﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Hire Americans First</title><link>http://www.hireamericansfirst.org</link><description>Members of Hire Americans First allege that H-1b, L-1, and PERM constitute undue and 
unreasonable government interference in the right to practice in their professions</description><copyright>(c) 2013, Hire Americans First. All rights reserved.</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:18:39 GMT</lastBuildDate><ttl>120</ttl><item><title>CBO Report: Foreign Workers in U.S. </title><description>The Congressional Budget Office reports US looses $66 billion dollars in 2009 to foreign workers. How is the US ever going to resolve its defict if work continues to be outsourced?  Hire Americans First and make the US strong again.</description><link>http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/02/cbo-report-foreign-workers-in-u-s-sent-66-billion-to-home-countries-in-2009/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Jared Polis has proposed a start-up visa to entice "foreigners</title><description>Congressman Jared Polis has proposed a start-up visa to entice "foreigners with good ideas" to stay in the US.

The issue has been gathering steam in Silicon Valley where half of all tech company founders are immigrants, according to Duke University research.

"Every day the American economy is losing ground - not to mention high-tech jobs and technologies - to India and China because foreign-born entrepreneurs cannot secure a visa to stay in the US," he said. </description><link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8417510.stm</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Declining Value of Your College Degree</title><description>For decades, the typical college graduate's wage rose well above inflation. But no longer. In the economic expansion that began in 2001 and now appears to be ending, the inflation-adjusted wages of the majority of U.S. workers didn't grow, even among those who went to college. The government's statistical snapshots show the typical weekly salary of a worker with a bachelor's degree, adjusted for inflation, didn't rise last year from 2006 and was 1.7% below the 2001 level.</description><link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121623686919059307.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Silicon Valley pushes for H1B visas</title><description>"The H-1B program is good for California and good for the country," wrote San Francisco Chronicle in an editorial today. Speaking out against the provision of the stimulus bill that blocks H-1B hiring by companies which have received federal money.... 
</description><link>http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=2929244&amp;uart=2&amp;uarc=ratCntrl</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>US workers are being driven out of the IT business</title><description>Employer" posted 22 with $138.00 paid for one project. Insulting is not the half of it. When I turned this creep down, he started spamming me with nastygrams and snide jabs like this one "well, i'm sure you have excellent skills, but in this usa economy, we only use overseas talent at $12 - $15 per hour" Company name (likely phony) Coltor Designs
you will need: PERL skills (must have ADVANCED PERL)
we will pay $500.00 to $1000.00
hotmail chat preferred
webpros1@hotmail.com 
or yahoo
jakega</description><link>http://</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Corruption and Greed - Serious Issues with H-1Bs and L1s in Technology Today</title><description>I will be writing a series of articles in blogs and  in columns through various publications regarding the rapidly unfolding  events pertaining to the seriousness of the H-1B non immigrant worker and its effects on undercutting competitive US wages.   </description><link>http://www.moraetes.com/blog</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>USCIS Finds High Rate of H-1B Visa Fraud</title><description>USCIS has released it long awaited study of H-1B fraud.  Findings indicate an over all fraud of 21%.  Computer related professions the most popular category had a fraud rate of 27%.   </description><link>http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=leg_update101408#4</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Jobs difficult to outsource</title><description>Yahoo Hotjobs has a list of jobs that would be difficult to outsource. So if your vocation is not on the list below, too bad, there must be something wrong with you. You probably need more retraining...

Jobs That Are Here to Stay
Here are nine jobs that are not likely to be shipped oceans away (source: U.S. Department of Labor):
Dental Assistant
Pharmacy Technician
Fitness Professional
Teacher Aide
Auto Repair Technician
Pet Groomer
Plumber
Veterinary Assistant
Electrician</description><link>http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/career-articles-no_outsourcing_here_10_jobs_that_are_staying_put-587</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chrysler tech center workers may have lost jobs to H-1B contractors, union claims</title><description>Karen Trevaski worked at Chrylser LLC's technical center in Auburn Hills, Mich., until she was laid off two weeks ago along with 119 other employees. But Trevaski claims that foreign workers with H-1B visas remain on the job at Chrysler, using software systems similar to the one she used to design automotive parts. United Auto Workers Local 412, which represents the laid-off tech workers, is considering whether it should file a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board.</description><link>http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId=9063099</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Are H-1B Workers Getting Bilked?</title><description>Article exposes how State Farm laid off U.S. software professionals then outsourced the work to Indian consulting firm Patni. Patni then paid the Indian developers on H-1b as low as $12 per hour, and required extensive overtime in other to meet their promised salary of $44,000. The Programmers Guild blog has additional analysis: http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2008/02/businessweek-exposes-how-industry.html


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