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LETTER FROM SENATOR LIEBERMAN TO THE MEMBERS OF USINPAC

Dear Friends:

The strength of the United States has always come from its diversity. Its diversity comes from its immigrant communities. We are a strong nation, a unified nation, because of our diversity.

One of our nation's most important and fastest growing immigrant communities is the Indian American Community. It is two million plus strong and growing. Approximately 10% of the medical students in this country are Indian American. One out of four high tech businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area is Indian American owned. The American landscape is full of Indian entrepreneurs who create economic growth and opportunity as small businessmen and -women. Indian Americans have the highest per capita income of any ethnic minority at $68,000. In short, Indian Americans are a success story.

It is time to translate that economic power into political clout. Indian Americans must be in the forefront of shaping domestic and international policy for the United States. They have earned a seat at the policy table, and the country will be better off for their participation in policy debates in Washington and beyond.

For instance, Indian Americans have unique insight into US-Indian relations. The community's desire to expand economic relations, particularly trade could be a win/win situation for both nations. The community's desire to bolster US-Indian strategic relations is also an important contribution, particularly as it relates to non-proliferation and anti-terrorism issues. It is also time to seriously consider increasing the permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council. As the world's largest democracy, India should be a priority candidate for a permanent seat.

But beyond international relations, we must look to improve things domestically for Indian Americans. Of course, we must fight any and all discrimination against Indian Americans wherever we may find it. But that is not enough. We must also actively create opportunities for Indian Americans to serve in high level positions in government. As President, I will see that this is the case.

I also oppose any efforts to eliminate or diminish the H1-B visa program. Why do we want to limit or otherwise handicap a community that has made such significant and important contributions to this country? It is counter-intuitive and counter-productive.

In closing, my Administration will be proactive in working with the Indian American community on international and domestic issues. I will make certain that Indian Americans have positions of responsibility in my Administration because it is good for our country, and it is the right thing to do.

Sincerely,

 Joe Lieberman

http://www.usinpac.com/CanMsgToIndAme_jl_PE.asp

Letter from US Senator John McCain on the H1b Issue  Sept 28,2000 

Thank you for contacting me regarding the high tech job market in America and the H-1B visa program for highly skilled foreign workers. I appreciated hearing from you.

 In 1998, Congress passed legislation to raise the cap on visas for skilled foreign workers in the face of an array of evidence demonstrating that Americans were not filling the specialized jobs covered by the H­1B visa category. At the time, the Information Technology Association of America estimated that there were more than 346,000 unfilled positions for highly skilled workers in American companies. The Department of Labor estimated that the American economy would generate 1.3 million new jobs each year for a decade in the computer and information technology industries, but that American universities would be able to supply only a quarter of the graduates needed to fill those jobs. The Hudson Institute predicted that in a few years this worker shortage, if not addressed, would cause a five percent drop in the growth rate of our economy  a $200 billion annual loss in national output.

 The American Competitiveness Act of 1998, which I cosponsored, raised the annual cap on H‑1B visas for skilled professionals from 65,000 in Fiscal Year 1998 to 115,000 in both FY 1999 and FY 2000, and to 107,500 in FY 2001. Nonetheless, even the higher number of H‑1B admissions authorized by Congress for FY 1999 was reached only eight months into that fiscal year, and the FY 2000 cap was reached in March 2000, or only six months into the current fiscal year.

 Congress is currently considering legislation to further raise the annual cap on H-1B visas. I support S. 2045, the main bill before the Senate on this issue, which would add an additional 297,500 H-1B visas between FY2000 and FY 2002, as well as expand the availability of math, science, and technology scholarships for Americans. The 106' Congress is expected to take up this legislation before adjourning in late 2000.

 Further raising the H-1B cap is a short term solution to the skilled‑worker shortage in the United States, but over the long term, I believe we need to address the underlying problem resulting in a shortage of skilled American workers. Consequently, on October 27, 1999, I introduced S. 1804, the 21st Century Technology Resources and Commercial Leadership Act, which addresses the need to improve Americans' skills in math, science, engineering, and technology in order to maintain our world leadership in high‑tech fields. Several other bills before Congress would raise the H-1B visa cap, but focus less on the long term goal of educating and training Americans to fill available high tech jobs. S. 1804 would encourage innovation in improving elementary and secondary education in math, science, and engineering, as well as provide powerful incentives to retrain American workers who lack the skills to compete in the high tech economy. In the interim, to provide for the requisite number of highly skilled professionals until we have educated and trained a sufficient number of Americans to fill these jobs, the bill would lift the cap on H-1B visas through 2006. All current information indicates that the supply of American professionals in the math, science, engineering, and technology fields will not meet the demand of American industries through at least that date.

