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Thread ID: 5381 | Posts: 26 | Started: 2003-03-06
2003-03-06 19:17 | User Profile
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Every new lawyer scrambles for work. So it seemed a fantastic development that a lawyer I had known decided he would retire, and asked me to substitute for him on his caseload of labor certifications.
Labor certifications allow the Department of Labor to temporarily certify a foreign worker to perform a specific job in the United States because an American cannot be found to do it. It requires the employer to advertise for U.S. workers at prevailing wages, noting who responded and why they were not hired, and submitting the results to DOL. If convinced that a U.S. worker cannot fill the job, the DOL will issue a labor certification for the alien worker, which in some circumstances can lead to a green card.
As soon as the files were transferred to my office, the client calls started coming in, and they wouldn't stop. The files had been sitting for months with little work, and quick review indicated that many should not have been filed in the first place. Many of the applicants sought certification for work that any employer could quickly find an American to do, and most applications had been denied without the client ever having been informed.
Appointments were made with each of them to explain either why their application had been denied or why they should consider its withdrawal. Papalay was the first to come in. When we broke the news that his application for a labor certification would almost certainly be denied and could not be rehabilitated, he asked, "Alright, but can you sue my employer to get back the $10,000 I paid him to go along with this?"
A labor certification is a path to permanent residence, and because it usually involves cooperation between an applicant and a potential employer (the "sponsor"), money is bound to change hands. Though inexperienced lawyers usually cannot conceive of the machinations often involved in applications for a labor certification, experienced lawyers can. And because applying for labor certifications is a predictable, high margin business, many lawyers do not turn down the cases that they should.
Ethnic restaurants are a prime area for potential clients because it's plausible, though increasingly unlikely, that an Italian restaurant must turn to Italy to find a chef.
At the end of last year, well-known immigration lawyer Samuel Kooritzky was convicted on 57 counts of fraud in connection with two years of applications for labor certifications for which he collected $10 million in fees. He filed 230 separate applications for only two Chili's restaurants, 184 for a diner, and 173 for a single Shoney's restaurant. Immigrants were reportedly charged between $8,000 and $20,000 per application. Managers of the restaurants insisted that they were unaware that they had been used as sponsors in a labor certification application.
What role do restaurants normally play? It's common for a restaurant owner to first accept a down payment from a would-be immigrant, and file an application that states that there is a need for a new chef, restaurant manager, or prep cook. The need is wholly fabricated, and there is never an intention to actually employ the immigrant if a labor certification is eventually granted. Progress payments are made to the restaurant to insure its cooperation at every step of the application process. A "balloon" payment is sometimes made to the restaurant owner when the labor certification is granted, and because the labor certification exists only as long as the employer needs it, an immigrant's failure to make the balloon payment often results in a letter from the restaurant owner to the INS or Department of Labor, withdrawing or canceling the application. The practice has now extended to individuals, not businesses, colluding with immigrants and filing a fraudulent application for labor certification for a domestic servant or home cook.
The H-1B visa, which exists to insure that American companies have enough skilled workers, is similarly abused, and is the chief culprit in the current glut of computer programmers. As disturbing as it may be to recent college graduates, most U.S. employers are not first required to hire American applicants before they seek foreign workers to fill jobs.
At the end of 2002 America had 900,000 foreign workers on H-1B visas, the vast majority of which are computer programmers. If there were a critical need for H-1B computer programmers, then starting salaries for new graduates should reflect that fact.
Data from the National Association of Colleges and Employers for 2000 indicate that average starting salary offers for computer science bachelor's graduates rose from $44,649 to $49,055 (9.9 percent). That compared with an increase for math graduates of 12.1 percent ($37,253-41,761) and humanities graduates by 18.9 percent ($37,253-41,761). With the bottom falling out of high-tech, salaries for computer science graduates have dropped over the past two years and were at $44,429 in January 2003. If there is a shortage of computer programmers, then the market would show that. But it shows the opposite -- there are too many of them.
The cap for H-1B visas is set to revert from the current annual cap of 195,000 to 65,000, but foreign governments and American employers are fighting it. Like its entitlement system, America's job market and the immigration rights that have grown up around it are regarded as the world's property, rather than something that exists for the benefit of Americans.
