Sen. Grassley: H-1B friend or foe?

Ship out immigrants from here

The Govt should ship out all immigrants including roots from here

Ship them away from where they orginated, UK, Italy, Ireland, France, Germany, spain, mexico, africa, india, china, etc and so on.

Once done, there will be plenty opportunities for americans. No unemployment will be seen.

No H1 restrictions.

http://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-promises-india-no-new-h-1b-restrictions-unless-unemployment-gets-worse-2009-3

Immigration has changed

There is a larger issue related to immigration.

When our forefathers came to this country, there was no support group (one mentioned later). As a result, the new immigrants in those times were helpless in larger extent and had to face whatever the rule of the law says about their immigration status. But, now things are different.

Now, the new immigrants have a voice, such as immigrationvoice.com, various voice groups, law firms offering chat boards, etc. There is always a colletive effort to send mass mailings to Immigration authorities, to Senators, House of representatives, Editorial boards, Fraud experts providing Bogus and BS information, ( such as US Citizens do not have skills needed for 21 century, US citizens do not work hard, etc), so that the media would pick up and post it as facts, etc.

The new immigrants lobby are aided actively by the corrupt system, Businesses thirst for cheap labour, the fraud staffing firms and unethical head hunters, the politicians urge to quickly cater who ever makes more noise for the fear of future election loss, the immigration authorities to quickly make money by increasing the filing fees for Visas (instead of trying to streamline and fix the fraud that they knew was all around), the immigration law firms using this windfall oppurtunity to make money, and the desperation of the candidates themselves to get a GC whatever it takes, helped the corrupt system.

And, the new immigrants know that the law can be changed at will. They have seen it in the past 10 years, how many times the H1, L1, LC certification, RIR process, PERM process, etc got changed by Immigration authorities (and the congress), just by mass mailing, mass flowers, etc and using the media effectively.

Who do you blame?

Yes that is exactly what I

Yes that is exactly what I want. When the economy is good and there are lots of projects and supply of skilled labor is low then I would like to invite outsiders like H1B employers, contractors and consultants to come and rectify our temporary human resource problem. Once the project is over, or due to bad economy I am not getting any additional projects, I would first do away with outsiders and that includes H1B, consultants and contractors. This does not mean that I am anti-contractor or anti-H1B. But for some reason the H1B people feel that they should be treated differently. They want to stick around notwithstanding their temporary status. How did the issue slavery come into this. We hire consultants whenever we need them and let them go whenever we feel so. Does that make the consultants slaves?

The one problem that I see with the American workforce, is that they lack flexibility. ie the ability to change with times. A Guaranteed job with inflated pay package is not a fundamental right (for example as those demanded by autoworkers union). Globalization has its pros and cons. You cannot extract all the benefits of globalization without also having to endure some of its cons.

Foreign workers

So, you want foreign workers to work for us when the economy is good and send them away now when the economy is bad. What are they? slaves?

Our country did not crash because of foreign workers. There are many reasons why we are broke now. Lets all work together as a team to build the economy. Don't treat foreign workers as slaves.

H1B and AIG are 2 separate

H1B and AIG are 2 separate topics. First on the H1.

Anytime there is an economic downturn, the first group to face the wrath are the foreigners. That is true in all countries and you cannot single out the Americans for indulging in it. However I think that making 4 or 5 changes to the H1B program will solve most of the problems. Firstly, ban consulting groups from hiring H1B employees. Only direct "clients" should be able to hire H1B. Make sure that H1B employees are not eligible for Green cards. And finally instead of meddling with salary caps for H1B employees, just add a new tax law requiring employers to pay the federal income and state tax of the H1B employees. This will ensure that the employers will hire H1B only when there is an absolute necessity.

Regarding AIG, it is incredible that the government and the business execs still do not get it. Speculative investments does no good to anyone except the speculators. Unless the government eliminates all forms of speculation from business practices you are going to see more AIGs in the future. The government itself needs to abide by some of the accounting rules that it has set for others. For example the government has banned all forms of ponzi schemes, but it is the biggest ponzi player, ie the Social security payments. Do you think that the government invests the social security taxes it collects from you and me? No, it just treats them as revenues. It takes from the young and pay the old. If you and I were to do that with the company pension fund then we will be where Madoff is now.