There Is No Tech Worker Shortage!

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There Is No Tech Worker Shortage

High-tech companies often cite a tech-worker shortage when asking Congress to raise the 65,000 annual cap on H-1B visas, but according to a study conducted by John Miano and the Center for Immigration Studies there is no empirical data to support that claim. Walt Gardner wrote in the Atlanta Journal Constitution that the United States produces an ample amount of tech workers. In fact, Gardner found that in some years, the number of foreign programmers and engineers imported outnumbered the number of jobs created by the industry.



Other Key facts pertaining to the perceived shortage of tech workers in the United States:



•The number of H-1B visas for engineers has exceeded engineering job creation every year since 2001. (Center for Immigration Studies "H-1B Visa Numbers: No Relationship to Economic Need" June 2008)

•American colleges and universities produce more than enough science, math, and engineering graduates to fill available jobs:

◦"The United States’ education system produces a supply of qualified [science and engineering] graduates in much greater numbers than jobs available." - Harold Salzman, Ph.D. , The Urban Institute

◦"First, no one who has come to the question with an open mind has been able to find any objective data suggesting general 'shortages' of scientists and engineers." - Michael S. Teitelbaum, Vice President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

◦"Recent policy reports claim the United States is falling behind other nations in science and math education and graduating insufficient numbers of scientists and engineers. Review of the evidence and analysis of actual graduation rates and workforce needs does not find support for these claims." - Urban Institute study Into the Eye of the Storm

◦Before the economic downturn, the Department of Labor predicted an average of 82,000 new STEM jobs every year.

◦Between 2006 and 2007, the U.S. Department of Education and the Computing Research Association show that colleges and universities graduated more than 203,000 students in STEM disciplines.

◦Yet in FY 2006 more than 1 30,000 H-1 B applications for computer-related occupations were reviewed and certified. In FY 2007 and FY 2008 this trend continued with over 1 39,000 and 1 37,000 H-1 B visas, respectively, approved in computer-related occupations.

•Real Wages in science, engineering, computer, and mathematics (STEM) fields have remained flat since 2000. (Gene Nelson)

◦A typical postdoctoral research or teaching position in a STEM field (requiring 12 years of education after high school) offers pay and benefits comparable to what a high school graduate earns managing a fast-food restaurant. (Gene Nelson)

◦Wages of new H-1B computer workers dropped 16 percent between 2002 and 2005. (Ron Hira, Rochester Institute of Technology, Economic Policy Institute)

•20 percent of high-skilled immigrants in the U.S. Labor force is unemployed or working in an unskilled job. (Migration Policy Institute, "Uneven Progress: The Employment Pathways of Skilled Immigrants in the United States" Oct. 2008)

•Studies finding no shortage of engineers in the U.S. include one by Duke University's Vivek Wadhwa and another by Hal Salzman of the Urban Institute and Lindsay Lowell of Georgetown University.

◦The Duke team found that the often-cited (by Sen. Kennedy, Newt Gingrich and others) statistics that the U.S. produces 70,000 engineers annually versus 350,000 from India and 600,000 from China are not valid.

◦They found that the U.S. is far ahead by almost any measure.

Urge Your U.S. Senator to Oppose H-1B Visa Increases!‏

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Urge Your U.S. Senator to Oppose H-1B Visa Increases!‏


You can find this fax request by proceeding to

https://www.numbersusa.com/faxes?ID=14448



Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Ut.) have introduced legislation, the Immigration Innovation (I2) Act of 2013. This legislation would:



H-1B Visas



Increase H-1B cap from 65,000 to 115,000

Establish a market-based H-1B escalator, so that the cap can adjust – up or down – to the demands of the economy (includes a 300,000 ceiling on the ability of the escalator to move)

Uncap the existing U.S. advanced degree exemption (currently limited to 20,000 per year)

Authorize employment for dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders

Increase portability of high skilled foreign workers by:

Removing impediments and costs of changing employers;

Establishing a clear transition period for foreign workers as they change jobs; and,

Restoring visa revalidation for E, H, L, O, and P nonimmigrant visa categories

Student Visas



Allowing dual intent for foreign students at U.S. colleges and universities.

