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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (39149)	3/17/1999 8:48:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 67261

jla, You'd better get some better info on the status of H1-B visa workers at Los Alamos and Livermore. First of all, the natl labs would fall apart at this point if thy couldn't hire H1-B visa workers, as would many high tech companies - and btw there is just as much sensitive info at the private companies and subcontractors as the labs themselves - so this is not simply a Los Alamos problem. But anyway the fact is there is a high tech labor shortage in this country and salaries have not kept up with demand. Republicans have supported this influx of foreign workers to appease their business constituency. I personally don't have a problem with it (although, I do take issue with the "selectivity" of who we will let in - high tech workers, ok but not doctors, etc.) but to assume there isn't going to be any knowledge transfer is really stupid.... plenty of these people go home after working here... like they are going to forget all those secrets they learned in the advanced tech lab at Applied Materials? Give me a break! Of course all the labor laws apply to these people also so its not like some company is going to fire somebody without proof of foulplay. And this is Clintons problem..... how?