Matt Hayes began practicing immigration law shortly after graduating from Pace University School of Law in 1994, representing new immigrants in civil and criminal matters. He teaches at Berkeley College, and is author of The New Immigration Law and Practice, a textbook to be published by West Legal Publications in October, 2003.
2003-03-08 08:54 | User Profile
If you have high blood pressure do not read the following.
Agilent, the largest private employer in Sonoma County, California has this week completed it's latest round of layoffs amounting to 900 employees. At the same time it has announced the expansion of its test and measurement systems manufacturing operations in Penang, Malaysia.
Flex Systems, a California subdidiary of JDS Uniphase, is putting the final touches to its new manfacturing facility in China that will eventually be exporting secure banknote stock to the US and other markets.
Cisco Systems is applying for new H1-B visas for software engineers for its Optical Systems Division in Northern California, the contracts to commence in July 2003.
Get angry, very angry.
2003-03-08 16:49 | User Profile
People use idioms without thinking what they mean, and whether they can be applied literally. Thanks to OD, I've learned that "holy sh*t", and not only "holy cow", actually came from India where they are used literally :lol:
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2003-03-09 03:56 | User Profile
Originally posted by madrussian@Mar 8 2003, 16:49 *Thanks to OD, I've learned that "holy sht", and not only "holy cow", actually came from India where they are used literally :lol: **
Where is the sh*t worshipper BTW? Going back to India to pick up some more? :P
2003-03-09 05:03 | User Profile
Originally posted by rban@Mar 9 2003, 04:46 **I wonder what type of work visa Russian women need to work in brothels in the West? An 'entertainment' visa? How about a P1b programme for prostitution.
Anyway, I think Russians and Eastern European women are taking away well paying opportunities in the strip joint and prostitution industries from good all-American women. They come from rat-hole countries with low standard of living, and drive down wages for my American sisters.
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Actually, there were some women who some Hindu tried to get here on H1-B's rban. Ever hear of the Reddy case right in your neck of the Silicon valley woods?
Unfortunately though, I've noticed there just doesn't seem to be the same demand for Hindu women as their programmer counterparts.
Now if internationalist pigs like you hadn't raped Russia's economy and reduced its people to near slavery, they wouldn't be have to come here, or to Israel, with the "help" of those "Russian" mafia slave-traders you so admire.
Some day they may remember assholes like you rban. You know, I hear they have a special market in India for boys - castrated of course. Now you're a bit too old for the regular stuff, but I'm sure for a few special situations there'd be some people that would love to have you. Just as I'm sure there are a lot of people all over the world who'd love to ship you there.
2003-03-09 06:07 | User Profile
Originally posted by Okiereddust@Mar 8 2003, 20:56 Where is the sh*t worshipper BTW? Going back to India to pick up some more? :P
Don't mention holy shi t in vain!
Well, you know you can't keep rban off a holy shi t thread. This latest batch of holy cow dung must be extra pure and enlightening, rban is now talking about ZOG :lol:
2003-03-09 06:46 | User Profile
Originally posted by madrussian@Mar 9 2003, 06:07 Don't mention holy shi t in vain!
I wasn'y mocking the Holy sh*t itself. Just the profane worshipper.
Well, you know you can't keep rban off a holy shi t thread. This latest batch of holy cow dung must be extra pure and enlightening, rban is now talking about ZOG :lol:
Yeah, with all this sh*t around, he must feel like a Bull in the Heifer Pen.
Calm down, rban, calm down. One of those holy cows defecating the holy sh*t you're eating might have been a Pakistani Al Queda with a David Duke poster in his/her bedroom. And you know that what you eat you are. :lol:
2003-03-09 18:05 | User Profile
Originally posted by Okiereddust@Mar 8 2003, 23:46 And you know that what you eat you are.ÃÂ :lol:
The new stuff rban is eating is way too powerful. First ZOG, and now sexual fantasies. Probably rban has fallen into nirvana (full-of-shi t state) again :lol:
I'll note that the dark savages have always perceived white ladies as superior to their holy cows.