Immigrant Visas and Green Cards



Enable the recapture of green card numbers that were approved by Congress in previous years but were not used

Exempt certain categories of persons from the employment-based green card cap

Dependents of employment-based immigrant visa recipients

U.S. STEM advance degree holders

Persons with extraordinary ability

Outstanding professors and researches

Provide for the roll-over of unused employment-based immigrant visa numbers to the following fiscal year so future visas are not lost due to bureaucratic delays

Eliminate annual per-country limits for employment based visa petitioners and adjust per-country caps for family-based immigrant visas

U.S. STEM Education & Worker Retraining Initiative



Reform fees on H-1B visas and employment-based green cards; use money from these fees to fund a grant

Please send a fax to your U.S. Senator(s) and urge him/her to oppose this bill. Instead he/she needs to help America's high-tech workers first and oppose the Hatch-Rubio bill.
https://www.numbersusa.com/faxes?ID=14448






The NumbersUSA Action Team

Foreign Worker Timeout: Tech firm says tech layoffs hit 3-year high during first half of 2012

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Tech firm says tech layoffs hit 3-year high during first half of 2012


 - posted on NumbersUSA





A report issued on Monday by the tech placement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas says that tech layoffs in the United States hit its highest level in three years during the first half of 2012. The firm's report says 51,529 planned job cuts within the tech sector were planned during the first half of the year.



The cuts represent a 260% increase over the same period in 2011. Plus, the figure is 39% higher than the total number of tech job cuts in all of 2011.



So far this year, Hewlett Packard has announced cuts of 30,000 jobs while Sony and Nokia have announced cuts of 10,000 jobs.



"We may see more job cuts from the computer sector in the months ahead," John A. Challenger, CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, said. "While consumers and businesses are spending more on technology, the spending appears to favor a handful of companies. Those that are struggling to keep up with the rapidly changing trends and consumer tastes are shuffling workers to new projects or laying them off altogether."



Members of Congress appear to be ignoring cuts within the tech industry, introducing bill after bill that would increase the number of foreign engineers, mathematicians, and scientists allowed to stay in the country. Pres. Barack Obama also included a call for more foreign tech workers during his State of the Union address in January.



For more information, see CNET.

Foreign Worker Timeout Report Says U.S. has Too Many Scientists but Not Enough Jobs

A very interesting post from http://www.numbersusa.com/ about the large amount of domestic unemployed STEM workers who do not need more workers brought in to compete against them. This follows this post about Freshmen Congressmen who have not yet kept their immigration enforcement promises. This follows this post about Barack Obama's Amnesty Edict. This follows this post about the Black Caucus hurting Black Americans with their immigration stand. This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read this very interesting book HERE!

Report Says U.S. has Too Many Scientists but Not Enough Jobs


Monday, July 9, 2012 - posted on NumbersUSA





A recent report from the Washington Post finds that there are too many scientists living in the United States with too few jobs despite bipartisan support for increased immigration for foreign nationals with advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The report finds that some high-tech areas are booming, while jobs in many other fields, including biology, chemistry, and medicine, are scarce.



The Washington Post report notes that while many highly-trained individuals are employed, many are not working in their field. This is consistent with research from the Center for Immigration Studies, which has found that 1.8 million engineers are either unemployed or working in a field other than engineering.



"They’ll be employed in something," Michael S. Teitelbaum, a senior adviser to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation who studies the scientific workforce told the Washington Post. "But they go and do other things because they can’t find the position they spent their 20s preparing for."



The Post also found that U.S. drug firms, which used to produce high-paying, stable research positions, have cut 300,000 jobs since 2000.



"It's been a bloodbath, it’s been awful," Kim Haas, who spent 20 years designing pharmaceuticals for drug giants Wyeth and Sanofi-Aventis and is in her early 50s, told the Post. "Scads and scads and scads of people [have been cut]. Very good chemists with PhDs from Stanford can’t find jobs."



According to the American Chemical Society, the unemployment rate among chemists is at a 40-year high at 4.6% and only 38% of new PhD chemists were employed in 2011.



For more information, see the Washington Post and the Center for Immigration Studies. Also, see our TV ad that's running across the country asking Congress why they want to bring in more high-tech workers when 1.8 million engineers can't find work in engineering.

New Romney immigration strategy great on illegal but problems with green cards

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New Romney immigration strategy great on illegal but problems with green cards






By Roy Beck,  - posted on NumbersUSA



The immigration strategy announced by Mitt Romney today provided a lot of reasons for hope among most American workers -- especially for Hispanic Americans -- but troubling news for the country's students and workers in high-skill fields.



His approach to illegal immigration is solid in focusing on identifying visa overstayers and denying jobs to illegal aliens, and he avoided promising any amnesties.



He correctly suggested that legal immigration should focus on spouses and minor children and on people with skills needed by our economy.



But he showed a tin ear to the plight of many unemployed Americans in lower-skilled service occupations and in high-skill professions by seeming to propose large increases in foreign workers in both.



