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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (341484)	6/27/2007 10:55:36 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1573994

Senators Release List Of Top L-1 Visa Employers By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee InformationWeek Tue Jun 26, 6:00 PM ET Two U.S. senators pushing bipartisan legislation to close loopholes for alleged fraud and abuse of visa programs used to bring foreign tech workers into the United States released a list of the top 20 employers of L-1 workers Tuesday. L-1 visas are used by multinational companies to transfer foreign workers from their overseas operations to work temporarily in their U.S. operations. Of the top 20 companies that used L-1 visas in fiscal 2006, nearly half are Indian IT outsourcing firms that are also among the top users of the H-1B visas. H-1B visas are used to employ foreign tech workers in the United States. Sens. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released the list on Tuesday just after the U.S. Senate voted to revive debate on the comprehensive immigration bill that's been stalled in Congress since earlier this month. Durbin and Grassley allege that foreign outsourcing companies abuse L-1s by using the visa to train their foreign employees during short stints in the United States to help facilitate the offshoring of work done by Americans. In a release, the senators also said they plan to continue investigating "blanket" L visa petitions that allow companies to transfer "limitless" numbers of workers into the United States. Here is the list of top 20 L-1 employers in fiscal 2006, according to Durbin and Grassley. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., 4,887 L-1 visas Cognizant Tech Solutions U.S. Corp., 3,520 L-1 visas IBM, 1,237 L-1 visas Satyam Computer Services Ltd., 950 L-1 visas Wipro Ltd., 839 L-1 visas HCL America Inc., 511 L-1 visas Deloitte & Touche LLP/Deloitte Consulting, 512 L-1 visas Patni Computer Systems, 440 L-1 visas Intel, 392 L-1 visas Kanbay Inc., 329 L-1 visas Honeywell International, 320 L-1 visas Hewlett-Packard, 316 L-1 visas Infosys Tech. Ltd., 294 L-1 visas Accenture LLP, 291 L-1 visas Caritor Inc., 231 L-1 visas Schlumberger Technology Corp., 214 L-1 visas Oracle USA Inc., 176 L-1 visas Syntel Ltd., 171 L-1 visas PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, 168 L-1 visas Microsoft, 168 L-1 visas

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (341484)	6/28/2007 3:26:02 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573994

>Either way, Palestinians are getting aid. What they do with the aid is the problem. But to claim that we don't care about what happens to the Palestinians is bunk. The point is that 1. the Palestinians don't get all that much aid and 2. Israel withholds revenue when they feel they have a reason to. We could get aid directly to the Palestinians if we really wanted to. >We'd love to feed them, clothe them, and shelter them. Unfortunately, Hamas doesn't, cause it would threaten their political grasp. Kind of like North Korea and all of the rice aid sent by the South, which ends up going to the North Korean army. Except Hamas does do that, to whatever extent they can. Fatah is the corrupt group. -Z