaugh’s throat. Take for instance the Indian American Republican Council (IARC). Their vice chairman Dr Sambhu Banik described Limbaugh as a leader of millions of loyal right wing conservatives and as a “demagogue” for making “outright insulting” statements about Indian workers. An article making the rounds of Indian websites is even shriller — it claims that the Limbaugh statement could trigger violence against Indians by right wing extremists.

Of course this newsletter prefers to take the high road by remaining neutral in controversies of this type, but after looking at the facts it’s not obvious why the Indians are raising such a stink about this. For one thing, the movie Slumdog Millionaire is now considered to the pride of India. Take this statement for example:

“They have done India proud,” said Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a message congratulating the “entire Slumdog Millionaire team.”

Rush Limbaugh would get the impression that it’s an honor to be called a slumdog if he saw that statement by the Prime Minister but that probably isn’t what caused Limbaugh’s confusion. More likely Rush Limbaugh is a closet PBS viewer (ROFL!). He probably saw this Frontline story:

In an arrangement that is apparently fairly common in Delhi, NIIT’s corporate offices are located next to a fetid slum, where people live in what can only charitably be called shacks, with little access to sanitation and health care. A high, thick boundary wall separates the two worlds. It’s the wall — or more precisely, what’s inside it — that has brought me to NIIT.

Addendum: I saw Slumdog Millionaire and enjoyed it. The first half of the movie was the best part because it so accurately portrayed what living in the slums of India is like. The second half of the movie got progressively sillier until it was more like a farce. Americans should watch this movie to see what the future of the U.S. will be like if we continue our insane free trade policies with India.

Overall the movie had a preposterous plot, and at its core it was a rather corny Bollywood “love conquers all” and “rags to riches” theme. There is no question in my mind that the movie would win all of those awards like the Golden Globe and the 8 Academies, and I was certain of this despite the rather low quality of the movie and despite its competition with American movies that were better in every way conceivable. It was quite a sight to watch the Academies being handed out for the movie by a bunch of politically correct Hollywood dunderheads that are too stupid to understand that they were rewarding the demise of their own home grown movie industry. Their livelihoods are being outsourced to Bollywood but they were probably too busy snorting coke to realize that giving out those undeserved rewards will legitimize and accelerate the drive to shove aside American movie production.

Slumdog Millionaire was one of the most offshored movies ever, and it was very cheap to make–and therefore very profitable. Bye! Bye! to Hollywood’s latte sipping billionaires, and hello to curry slurping Bollywood millionaires!

The Heritage Foundation (HF) recently declared that the H-1B cap of 65,000 visas is way too low. They think it should be raised to 195,000. It seems that calling for more H-1B visas is becoming an annual tradition at the Heritage Foundation. Go here to read their 2008 rendition.

One week after the commencement of the April 1, 2010 H-1B season, the USCIS announced it had received 42,000 petitions for H-1B visas. In view of the facts so far this year (please read previous newsletter), why would the Heritage Foundation feel the need to manufacture a “fact” like this one that are so easily disproved?

This visa is by far the most-used visa; the USCIS often receives hundred of thousands of applications within the first couple of days.April 7, 2009 Help the Economy and Federal Deficit by Raising H-1B Caps by Jena Baker McNeill and Diem Nguyen WebMemo #2384

Actually there are many types of visas that are issued in far greater numbers than H-1B, such as green cards and student visas, and L-1s may be surpassing H-1B in numbers. Furthermore there is no evidence that the USCIS has ever received so many applications within the first couple of days. Typically there is a slight rush on April 1st followed by a month or two more where enough petitions dribble in to meet the cap. They are just totally wrong about “hundred of thousands of applications” because it just doesn’t happen.

The HF writers are knee deep in falsifying the facts and then they compound their blunders:

There is a popular myth that H-1B workers displace Americans because foreigners will work for less than Americans even if they have greater qualifications.

Several paragraphs of convoluted logic follow where they try to justify their point that employers wouldn’t favor H-1Bs just because they are cheaper. These champions of market based economies try to totally deny that market forces affect the labor market. It’s beyond weird!

