H1-B Program Abuses Costing Americans? Jobs!
Siemens isn't the only company to use a guest worker program to send some of its work out of the country. In the ongoing debate over immigration reform, Emmons and others say that while many worry that guest worker programs for low-skilled foreigners might affect the employment of American workers, tens of thousands of highly skilled foreign guest workers who already enter the country annually are having an impact now. The U.S. has a variety of guest worker programs. They are used to employ everybody from college professors to research scientists to farm workers to maids, cooks and waiters to truck drivers. The most commonly used program is the H-1B visa, a program designed to bring in highly skilled workers, largely computer programmers and high-techprofessionals. Download entire article in PDF format.
