Visa Abuse

H-1B Employer Maps: Dependent, Willful Violator, and Debarred, Thousands Prefer Alien Workers to Americans, by Bryan Griffith, David North November 2016

Thousands Prefer Alien Workers to Americans

The Center for Immigration Studies has produced two maps using publicly available Department of Labor (DOL) data. The first map points out the employer addresses that have identified their use of H-1B as above average. The second map deals with a smaller group of employers who have been identified by the Department as abusing the program.

The H-1B program allows employers to bring skilled workers (usually with college degrees) to the United States on nonimmigrant visas. The three-year visas can be renewed for another three years, and the visas can be kept alive, virtually forever, if the employer has applied for a permanent immigrant visa for the worker in question. There are some minimal and ineffective labor market protections for these workers. Under all circumstances they can bring their spouses and children (under H-4 visas) with them to the United States – and under some circumstances these aliens can work legally; there are no wage protections for the H-4s.

On the first map, there are over 2,000 employers identified who, actively and publicly, prefer alien workers for at least some jobs to U.S. ones. The formal name for this group of employers sounds like it comes from the field of abnormal psychology: they are "H-1B dependent." This is the definition of the term: an employer with 25 full-time workers or fewer, with eight or more of them H-1Bs; with 26-50 workers, there are 13 or more H-1Bs; and with 51 or more there are 15 percent or more H-1Bs. Most users of the H-1B visa, in general, are not H-1B dependent.

The "H-1B Dependent" employers are shown in the map above; a tap on the icon presents their names, addresses, and phone numbers, all as drawn from the records of the U.S. Department of Labor. We have provided the phone numbers from the federal records so that local media can call the employers and ask them about their, by definition, unusual hiring practices.

It should be noted that the information behind the icons has been supplied by the employers and neither DOL nor CIS has proofread every entry, so there are errors. For example, the one icon in West Virginia belongs to the Harrison County Board of Education; yes, the county sought H-1B teachers, but did not have enough to warrant the H-1B dependent status. Either someone in the school system checked the wrong box on one of the five applications filed for such workers or the DOL made the erroneous data entry.

Under U.S. law an employer gets into trouble, appropriately, for discriminating against African-Americans in favor of whites, or Gentiles in preference to Jews, but it is perfectly okay under the law for the same employer to hire alien workers (through the H-1B program) in preference to resident ones. And if the employer decides that what he really wants, as some do, are twenty-some-odd males from one nation in Asia, that's okay. Many employers are attracted to these workers because they can be paid at below-market wages, and they are docile and less likely to seek better jobs than their American peers.

The second map shows H-1B employers who are classed as debarred or willful violators. They have, at some point in the past, violated the H-1B rules and have been denied the use of H-1B workers for a period of time. As we pointed out in a report about two years ago the Department is, unfortunately, extremely reluctant to put erring employers in either category.

http://cis.org/Immigration-Maps/H1B-Dependent-Willful-Violator-Debarred?utm_source=E-mail+Updates&utm_campaign=ded17ae4cf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7dc4c5d977-ded17ae4cf-44718053

Comments

This article was published by the Center for Immigration Studies and includes propaganda aimed at promoting the hiring of immigrants in the US. The article didn’t include the names of these 2000 corporations and doesn’t mention the new globalist, US government initiated hiring structures that have globalized hiring.

The traditional “brain drain” practices were formalized on US college campuses after 1945.  I was a natural extension of the US practice of attracting the most productive immigrants at times when we needed workers.  I worked at Washington University in St. Louis from 1971 to 1975 and was involved in the program.  We had many visitors from foreign nations who were interviewing US executives to understand our views on employment. I had private sector experience and I was the one who answered these questions. While in the private sector in 1967, my first engineering hire was a BSEE from India, who received his degree in the US.

I’ve been involved in hiring many engineers over the years. Most of them have been US citizens, but many critical hires were immigrants I sponsored on H1b visas.  Most of my hires had high GPAs.  As a Consultant, I saw Firearms Training Systems hire their entire engineering department from China.  They earned their BSEE in China and MSEE in the US.  Yesterday I hired a design engineer with an MSEE and a 3.5 GPA and a BSEE from India. 

The H1b program has been watered down by the globalists and needs to be tightened back to only include the top engineering students and only when US applicants were unqualified.  STEM is a scam and includes jobs I would consider to be technicians, not engineers.

The H2a program for seasonal agricultural workers was mismanaged and needs to be tightened up and expanded to support US agriculture until US citizen hires can handle it. 

The H2b program for seasonal non-agricultural workers needs to be restored to include only jobs that US citizens cannot do. US citizens can do this work. I hired a ‘stone grinder” from Mexico on an H2b visa in 1977 for Schwann Foods’ tortilla bakery.

The L1b program is too loose and needs to be eliminated.

The “anchor baby” and lottery citizenship programs need to be eliminated and the addition of relatives needs to be limited to spouses and children.

The US government needs to end their practice of supplying refugee and immigrant workers directly to companies and temp companies should comply with tighter rules to lower US immigration.  The US refugee program needs to be repealed.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader.