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12 percent unemployed americans 3 often founders of ventures prefer to hire people that they already know a founder from another country is likely to want to bring over his buddies from the homeland currently there is no provision that any of the workers hired must be americans we already see thousands of cases of indians starting companies and hiring exclusively indian immigrants from infosys down to the smallest bodyshop 4 the programmers guild does not trust government or industry appointed board of venture capitalists financiers or technology experts we don t want unlimited h 1b bill gates or send the work offshore http www carlyforcalifornia info making immigration decisions it s unclear whether the public would be allowed to review and comment on the actions of this board or whether u s immigration decisions would be done by secret panels 5 the eb 5 visa has been discredited as full of fraud and abuse as reported by the baltimore sun ins insiders profit on immigrant dreams february 20 2000 at least the eb 5 required the person obtaining the visa to put up the funds under the startup visa the sponsored parties would have nothing vested we believe that fraud and shell ventures would be rampant posted by mr kim berry at 9 22 pm 6 comments labels h 1b programmers guild startup visa vivek wadhwa monday april 21 2008 development design group in baltimore md pays h 1b architects 32 000 salary monday april 21 2008 washington post article for visas the demand outstrips the supply firms say they rely on skilled immigrants profiled architectural design firm development design group in baltimore md chief executive roy higgs is quoted some people think this is just about bringing in cheap labor but it s not we offer the same salaries and perks whether you re from baltimore or bangladesh but we simply cannot find enough qualified u s born staff to fuel our growth the washington post failed to disclose the salary these h 1b workers are paid but according to the dol s lca database the median is about 42 000 while over 25 earn less than 35 000 now go to the bureau of labor statistics website where one finds that the mean wage for an architect in baltimore is 69 210 what skills are required development design group s website does not list any entry level openings so we have to presume that their pending h 1b applications require these skills including 3 to 7 years of experience project architects designers possess a thorough knowledge understanding and experience in all phases of the design process including concept design schematic design and design development 3 7 years experience in a multitude of areas including but not limited to retail mixed use entertainment planning urban design and residential strong design and graphic skills and sketching abilities excellent organizational skills proficiency with autocad adt photoshop and other software we think the facts speak for themselves roy higgs is a typical user of h 1b enriching himself by securing skilled labor at blue light special salary shirking his obligation to hire americans at a fair salary posted by mr kim berry at 7 21 pm 32 comments labels development design group h 1b h1b roy higgs sunday march 23 2008 u s rep gabrielle giffords targets u s tech workers for displacement it is well documented that qualified u s workers are being displaced by h 1b workers even at the current cap of 65 000 see the testimonials at hireamericansfirst org for example what is gifford s solution to double the cap to 130 000 i left a message for staff c j karamargin 520 881 3588 or 202 225 2542 on march 20th but c j did not return my call according to the march 19th infoworld article bill would double cap on h 1b visas she introduced the bill just one day after bill gates had testified before congress and no representatives of u s workers were invited to rebut gates the innovation employment act introduced by rep gabrielle giffords an arizona democrat late thursday would increase the cap in h 1b visas from 65 000 a year to 130 000 a year giffords sees the importance of h 1bs because southern arizona has been growing as a hub for tech companies karamargin added there s a need to stay competitive and keep the momentum growing he added that means making sure the talent is available to drive the local and national tech economy questions for c j in my voicemail i asked c j roughly can you name just two tech companies in southern arizona that cannot find qualified american tech workers and failed to get h 1b workers to fill those positions due to the current h 1b cap or lottery according to arizona central careerbuilder job search there are 832 it positions advertised but there are also 1840 sales and marketing ads and 2680 healthcare ads so how did rep giffords determine that it workers rather than healthcare sales and marketing workers are what are needed to keep arizona s economy strong the infoworld article states the bill would prohibit companies from hiring h 1b workers then outsourcing them to other companies he said h 1b opponents have complained that outsourcing companies are among the top users of h 1b visas can you please show us in the bill where the top users of h 1b infosys tcs wipro would be limited in their use of h 1b we can t find any such language why didn t rep giffords arrange to hear from the u s it workers who will be impacted by her bill before submitting it does she care more about the profits of multi national corporations than about assuring that u s citizens have priority for u s jobs posted by mr kim berry at 8 18 pm 51 comments labels h 1b h 1b tuesday february 5 2008 businessweek exposes how industry really uses h 1b workers listening to compete america one would think that h 1b workers are the best and brightest in the world contributing to u s global competiveness but as the 1 31 08 businessweek article are h 1b workers getting bilked exposes h 1b are being used by indian consulting firms to bring in cheap labor driving american consulting firms out of business and displacing highly skilled u s workers first indian consulting firm patni undercut american workers when dol approved the labor condition applications for a prevailing wage of 44 000 per year this is far below the 45 to 80 per hour that the yoh study found to be the average for u s workers with high demand skills such as database administrator and application developer what patni didn t disclose was that the 44 000 salary presumed that their workers put in lots of overtime their base pay was only 11 72 an hour they were expected to reach their salary by working overtime but even with 23 days of overtime one h 1b s annual pay worked out to only 35 305 in 2004 as state farm in bloomington illinois was laying off their american staff the lca database reveals that patni computer systems was bringing in hundreds of indians on h 1b visas many placed at state farm as mandated by the u s congress the department of labor rubber stamped these lcas labor condition applications for wages as low as 27 000 for computer programmers h 1b workers must have a minimum of a bs degree and specialized skills many of the lcas were filed by dayanand allapur vice president hrd 617 914 8367 patni s main number cambridge ma is 617 914 8000 among the americans who lost their jobs was george moraetes he reports having seen 4 5 h1 b s living in a one bedroom apartment and that the same pattern of h 1b usage was employed by ge contrary to helping the