The new immigration bill, up for a cloture vote today, is a terrible bill for US HIGH-TECH workers. Every day, there are layoffs in this sector. Every day, more and more jobs are outsourced.
The Repukeliscum answer? Bring in more cheap Chinese and Indian high-tech workers to undercut US Markets and saturate the labor market.
The new bill will immediately increase H-1Bs from 65 K to 115 K in 2008. Thereafter, the numbers will increase, with no limit, by 20 % a year. That means, by 2011, there will be 200 K H-1B visa holders coming in.
In the US, American kids coming out of college cannot get good jobs. They are taking jobs at Starbucks because US high-tech jobs are being given to Chinese scabs.
Call your senator today, and tell him/her to vote against cloture for this bill. It’s not right to give good jobs to foreigners when our own kids cannot find work.