Federation for American Immigration Reform : Deleting American Workers: Abuse of the Temporary Foreign Worker System in the High Tech Industry

Deleting American Workers: Abuse of the Temporary Foreign Worker System in the High Tech Industry


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Despite the well-documented troubles that have afflicted the high tech industry over the past three years—countless companies have gone out of business and millions of workers have lost their jobs, creating a growing pool of available labor—many companies continue to import workers from overseas. The H-1B and L-1 visa programs allow people in professional occupations to work in the United States on a temporary basis. At a time of high unemployment, the high tech industry is flooding the labor market by importing workers who are willing to work more cheaply than American high tech workers.