H-1B Guest Worker Fraud and the "Lacking Skills" Scam

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Mon Apr 01, 2013 at 11:21 AM PDT

U.S. labor unions now have to "compromise" with big business to screw American workers so that Congress can claim progress in immigration "reform".

Last year Howard Foster says in an excellent piece for the Huffington Post: "President Obama was once asked by the wife of an unemployed engineer why the U.S. allows H-1B visas (for engineers and other high-tech workers) when so many are unemployed. The president seemed remarkably ill-informed in responding. He said, without citing any statistics, that businesses tell him they cannot find enough engineers."

But this kind of anecdotal evidence is usually misleading. We don't know what kind of businesses the president was referring to. He should have known that there are many unemployed engineers. In fact, the Census puts the number at 1.8 million

So why do we have any legal immigration when so many Americans are looking for work? One of the purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), the current immigration law, is to preserve job opportunities for American citizens.

More: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/01/1198459/-H-1B-Guest-Worker-Fraud-and-the-Lacking-Skills-Scam

Computer science enrollments soared last year, rising 30%

Tech studies are cool again as students see degrees leading to jobs in many fields; Ph.D. enrollment reaches new high, survey finds

March 8, 2013 04:36 PM ET

The number of new undergraduate computing majors in U.S. computer science departments increased more than 29% last year, a pace called "astonishing" by the Computing Research Association.

The increase was the fifth straight annual computer science enrollment gain, according to the CRA's annual surveyof computer science departments at Ph.D.-granting institutions.

The 2011-12 academic year also saw the third straight year of double digit growth at these schools, according to the survey.

The CRA also reports gains by schools who participated in in the survey both this year and last year. The enrollment gain for those schools was nearly 23%, it said.

More: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9237459/Computer_science_enrollments_soared_last_year_rising_30_