Our own Senator Mike Dewine and Senator John "Conflicted" McCain, two of my favorite Republicans have been pushing to get more of this type of visa issued! The H-1B besides being used to bust union organizing drives and is also a racket for high tech coyotes.
Tom
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Angela:
> >substantiation of the claim that controls on migration strengthen the
> >bargaining power of workers viz capital would be nice as well.
>
> Immigration control _doesn't and won't_ help American workers. As long as
> push & pull factors exist, workers will come and get exploited. The only
> question is _on what terms_ they will get exploited -- as isolated illegal
> aliens with few rights, government-sanctioned "guest workers," or workers
> plain and simple on equal terms with "citizen workers."
>
> That said, capitalism does pit workers against workers, and things look
> like a zero-sum game for job competition from the point of view of workers
> who see no alternative to capitalism (whether you are talking about import
> or immigration). The day American workers fully accept illegal aliens as
> brothers and sisters in solidarity is most likely the day when they become
> communist, and we are obviously not there yet. So how do we go from here
> to there? We can and should argue & struggle against xenophobia, but that
> doesn't solve the problem, does it? For xenophobia is mainly a symptom,
> not the cause.
>
> Chuck0's idea (and the Seattle practice) of network is just fine if the
> only purpose of the protest is to say a symbolic No to the WTO. But in the
> absence of solid organization of those who think like you and I, it is no
> wonder that we (fragmented & disorganized, only loosely cyber-networked)
> become merely foot soldiers for loyal oppositions like Max and Hoffa,
> despite our intentions, no? (Max here is gracious enough to thank the
> Eugene anarchists for "just the right amount of windows broken" to make the
> point -- his point. Does this not make you think?) So, what is to be done?
>
> Also, do you think that open borders arguments should be applied in all
> instances? Most migration in the world occurs not from poor nations to the
> rich core but among poor nations, I believe. Circumstances there are much
> more complicated than fighting xenophobia in America, Japan, or Australia
> (the latter is no-brainer for those who think like you and I). What do you
> think?
>
> Yoshie