STICKING WITH ATTRITION THROUGH ENFORCEMENT



Although he didn't use the term, all his comments about illegal immigration were consistent with the attrition through enforcement strategy that avoids both mass deportations and mass legalizations and encourages self-deportation by taking away jobs and benefits from illegal aliens.



Although some reporters who have phoned me suggest that Mr. Romney's comments to a Latino audience today were a change from what he said in the Republican Primary debates, I don't find anything contradictory in them. He said some new good things and some new bad things, but he didn't flip from previous good and bad positions.



Romney's plan indicates that his administration would force far less illegal-alien competition for jobs on American workers -- particularly those in construction, manufacturing, service and transportation.



He showed that he understands that the primary problem and cause of illegal immigration is that foreign citizens are able to illegally hold U.S. jobs.



He promised mandatory electronic verification to keep illegal aliens from obtaining payroll jobs.

And in also promising to finally complete the computerized entry-exit system authorized by Congress in the 1990s, he recognized that border security can't do a thing to stop the overstaying of visas by the tens of million of tourists and other temporary visitors each year.

Taken together, these two actions would identify all those who overstay their visas and prevent them from earning a living if they do.



Romney showed restraint and leadership in addressing the national group of Latino elected officials by avoiding any pledges of amnesty for illegal aliens and instead focusing on the brutally high unemployment rates for Hispanic Americans, who have to compete the most directly with illegal aliens because they disproportionately are in the same occupations and geographic areas.



PROPOSED MORE FOREIGN WORKERS DESPITE HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT



However, the Romney camp stumbled badly in its press release with a section entitled "Grow Our Economy By Growing Legal Immigration."



The government already gives out permanent work permits to more than a million legal immigrants every year -- four times higher than the traditional average -- while 20 million Americans who want a full-time job can't find one. Struggling Americans need immigration to be reduced, not to grow.



Gov. Romney also continues to act on erroneous information by indicating that the country has a huge shortage of workers in the fields of science, technology, engineering or math. He said he would give a green card to every foreign student with an advanced degree in one of those fields.



While NumbersUSA supports a small increase in immigrants with skills that are truly extraordinary and in short supply among Americans, most foreign students with advanced degrees simply don't meet that high standard. Labor statistics indicate that even Americans in these high-skill fields are having a hard time in this economy and don't need the government to add more foreign competition.



For example, 1.8 million Americans with engineering degrees either have no job at all or are working in non-engineering jobs. Likewise, Mr. Romney shows a callousness toward unemployed American teenagers and lower-educated young adults by suggesting that he would significantly raise the caps for non-agricultural temporary work visas. America has more than enough out-of-work less-educated workers to fill the jobs of the hospitality industry that Mr. Romney says he wants to aid with more foreign workers.



ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA



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DR. CAMAROTA CATCHES THE PRESIDENT WITH HIS ENGINEER STATS DOWN

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And Remember when contacting public officials to please be firm but respectful. Any over the top messages could result in law enforcement action against you. Just let these politicians know that you are aware of what they have done and that you intend to remove them from office in the 2012 elections.



DR. CAMAROTA CATCHES THE PRESIDENT



WITH HIS ENGINEER STATS DOWN



This morning, I sent you an email with the amazing video of an engineer's wife asking Pres. Obama why he is bringing in foreign engineers when American engineers like her husband can't find a job.



The President found the question "interesting" because "industry tells me that they don't have enough highly skilled engineers."



The White House sent out spokespersons to defend the President by talking about how not enough Americans are getting engineering degrees.



My immediate question was: How many Americans with engineering degrees don't have an engineering job?



Amazingly just this afternoon, Dr. Steve Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies has published a report that answers the question.



We will talk more about the meaning of these stats in the webcast. But chew on the numbers.



U.S.-BORN INDIVIDUALS WITH ENGINEERING DEGREES (under age 66)

(based on most recent American Community Survey by the Obama Administration itself)



101,000 -- U.S. engineers looking for a job who can't find any work at all

244,000 -- U.S. engineers who have dropped completely out of the labor market

1,470,000 -- U.S. engineers who are working but no longer as engineers

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1.8 million -- Total U.S.-born individuals under the age of 66 who have engineering degrees but don't have an engineering job



There is a lot to say about all those numbers. But one thing that can't be said is that the United States doesn't "have enough highly skilled engineers" among its own citizens.



These numbers were compiled by Pres. Obama's own staff. But he apparently never thought to check on the facts. He was perfectly willing -- just like most Republican leaders -- to simply take the word of the business elites with whom he hobnobs when they claim they have to have more foreign engineers.



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