Reply #83: And check out other disheartened Republicans...like

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Paul Craig Roberts, a former Reagan treasury official. His writings are posted regularly at http://www.vdare.com/roberts/index.htm a site that isn't "happy" with our nation's current immigration policies, to say the least. In fact, Northeastern University has put out information on exactly who is getting most of the new jobs...immigrants (see http://www.nupr.neu.edu/7-04/immigration_july04.shtml ).

Buchanan, Roberts, and MANY other educated rightwingers are NOT happy with Bush-O-Nomics, but most like Buchanan are beholden due to who pays their salaries to go with the horse that brung 'em, even if they have to hold their noses. Heck, Labor Sec Reich did almost as much to allow the destruction of US jobs via outsourcing as did current Labor Sec Chow ! Virtually allowed US companies to let H1B and L1 visaholders to come into the US, force US workers to train their soon-to-be replacements, and when the time comes (if it ever does) go home with the former US worker's old job in hand while the US worker is left scuffling to find a new job that pays anywhere near what his old one did.

This is coming from someone who found this all out the hard way mind you. My old job was outsourced to Bangalore. I found that the US worker should have been notified that he still had rights (under the old Form 9035 regulations for H1Bs)...once I began looking into this and saw that my old job was NOT supposed to be 'outsourced' if the foreign visaholder was 'displacing' the US jobholder, and that the US jobholder could initiate fraud actions etc via the Office of Inspector General and the then Labor Dept regulations, I noted quickly that the regulations were CHANGED to allow the outsourcing to continue and no fines or investigation allowed ! Want proof ? Read the "Attention please read the following" item number 3 at the link below:

http://workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/foreign/preh1bform.asp

""A number of statutory requirements and authorities under the INA, as amended by the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998, sunset on October 1, 2003. The specific program changes that occurred included:
A reduction in the cap on the number of available H-1B visas from 195,000 to 65,000 per fiscal year;
The elimination of the Recruitment and Hiring and the Displacement and Secondary Displacement attestations that previously applied to "H-1B dependent" employers and to employers found to have committed a willful violation or misrepresentation of a material fact on the application;
The elimination of authority granted to DOL to investigate H-1B employers if they have "specific, credible evidence" that a violation has occurred; and
The elimination of the $1,000 fee that is required to be paid by employers of H-1B nonimmigrants to support low-income scholarships and job training programs for workers.
The recruitment and displacement attestations noted above, and the instructions relating to them, were previously outlined in Subsections 1 and 2 of Section F. Due to the possibility that these attestations may be reenacted by the Congress, the Department has temporarily blanked out these portions of the application and instructions.

The previous edition of this application form, displaying an OMB Expiration Date in the upper-right-hand corner of 31 AUG 2003, should no longer be submitted by employers seeking to hire H-1B nonimmigrants.""

So DOL eliminated all 'attestations' (made under penalty of perjury mind you !) plus DOL eliminated all fines authority of the DOL to even investigate wrongdoing to the US workers about to be displaced !

Yes indeed. Democrats do better than Republicans. Yeah, right. That's why I registered Green and vote for prayerfully whoever says they will help the US worker. This time I voted Kerry. But I know what the score is.

Democrats can do better.