HR 3012 passed the House of Representatives on Nov. 29th with a resounding majority, but you didn't see any headlines on it. Why? Don't they want you to know what they just did? With as difficult a time as I had finding the text of the bill, I wonder if perhaps they might have been hiding that as well. For the benefit of the doubt, I will write that off to my possible inexperience in gleaning hard-to-find information from the congressional websites.
This bill makes it easier for Chinese and Indian workers to take your job from you and to own your country, America!
In May, 2011, President Obama was reportedly seeking immigration reform to supposedly increase America's competitiveness by allowing greater involvement by Chinese and Indian involvement in creating new businesses within the United States. Mr. Obama said,"'We don't want the next Intel or the next Google to be created in China or India. We want those companies and jobs to take root here."
He failed to note that foreign investors invariably take their profits out of the country.
He noted that the US provides students from around the world with visas to get engineering and computer science degrees at our top universities. He also said that our laws discourage them from using those skills to start a business or a new industry here in the United States, and that instead of training entrepreneurs to stay here, we train them to create jobs for our competition.
Mr. Obama fails to realize that using our resources to train foreign nationals runs counter to making education more affordable for US citizens. He does not see nor admit that encouraging foreign students to participate en masse in our education system can only serve to drive up costs for Americans by removing the competition among our schools to fill their classrooms.
He goes on to say that we need all the talent we can attract, all the talent we can get to stay here to start businesses - not just to benefit those individuals, but because their contribution will benefit all Americans.
But this is not especially true. Inviting foreign investors to participate in the US economy saturates the investment market and reduces or takes away existing opportunities for US money to fill these needs. Make no mistake! There are plenty of American dollars available for that purpose. And, there is no guarantee that increasing numbers of foreign students will remain here after graduation, or that their education here will result in any new US businesses. Businessmen seem to support the bill, but aren't these the same companies that pressed for bills like NAFTA and send American jobs overseas? When was the last time you heard anything good in that regard?
Apparently, the President's logic has permeated the US Congress. Without consideration for the needs of Americans, as seems to be the norm of late, this bill appears to be to the benefit of everyone except Americans.
As one of the 14,000,000+ unemployed in this country, I deeply resent the implications of HR 3012.
But don't take my word for it. Read the bill for yourselves.
Here is a link to it (again, it was NOT easy to find and isolate):
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr3012ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr3012i...
This thing affects all Americans. So, forget political party for a moment and wake up to the fact that Congress is milking America like a big, fat cow!
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Comment by TruePatriot on December 22, 2011 at 7:22pm Dirty Harry Reid, a traitor most foul. I guess 1 million jobs lost a year with H-1b's just wasn't enough for him. He will not rest until this country is completely destroyed. Just look at the jobless rate in his home state.
Comment by Samuel Federman on December 21, 2011 at 6:58pm I read in the official senate records, the Democrat that invoked the Rule 14 is none other than Majority Leader Harry Reid. Also, here are the Amendments proposed by Grassley (to remove his hold):
http://www.aila.org/content/fileviewer.aspx?docid=37451&linkid=...
In summary he said:
1. Kill the Diversity Visa Lottery.
2. Put additional protections for US workers in H1B, such as higher (median) wage requirement for H1B candidates and verifiable advertisement for the job in US before hiring an H1B worker.
3. Do not remove the country limits but increase them to 15%.
4. Remove the bits about upping the family based visa caps.
To me they all seem like logical and great amendments and could have ended up in getting some good out of the bill. Of course, majority of the lobbyist bought out senators disagreed with the amendments and Harry Reid has now initiated Rule 14 so the committee and Grassley's amendments can be bypassed.
The sad part is that NumbersUSA and FAIR, both organizations for protecting American interests in immigration are quiet on this bill so far. I have sent them email messages providing information and am waiting on their response.
Comment by Jake Wooderson on December 20, 2011 at 2:17pm On 12/17/11 (Yes, on Saturday)- Senate Democrat has invoked Rule 14 to circumvent Grassley's hold and put the bill on Legislative Calendar.
Certainly some senators really would like to pass this bill (HR-3012).
An argument in favor of this bill is that HR 3012 helps America’s competitiveness by attracting skilled labor. But is it really skilled labor or cheap labor? Has there been conclusive studies which prove that this bill will protect American workers and make America more competitive? Employment Based(EB) green card applications from India have increased from under 28% of the total applications in 2006 to close to 50% of the total applications in 2010 while at the same time our economy is tanking and unemployment is at record high. It doesn’t make sense does it?
It is a well-known fact that India has a national policy to increase its GDP by training and exporting low-paid IT and software engineers. With the 7% cap removed, we are basically leaving our immigration policy in the hands of the Indian government. If they decide to send 1 million IT engineers tomorrow, they can do it unchecked and they can clog the immigration system. This will destroy the little that is left of our high-tech industries, and will leave thousands of American technology workers without jobs.
