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To: elmatador who wrote (39414)	10/9/2003 9:50:54 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Elaine Chao's ties to Chinese leader Expert: Bush's Labor nominee 'family friend' of Jiang Zemin <<The Elmat's family knows a "wayo" from faraway!!!>>> By Jon Dougherty © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com President-elect George W. Bush's choice to head the Labor Department, Elaine Chao, and her father have extensive personal ties to communist China's President Jiang Zemin -- contact described as "regular" and "deep," WorldNetDaily has learned. According to an Asian affairs expert who spoke on condition of anonymity, Chao -- whom Bush selected to head the Labor Department after his first choice, Linda Chavez, withdrew from consideration over charges she harbored an illegal alien in 1992 -- allegedly characterized as "racist" the findings of a May 1999 report on Chinese espionage, released by a select committee chaired by Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif. The Sino expert told WND the relationship with Jiang stems from Ms. Chao's father, James S. C. Chao, who attended college with the Chinese president before fleeing for Taiwan in 1949, in advance of the communist government takeover of the mainland. "They have continued a sort of university friendship ever since," the expert said. Chao's father resides in New York City and, years ago, founded a ship brokerage and agency business, Foremost Maritime Corp. -- a lucrative shipping firm that ships goods from the U.S. to China and much of Asia. "To do this would require one having friends in high places," or "Guanxi" (the Chinese term for political connections), the source told WorldNetDaily. "The real story here is that Ms. Chao's father -- and most likely herself -- has been a family friend of the leaders of communist China for practically all of her life." When asked if Chao has had any contact at all with Jiang, the expert said, "Absolutely." And, the source added, "it's kept very quiet, but it's probably regular contact." If confirmed, said the Asia expert, "she would come into [Bush's] Cabinet with a more intimate relationship with the president of China than with the president of the United States." "During the furor of the Cox report, she was out there, leading protests against it and criticized it as 'racist,'" the source said. Calls were made to the Bush transition team headquarters for comment but were not returned. Also, WorldNetDaily contacted the Heritage Foundation for comment without success. A spokesman from Cox's office told WorldNetDaily he had never heard of Chao's criticism and denied any knowledge of her or her father's connection to Jiang. Ms. Chao, 47, a Taiwanese immigrant, is the former chairman of the Heritage Foundation's Asia Studies Center Advisory Council and a distinguished fellow at the conservative think tank. She once served as deputy secretary of the Transportation Department under the president-elect's father, President George Bush, and also served as chairwoman of the Federal Maritime Commission. She became director of the Peace Corps in 1991 and led the United Way of America from 1992-1996. Married to Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Chao is said to be on the fast track to Senate confirmation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Related story: Speaker appoints top China lobbyist

To: elmatador who wrote (39414)	10/10/2003 12:15:02 AM
From: Jamey	Respond to of 74559

Since 2001 2.7 million jobs lost as a result of outsourcing and H1-B foreigners taking jobs, the mass of them from IT. This is not a temporary condition but a permanent structural change. H-1B Visas and Their Impact on the Science and Technology Workforce 9 ties that are developing between countries, those flows and movements of people are increasingly being supported by governments as a positive element in their relationships with other countries in their trade agreements and not as a crisis or a problem as migration was seen just a few years ago. Now it is being seen increasingly as an opportunity but one with very high cost, particularly in regards to things like smuggling. So there are two sides to the coin in this. Let me turn briefly to U.S. policy in the time I have left. I would say that the U.S. today has three major migration streams or mechanisms through which people enter and remain in the United States for somewhat lengthy periods of time. The classical stream is our permanent legal immigration stream. We have four different set categories under that. The largest, by far, is family reunification or unification. About 70 percent of those who enter the United States enter through family connections with somebody else who is already living in the United States. It is, by far, the largest form of migration that we have for our legal, permanent system. About 400,000 to 500,000 per year come in under that category. Next in size is our employment or skills-based immigration. The ceiling on that, for the permanent system, is 140,000 per year. But keep in mind two things. One is that that includes the family members of the persons admitted because of their skills or their employment connections. Number two, we have never hit the ceiling. Generally, the number of admissions for the employment-based migration has been running in the 70,000 to 90,000 per year range, well, under the possible ceiling. Other than a few thousand visas for unskilled, just about everybody who is admissible under our employment-based program has a bachelor's degree or higher. So it is for largely skilled populations with a few exceptions. The third part of the permanent system is humanitarian admissions – refugees admitted from overseas – those who seek asylum in the United States in a series of quasi-amnesties that we have been giving largely to people from the Caribbean and Central America to regularize their status after they were admitted because of civil conflicts or other problems in their home communities. That runs about 100,000 per year, up and down depending on the amnesty provisions. Fourth is probably unique to U.S. immigration. It is called the Diversity Program, 50,000 visas per year. That goes to individuals from countries with very small levels of immigration in the previous five years. It really is to diversify the sources of immigration so we won't just continue to have a chain of families and employer-based migration of people that are already known to those in the U.S. Most of those visas go to Europe and to Africa. Probably the most unique thing about it is that the persons are selected through a lottery system. It is a rather strange, to say the least, mechanism for selecting immigrants. There are usually about 3 million or 4 million applicants for the 50,000 or so slots that we have each year. So, permanent immigration into the United States has been running about 700,000 to 800,000 per year total in terms of legal immigration. The second and growing stream of immigration is of temporary workers or people admitted for temporary purposes. The H-1B Program is obviously one of the larger ones of that. But it is by no means the only temporary program that the United States has for admission of workers. In addition to the H-1B Program, there is also the L-visa program which is for intercompany transfers, for multinational corporations to move their personnel into the United States. There are the NAFTA visas that I mentioned before, largely now for Canadian professionals coming in. Those in universities are familiar with the J-visa by which cultural exchange research scholars enter the country. Two good links for resources on this problem are Comission on Professionals in Science and Technology cpst.org Federal Reserve Bank of New York Has Structural Change Contributed to a Jobless Recovery? ny.frb.org James