Don't Let The Gang of Eight Kill American Jobs

The Washington Post of March 21st reported that the bipartisan 'Gang of Eight' senators had approved a plan pushed by lobbyists of large US technology companies such as IBM and Intel to double H1B visa allocations. If this plan was adopted, the prospects for current and perspective American IT workers would become even bleaker than now. Not only would they face being displaced by a wave of cheaper foreign workers, foreign companies use the H1B visa to allow their workers to come to the US and be trained by the American workers they are displacing. If we wish to keep the promise of middle-class jobs for any more than a tiny minority of Americans, we must stop the Gang of Eight's plan.