 Specifically, S. 1804 provides for grants to be awarded under the supervision of the Secretary of Commerce in consultation with the Office of Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation, on a competitive basis, for implementing programs that will improve the math, science, engineering, and technology skills of American students and professionals. The types of programs to be awarded grants are not specified so that Congress does not unintentionally foreclose new and more innovative ideas from surfacing. The grants would be funded from current H-1B visa application fees and could be awarded to companies, organizations, schools, school districts, teachers, and institutions of higher learning.

 My legislation would use H-1B visa fees to encourage innovation in our schools, to teach American students the skills they will need to succeed in the 21st century economy, and in our companies, to train and retrain American workers in the high‑tech skills American businesses rely upon. The legislation would support corporate partnerships with schools or school districts to improve math and science curricula; scholarships for students willing to study advanced engineering or technology fields, and for those who agree to teach math or science for a period of time after graduating college; and innovative worker training and retraining programs within American companies. It leaves open grant support for any proposal that promises to improve the American talent pool in high‑tech fields.

  I understand the concerns expressed by those who fear legislation to raise the H-1B visa cap would cause unemployment among American workers. In fact, current law penalizes any employer who lays off an American  worker in order to replace him or her with an H-1B visa holder and pays that individual anything less than the average prevailing wage in that line of work  a standard which often results in a higher salary than that made by American entry level workers. Any company with a significant number of H-1B workers must also attest that it will not lay off an American employee after filing a petition for an H-1B professional. Moreover, the Department of Labor is empowered under the law to investigate and penalize willful abuse of the H1B visa program and has done so repeatedly since the program began in 1990. These safeguards protect American workers from wrongly losing their jobs to H-1B visa holders.

 Thank you again for contacting me about legislation to increase the pool of American talent in high‑technology fields. Please feel free to do so regarding any matter.

                         Sincerely,

                         John McCain

                        United States Senator

JM/dt

Note: See www.hudson.org  This is an author of Workforce 2000 cited by US Senators like McCain as needing expanded H1b Visa Immigration See next like/item in www.h1bvisasucks.com http://www.ced.org/docs/report/report_immigration.pdf

 

Richard W. Judy

Senior Fellow

Director, Center for Workforce Development
President, Hudson Analytics
 

 

Areas of Expertise

Economic and workforce development
The future: its promises and its problems
Demographics analysis and projections
Information technology and e-commerce


Biographical Highlights

Richard W. Judy is Hudson Institute's chief demographic analyst and leads the Institute's research on economic and workforce development issues. He is co-author Workforce 2020, Hudson's 1997 revisitation of its groundbreaking study conducted for the U.S. Department of Labor (Workforce 2000, 1987). He is currently working on a new book provisionally entitled, Worker Dearth: Prospering in an Age of Labor Market Stringency.

Judy is also president of Hudson Analytics, the consulting and proprietary research arm of Hudson Institute. He leads Hudson's projects to assist companies, industries, and regions in evaluating and designing their long-term development strategies. He consults extensively with businesses and governments, including IBM, the World Bank, Shell Oil, Mellon Bank, Hitachi, Toyota, the Frank Russell Company, the OECD, and the governments of Canada, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, and the United States.

Judy's previous work at Hudson has included project directorships for studies of economic reform and development in Hungary, the Baltic states, Russia, and Ukraine. He established Hudson's program to develop indigenous economic policy research institutes ("think tanks") in formerly socialist countries.

Before joining Hudson in 1986, Judy was professor of economics and computer science at the University of Toronto. He also founded and served as chief executive officer of three companies: Systems Research Group, Inc. (a Toronto computer software and consulting firm); Beef Genetics Research Inc., a high-tech agro-business firm; and a string of computer retail stores.

Judy's doctoral work was in economics at Harvard University. Earlier he studied at the University of Kansas, Columbia University, and as an exchange scholar at the University of Moscow. He is fluent in Russian and speaks some German, French, and Spanish. He is proficient in numerous computer software languages and tools.


Publications and Media Exposure

Richard Judy co-authored The Information Age and Soviet Society (with Virginia L. Clough, 1989). His writings have appeared in International Executive, National Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Washington Times, The World & I, and elsewhere. He is a frequent commentator on local and national television and radio programs, and is much in demand as a public speaker.

 

 

Note1: Mr. July is using foreign H1B Visa Labor in doing business with IBM

Note2: In a  prior edition of ComputerWorld an IBM Manager Rod Adkins from Texas was cited as saying IBM has a shortage of IT Talent and that IBM Needs extensive H1B Labor to support their efforts.

