San Diego’s Qualcomm is the fifth-largest user of H-1B talent

I reviewed Don's excellent article and the comment string over five years since the last comment. Even with the change of administrations, the controversial H-1B Visa program remains in the 2002 words of free-market advocate Dr. Milton Friedman a "government subsidy" program. Sadly, the corruption connected with this program remains almost unprecedented. Some key documentation regarding ex-Microsoft lobbyist (and felon) Jack A. Abramoff is found at Exhibit 40 in the case USA v. Abramoff, available at http://www.cwalocal4250.org/article.php?id=a_1220… or via PACER for no cost for most PACER subscribers. The PDF file from a decade ago archived at the CWA 4250 website link includes very-incriminating lobbying disclosure documents that are no longer available from the U.S. government. These 112 pages contained in the file Abramoff.pdf are must-read documents http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2018/j…
— July 20, 2018 10:41 p.m.

Qualcomm engineers get axed, then train foreign replacements

Thank you, Don for your new article regarding the harms of the controversial H-1B Visa program. The underlying motivation for the controversial H-1B Visa program is greed. *Forbes Magazine* noted that William Gates, III was the wealthiest man in the United States for the past 22 years, with current wealth at $76 billion on 06 October 2015. Microsoft has the dubious distinction of obtaining the greatest number of H-1B visas directly since 2001. The cumulative number is about 40,000 now. Gates used Microsoft lobbyist (and felon) Jack A. Abramoff to help game the immigration system for his private benefit. To learn more, please search by title for the PDF version of "The Greedy Gates Immigration Gambit." The first part of my article was written in 2007 and the second part in 2014. For additional background, please search for both phrases "Gene Nelson" and "H-1B" Google showed 1,150 results on 07 April 2016.
— April 7, 2016 10:02 p.m.

Sanders, Issa pump H-1B program

Don:Good observations in your article. I would substitute the word "pimp" for "pump" in your headline. This article establishes a pattern of conduct for Qualcomm that matches most large employers The firm’s focus is on maximizing profits for the economic elite – at the expense of middle-class America. We are being pitted against the World’s poor – and losing! To understand the context of this article, please search by title for the PDF version of the 2012 expose, “How Record Immigration Levels Robbed American High-Tech Workers of $10 Trillion” The references provided in the end notes establish the corporate actions that should be prosecuted under the RICO Statutes.
— October 2, 2013 2:34 p.m.

San Diego’s Qualcomm is the fifth-largest user of H-1B talent

I appreciate this article, Don. Free-market advocate and Nobel economics laureate summed up the H-1B Visa program well in a 2002 ComputerWorld article. He identified the H-1B Visa program as a "government subsidy" program since employers obtained access to higher-skilled labor at below-market wages. Kamal Nath, Commerce Minister of India characterized the H-1B Visa program as the "outsourcing visa" in an April 15, 2007 New York Times article. The cost avoidances for employers who use H-1B Visa holders instead of experienced U.S. citizen technical professionals are unprecedented. Search by title for the PDF version of my 2012 article, "How Record Immigration Levels Robbed American High-Tech Workers of $10 Trillion." The model that I developed estimates the employer benefit at approximately $150,000 per visa admission. The challenge for middle-class American citizens being harmed by this form of class warfare is that they are being pitted against the world's poor in a contest that favors the economic elites, (since they designed the program.) I suggest the powerful, no-cost citizen activist tools at websites such as NumbersUSA dot com as a good place to start. What ideas do you have?
— January 9, 2013 7:50 p.m.

Fed H-1B Visa Probes May Help American Engineers

Don: I strongly agree! Since 2007, I have been working hard to obtain more coverage. I'd be pleased to share my files with you.
— February 18, 2012 10:08 a.m.

Fed H-1B Visa Probes May Help American Engineers

Dan: It is one of the loopholes in the present law. The U.S. workforce protections that were in the H-1B Visa legislation were removed by the first Bush administration shortly after the law was passed. Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming attempted to include the U.S. workforce protections in his legislation that was introduced in 1996. Microsoft Corporation became aware that Simpson's initiative was very close to enactment and activated a "full court press" to stop Simpson's legislation in its tracks. Who did Microsoft use? Corrupt lobbyist Jack A. Abramoff and his team. You may read about it in the August, 1996 Wired article, "Do You Know the Way to Ban Jose?" - the article is found by using the article title as a search phrase. Additional details are found in the PDF version of my 2007 article, "The Greedy Gates Immigration Gambit."
— February 18, 2012 8:39 a.m.

Fed H-1B Visa Probes May Help American Engineers

Here's the word from "Dragon Lady" Elaine Chao, who served as the Secretary of Labor in the second Bush administration. Eliane is the wife of the Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell. The DOL's Strategic Plan, Fiscal Years 2006-2011 (pg. 35) states: "...H-1B workers may be hired even when a qualified U.S. worker wants the job, and a U.S. worker can be displaced from the job in favor of the foreign worker." (In fact, the U.S. worker may be required to train the foreign worker as a condition of receiving their meager outplacement benefit. The U.S. worker is also extorted into silence by being forced to sign an agreement to not disclose their ex-employer's conduct under the threat of a lawsuit.) I doubt there is any other industrialized nation that has such a policy to harm the career interests of its experienced technical professionals. As noted elsewhere on this page, this policy is likely the result of "the best government money can buy."
— February 17, 2012 8:44 a.m.

