Programmers Guild

On December 5, 2009 Vivek Wadhwa posted "The Startup Visa And Why The Xenophobes Need To Go Back Into Their Caves ." The new “Startup visa” is sketched out here: http://startupvisa.com/about...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2009/12/programmers-guild-response-to-guy-who.html

Monday, April 21, 2008 Washington post article "FOR VISAS, THE DEMAND OUTSTRIPS THE SUPPLY - FIRMS SAY THEY RELY ON SKILLED IMMIGRANTS " profiled architectural design firm "Development Design G...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2008/04/development-design-group-in-baltimore.html

It is well documented that qualified U.S. workers are being displaced by H-1b workers, even at the current cap of 65,000. See the testimonials at HireAmericansFirst.org, for example. What is Gi...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2008/03/us-rep-gabrielle-giffords-targets-us.html

Listening to Compete America one would think that H-1b workers are the "best and brightest" in the world, contributing to "U.S. global competiveness." But as the 1/31/08 BusinessWeek artic...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2008/02/businessweek-exposes-how-industry.html

The original article is here: http://spectrum.buffalo.edu/article.php?id=35050 This is an image of the front page where it run in the printed edition. http://spectrum.buffalo.edu/images/fr...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2008/02/flaws-in-university-of-buffalo.html

On Friday January 18, 2008 Kim Berry represented the "perspective of the U.S. worker" at the Sloan West Coast Program on Science and Engineering Workers , held at UC Davis. PowerPoints of the...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2008/01/programmers-guild-presents-at-sloan.html

According to a December 16, 2007 article in The Hindu Business Line , NFAP Executive Director Stuart Anderson has released a "study" titled "The impact of high-skill immigration restrictions on A...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/12/nfaps-stuart-andersons-dishonest-use-of.html

As reported in ComputerWorld: "National tech policy battle plays out in Iowa as caucus nears ": > "Gary Scholten, a senior vice president and CIO at PRINCIPAL > FINANCIAL GROUP in ...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/12/gary-scholten-cio-at-principal.html

Bill Gates has asked Congress for an "unlimited number" of H-1b visas. Watch Lou Dobbs ask Gates to discuss the matter. (We suspect that Gates will decline this opportunity to explain to the worl...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/11/lou-dobbs-challenges-bill-gates-to.html

Eight firms used 87% of all H-1b applications in 2006 Harrisburg, PA – and all eight are owned and managed by Indian immigrants, with average salary around $45,000 Dear Dan Miller and Juliana ...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/11/bias-against-american-tech-workers-by.html

Author Rep. James Sensenbrenner represents HR 4065 as "To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to strengthen enforcement of the immigration laws, to enhance border security, and for other p...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/11/congress-set-to-triple-h-1b-quota-in-hr.html

James Murphy raises ten questions for those who believe the H-1B is about a shortage of Americans to do the job: 1) If corporations get all the H-1Bs and green cards they want, can the long ter...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/11/ten-questions-for-those-who-believe-h.html

IDG News Service reports that China's president Hu Jintao intends to "build strong armed forces through science and technology. " Hu explained, "To attain the strategic objective of building co...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/11/chinas-president-vows-computerized.html

U.S. corporations argue for more H-1b workers in order to help America's "Global Competitiveness." So where is the outrage when U.S. corporations act contrary to U.S. interests? Cisco is a larg...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/11/cisco-working-with-government-to-open.html

As reported by InformationWeek , Yoh has prepared a press release that again proclaims that tech workers are being paid "near record wages." First Yoh unethically downplays that these wages ar...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/10/yappy-headed-yoh-wage-study-is-flawed.html

The media has been buzzing with articles making claims like this in e-Commerce News - Microsoft Steps Across Border to Sidestep Immigration Rules > Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) will open a s...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/07/microsoft-propaganda-falsely-cites-h-1b.html

Last month U.S. Senators Durbin and Grassley wrote a letter to nine of the top Indian outsourcers regarding their use of H-1b , such as their wages, age of workers, number of U.S. citizens on sta...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/06/nasscoms-claim-that-only-small-indian.html

Microsoft, Oracle, and Google are lobbying the Senate for an increase in the H-1b visa quota, arguing that they have thousands of job openings that they cannot fill with Americans. But is that th...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/06/microsoft-oracle-and-google-demand-that.html

For those under age 40, "YouTube-Gate" is a twist on the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon. Our objective is that Congress end these H-1b, PERM, and related employment-based i...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/06/youtube-gate-cohen-grigsby-train-how-to.html

In his commentary "IN MY TURN: IMMIGRATION REFORM -- VERMONT STYLE ," immigration attorney Philip Boyle make the outrageous claim that the H-1b program actually increases the wages of U.S. softwa...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/06/immigration-attorney-philip-boyle.html

As reported by AHN Media Corp : > Patni Computer Systems Inc > . > has agreed to pay $2.4 million in back wages as part of a settlement > with government authorities wh...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/06/patni-computer-systems-h-1b-settlement.html

(Hand-delivered to Governor’s office June 6, 2007) June 5, 2007 Dear Governor Schwarzenegger, (916-445-2841) Among your key campaign promises was that you would represent the People of Cali...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/06/letter-to-governor-schwarzenegger.html

Amendment #1249 to the comprehensive immigration bill, sponsored by Senators Cantwell, Cornyn, Leahy and Hatch, is a declaration of war on American tech workers. Their bill would: Authorize emp...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/05/senators-senators-cantwell-cornyn-leahy.html

As reported by the New York Times on May 27, 2007 : > Senator Bernard Sanders, independent of Vermont, won adoption of an > amendment that would increase the fee charged to e...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/05/oracle-objects-to-providing-15000.html

On the May 18, 2007 edition of CNN's "India 360: Indian IT troubles for US ," Indian companies categorically deny that they use the H-1b to hire Indians at wages below what Americans earn: > ...

http://programmersguild.blogspot.com/2007/05/india-now-denies-their-prior-admission.html