Category Archives: IMMIGRATION

H-1B Hogs Swindling ‘Average’ Americans

Business, IMMIGRATION, Labor, Multiculturalism

The following is taken from my new column, “H-1B Hogs Swindling ‘Average’ Americans,” now on WND.COM:

“The other day, John Miano of the Center for Immigration Studies pointed to the duplicity of ‘Microsoft’s attempts to downplay layoffs while calling on newly elected President Obama to provide more foreign labor.’ Naturally, the man with the reverse-Midas touch can’t make labor materialize magically, but he could issue more H-1B visas.

Touted as a means of trawling for the best and the brightest, the H-1B swindle is anything but. ‘Ordinary talent doing ordinary work’ is Professor Norm Matloff’s overall assessment of the H-1B crop. …

The 65,000 yearly recipients of H-1B visas are mostly ‘average workers.’ …

The primary H-1B hogs—Infosys (and another eight, sister Indian firms), Microsoft, and Intel—are forever claiming that they are desperate for talent. But, in reality, they have unlimited access to individuals with unique abilities through the open-ended O-1 visa program, that is if they really wanted it. …

Theoretically, the H-1B program could be abolished and all needed Einsteins (and pin-up girls) imported through the O-1 program. They just need to demonstrate ‘extraordinary ability.’

But industry lobbyists never suggest this. Funny that…”

The complete column is “H-1B Hogs Swindling ‘Average’ Americans.”

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Update II: Boycott The Republican Party (Buy Arizona)

Federalism, IMMIGRATION, Private Property, Republicans, States' Rights

When your city is buckling under the weight of mandated diversity—crime, illiteracy, crumbling and crowded schools, closing hospitals—what do you do? Launch a boycott against a state, Arizona, that is attempting to ward off the same fate.

“The Los Angeles City Council passed a resolution Wednesday that cuts some of its business ties to Arizona.”

Most repugnant is that the party that “needs not a bigger tent, but a giant tin-foil hat” HAS “unanimously recommended Tampa as the site of the 2012 Republican National Convention,” when Phoenix was a contender.

Slimer Steele, the attention seeking RNC Chairman, assured the WaPo it “was a business decision.”

That’s the extent to which the GOP is attuned to the passions and interests of its base.

Boycott the Republican Party.

Boycotts are the prerogative of private property owners; as their patronage, or lack thereof, affects only those within their economic sphere. LA City pols should go back to doing what they were hired to do: pick up trash, give permits for Gay Pride parades, etc.

The GOP ought to have quietly given a nod to its base and the plank they claim to support—law and order, the right to repel invaders, self-defense—and plonked their pampered behinds in Phoenix. I am sure there are plenty stripper clubs that meet Steele’s exacting standards in that city.

Update I: DICKING AROUND. Is Dick Morris for real? The guy makes Steele look like a man of integrity. His site: there is nothing worth reading there, except for numbers, stats and other probabilities which can be had at Gallop. But Republicans buy his books in the millions.

Update II (May 13): Back to LA-Council clowns. A city that is bankrupt boycotting a state that isn’t—how rich is that? And how well they are serving their constituents!?

If I haven’t yet issued this cri de coeur: Buy Arizona. And write in to tell us what products to look out for.

Steyn On Arizona

IMMIGRATION, Law, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Multiculturalism, Nationhood

Mark Steyn shines on the topic of Arizona, and ventures comments on mass immigration. Perhaps we can expect a more courageous stand on the matter in the future?

“….Almost every claim made for the benefits of mass immigration is false. Europeans were told that they needed immigrants to help prop up their otherwise unaffordable social entitlements: In reality, Turks in Germany have three times the rate of welfare dependency as ethnic Germans, and their average retirement age is 50. Two-thirds of French imams are on the dole.”

Here’s more from STEYN’s “Bigotry label for thee, not me: Liberals bash Arizonans from the back seat of their limos”:

But wait: What about the broader economic benefits? The World Bank calculated that if rich countries increased their work forces by a mere 3 percent by admitting an extra 14 million people from developing countries, it would benefit the populations of those rich countries by $139 billion. Wow.

In his book ‘Reflections on the Revolution In Europe,’ Christopher Caldwell points out, ‘The aggregate gross domestic product of the advanced economies for the year 2008 is estimated by the International Monetary Fund at close to $40 trillion.’ So an extra $139 billion works out to a spectacular 0.0035 percent. Mr. Caldwell compares the World Bank argument to Austin Powers’ nemesis, Dr. Evil, holding the world hostage for 1 million dollars. ‘Sacrificing 0.0035 of your economy would be a pittance to pay for starting to get your country back.’ A dependence on mass immigration is not a gold mine nor an opportunity to flaunt your multicultural bona fides, but a structural weakness, and it should be addressed as such.”

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In case you haven’t, read my “Tell Establishment Media A Dog Died On The Border.”

Brown Bastardgate

Barack Obama, Britain, Debt, Elections, IMMIGRATION, Morality, Politics

“He [Gordon Brown] was smiling when he spoke to me but he was thinking that! What else is he thinking when he smiles…” ~Gillian Duffy.

Remember when Obama was exposed in all his contempt for small-town America, depicting potential voters as clinging to their guns, god and other “bigotry”?

At least Obama was generalizing about a perceived prototype, and not badmouthing a flesh-and-blood human being; a constituent just encountered.

Trust Britain’s Gordon Brown with that bit of cruel, callous conduct.

People seem surprised that Brown would harbor contempt for the typical Briton revealed in the person of Gillian Duffy. After hearing Mrs. Duffy’s worries over deficits and immigration, the pompous, two-faced ponce retreated to his limousine, and mic on, proceeded to berate this perfectly decent lady, calling her “horrible,” “old woman,” and “bigoted.”

Poor woman; how hurt and shocked she looked when a reporter first confronted her with Brown’s wicked words.

When the real boor in this electioneering farce came calling, asking her to forgive him on camera, Mrs. Duffy refused to play along. She forgave the bastard as a kindly person would, but refused Gordon’s demand for a public display of affection.

A reminder of BHO’s disdain:

Mr Obama had, before an audience in the liberal bastion of San Francisco, tried to explain his trouble winning over white, working-class voters, the fabled “Reagan Democrats” who will be crucial in the general election.
He said: “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And it’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”