Fed H-1B Visa Probes May Help American Engineers

A related story that finally received wide coverage when 60 minutes covered the research frauds of Anil Potti on 12 February 2012 in a story titled, "Deception at Duke." Anil used to be a medical researcher at Duke University. He is now a lawsuit defendant. There were excellent articles also published on this topic by Gina Kolata in the New York Times on 07 July 2011 and The Economist Newspaper on 10 September 2011. I do not believe this to be an isolated incident. Here is an example of how cheating is embedded in the culture of India. _______ http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19… Ocala Star-Banner, Wednesday, June 1, 1994 Page 7A Indian Students Riot Over Exams; 4 killed NEW DELHI, India - Four students reportedly were killed Tuesday when college freshmen clashed with police who tried to stop them from cheating on exams. The melee occurred in the town of Dalsingsarai in Bihar state after the students opened their books and notes during finals, Press Trust of India said. The students threw explosives at a government jeep and tried to set fire to the railway station. Police opened fire, killing four of them, the news agency said. Students in Bihar maintain they need their books and notes because they have been so poorly taught. ____________ The real tragedy is that these foreign students are benefitting from U.S. government programs (the H-1B and L-1 Visa programs) that facilitate the permanent displacement of experienced and qualified American citizen technical and medical professionals by these younger, imported workers. This "internal brain drain" means that Americans are sacrificed on the altar of "increased profits." I hope that this insanity is halted soon.
— February 15, 2012 12:19 p.m.

Fed H-1B Visa Probes May Help American Engineers

Here's part 2: BACKGROUND ARTICLES http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/no-phds-need-… No Ph.D.s Need Apply, by Sharon Begley et. al, December 5, 1994 pp 62-63, Newsweek Dr. Nelson is quoted extensively in this article. In the 14 April 1993 Wall Street Journal article on page B-1 "Black Hole Opens in Scientist Job Rolls" by G. Pascal Zachary. Part of my story is highlighted in this article. (Search for this article by using the article title. ) "Scientist's Heated Debate on Immigration Mirrors Issues Argued Throughout U.S." by Robert Finn, The Scientist, Page 1, November 27, 1995 Dr. Nelson is quoted extensively in this article ( The techno-terrorism claims that I advanced in 1995 have been amply substantiated by the actions of U.S. graduate school trained Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, the mastermind of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.) American Outlook Fall 1999, Piled Higher and Deeper by Edwin S. Rubenstein http://www.colosseumbuilders.com/Guild/h1b/librar… How and Why Government, Universities, and Industry Create Domestic Labor Shortages of Scientists and High-Tech Workers by Eric Weinstein, Ph.D. http://nber.nber.org/~peat/PapersFolder/Papers/SG… What Scientist Shortage? By Daniel S. Greenberg Wednesday, May 19, 2004; Page A23 The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38… Finally, see the research of UC Davis Professor Norm Matloff. http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html __________ Note the draft of my 5 August 1999 Oral Testimony critical of the controversial H-1B visa program before the House Immigration and Claims Subcommittee, in particular the final two paragraphs http://judiciary.house.gov/Legacy/nels0805.htm I was able to get "on the record" in the case USA v Abramoff. I attended Jack Abramoff's sentencing hearing on 4 September 2008 at the DC District Courthouse. My 110 page "Victim Impact Statement" is document #40 in the Court docket in PDF format. http://tinyurl.com/koyqg2 Jack Abramoff served as a Microsoft lobbyist – and also directed “Team Abramoff.” The team likely helped Microsoft steer about $100 million dollars in politically-connected expenses by Microsoft and its proxies from 1995-2000. During the same period, Microsoft was able to procure 3 “Microsoft-friendly” changes to H-1B Visa legislation. The cumulative financial benefit to the firm has been billions of dollars in profits. Millions of American citizen technical professionals have been harmed by having their careers destroyed since the H-1B Visa was created by employer lobbying in 1990. In my opinion, the H-1B Visa law should be repealed as an example of “Bad Law.”
— February 9, 2012 4:29 a.m.

Fed H-1B Visa Probes May Help American Engineers

Here is part 1 of links to nine articles and LTEs that I have written regarding highly-skilled labor markets and the controversial H1-B visa program. The first is the most significant.. The Greedy Gates Immigration Gambit Fall 2007 (Published in January 2008) http://tinyurl.com/37l8ry This article provides important legislative history. Career Destruction Sites - What American colleges have become Spring 2005 http://tinyurl.com/nn28sp http://www.caller.com/news/2008/sep/14/letters/ Corpus Christi TX Caller - Times Letters to the Editor: 09.14.08 Right sentence for Jack Abramoff Foreign workers take jobs away from skilled Americans Washington, DC Examiner Op-Ed 21 August 2008, page 22 http://tinyurl.com/GeneNelsonOpposesH-1BVisas Immigrants don’t "make it all work," they take work 6 August 2008 Letter to the Editor, Schenectady, NY Daily Gazette http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2008/aug/06/0806… Whose University is it Anyway? 8 February 2008 University of Buffalo Spectrum (I earned my Ph.D. there in 1984) http://www.ubspectrum.com/opinion/my-turn-1.14103… How Not to "Solve" the Social Security Problem - Mass immigration is the wrong answer. Summer 1999 http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/nine-four/ix… Gene A. Nelson, Ph.D.'s 13 April 1996 speech at the National Academy of Sciences Washington, DC headquarters. http://www.engology.com/ArtNelson.htm
— February 9, 2012 4:28 a.m.