I sent Senator Allard some more information on the H1B visa issue,
commenting about 1) his failure to reply to my rebuttal of his canned
response, and 2) the use of obsolete canned responses.

What did I get?

the same canned response.

I guess he and his people are NOT READING correspondence from
constituents!

See below

-Dave Darnell



--- [log in to unmask] wrote:
> From pop_server."darnell"@mail.darnell.org Wed Jun 26 11:32:12 2002
> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Correspondence From Senator Allard
> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 13:37:46 -0400
>
>
>
>
>
>                                       June 26, 2002
>
>
>
> Mr. David Darnell
> 3515 S. Carr St
> Denver, Colorado 80235
>
>
>
> Dear Mr. Darnell:
>
> Thank you for your letter regarding the issue of H1-B visas.  I
> appreciate
> hearing your thoughts on this very important issue.
>
> Senator Hatch's S.2045 passed both the Senate and the House of
> Representatives and was signed into law by the President on October
> 17,
> 2000.  This law temporarily raised the number of visas the federal
> government allowed annually for highly skilled workers from 115,000
> this
> year to 195,000 annually through FY 2002.  These H-1B temporary visas
> were
> given for a six-year period to foreigners with special skills,
> principally
> in high tech and health care, that were in short supply domestically.
>
> Colorado has become a leader in the high tech industry and we have
> been
> faced with a shortage of skilled high tech workers much like the rest
> of
> America.  It is important for us as a state and a nation to have
> access to
> skilled professionals who will allow us to compete in the global
> market
> and to keep up with the cutting edge of technology.  In order to do
> this
> we need to train American workers and make available the resources so
> that
> they can replace the temporary workers we have today. This law
> requires a
> modest increase in the fee application fee for H1-B visas which goes
> toward the funding of programs to encourage more young people to
> study
> mathematics, engineering and computer science and to train more
> Americans
> in these areas.
>
> Again thank you for writing and I look forward to hearing from you in
> the
> future.
>                                               Sincerely,
>
>
>
>
>                                               Wayne Allard
>                                               United States Senator
>
>
> WA:jp
>
>
>
>


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