Their next blunder is bizarre because generally speaking the HF is libertarian and they are very critical of centrally planned economies — and yet they make a socialist argument that as long as the government can mandate and enforce prevailing salaries all Americans are protected.

But this notion is entirely false. H-1B visas are provided to foreign workers only if employers prove that they are paying prevailing wages (equivalent to American wages for that occupation). In addition, employers must show that no American workers with the appropriate qualifications were available.

The term “prevailing salaries” is just a euphemism for price controls on wages. The HF condemns price controls, so you have to wonder if their adulation of prevailing wages is a case of hypocrisy or evidence of an organization that has two left feet. They seem to know something about ancient history but are blind when it comes to H-1B, and even worse they haven’t learned anything from a book they quote that was written two decades ago.

Mere guesswork, critics may respond. Fine, but they can’t shrug off what history teaches us about price caps. It’s all laid out in a book published more than 20 years ago by The Heritage Foundation titled “Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation,” by Robert Schuettinger and Eamonn Butler. The book outlines the unqualified failure of price controls from ancient Egypt forward.The Folly of Price Controls

The HF should be embarrassed that they accepted this one without verifying its veracity since it’s from the totally discredited NFAP study last year by Stuart Anderson.

In reality, H-1B visas spur economic growth. The National Foundation for American Policy showed that, on average, for every H-1B employee hired, an additional five American employees were also hired.

Actually the NFAP claimed each H-1B created 7 jobs for Americans, so the HF downplayed the number. Even if it were true that each H-1B generated 5 jobs, wouldn’t we be able to eliminate unemployment in the U.S. just by hiring enough H-1Bs? All we need to do is to divide the total number of jobless Americans by 5, and then import enough H-1Bs to put them back to work. Sounds silly, but that’s what the HF and NFAP think!

If it wasn’t for the notion that each H-1B generate 5 jobs, I would nominate this as the dumbest thing that they wrote:

President Obama has promised to cut the deficit in half in five years. Expanding the H-1B visa would be a relatively small but beneficial step in that direction.

You heard that right folks! Not only does each H-1B create at least 5 jobs, but they also decrease our federal deficit! This was another one borrowed from the NFAP that the Heritage Foundation should have the common sense to know better about repeating. Their logic if flawed and contradictory because if H-1Bs were paid the same prevailing salary, as HF claims, then there is no net gain in tax revenue. What actually happens however is that highly paid American workers who pay lots of taxes are replaced with lower paid H-1B or L-1 visa holders who pay little or no taxes. Every H-1B causes tax revenues to drop, not increase.

The HF purports to be in favor of free markets but they certainly don’t apply their ideology to H-1B. They undercut their entire argument in favor of raising the cap. Read this:

Make the cap flexible. As the U.S. economy fluctuates through its business cycles, the demand for H-1B visas will rise and fall. Congress should establish a quota that, if met, automatically increases for the next year. In addition, unused visas should be recaptured for the next fiscal year.

Remember in the previous newsletter I explained that if more demand can justify a higher cap, then “what is good for the goose is good for the gander”! In other words, lower demand must mean that a lower cap is needed. If the Heritage Foundation really believed that the cap should be manipulated depending on market demand then they should have been calling for a lower limit, not higher.

On a personal note: About 6 years ago I attended a rather large FAIR meeting in Washington DC. The two of us made a big stink about H-1B and its connection to immigration and globalism. We were encouraging FAIR to pay more attention to this aspect of immigration because it’s becoming a hot button populist issue. A Heritage foundation stooge stood up and told the crowd, while looking directly at the two of us, that the people who are making a big deal about H-1B and/or globalism are a fringe element that should ignored by mainstream immigration reform groups. I wasn’t allowed to rebut his point, which was extremely frustrating to say the least, but as it turned out I didn’t need to. For the most part FAIR ignored his advice and made H-1B a major issue of theirs. FAIR has talked many times about the connection between immigration and globalism so the Heritage Foundation even lost on that one.