2003-03-09 20:23 | User Profile
I'll never understand why folks here play along with this troll.
Adding a teaspoon of curry to Gefilte Fish does not change its essence. Gefilte is Gefilte. One thing to remember when savoring the turd trails of the dopplegangers.
As an aside, do Hindus take Communion with the Holy Shite?
2003-03-09 22:47 | User Profile
Originally posted by Campion Moore Boru@Mar 9 2003, 13:23 **I'll never understand why folks here play along with this troll.
As an aside, do Hindus take Communion with the Holy Shite?**
:lol:
2003-03-09 23:45 | User Profile
Originally posted by rban@Mar 9 2003, 16:32 ** sht-brown Hindus*
You said it, sh*t-eating monkey :lol:
2003-03-10 02:28 | User Profile
The Jewish method of argument shines through- see what I mean?
He even calls Indians shite-skins. Now I know there are some who entertain this type of vulgar vernacular, but really.
Save such epithets for the JDL chat room Yidn.
2003-03-10 02:57 | User Profile
Originally posted by rban@Mar 9 2003, 18:33 I just finished watching a HILARIOUS episode of the Simpsons
This must be the same Simpsons where "sh*t-brown Hindus", using your terminology, are ridiculed in every episode? I can't believe you, such a "Hindu-lover", watch those racist anti-Hindu cartoons. :(
2003-03-10 03:01 | User Profile
Originally posted by Campion Moore Boru@Mar 9 2003, 19:28 **The Jewish method of argument shines through- see what I mean?
He even calls Indians shite-skins. Now I know there are some who entertain this type of vulgar vernacular, but really.
Save such epithets for the JDL chat room Yidn.**
Now doubt rbanowitz is using the recipe his humanity-hating tribe has perfected.
Every time you see a zhid "defending" blacks or other "minorities", they are just manifesting their hatred for the white majority and are trying to pit one group against another.
2003-03-10 04:36 | User Profile
Originally posted by rban@Mar 9 2003, 20:51 **Would any Jew in his right mind do that? **
Do you think any poster here thinks you are sane? :lol:
One sick "Hitler-quoting" Jew, and your latest diatrabe is only showing that. Now what did Hitler think of your tribe? You "strangely" aren't quoting that :o
2003-03-10 13:40 | User Profile
Originally posted by Campion Moore Boru@Mar 9 2003, 20:23 ** I'll never understand why folks here play along with this troll.
Adding a teaspoon of curry to Gefilte Fish does not change its essence. Gefilte is Gefilte. One thing to remember when savoring the turd trails of the dopplegangers.
As an aside, do Hindus take Communion with the Holy Shite? **
I never caught a Gefilte Fish.
What do they look like? :P
Walter
2003-03-10 17:09 | User Profile
Originally posted by Walter Yannis@Mar 10 2003, 06:40 **I never caught a Gefilte Fish. **
That's the one that stinks even before being caught.
2003-03-10 17:14 | User Profile
Originally posted by rban@Mar 10 2003, 04:10 My tribe? The English?
"English". 9 out of 10 zhids on internet deny being zhiddish. But they can't hide their psychopathy and humanity-hating attitude. If it talks and walks like a duck... it's a zhid. Still looking for what Hitler said about your tribe, "English"?
By the way, zhids with their scatology and shite worshipping parallel the Hindus. Ever read the Talmud enriched with dog shite?
2003-03-10 19:39 | User Profile
Perversion, scatological tendencies, anti-white behavior. Yes, Madrussian, they all point to ... jewish tendencies ... and the jews no doubt revel in a culture that has eunuchs (much like those we have in office in DC) ... and elected offices "reserved" for women ...
[url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/134628457_eunuch05.htm]http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/1346...57_eunuch05.htm[/url]
Wednesday, February 05, 2003, 12:00 a.m. Pacific
First eunuch in office in India is ousted
By Chandni Singh The Associated Press E-mail this article Print this article Search web archiveJABALPUR, India ââ¬â A court in central India has ruled that eunuchs are male, barring them from seeking elected offices reserved for women.
