This is a follow up to:
Gang of 8 Trojan horse [Green Card]
It contains more information about how Americas STEM workers will be scrod by 'immigration reform'.

age protection issue to be dropped from Gof8
To: H-1B/L-1/offshoring e-newsletter
Tue May 21 20:45:18 PDT 2013

"Sen. Hatch seems to be getting his way with the Judiciary Committee, with his H-1B-related amendments, and sadly, not a single person on the committee seems to be concerned about the most dangerous part of the bill from a STEM perspective.

There is a report at
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/30098...l-on-h-1b-visas

Here are my comments:

1. The original text of the bill required employers to give priority to equally-qualified Americans before offering a job to a foreign worker. THIS WAS THE BILL'S ONLY PROTECTION AGAINST THE AGE PROBLEM, in which employers hire younger H-1Bs in lieu of older (35+) Americans. The provision would bar employers from rejecting American applicants as being "overqualified." But if Hatch's amendment is adopted, as is expected now, that provision would apply only to H-1B-dependent employers.

2. The committee has done nothing at all to soften the provision that gives automatic green cards to essentially ALL foreign graduate students in STEM, no limit, no labor certification, just waving everyone on through.

As I've said, point 2 above is huge; it would be a historical watershed event. I believe that we will be seeing a lot of very angry people, once they realize what has been snuck through. They'll demand to know who did this. Again, these are very strong words, but I cannot imagine any different scenario if this provision is enacted."


Archived at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/Archive/GofAge.txt

Thank you for posting. I hope that these details and others get out in front of the public soon! ("Hope springs eternal!" is the old saying! LOL )