Note3: In the next item showing the Workforce 2000 report Committee for Economic Development a senior Chairman is Raymond Gilmartin CEO of Merck. The company uses extensive H1B Visa labor. http://www.ced.org/docs/report/report_immigration.pdf

Analysis of Report on H1B Visa

McCain identified the technical professional shortage thru 2006. Let's  compare this to the 1849 Goldrush. When this started people claimed  the supply of Gold would last years this did not happen. Why not let the free market system in place deal with this issue. The American Economy works  great here leave it alone the market forces will correct the problem. Bringing in the oversea technical professional when these chances are not even provided to the America workers will destroy our ability to compete not enhance it along with our trade imbalance.  This will result in higher paying jobs which are the growth of the US Economy going elsewhere   With respect to American IT Professionals being replaced this by foreign workers the number of cases I could sight to you would take a long time. This is already happening by 100,000+ per year now.  This firms do not have powerful incentives to retrain since Congress is giving them the quick fix.  Well look at Lucent to see how well this quick fix works! In the letter McCain states he supports increasing the H1B Immigration to about 300,000 per year thru 2006. Knowing this industry each of these jobs is around $100K per year.  McCain as a benefit we get $700 per person on immigration fees which will be then used for education funds for American Students. This sounds great at first until you look at the  numbers.

300,000 H1B Visas x 7 years = 2.1 Million People (plus families = about 4 million)

Wages Lost to Americans in the High Tech Industry.

  Year 1:  300,000 x $100,000/Person = $30 Billion

  Year2:  (300,000 + 300,000) x 100K = $60 Billion

  Year3: 900k x 100k                        = $90 Billion

  Year4: 1.2 Mil x 100k                     = $120 Billion

  Year5:1.5 Mil x 100k                      = $150 Billion

  Year6: 1.8 Mil x 100k                     = $180 Billion

  Year7: 2.1 Mill x 100k                    = $210 Billion

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                                                         $740 Billion in Lost Income to American High Tech Workers

Education Fees: 2.1 Mil x $700       =   $1.48 Billion

About 0.2% Investment towards education of American Tech Workers.                                                       With a loss of $738 Billion in On the Job Training lost to  American Workers!!

In addition people in these types of jobs by homes. While many H1B Visa workers do not and export the funds overseas..

 2.1 Mil Homes x $200K/Home = $420 Billion in Real Estate not bough in America

 We could take this further but I hope you can see this H1B program in effect exports around  Over One Trillion from the US Economy to support fast buck marketing by high tech job shop firms.

 This is the deal small high tech business is getting. Disinvest in small high tech business at the Federal Level via Section 8A and Blanket Purchase order agreements.  Import foreign labor to give big corporate interest the competitive edge in high tech. Disinvest in the American labor force because this is cheaper. Fail to train the American Labor force train our overseas competition so that they may be able to take away the high tech industry from the USA which the US economy is depending to create 50% of the jobs within several years. Look the other way at organized crimes involvement federal and commercial procurement of high tech services and they put up smoke screen that Campaign finance reform is a desired goal when McCain fails to see the real impact to the US economy since this will take several years to reap the rewards of his agenda.

Look Now: The training funds setup for the Americans displaced by  H1-B Labor will not be available!!

Bush Plans To End Job Program, Use Funds To Process Foreign Workers

By JULIA MALONE / Cox Washington Bureau
04-09-02

 WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is planning to cancel a high tech job training program for Americans and use the funds to speed up processing for foreign workers. The move is raising concern in some high tech companies, which pay fees of $1,000 for each foreigner hired under the H-1B visa program designed for temporary, high-skilled workers. The aim of the $185 million training program has been to build up skills in the American workforce so that fewer foreign workers would be needed. In a little publicized item in the federal budget for next year, however, the Bush administration said that the job training efforts "have not proven to be effective." Beginning next fall, the plan calls for redirecting the money to reduce the years' long backlog for certifying permanent foreign workers. Assistant labor secretary Emily Stover DeRocco told the publication Washington Technology last month, "We have no evidence that it was replacing the need for foreign workers that employers were bringing in." Some in industry agree that the program has missed the mark, but they argue that it should be reformed, not ended. "This kind of breaks the faith" with the companies paying the fees, said Harris Miller, president of Information Technology Association of America, a trade group of 500 high tech companies, who are the main employers of H-1B workers. "The clear intent was for there to be a trade-off," Miller said. "We in the business community would get to bring in more foreign workers, but we also pay a special tax on that, and that tax is to help with the fundamental problem that necessitates foreign workers in the first place." Miller and others say the training effort has failed because it provides chiefly basic training for low-level jobs and therefore could not provide skilled computer programmers that industry was seeking. "There have been some problems with the training programs, but there have also been some successes," Miller said. The Labor Department program as well as a smaller scholarship program run by the National Science Foundation are now being studied by the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress. Paula Collins, director of government relations for Dallas-based Texas Instruments, Inc., said Monday that her company had been disappointed with Labor's training program. Her company had hoped it would help finance a new Texas state effort to boost the number of electrical engineers and computer science graduates. She said that she found the federal assistance program was not designed for college degrees. Even so, Collins said she doubted that the Bush administration would be able to cancel the training program any time soon. "An agreement was made" with industry on the fees, she said. She added that the Bush budget proposal to close the program is "opening up discussions" behind the scenes to change it. At the same time, a critic of hiring foreign workers in high technology argued this week that the plan to eliminate the job training program has brought new candor to the discussion of the foreign worker program. "At least the Bush administration recognizes this program to be the sham that it was from the start," said Norman Matloff, a computer science professor, at the University of California at Davis. He said the training "was a smokescreen from the beginning" so that industry could hire more workers from overseas. Matloff holds that industry could find enough American workers if it were willing to hire and retrain programmers who are over age 40 and pay higher salaries. "What they really ought to do is can the whole H-1B program, or enforce the spirit of the law," he said. The foreign worker program requires payment of prevailing wage, he said, "but there are a ton of loopholes for you to get around that."

