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hire americans first these h 1b harm attestations were submitted between 2008 and 2015 the archived public records of the h 1b harm report reside in this excel file documents programmers guild blog programmers guild fact sheet low wage approved lcas programmers guild points employment based visas america s highest skilled workers are being displaced from their professions by employment based visas h 1b congress has authorized employers to sponsor and hire foreign workers regardless of whether qualified americans are available to fill the positions employers can legally force americans to train their foreign h 1b replacements as a condition of receiving a severance package l 1 congress has authorized employers to bring foreign workers into the u s for one year while continuing to pay them their foreign wage level perm congress has authorized employers to sponsor foreign workers for green cards by simply running a few classified ads and then to find any reason possible to disqualify all american applicants objectives of hire americans first members of hire americans first allege that employment based visas under current statutes constitute undue and unreasonable government interference in their liberty and right to practice in their professions this irreparably harms both seasoned professionals and new u s graduates who have heavily invested in their educations and are trying to break into the field accordingly our members call on their representatives in congress to enact the following reforms whereas h 1b proponents allege that h 1b and l 1 workers are the best and brightest and possess specialized skills that are in short supply reform these programs to require that the employers pay a fair prevailing wage that is at least what average americans are earning within the same job classifications currently the department of labor prevailing wage is split into four levels and most lcas are are granted for h 1b at the entry level one with a wage at the 17th percentile of what americans are paid whereas h 1b proponents allege that h 1b are not displacing qualified u s workers reform h 1b and l 1 such that the visas are only granted after the employer has conducted good faith transparent recruitment and was unable to find any qualified candidates at any price whereas h 1b proponents allege that h 1b is necessary for u s global competitiveness reform h 1b to only be granted to u s business entities seven of the top 10 h 1b users are indian consulting firms this usage undermines the competitiveness of u s consulting firms by underbidding them and then shipping the development overseas whereas h 1b is a labor market subsidy and many americans cannot afford to be full time students reform h 1b to include a 1200 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 our members represent americans who either oppose or have been directly harmed by employment based visas many members have posted their testimonials and summary resumes on this site many are willing to speak with the media to rebut industry propaganda organizations such as competeamerica hire americans first is registering in california as a 501 c 4 nonprofit organization to advocate for the common good of american tech workers on important national issues making sure that legislators hear the voices of american workers copyright 2008 hire americans first all rights reserved