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To: hueyone who wrote (158902)	7/30/2003 8:24:05 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) of 164684

oh and btw Although I agree with that article you have posted a few times, I feel the need to point out that it is written by Phillis Schafly (you have obviously forgotten that I am a Berkeley graduate). I like the Dianne Feinstein article a little better because there is a timeframe issue which the Phyllis Schafly piece doesn't quite get, or maybe things were different elsewhere in the country vs. the west coast. Anyway I as a manager was tired of hearing all these cries from union labor people and everybody else that H1-Bs were taking jobs up until 2001. There was obviously a job for anybody that wanted one in the tech industry up until 2000, and some of the salary demands were TOTALLY out of line, after all when I was starting out as a programmer in 1991/92I was making about 45K with no stock and happy to get it. In 1999 some guy with 2 years java experience was looking for 100K, it was ridiculous. This Phyllis Schafly article quotes some congress people in 2000 saying the H1-B extension was unpopular, maybe so but it was necessary THEN and thats why Feinstein voted for it. Fast forward to today, we are now in a relentless job offshoring situation and companies are abusing these visas, in some cases they want to offshore something but cannot because the workers need training from staff here first - this is NOT the purpose of an L1, to train workers locally for offshoring. This has gotten out of hand and congress knows it, now. I suspect they kill the L1 and curtail the h1-b heavily. I can already tell that nobody is doing sponsorship for contract work at Cisco, applied etc. anymore.

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