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The H1-B visa program is not necessary. The H1-B visa program is bad for the United States and cheats our workers from valuable career experience. Many companies say there is a shortage of employees with the qualifications required to fill their technical positions. The reality is that companies are only interested in hiring employees with a lower compensation package than would otherwise be paid to U.S. citizens.

Employers will testify to Congress that there are not enough skill workers to fill the job openings in the United States. This is true. Many firms will openly admit that the objective is to hire lower compensated employees for the financial gain of the employer.

Be sure to watch the video on our site that discusses even placing fake job advertisements to get H1-B approvals. And, watch the video of the Lou Dobbs reported on how the H1-B visas cheat U.S. workers and college graduates out of jobs.

H-1B visas seriously handicap the United States, because these visas allow companies to hire aliens for important technical assignments. The work experience that aliens gain while working on technical assignments in the United States represents valuable career experience that U.S. citizens are missing out on. This can never be recovered even if lost wages can be eventually be recovered, which in most cases will never be recovered.

In addition, to employers having a vested interest in keeping the H1-B visa program intact, the universities and lawyers also have a financial incentive in keeping the program intact.

An especially large number of visas, 20,000, is made available for foreign workers that earn a master’s degree or doctorate from a U.S. university. For this reason, most universities support the H1-B program. The reason - the foreign students pay the highest tuition and it’s full tuition. So this is an very real financial incentive for universities to support the H1-B visa program.

The legal industry has a vested interest in the H1-B visa program. There are many law firms that specialize in H1-B and other “guest worker” programs and there are many lawyers that have earned six figures for many years handling H1-B cases.

For an example of the typical abuse of the H1-B visa program. Consider a company that manufactures and sells process equipment that has a foreign person working in the sales department. True story. Of course, that job can be filled with a U.S. citizen. And there are many more abuses. Does anyone really believe that this country cannot hire computer programmers, engineers and scientists? Senator Chuck Grassley and Congressman Tom Tancredo don’t believe and they agree that the H1-B visa legislation needs reform.

What do you think? Are H1-B Visas good for the country?

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