Fake Job Ads defraud Americans
Sunday, January 31st, 2010 Posted in Immigration, Politics | 1 Comment »The goal is is run ads advertising a job to comply with the law, but not hire Americans. They want to bring in the cheaper green card labor from overseas. This is why this country is going to down ...
H1B visa mills (think: “puppy mills” with immigrant workers instead of dogs)
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 Posted in Immigration, Politics, Trials and Tribulations | 1 Comment »Below is a link that articulates very well why I would not recommend an IT career to anyone. It is a shame, because it used to interesting, well paid work. Corporate profit and greed rules again. Why programmers are not subject ...
U.S. expands H-1B fraud case against IT services firm
Monday, September 7th, 2009 Posted in Immigration, Politics | No Comments »Gee whiz, what a surprise! "The indictment charges that the methods used by Vision Systems "have substantially deprived U.S. citizens of employment." Link to article below: U.S. expands H-1B fraud case against IT services firm I was working at a Fortune 500 financial company. ...
Links on H-1B Issue
Saturday, September 5th, 2009 Posted in Immigration, Politics | 2 Comments »As I find them I am going to add links about the H-1B / outsourcing issue that is quickly eroding the life style of middle class worker in this country. All in the name of profit at any cost. Wikipedia article ...
Why high-tech firms bring in foreigners
Friday, September 4th, 2009 Posted in Immigration, Politics | No Comments »See link to blog below. But I can answer this question with one word, greed. And contary to the report's opinion, they do promote and put H1-B workers into advance position. And what irratates me to no end, is that most of ...
Education, Education, Education
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in Immigration, Politics | No Comments »A quote from a Washington Post article: Second, welcome foreign innovators. Harvard research fellow Vivek Wadhwa reports that immigrants have founded more than half of all Silicon Valley start-ups in the past decade. These immigrant-led, American tech companies employed more than ...
Four Indian Firms Hogged 10,000 H1B Visas
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 Posted in Immigration, Politics | No Comments »See article at IndianExpress.com I am not wild about the H-1B program, but if it were about individual Indians I would be a fan. Admittedly it is a selected subset that I meet here, but they are generally intelligent, hard working, friendly ...
Adding a second language
Friday, February 20th, 2009 Posted in Immigration, Randomness | No Comments »I'm in the process of trying to learn/relearn Italian. Many moons ago I lived in Italy for 3 years during my Jr. High years. I was never fluent, but I spoke enough to not be cheated in the markets and ...
Ill wind blows in Information Technology
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 Posted in Immigration, Politics | 1 Comment »I sent the following letter to every presidential candidate at the beginning of the campaign...when there were about 100 of them. I also sent it to each of my Senators and my Congressman. Two of the campaigns sent me a letter ...
Press 1 for English – a little progress
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 Posted in Immigration, Politics | 2 Comments »If you read my early post "Press 1 for English, NO Thanks" you might remember my frustration at calling to activate my credit card and being forced to select 1 for English or 2 for Spanish. I did neither and called ...
