New figures show most H-1B Visa holders are under the age of 35.

Where are all of the STEM people over 40 working at U.S. tech jobs? Can one see how H-1B is obviously being used to age discriminate? Fire the American, especially if they are over 35 and replace them with a cheap, young H-1B foreign guest worker?

According to data recently released by the AFL-CIO labor union, most of the visa-holders are less than 35-years-old and most likely from India. About half work in computer-related occupations.

The good news is the AFL-CIO must be looking into labor issues for STEM if they are examining H-1B statistics. YES! (also, one might consider joining Alliance@IBM or WashTech for one of the problems for STEM labor is a lack of unionization, organization, so we have zero representation to combat the cheap labor lobbyists.)

In fact it's the AFL-CIO DPE (Thank you!) who compiled the report.

The government data studied by the AFL-CIO covers a number of years through the 2008 fiscal year and shows a largely consistent pattern of visa usage. For instance, 54% of 2008 visa recipients were from India, close to the percentage from the past several years, according to the USCIS reports. Two thirds of H-1B petitions approved in 2008 were for workers between the ages of 25 and 34, compared to 48% in 2007 and 66% in 2006.

Bear in mind, comprehensive immigration reform is a code word for massive increases in guest worker Visas as well as trying to turn our educational system into a green card ATM.

The only way I can see dealing with this global labor arbitrage agenda is to require, in almost every educational opportunity and job opening, that U.S. citizens must be preferred. We need a strongly enforced affirmative action program, based on U.S. citizenship, to guarantee Americans are first up for all opportunities within their own nation.