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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (14267)	10/28/2003 10:25:12 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793601

NO! Laz are you pulling my leg or what? My point is that these visas were set up for completely different purposes, prior to terrorism, prior to offshoring and these SV companies are using them to skirt the taxcode, legally but not because anyone ever INTENDED to use L1 visas this way. Another visa category under which enterprises bring in overseas workers is the L1 -- a program originally intended to facilitate the movement of executives of companies with business units across the globe, according to Courtney. Recently, many employers have had employees from other countries come to the U.S. under L1 visas to be trained to do work that they will return to their own countries to complete. That, said Courtney, is "a loophole you can drive a Mack truck through," and his organization is working to close it up. The amazing thing is that there are republicans in the house like Orrin Hatch who have hosted meetings where Intel marches in a Canadian visa recipient (Canada... excuse me while I laugh, yeah most visa holders are canadian uh huh) and claims these visas are necessary for business and anybody can see this is not the case. Republicans have lost all objectivity. There is no excuse for this, it is akin to supporting the drug industry on "safety concerns", this stuff just flies in the face of common sense.