This is a bit of good news for U.S. workers. Petitions for US worker green cards down sharply, although obviously guest worker Visas displacing U.S. workers is still a huge problem.

With the nation facing a deep recession and high unemployment, the government has received about half the number of employer-sponsored applications for work-based green cards in fiscal years 2008 and 2009 than it did in each of the previous years. There were almost 235,000 applications submitted in fiscal 2007, almost 104,000 the following year, and fewer than 36,000 through the first eight months of fiscal 2009, according to data obtained by the AP.

Some facts to note, any guest worker who claims there is some outrageous back log on green cards....this report says the delay is now 5 months, down from a year. Not exactly those 5-7 year waits you hear proclaimed out on the Internets!

While the report claims applications have to prove no American is available for the job, we know differently, as this video illustrates.

Perhaps it is the fact the DOL has opened up a few fraud cases or could it be corporations are simply offshore outsourcing even more jobs?