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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: laura_bush who wrote (439465)	8/7/2003 1:47:02 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

well every congressperson republican or democrat that I can find has expressed concern about these visas, so if Bush goes against shutting down the visas I will be surprised and it will be an incredibly unpopular decision on his part. The L1 visa was never supposed to displace US workers. It was supposed to be used by global corps who wanted to train people here and send them home after a few weeks. It has a 6-mos limitation. Instead, what is happening is companies are firing the US workers and hiring indians at 1/3 cost max using an L1. When the L1 expires after 6 mos, they bring in another worker. The really terrible part is the contracting agencies that import the L1s typically pay in Indian rupees by depositing money into a foreign bank acct. So they skirt the tax system completely. congress.org congress.org congress.org congress.org congress.org