The High Court of Madhya Pradesh state Monday upheld a lower court ruling barring Kamla Jaan from becoming mayor of the town of Katni because the post was set aside for women to encourage their participation in politics.
The town plans to hold another election. Jaan ââ¬â who in 1999 had been the first eunuch to win public office in India ââ¬â planned to appeal to India's Supreme Court.
Eunuchs live on the fringes of India's class-conscious society, surviving by begging and collecting tips for blessing newborns and taking part in weddings and other ceremonies. Most of the country's tens of thousands of eunuchs are castrated as babies or children.
Eunuchs, who refer to each other by female pronouns and consider themselves women, are believed by some Hindus to bring good luck. But they are discriminated against in education and barred from government jobs.
After independence from Britain in 1947, India launched an affirmative-action plan to wipe out caste distinctions. Eunuchs weren't included in the plan.
For more info on Eunuchs, and one of rban's favorite motion pictures (wonder why he identifies so strongly with ... well, you know) you can take a look at ...
BOMBAY EUNUCH (71 minutes) India/USA Directors/Producers: Alexandra Shiva, Sean MacDonald and Michelle Gucovsky UNAFF screening schedule
DESCRIPTION/ Bombay Eunuch is an intimate, moving portrait of one eunuch family's struggle to survive in today's changing India. Long revered as divinity, the eunuchs- or hijras, as they are known ú are now little more than relics in a rapidly modernizing world. Relegated to the fringes of society, their lives often plagued by poverty and hardship, the hijras are at once a powerful evocation of tradition and an inspiring parable about the human will to adapt. Through the voice of Meena, a 37 year old hijra and surrogate mother to a eunuch family of her own, Bombay Eunuch explores the challenges facing many in the eunuch community today, and offers a rare and insightful glimpse of the rewards that come with choosing to be true to oneself.
BIOGRAPHY/ Alexandra Shiva, Director/Producer, has spent extensive time in India over the past five years. Her undergraduate work at Vassar College, where she received her BA in 1995, focused on issues of gender and sexuality in art history, film, and psychology. In 1994 she completed a documentary photography-audio piece, "Constructions of Reality", that explored gender identity issues. She is currently the Director of Development for Urban Empire, a non-profit New York City theatre company. Sean MacDonald, Director/Co-Producer, has an MA in Religious Studies from the University of Chicago. His work focused on gender and identity, goddess worship, mysticism, and literary theory, and he has conducted extensive research in these areas in India over the past five years. Michelle Gucovsky, Director, received her BA in Religion from Barnard College, where she wrote her senior thesis on eunuchs in India as a reflection if gender issues in Hinduism. She has pursued in-depth independent research on the changing character of gender roles in India in the face of globalization and modernization.
CONTACT/ [url=http://www.unaff.org/2001/f-bombay.html]http://www.unaff.org/2001/f-bombay.html[/url] Alexandra Shiva Gidalya Pictures 49 Bleecker Street 4th Floor New York, NY 10012 E-mail: gidalya@aol.com
Yep, you can see the eunuchs from India arriving from India by the planeload, classified as "political refugees" - and ready made (hehehe) to put on pedestals by zhid lawyers, who will tell of us the "courage" one must possess to be a ... eunuch. Just like George Bush, and other brainwashed NWO types ... that worship non-white cultures. Or claim they do.
2003-03-10 21:33 | User Profile
*This must be the same Simpsons where "sht-brown Hindus", using your terminology, are ridiculed in every episode? I can't believe you, such a "Hindu-lover", watch those racist anti-Hindu cartoons. **
I must say, the same thing occured to me.
RBAN you must be a "anti-hindatic", this is a fearsome slur used to describe anyone who doesn't acknowledge the true majesty and superiority of the aryan hindu.
You funny little man.
2003-03-11 01:29 | User Profile
But once again, the topic of discussion was Russian prostitutes.
No, it was about H1-B. Notice the thread title?
