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Thread ID: 7527 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-06-21
2003-06-21 10:21 | User Profile
The Honorable Tom Tancredo let the cat out of the bag on the house floor.
His 35 minute speech tells all about "their cheap labor programs" H-1b/L1 visa programs.
In a discussion about employment he brought up the foreign worker visa programs(H-1b/L1) and illegal immigrant workers. Not only that, he referenced Siemens, their American worker replacement program and the Business Week article that we printed March 10, 2003(http://www.OutsourceCongress.org:81/USA/BusinessWeek/Business_Week.html)
I guess those hundreds of emails I've sent his office were actually read :)
I have made the Wednesday June 18, 2003 CSPAN audio and transcript available on my website [url=http://www.OutsourceCongress.org:81/]http://www.OutsourceCongress.org:81/[/url]
Here is a snippet of what he said on the house floor June 18, 2003:
The Siemens comments: Business Week reported on March 10 of this year that L-1 visas were being used instead of H-1b visas by India's top two IT consulting firms. Half of Tata Consultancy Services' American-based workforce are here on L-1 visas, some 5,000 foreign IT professionals. Infosys has 3,000 IT professionals here on L-1 visas, 3,000.
Now, remember, these are supposed to be people with specialized skills, so specialized, and they are overseas, they are in the company headquarters in Bombay, but there is something so special about their ability that they have to bring them over here to work in their subsidiary. That is an L-1 visa. But of course, it is not that. It is anybody and everybody who they can get into the country, get over here to replace Americans who are now driving limousines at night.
Siemens in Florida contracted to have 20 of its American IT professionals replaced by foreign nationals brought in by Tata Consultancy Services. Tata used L-1 visas to import Indians at one-third of the salary of Americans laid off.
Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo hit this one on the head. Washington (June 18) -- "When my colleagues get a letter from a constituent who has been displaced by foreign workers, they should write back to them and say, 'It is the policy of this government to displace you, to move you into a lower economic income category, because we believe in cheap labor and we believe the politics of open borders helps our party.'"
Mike [url=http://www.OutsourceCongress.org:81/]http://www.OutsourceCongress.org:81/[/url]