u s remain globally competitive the top users of the h 1b program are indian consulting firms they are transferring u s jobs and technology back to india and increasing the u s trade deficit without the h 1b and l 1 visa programs much of this loss of u s tech leadership would not be possible patni is headquartered in mumbai india their website provides roadmaps for transferring manufacturing offshore http www patni com the u s congress needs to wake up to the imminent threat posed to the u s economy by shipping our manufacturing to china and now services to india or economy cannot sustain this growing trade deficit and gutting of u s infrastructure posted by mr kim berry at 9 00 am 19 comments labels h 1b patni state farm sunday february 3 2008 flaws in university of buffalo spectrum s call for h 1b increase the original article is here http spectrum buffalo edu article php id 35050 this is an image of the front page where it run in the printed edition http spectrum buffalo edu images frontpage fp pdf article companies are very welcoming to international students because they can pay them less money than the local workers even if their ability is equal said ping lu a sophomore management major from china fact industry would dispute this claiming that h 1b has a prevailing wage requirement we thank ping for setting the record straight h 1b workers are often preferred because they are willing to work cheaper for the opportunity to stay in the usa and the prevailing wage is a sham article henry mok a malaysian student who graduated from ub with a b s in electrical engineering applied to at least 80 jobs during his opt in the buffalo area with only a few interviews and no job offers mok spent his summer perfecting his fishing skills at a friend s farm rather than his engineering expertise fact u s graduates are facing a similar job market mok s inability to find a job after sending 80 resumes refutes claims by industry that the h 1b cap needs to be raised to solve a labor shortage article employers in addition to being required by law to pay the fees have to prove that they could not find any better qualified domestic workers instead fact the h 1b has no such requirement employers can overlook a stack of resumes from more qualified u s applicants and hire the h 1b worker instead the impact on u s workers is evident at www hireamericansfirst org members h1b_harm_report aspx article the final step is to apply for the visa by april 1 the first day applications are accepted students with a bachelor s degree are competing with over 100 000 others for an allotment of 45 000 visas fact the base cap is 65 000 not 45 000 posted by mr kim berry at 6 42 pm no comments labels h 1b h1b sunday january 20 2008 programmers guild presents at sloan west coast program on science and engineering workers on friday january 18 2008 kim berry represented the perspective of the u s worker at the sloan west coast program on science and engineering workers held at uc davis powerpoints of the presenters are in the above link and an html friendly version of my powerpoint is here the conference was the first of several being sponsored by a sloan foundation grant norm matloff s newsletter gave this account kim berry of the programmer s guild gave a really outstanding talk i had seen his slides earlier and they were fine but his delivery greatly enhanced the content here was a real victim speaking calmly yet with contained anger at the fact that all our respected institutions both major political parties the business community and academia are complicit in maintaining that sham known as h 1b his account of hiring decision meetings in which he participated in which qualified american applicants were repeatedly rejected in favor of h 1bs ought to have been videotaped his speech would have been just as effective the cohen grigsby tubegate videos i wish the entire event had been videotaped but since no one else was taking video and since some people might not want to ask or respond to hard questions on record i chose not to tape my presentation but here are a few of my talking points slide 2 h 1b influx is independent from labor market 2000 2004 record h 1b influx there is talk about revising the current 85 000 visa cap to a market based cap we have already tried a market based cap in 2001 2004 we had a virtual market based cap as documented by the san jose mercury news during this period 25 to 50 of u s tech workers in silicon valley were pushed out of the job market and during this same period h 1b influx was higher than at any time during the growth years of 1990 2000 how bad would the economy have to get before a market based cap kicked in slides 11 15 americans are being displaced by h 1b s lack of u s worker recruitment http www hireamericansfirst org was launched on january 13 2008 already we have gathered dozens of testimonials of substantial harm by the h 1b program these 5 slides summarized those testimonials slide 25 programmers guild h 1b reforms the closing slide summarized the reforms that the guild believes are necessary to add some level of protection for u s workers true prevailing wage of at least what average americans earn within the same job classifications h 1b and l 1 lcas only approved after the employer has conducted good faith transparent recruitment and was unable to find any qualified u s candidates at any price h 1b only granted to u s business entities with as direct hires not to consulting firms indian or otherwise to be re shopped against american job seekers h 1b to include a 1 200 annual fee that would be used to fund 15 000 scholarships for american college students in stem programs consistent with legislation that senator sanders has introduced twice i liked stan sorscher s graphs showing how until about 1980 the economic gains of industrial advancements were shared at all wage levels what s good for gm is good for america but since then the gains have disproportionately gone to the top income levels the elite the ceos he continued by speculating that globalization is a force that separates the good of business from the good of citizens one of his last ppt slides lisa spiegel immigration attorney duane morris had argued that america benefits from h 1b since the 1500 fee is used for training programs during my presentation i asked how many people would sell their careers for 1500 no hands went up american workers don t want training as norm reported in his newsletter jack trumpbour of harvard sewp reported that industry had told him that one thing they liked about workers in china is that 100 would take advantage of training programs while in the usa only about 10 of workers were interested in training programs i disputed this in my experience at serveral companies nearly 100 of workers were interested in and attended training programs when available jack trumpbour stated that he would investigate this claim further from page 5 of trumpbour s study however many other managers in china implicitly faulted u s engineers by noting that 100 percent of chinese engineers will take training programs offered by the company while u s workers pursue these activities in puny single digit percentages ibm china specifically expressed disappointment about the low u s participation in company training but other global companies in china soon confirmed this disparity based on my experience i do not believe these claims by ibm managers that only 10 of workers in the usa would take advantage of company tra...