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The other day, I was looking for links to videos of the Cohen & Grigsby debacle of 2007. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this incident, it caused a minor scandel in the anti-visa community. Essentially, Cohen & Grigsby, a Pittsburgh law firm specializing in providing H1-B services to employers, gave a conference on how the H1-B process works. They took videos of the event and were so proud of how well things went that they posted the videos on the web. It turns out that the videos documented C&G coaching attendees on how to skirt the requirements in the H1-B program that were designed to protect American workers.

What a surprise. Obama tries to claim that flooding the U.S. labor market with more guest workers and unlimited migration will create the next Intel corporation. That's pure fiction! Firstly, Andy Grove came over as a child and also under much more restrictive immigration laws than today. This means, Andy Grove was a product of America, the United States educational system, the United States venture capital system, the United States opportunities.

It has nothing to do with where Grove was physically born and everything to do with opportunities in the United States, a system to educate, give first level careers to, to give venture capital to....it's citizens.

(I am posting this content with permission from a letter a colleague sent to me...)

There are a lot of deceptions in the H-1B law and misleading terms of art. Many of these were designed to give our legislators plausible deniability and cover for what they were legislating [in order to garner re-election campaign funds from the the high-tech industry, its trade associations, its officers, and its lobbyists].

You can't make this stuff up folks. Microsoft literally offshore outsourced almost all of their internal I.T. department to Infosys in an estimated $100 million dollar deal. That's right, the people who supposedly make the software of the world offshore outsourced all of their technology infrastructure.

Even this Pro outsourcing site noted the increasing relationship between Microsoft and offshore outsourcing. Next time you see Microsoft proclaim a worker shortage or how the U.S. must import foreign guest workers instead of hiring Americans, this is the reason.

It's no secret to any one working in the technology sector India offshore outsourcer Infosys abuses foreign guest worker visas, and labor arbitrages. After all, it's their business model.

Now, one lone consultant is trying to do something about it. He filed a whistle blower lawsuit due to the retaliation of Infosys after trying to do something about Infosys' brazen U.S. immigration law violations, all to displace U.S. labor through offshore outsourcing contracts. Here's what he was trying to expose:

An American employee of Infosys has filed a case against the Indian company accusing it of systematic visa and tax fraud to increase profits. In his 13-page complaint filed before an Alabama Court early this week, Jack Palmer alleged that Infosys sent lower level and unskilled foreigners to the US to work in full-time positions at its customer sites in direct violation of immigration laws.

Palmer, who says he worked for Infosys as "Principal - Enterprise Solutions" since August 2008, alleged that the company was paying these employees in India for full-time work in the US without withholding federal or state income taxes, and overbilled customers for the labour costs of these employees.

It's about time people protested Silicon valley's discriminatory hiring practices.

Silicon Valley high tech firms are on the hot seat over accusations that they're not hiring enough minorities. Three non-profit groups targeted Google for a protest because it wouldn't provide a breakdown of its workforce by race or ethnicity.

Manufacturing news has a great article, Indian Outsourcing Firms Use H-1B To Displace U.S. High-Tech Workforce which overviews a new EPI study proving guest worker Visas are being used as labor arbitrage against U.S. workers.

The U.S. visa programs that allow companies to hire skilled foreign workers is "out of control" and is costing Americans hundreds of thousands of jobs, according to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute. The H-1B and L-1 visa programs currently account for 1 million guest workers in the United States. Many of these foreign workers are employed at companies that have embraced offshore outsourcing of high-wage, high-tech workers as their primary business model.