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Submitted by Barb, Aug 13, 2007 09:42

The workers they need are right here, where they have always been. My profession, IT, was devastated by imported foreign workers. Since 2000 we were being laid off in droves, while they were bringing in foreign workers by the planeload, sometimes even making us train our replacements. After a couple of years of this, we started seeing job ads demanding 'recent' or 'current' work experience. In other words, if you'd had to take a non IT job to survive, you were no longer welcome back in the profession, even when times improved. What do you want to bet that the same business shouting 'shortage' are avoiding and/or turning away American applicants on one pretext or another? The H-1B program is so full of fraud and abuse, it should be abolished. Ditto for any other 'guestworker visa' that our political and business-worshiping oligarchy cooks up. As for the illegals - deportation, si se puede.

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