'Massive' visa fraud alleged in lawsuit against Indian firm

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why do the leaders of this party support visa programs that make our country a playground for foreign organized crime?

'Massive' visa fraud alleged in lawsuit against Indian firm
Sexual discrimination lawsuit filed by two women, one who worked in human resources, includes allegations of H-1B fraud

By Patrick Thibodeau
April 4, 2012 05:03 PM ET2 A former human resources manager at Larsen & Toubro InfoTech Limited Inc., a leading India-based IT services firm, accused the company of visa fraud in a complaint filed this week in a federal court in New Jersey.

Mumbai-based Larsen & Toubro is a major user of H-1B visas, ranking fifth last year on the list of largest visa users. The company had 1,608 visa approvals in 2011, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service.

The former employee, Nanda Pai, also accuses the company of sexual discrimination, and alleges sexist behavior by some of its employees in the suit.

Pai's job in human resources at Larsen & Toubro in New Jersey adds a new dimension to this case.

In her role as human resources manager, Pai was required to help process visa-related documents. She alleges that immigration fraud "appeared to be rampant" at the company, according to the lawsuit.

This lawsuit is similar to one filed against another major Indian firm, Infosy.

In that suit, former employee Jay Palmer alleged that the firm committed visa fraud. Palmer charged that when he refused to participate in the alleged fraud, he was harassed, and faced racial taunts and even death threats.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9225847/_Massive_visa_fraud_alleged_in_lawsuit_against_Indian_firm

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1. Schumer and Reid to the rescue

(I didnt say it was to YOUR rescue)

US senator working on bill to allow more visas to Indians


New York, Mar 25, 2012,(PTI)

Amid Indian IT firms' concerns over restrictive US visa policies for their employees, a top American senator has assured that he is working on a bipartisan bill that will reform immigration laws and allow more Indians to come to America.

Influential US Senator from New York Chuck Schumer and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid met noted Indian-American hotelier and Chairman of Indian-American Democrats Sant Singh Chatwal at his Manhattan hotel here on Friday.

During the nearly hour long meeting, the three discussed India-US bilateral relations, with Chatwal raising concerns of Indian IT corporations regarding problems faced by them in obtaining work visas like H1B and L1 for their employees.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/237070/us-senator-working-bill-allow.html

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2. Biden on H-1b visas

'No H-1B visa can be granted to an employee to come to a company unless they can prove there is no American to fill the job'

Clueless in the White House
64 CommentsTAGS:H-1B, Obama, offshore outsourcing
IT TOPICS:Government & Regulation
Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t know a thing about the H-1B visa.

There is one basic fact about this temporary work visa that everyone in political office, or running for political office, ought to understand and it is this: There’s almost nothing to stop an employer from replacing a U.S. worker with an H-1B visa holder.

U.S. IT workers understand this, especially those who have had to train their visa-holding replacement.

The idea that a visa holder can’t replace a U.S. worker is a widely held fiction with many in elected office, including Biden.

Biden was asked about the H-1B visa by a reporter at KWQC News in Iowa

http://blogs.computerworld.com/19965/clueless_in_the_white_house

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3. Obama 'what industry tells me is that they don't have enough highly skilled engineers'

so why listen to the little people who say otherwise?

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223847/Obama_confronted_on_H_1B_use_during_Google_hangout_

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4. Hillary Clinton 'I also want to reaffirm my commitment to the H-1b visa program, and to increase'

'the current cap'

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from a comment on youtube

"or better market their old skills"
but I thought the burdon was on the employer to prove they CANT FIND someone with those skills AT ALL
sounds like she's saying the burdon is to say 'yeah, he had the right skills, but he/she didnt market them just right - so i'm going with the foreign indentured servent instead"

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5. USAToday 'Workers asked to train foreign replacements'

'Almost one in five information technology workers has lost a job or knows someone who lost a job after training a foreign worker, according to a new survey by the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers. The study is the first to quantify how widespread the practice is. '

'It's a terrible thing to ask someone to train their replacement and ship the job overseas," Hudgins, a Democrat, says. "This is way beyond election-year politics. It's a shift in our economy. It's not a partisan issue."

Many feel powerless. In 2003, Kevin Flanagan was laid off from Bank of America after training foreign workers. He shot and killed himself in the parking lot in Concord, Calif.

His death galvanized other information technology workers, who have staged protests against outsourcing. Members of Congress opposed to the practice also have used his case as a call to action.

"We were very saddened by the death of our associate," says Bank of America spokeswoman Mary Waller. (then she snapped her fingers and asked 'where's that bailout? LOL)


http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2004-04-06-replace_x.htm

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6. Is the base mostly OK with all of this?

posts 1, 2, 3, and 4 show current top leadership is involved

Post 4 shows that someone who's been involved at top levels (H Clinton) for 20 years strongly supports this

Post 5 shows that even USAToday (mainstream media) has reported that citizens have had to directly retrain their foreign replacements, and at least one suicide has directly resulted

Post 1, 2 and 3, show that it's current

yet, the base doesn't seem bothered, and sometimes even seems hostile toward anyone bringing it up?

any thoughts as to where the base of the party stands on this issue?