We have been adopting the per country limit for decades and it has served us as well. It maintains the well balanced diversity in our workforce and communities across our country. It is to prevent the monopolization of visas by applicants from a single country as stated in Department of State website. India and China are the top 2 most populous countries in the world. Together they are 41.5% of the world’s population. Consequently they have more potential immigrants. Without the per country limit the system will be jammed with hundreds of thousands or millions of new applicants from those 2 countries. This will make it much harder to get skilled workers from Europeans, other Asians, Australians, Canadians, and Central and South Americans.
speaking about per country limit (7%), it is a BIG LIE that India and China only get 7% each. According to the State Department they get 34% of the total Employment Based Green Card quota. This is achieved through the spillover rule. In 2010, India and China used 32.9% of EB1, 49.13% of EB2, 15.82% EB3 , 34% of total EB quota. (http://www.travel.state.gov/pdf/FY10AnnualReport-TableV-PartII.pdf )
Comment by TruePatriot on December 17, 2011 at 12:58am The first bill (the one the author has written about) is in trouble in the senate , so the traitors in the house introduced this new bill. The Tea Party needs to rise up again and take this bill down as well. These traitors are more loyal to Indian outsourcers than the United States.
Comment by Darwin Rockantansky on December 16, 2011 at 8:59pm As a point of interest, I have spent a large portion of my professional life working outside this country, specifically in the Middle East and in Europe. I was in the computer systems engineering business which is a uniquely English Language discipline. Example: When some friends of mine went to Munich Germany to interview for jobs with Siemens, the prerequisite for SYSTEMS programmers was NATIVE English language speakers only while those doing user APPLICATIONS were required to be German Language as their first and primary language.
It should be no surprise that this American born and bred industry had only two sources of manpower: the United States and the British Empire.
I am sure that most of us have had the wonderful experience of speaking to "customer support" staff in Bangladesh or some such place who "spoke English" but did not UNDERSTAND American.
We saw numerous "Con-Sultants" out of India specifically who had absolutely no idea of the disciplines and tools of basic computer sciences. Do keep in mind that India is still very much a caste society. Unlike ages gone by, it is possible for a person to "climb the social ladder" now days; provided they have the "means" (money) to do so.
The shortest path up and out is for a family to accumulate enough money to buy a degree.
Buy a degree? Absolutely.
Once one has a degree, they sell their "credentials" to a "head hunter" who will pimp their body to anybody who will buy the services. Does anyone remember when HP laid off about 800 upper and middle managers on a Friday and rolled in the "contract consultants" from India on the following Monday? I lived in Silly-Con Valley when that one went down.
It is not hard to understand how we can be making inroads for foreign labor when we have so much skilled labor desperate for work.
In a word: TAXES.
Anybody who has ever been an employer - and I was for a couple of decades - knows that the "G&A" costs per man hour can be significant depending on the package whereas "contract labor" evades all of that by issuing a 1099 which more often than not guarantees that we never see a penny of taxes paid because those "body shops" reorganize like changing socks and the U.S. government has no authority outside the borders of this country.
TIM GRIFFIN (R-ARK) NEEDS TO BE HEAVILY TARGETED FOR UNEMPLOYMENT.
Darwin Rockantansky
Las Vegas, Nevada
Comment by TruePatriot on December 16, 2011 at 7:34pm The traitors in congress just introduced a new bill to displace US workers.
Traitor Tim Griffin (R-Ark.) is calling it the 'BRAIN' act. It's just lies and propaganda from a corrupt politician who needs to be voted out. Basically, anyone that can get a fake degree from a low tier school gets a green card now.
Comment by Jeff Waller on December 12, 2011 at 12:25pm We've got to keep this news in the minds of the voters! Please, email links to this article or else tell your friends to investigate HR 3012 for themselves. It's not just the scope of the legislation that should concern us. It is the misguided focus of this congress.
Comment by TruePatriot on December 8, 2011 at 9:19pm Please keep contacting your representatives and tell them to end these corrupt, anti-American, outsourcing visas. They are just another big government failure.
Comment by Darwin Rockantansky on December 6, 2011 at 11:13am Ron,
Strangely enough, I knew that a group of Baboons is referred to as a Congress and the similarities between the two has not escaped me over the years. And why would I know that? I spent several years of my youth in Ethiopia, Africa.
Darwin
Comment by Darwin Rockantansky on December 6, 2011 at 10:31am Ron,
Thanks for the explanation... I barely got past the first sentence in the "Preemption" and got miffed. I am a STRONG proponent of States Rights. In my feeble mind, America is a REPUBLIC not a pure democracy and as such, States Rights (10th Amendment) reign supreme.
Darwin Rockantansky
Las Vegas, Nevada
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