Conroy is working with members of Congress on legislation that would give U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents first crack at jobs that go to H-1B candidates.
"The biggest misconception that the American public has embraced is that employers have to seek local talent first," she said. "We want to create an opportunity so that U.S. workers can at least compete for these jobs."
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Big corporations have launched a blitz of propaganda to support continuation and liberalization of H-1B visas, and this article tends to support that bias by including several corporate untruths they put forward, and omitting the hard facts and data useful for an evaluation of the program. The crocodile tears of Miller are especially bad. Turnbull does better than most by including several objections from American worker groups.
The H-1B visa program was supposed to be a temporary program to address a shortage of skilled workers. It now seems to be permanent. If there was a real worker shortage, pay offers would go up, but they haven't (because there is no shortage). Most H-1B immigrants are given mundane jobs, and kept as indentured servants who are docile for fear of deportation. Administration and oversight are disorganized and spread over multiple agencies that end up enforcing nothing due to ... More »
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