Giving Them Hell: John Miano on the H-1B Visa

[JMaguire]

John Miano is an attorney who files lawsuits against companies that discriminate against U.S. workers in favor of H-1B tech workers.

From the article about him:

"The H-1B visa program, which allows skilled foreign workers to work in the U.S. temporarily, is “a complete and total mess,” he says. The program is the ultimate managerial tactic to drive down wages, by his account: it provides lower cost, lower skilled workers who displace American IT professionals. In the never-ending battle between management and labor, the H-1B visa is management’s sharpest tool."

Here's the article:

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/car...le.php/3714756

What's your take? What should be done with the H-1B program?

[ITManager217]

Maguire gets most of the H-1B controversy right. However, for almost all employers of H-1Bs, there is NO attestation requirement that they have attempted to recruit U.S. citizens.

The 1990 H-1B visa program was supposed to be a temporary program, whose purpose was to solve a nonexistent manpower problem. However, corporations such as Microsoft quickly recognized the program as a "government subsidy." (The characterization of free-market champion and Nobel economist Milton Friedman in a 2002 article.) How do corporations expand these unpopular programs? Simple... They hire lobbyists and shower elected leaders with lots of money. In Microsoft's case, they hired lawyer-lobbyist Jack Abramoff in 1995. Microsoft expended well over $21 million in so-called lobbying expenditures between 1998 and 2000. The result? Microsoft helped to procure beneficial (to Microsoft) changes to H1-B visa legislation in 1996, 1998, and 2000.

That is why this author, who may be reached at c0030180@airmail.net, calls this program the "Abramoff Visa." More details are available on request.

[Cringely]

For what it's worth, Repbulican Mike Huckabee's campaign statement on immigration seems to call for an end to H-1B visas.

See this

To talk about verification of citizenship rather than of one's right to work suggests Mike wants to end completely the H1B and other guest worker programs.

[PresidentDon]

If you elect Don Cordell, an Independent candidate this coming November, Don will limit H-b1 employees to 5000 max. Either employ Americans or Americans will buy products made by other American companies who do hire Americans.
The Gas for $1.29 gal, that's a promise.