Letter to Senator Jon Corzine (H1-B and L1 visa's)

This is a letter to Senator Jon Corzine, D, NJ. which I would like to share....
Senator Jon Corzine Hart Senate Office Washington, DC 20510
Subject: Allotment of H1-B work visas - Devastating effect on American Technical service workers and Computer Science and Engineering Graduates.

Dear Senator Corzine,
I am writing to you regarding the effect that the extremely high allotment of H1-B temporary work visas is having on American workers and the strategic capabilities of our data processing and engineering sectors.

I have been in the field of data processing over 30 years and have held positions in management and as an individual contributor and I feel that I am qualified to give you a true picture of this unfortunate, greed motivated situation.

Every argument put forth in favor of H1-B's by lobbyists is tainted by pure economic motivation. Foreign workers, specifically those from India, work for far, far less than their American counterparts.

They generally arrive with no family, have no home, and very little monetary obligations. English is a second language.

Verifying past experience is almost impossible when checking foreign resumes. They originate from a country 12,000 miles away that speaks 21 dialects.

During interview sequences any unanswerable question (what they don't know) they try to blame on language barriers.

Education claims are equally unverifiable, as is their true origin. Usually the resume will say "Graduated from the University of India" or something like that.

The lobbyists claim that there are no qualified American workers is equally ridiculous.
America invented modern data processing, our education capabilities are second to none, and the "Hot" skills, such as "C++, HTML, OOD" can be acquired by experienced workers in a matter of weeks, and sometimes days.

Lobbyists have yet to explain how a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY, like India, can turn out so many experienced workers. What do they work on? THE TRUE REASON FOR H1-B REQUESTS IS THAT FOREIGN WORKERS HAVE LESS OBLIGATIONS AND CAN WORK FOR MUCH LESS MONEY THAN THE AMERICAN WORKERS THAT THEY DISPLACE. So much less, in fact, that productivity is not an issue.

Jon, you were elected by American Workers, It is time for you to stand up for America and vote against continuing ANY H1-B allotments for Engineering and Data Processing.
Please do not be "Hoodwinked" again by corporate lobbyists.
We do not need additional foreign workers in High Technology fields.

Sincerely,
Walter L. Godek
Former IT Consultant