By the way, thumbs up on the comedy. At first, I had my doubts and thought you might actually be sincere in your Hinduphilia. Now it is quite clear that you're just attempting a parody of some sort. Perhaps you could be made the official OD Jester :P
2003-03-12 06:30 | User Profile
Originally posted by Edana@Mar 11 2003, 01:29 By the way, thumbs up on the comedy.ÃÂ At first, I had my doubts and thought you might actually be sincere in your Hinduphilia.ÃÂ Now it is quite clear that you're just attempting a parody of some sort.ÃÂ Perhaps you could be made the official OD JesterÃÂ :P
I see you have not had the good fortune to encounter the "Hindu Supremacist" rbanowitz before.
I suspect he'd decline the offer, but were we to seriously entertain the possibility, I venture to say he'd suggest we sponsor a Hindu H1-B. Because not only are they more brilliant, but they are also funnier.
Or we could just contract the work out overseas. Bet we could have all sorts of Hindu's on this site telling American and British jokes ;)
2003-03-12 15:46 | User Profile
Originally posted by rban@Mar 12 2003, 08:33 Seriously, I have a long range plan to unveil myself to you people...
Yuck, as if there wasn't enough filth on the internet.
2003-03-12 15:48 | User Profile
Originally posted by Okiereddust@Mar 11 2003, 23:30 Or we could just contract the work out overseas. Bet we could have all sorts of Hindu's on this site telling American and British jokes ;)
Sometimes I think rbanowitz is your creation, such an artificial caricature that creature is. Besides, what could be a better way to portray Hindu H1B's in a negative light than ravings of a psychotic "Hindu supremacist"? :lol:
2003-03-12 23:22 | User Profile
Originally posted by rban@Mar 12 2003, 14:33 **
Hindus brought mathematics and civilization to the West, and since I am now Hindu (sort of) ---they do not officially allow conversion, you have to be born one--- I can honestly say that we civilized you. This is not my opinion....if you seriously ask any Hindu in the West, they will tell you that they came here to re-civilize you, just as their ancectors did long ago.
**
If they brought mathematics and civilization to the West, they must have been carrying them in sealed bags that they picked up from someone else, because there sure isn't a lot of evidence of the two (or many other things) on display in India, or in its history.
Now, since you can't officially convert ... doesn't that make Hinduism similar to judiasm? Without koshering the cows, of course.
Of course Hindus consider themselves superior - being natural braggarts and all. That seems to be a tendency of most third world peoples. A tendency exaggerated by the media's and DC's fawning over thirdworlders, and the concomitant exaggeration of the (limited) accomplishments of those selfsame muds.
You don't realize how funny you are, rban. Really.
2003-03-13 01:16 | User Profile
It's no surprise you would think "Oz" to be a realistic example of prison life. As for Asians in prison, well, take a look at the prison population in CA. No, we can even go smaller. Take a look at the county jail system in Los Angeles County. Ooops. Better not do that. Much to the chagrin of Asian supremacists like Arthur Hu, the Asians are rapidly closing in on the Whites in sheer numbers of inmates - despite their being less Asians in the overall population. As to the breakdown, I don't know right now. With Indian physicians the leaders in killing patients through malpractice and neglect (in CA), and the leaders in financial shenanigans (at least in getting caught, probably because they're not as bright as those jewish, white and Chinese doctors, eh?) amongst medical practitioners, the Indians are probably beginning to "represent" their homies in the jails.
Now, there are gangs in prison. In CA we have the Nazi lowrider, PEN1 (Public Enemy Number 1) and Aryan Brotherhood amongst the whites. These groups were formed basically because the minority population - whites in prison - were being attacked by the herd animals (blacks and mestizos). The Asians group together depending on ethnicity, but they are victimized constantly due to their small size or small numbers, and less than vaunted fighting skills, despite Martial Arts movies and third world propaganda to the contrary.
Rban, you would be in real trouble in prison, because you would have to FIGHT to belong to any organized group, no matter the racial make-up. And in several posts, especially at SF, you made it clear you don't fight. If you are really white, and you were in a prison that had an organized group of Hindus, they would never let you join. The prison gangs stay racially pure, isolated - with the exception of the Mexican Mafia. It does have white members, and in fact one of the founders was white. But these are white guys that grew up in Mexican neighborhoods, and had to demonstrate that they could and will fight. So La Eme allows white members, but no blacks. Interesting.
Anyway, what does this have to with H1B?