Imported Workers Filling U.S. Jobs

[dArKeR]

Some two million U.S. jobs have gone by the wayside over the last two years. And at the same time, the number of foreigners granted special visas to work in the U.S. has risen.

Employers defend the practice. But pink-slipped Americans who've lost jobs to lower-paid replacements are calling it visa abuse.

Last year, Phil Marraffinni earned a salary of $100,000 as a computer programmer.

Today he is a handyman because he says workers imported from India took his job.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/22/eveningnews/main579550.shtml

[Nay]

1. Message to pink-slipped Americans -- stop voting Republican!

[lcordero]

3. It's not just Republicans, it is both sides of the aisle

[Flying_Pig]

4. You got that right. Some of th DINO/DLC types have no problem

giving corporations everything they ask for, including visas for cheap laborers. This type of Dem sells out the people, and their Party, and cares not a whit.

:grr:

[Noordam]

2. I used to have no problems getting

50+ per hour on contract higher in DC. But that was before the L-1 visa were abused.

[HEyHEY]

5. I saw an add for US visas on my bus one day

Is this the same one? Not that I expect you to know...so disregard.

[JoeMemphis]

6. Democrats aren't doing their part to prevent H-1B and L-1 abuse.

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