Bill Introduced in Congress Would Double Cap on H-1B Visas (to 180,000 in 2010)

[CactusCarlos]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3013856

I was wrong - the majority-democratic congress IS doing something!

Bill Introduced in Congress Would Double Cap on H-1B Visas (to 180,000 in 2010)
Posted by Amerigo Vespucci on Sat Mar-15-08 01:07 PM

Bill Would Double Cap on H-1B Visas
A bill introduced in the U.S. Congress would double the number of immigrant worker visas available each year under the H-1B program.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/14/AR2008031403028.html

PC World
Friday, March 14, 2008; 5:19 PM

Microsoft today praised a bill introduced in the U.S. Congress that would double the number of immigrant worker visas available each year under the H-1B program.

The Innovation Employment Act, introduced by Representative Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, late Thursday, would increase the cap in H-1B visas from 65,000 a year to 130,000 a year. In addition, there would be no cap on H-1B applications for foreign graduate students attending U.S. colleges and studying science, technology and related fields. Currently, there's a 20,000-a-year cap on visas for graduate students in all fields.

The legislation would increase the H-1B cap to 180,000 in 2010 to 2015 if the 130,000 cap is reached the year before.

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates called for an increase in the H-1B visa cap while testifying before the House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee Wednesday. In recent years, the H-1B cap has been filled days -- or even the same day -- after the government opened the application period.

Unbelievable that a Democrat could introduce this bill. I'm ashamed.
Posted by barb162 on Sat Mar-15-08 01:14 PM

Americans are going jobless and there are people here who can do those jobs. Gates is laying off Americans and importing more and more foreign labor, when he isn't actually sending jobs offshore. Selling out American workers is not a part of the Democratic Party agenda!

No asshat - selling out EVERYONE is part of the Democratic Party agenda.

 

[dandi]

Unbelievable that a Democrat could introduce this bill. I'm ashamed.
Posted by barb162 on Sat Mar-15-08 01:14 PM

Americans are going jobless and there are people here who can do those jobs. Gates is laying off Americans and importing more and more foreign labor, when he isn't actually sending jobs offshore. Selling out American workers is not a part of the Democratic Party agenda!

Congratulations on your newfound sense of nationalism.

To bad you can't you can't extend it to the illegal immigration issue, or more importantly, to our troops in the field.

[DumbAss Tanker]

This makes a Hell of a lot more sense than turning the Mexican borders into an unlaned northbound superhighway; attracting the best and keeping them is actually a great long-term idea, currently we are educating them on how to compete as effectively as possible with us and then telling them they have to go back to their own countries and set up companies to cut our own throats, which is basically stupid.