U.S. employers received approval to hire 382,200 foreign workers last year under the H-1B visa program -- a period during which U.S. high-tech companies announced more than 520,000 layoffs, and American colleges and universities graduated 160,000 high tech workers. Last year the industry only created 80,000 new jobs.
The bottom line: American citizens are being replaced in mass by cheap foreign labor in high tech jobs. Just to put the announced numbers in perspective, consider the following. High tech companies announced 520,000 job cuts last year, and 85,101 job cuts in the first two months of this year. This says nothing about the high tech companies that had mass layoffs, but did not announce them, but lets just run with the announced numbers. The total number of announced high tech workers on the street comes to 605,101. During the same time, employers imported 163,200 foreign workers toward the 195,000 annual quota, and another 29,000 were pending. Add the 190,000 H-1B visas that were approved but excluded from the quota, and you have 382,200 foreigners imported by employers under the H-1B visa program last year. According to the Department of Education, American colleges and universities have been graduating 160,000 high-tech workers each year. The industry announced that 80,000 new high tech jobs were created last year. According to the Department of Labor, the industry on average creates 140,000 new high tech jobs each year. Now lets put these numbers together and see where we have a problem. Announced Job Cuts 605,101 New college graduates 160,000 Available workers before new H-1B visas 765,101 New H-1B visas granted 382,200 Total available workforce 1,147,301 New Jobs Created 80,000 Glut of high tech workers 1,067,301 Those are the announced numbers. Clearly we have a serious problem. H-1B visa holders replaced 382,200 American citizens in the workplace last year at the same time that 765,101 high tech workers hit the street. The announced number of job cuts is far smaller than the actual number of high tech workers who lost their jobs, so the problem is much more severe than the numbers above reflect. Remember, there are 8.3 million American citizens out of work right now. There is no shortage of American citizens to fill high tech jobs. There never was. The industry fabricated this lie in order to convince congress to increase the H-1B quota so they could exploit cheap foreign labor in the high tech industry. By the end of this year, employers will have replaced over one million American citizens in high-tech since October 1998, and continue to do so at the rate of 195,000-380,000 per year. Please help stop this from happening to our American citizens and our high-tech infrastructure. Visit http://www.HireAmericanCitizens.org to learn more, and find out how you can help stop the H-1B fiasco. -- Fight The H-1B Fiasco! A C T N O W! www.HireAmericanCitizens.org - Learn About H-1B and Help Stop It! . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
