from http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0603/p21s02-wmwo.html




 ".....Information Technology Association of America. This lobbying group
 successfully fought in Congress three years ago to expand the number of
 foreign programmers and other skilled workers that high-technology companies
 could hire under the H1-B program."








 "Last year, IT firms laid off 2.6 million workers and hired 2.1 million. The
 size of the IT workforce shrank from 10.4 million to 9.9 million."







 ".... hundreds of thousands of IT workers are jobless or work in other
 fields. Yet from Oct. 1, 2001, to March 30, 2002, employers applied to the
 Immigration and Naturalization Service to bring in 105,800 more foreign
 workers"







 "...next year when the H1-B legislation will come up again in Congress.


 Otherwise, the national ceiling for H1-B visas will revert from the present
 195,000 annual level to 65,000 in 2004."







 "Paul Donnelly, a Hyattsville, Md., consultant on immigration, suspects at
 least 500,000 H1-B visa holders live in the US, many unemployed or
 underemployed."







 "The INS has indicated that it is not trying to track H1-B workers to see if
 they still have a job, or to send home those who are jobless."







 "'There are more than plenty of eligible US workers on the market,' says
 Jessie Garrehy, a veteran recruiter in Silicon Valley"



-Dave Darnell

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