Here are sections from her article that are either disingenuous or seriously flawed – comments are provided in bold below each section.
“The wait is largely the result of an annual quota unchanged since 1990 and per country limits enacted decades before the tech boom made India the top source of employment-based green card seekers.”
- The real reason for the wait: The over-subscription of H-1B visas by low skilled tech workers from India.
“What does that ultimately mean? Valuable, skilled people decide they should leave because they’re never going to get what they had hoped for,” said Bruce Morrison, a lobbyist and immigration attorney who wrote the last bill that increased the number of employment green cards in 1990, when he was in Congress representing Connecticut. “And valuable people don’t come because they figure our system is so broken they can’t see their way through it. Therefore, other countries bidding for these skilled workers get those workers. Companies in America move jobs abroad to employ those skills elsewhere. And American prosperity suffers.”
- Most H-1B tech workers from India are incapable of working without assistance: either from the American workers who are training them, or from their Indian co-workers who have already been trained in the U.S.
- H-1B visas should be reserved for Nobel prize winning talent, NOT for line workers.
“The reason for that is, it’s focused on a single, serious, solvable problem that I think we can all agree needs to be solved.”
- How can it be a single solvable problem when they completely ignore the problems this has created for AMERICAN TECH and STEM workers?
“Because the bill did not increase the overall number of green cards, they argue, the backlog will worsen, wait times for all nationalities will extend to 17 years, and a trickle-down effect will make it difficult for working professionals from anywhere other than India to come to the United States.”
- How come no one is asking this question: How many more citizens and/or permanent residents does this country need?
“Yogi Chhabra, an IT professional in Louisville, says the backlog crisis has put his family in danger of being torn apart.”
- No one forced these H-1B workers to overstay their temporary work visa. They are welcome to head back to their country of origin at any time.
“Chhabra and his wife, who has a PhD and works on kidney transplant research, have considered the possibility that they might also have to leave.”
- May we suggest grooming researchers from the backwoods of Applachia? Recall the many reasons for the opioid crisis in this country – despair from a jobless future is one of them.
“The point is, it cannot pass. Not with Trump in office,” said Aman Kapoor, the leader of Immigration Voice, an activist group that backed the original legislation..”
- If we are talking about foreign influence peddling in Congress – this is as real as it gets.
“Indians need a solution now, Kapoor said. “Every day, you see someone in the backlog is dying. Or kids are aging out,” Kapoor said. “People are very stressed out because of the backlog.”
- At the risk of repetition – people who are unhappy with this country should leave at once.
” in one of the employment-based categories — EB-2 — there are 40,040 green cards allocated a year, and “there are 550,000 nationals waiting for residency, of which 512,000 are Indian.”
- With over 90% of H-1B visas going to one country (India) – this is VISA ABUSE plain and simple.
“Kurzban calculated that the backlog would grow from more than 800,000 people today to 1.1 million in 2029.”
- Big business and Congress created this mess – they better fix it.
“Every year, foreign direct investment adds about $300 billion to our economy,” Canero said.
- Canero does not mention how much wealth and intellectual capital is siphoned away by
this H-1B/Green card racket.
“Indians who are collecting their green cards today have been waiting at least 10 years.”
- Nothing in the U.S. Constitution mandates this Green card giveaway.
“Vemuri’s success in the United States has no impact on his chances of obtaining a green card. He owns a townhouse, serves as the vice president of technology at Barclays and has watched his children excel in school.”
- Why are we giving our jobs away to foreigners – jobs that were once held by American workers?
- American citizens are coming out in larger and larger numbers to put an end to this cheap labor nonsense that has gone on unchecked for over 30 years.