H-1B HOGS SWINDLING "AVERAGE" AMERICANS
The other day, John Miano of the Center for Immigration Studies pointed to the duplicity of "Microsoft's attempts to downplay layoffs while calling on newly elected President Obama to provide more foreign labor." Naturally, the man with the reverse-Midas touch can't make labor materialize magically, but he could issue more H-1B visas.Touted as a means of trawling for the best and the brightest, the H-1B swindle is anything but. "Ordinary talent doing ordinary work" is Professor Norm Matloff's overall assessment of the H-1B crop. A longtime critic of the H-1B racket, Professor Matlof's analysis has been cited extensively.
The 65,000 yearly recipients of H-1B visas are mostly "average workers." H1-B recruits are supposed to posses at minimum a bachelor's degree, or "graduate equivalent" work experience. The master's is the exception within the H1-B visa category. In fact, twenty thousand additional H-1B visas are set aside for high-technology workers with the master's degree. This year, 5,600 such appli