The Heritage Foundation is actually quite good on illegal immigration, but they can’t seem to break the leash held by their corporate masters when it comes to H-1B. It’s always seemed odd to me that so many libertarians think H-1B is a good idea. If the Heritage Foundation continues to push for expanded H-1B programs they may one day be considered a fringe element. Poetic justice, perhaps?

Stuart Anderson [VDARE.COM NOTE: A notorious open borders fanatic, see his review of Alien Nation] appeared on CSPAN. You can see the video here.

Watch the program for Tuesday the 7th.

The show probably didn’t go as smoothly as he had hoped. After giving his standard propaganda pitch, callers were allowed to call in. Every single caller was skeptical of H-1B and had some very stinging questions–including the one hard to understand H-1B that called.

CSPAN set up shop at a high school, and at first it looked like they were going to stack the deck with naive kids to ask softball questions. If that was the intention CSPAN made a big mistake! There were two high school girls that looked like they were going to be patsies but much to Anderson’s surprise, and to his dismay, were little lionesses. I would guess that there are some parents in that high school that have been burned by H-1B!

Anderson had one big advantage–there were no follow up questions, so he could basically B.S. his way out of some very awkward situations.

Here is my unofficial analysis and transcript of what transpired.

2:37:00 The Anderson interview begins. The online video is a total of 3 hours with the last half hour going to Anderson.

He ranted that the yearly cap isn’t big enough. He then used some irrelevant statistics to show that H-1B isn’t significant compared to the entire U.S. work force. What he failed to mention is that H-1B doesn’t affect the entire workforce nearly as much as STEMs, so his argument was logically flawed.

2:43:00 Dominique Hunter, a high school student from Susquehanna High School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania asked a good question about whether the importation of these foreign workers will increase unemployment and poverty in the United States. Unfortunately the video glitched during her question so it’s difficult to understand. Anderson used a surprising argument that the children of H-1Bs add to our talent pool. Anderson’s answer contained quite a bit of unproved geneticism because he assumed that H-1Bs have superior genes compared to Americans, and he seemed to imply that the genes are passed onto their kids. The girl asking the question was African American, so it’s probably very lucky for Anderson that she wasn’t allowed a follow up because she didn’t look too happy that Anderson was arguing that H-1Bs are genetically superior. LOL!

2:45:00 A male caller claimed that the H-1B program is harming America by turning us into a beggar nation. Anderson used another standard line — if you don’t let companies hire H-1Bs the companies will offshore the jobs. He talks about the lack of education of Americans and then claims that H-1B fees help train Americans. He made a claim that H-1Bs help Americans get more skills. Huh??? Did he think that H-1Bs come here and train Americans?

2:48:00 An angry female caller is not happy the way companies force Americans to train their replacements. Anderson answers that there are protections in the law so companies can’t replace Americans, which is of course a crock. He blows off the story about workers being replaced as being nothing more than companies changing contractors, which can be misconstrued.

2:51:00 A man calls in that claims he has been here on an H-1B for 11 years (that’s a long time!). He is angry that he can’t get a green card. He claims it should be easy to get citizenship since his wife is an American citizen who doesn’t want to leave the U.S. Anderson makes a pitch to handle his case, and then agrees that the wait for green cards is way to long.

2:53:00 Nicole Weaver, another African American female student from the same high school asked what kind of training Americans need to compete. Superficially her question seemed like a softball but there were plenty of traps for Anderson to stub his toes on and it showed the way he danced around the question. Anderson said that most American companies are not avoiding hiring Americans, and he said once a foreigner comes here to work they become American so there is no difference. Predictably he called for more technology schools.

2;55:00 A man calls that give a much better answer to the high school girl’s question than Anderson did. If you listen to anything in the video fast forward to listen to this guy. Anderson couldn’t help but crack a smile when he lied big time to answer the caller.

2:58:00 The last caller was an engineer who agreed with the previous caller but added that H-1Bs are underpaid. Ooops! Anderson’s answer was so loopy he started to get spacey.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: If anybody can record this video I would like to get a copy on VHS, DVD, or CD. We need to get this on youtube with better quality, and because CSPAN doesn’t necessarily archive these things long term. Right now I don’t have cable TV so I record it, but I have the tools to put it online.