Job firesale coming to an industry near you...but not for you!!!

Dear Mr. xxxxx,

Right now, businesses are hiring tens of thousands of foreign H-1B workers at the same time that similarly qualified American workers are being laid off (or not hired)! Yet, members of Congress and big business want to import more cheap labor and increase the number of guest workers at the expense of the American worker.

Last week, just days after Bill Gates sat before Congress requesting an increase in the H-1B visa program, Congress responded by introducing several pieces of legislation that would increase the H-1B visa cap.

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An increase in the H-1B visa program is outrageous considering the Labor Department recently announced that the U.S. economy had lost 63,000 jobs and the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to stabilize the economy.

The notion that these visas are for “highly skilled” workers is a myth. About half of these visas are used for foreigners with no more than an undergraduate degree. The use of the H-1B visa is just another way for businesses to drive down wages while padding their pockets.

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"Our skilled wages are higher than anywhere in the world. If we open up a significant window for skilled [foreign] workers, that would suppress the skilled-wage level and end the concentration of income."

—Alan Greenspan
Let More Skilled Immigrants In
Bloomberg News account in Boston Globe, March 14, 2007
(The context of this remark was addressing how
to combat growing income inequality in the United States).

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Of the 65,000 H-1B visas granted each year, Microsoft used less than 1,000 in 2007; the largest percentage went to Indian firms operating in the United States that outsource their labor to other countries.

We cannot allow special interests to influence Congress at the expense of the American worker.

	Help FAIR educate members of Congress about the truth behind the H-1B program and protect the American worker.
	Call your representatives and tell them you oppose any increase in the H-1B, or any guest worker, program and that in an economic downturn they should be protecting American jobs.