See: www.h1bvisasucks.com/H1BDiscussions_issue_bush.htm

http://www.davidicke.net/tellthetruth/reststory/bronfmanscrime.html

Big-Time Gangsters Set up McCain's Family Fortune
The Buchanan-hating Bronfman family are the "godfathers" behind the organized crime empire in Arizona that spawned the political career of "reformer" John McCain.

By Michael Collins Piper

In 1976 a crusading Phoenix reporter, Don Bolles, was murdered by a car-bomb after writing a series of stories exposing the organized crime connections of well-known figures in Arizona, including one Jim Hensley.

Five years later "Honest John" McCain arrived in Arizona as the new husband of Hensley's daughter, Cindy. "From the moment McCain landed in Phoenix," according to Charles Lewis of the Center for Public Integrity, "the Hensleys were key sponsors of his political career."

The fact is, the people ultimately behind the Hensley fortune are even more interesting and controversial

While it is well-known McCain's father-in-law is owner of the biggest Anheuser-Busch beer distributor in Arizona—one of the largest beer distributors in the nation—the media has had nothing to say about the origins of the Hensley fortune that financed McCain's rise to power.

The Hensley fortune, in fact, is a regional offshoot of the big time bootlegging and rackets empire of the Bronfman dynasty of Canada, founded by Sam Bronfman, an early partner of Meyer Lansky, longtime "chairman of the board" of the international crime syndicate. (The Bronfmans cover all bases. Sam's son, Edgar, today—at least publicly—supports George W. Bush.)

McCain's father-in-law got his start as a top henchman of one Kemper Marley who, for some forty years until his death in 1990 at age 84, was the undisputed behind-the-scenes political boss of Arizona. But Marley was much more: he was also the protege of Lansky's longtime lieutenant, Phoenix gambler Gus Greenbaum.

In 1941 Greenbaum had set up the Transamerica Publishing and News Ser vice, which operated a national wire service for bookmakers. In 1946 Green baum turned over the day-to-day operations to Marley while Greenbaum focused on building up Lansky-run casinos in Las Vegas, commuting there from his home in Phoe nix. Greenbaum, in fact, was so integral to the Lansky empire that he was the one who took command of Lansky's Las Vegas interests in 1947 after Lansky ordered the execution of his own longtime friend, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, for skimming profits from the new Flamingo Casino.

Greenbaum and his wife were murdered in a mob "hit" in 1948, their throats cut. The murder set off a series of gangland wars in Phoenix, but Marley survived and prospered

During this time Marley was building up a liquor distribution monopoly in Arizona. The truth is that it was the Bronfman family that set Marley up in business. However, in 1948, some 52 of Marley's employees (including Jim Hensley) went to jail on federal liquor violations—but not Marley.

The story in Arizona is that Hensley took the fall for Marley. Upon Hensley's release from prison, Marley paid Hensley back by setting him up in the beer business. That company today, said to be worth $200 million, financed McCain's career. And without Marley's political support McCain could have never even gotten elected dogcatcher.

But there's more. McCain's father-in-law had also dabbled in the dog racing business and he expanded his family fortune further by selling his dog racing track to an individual connected to the the Buffalo-based Jacobs family.

The Jacobs were the leading distributors for Bronfman liquor into the United States during Prohibition into the hands of local gangs that were part of the Lansky syndicate. Expanding over the years, the family's enterprises were once described as being "probably the biggest quasi-legitimate cover for organized crime's money-laundering in the United States."

While John McCain himself can not be held personally responsible for the sins of his father-in-law, the fact is that this "reformer" owes his political and financial fortunes to the good graces of the biggest names in organized crime.

source: The Spotlight
http://www.spotlight.org/Pat/gangsters/gangsters.html


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