More people need to know about this, as we try to devise policies to lower current 9 percent U.S. unemployment:
"According to U.S. Department of Labor, a guest worker visa known as H-1B for 'specialty occupations' especially tech workers -- may be issued 'even when a qualified U.S. worker wants the job.' In fact, the bulletin notes, 'A U.S. worker can be displaced from the job in favor of the foreign worker.'"
"The federal government doesn't have any official counts of the guest worker population. Estimates put the current number of H-1B visa holders alone somewhere between 600,000 and 1,000,000. In recent years, U.S. corporations have been using an ever-proliferating array of temporary visas to import foreign labor -- including visitor visas, which as we reported in a recent Dan Rather Reports, are not supposed to be used for any purpose involving gainful employment."
By Dan Rather
June 17, 2011 | Huffington Post
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