Napolitano vows to enforce H-1B laws

Date: Monday, May 11, 2009 5:52 PM

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Napolitano is making vague promises to enforce H-1B regulations. The deal is
this: she will "enforce" the law while at the same time she will support all
efforts to allow more foreign workers into the U.S. She will do all of this
while saying that her top obligation is to help us to get jobs.

Big Sista is hard at work!

Napolitano is using enforcement of H-1B laws as a smoke screen in order to
distract people's attention from the primary issue of loopholes. As long as
the law has ample loopholes, enforcement of H-1B laws will have very little
positive impact on American workers. There is not much to enforce beyond
making sure that H-1Bs get paid the salary that was stated on the Labor
Condition Application.

The deceptive tactic of promising enforcement of immigration laws, while at
the same time fighting all attempts to do something constructive, was used by
Napolitano when she was Governor of Arizona. She would get on national TV with
bold promises of tougher enforcement of border laws, and then she would turn
right around and gut every attempt in Arizona to use existing laws for
enforcement efforts. While talking about bringing National Guard troops to the
border she fought vigorously against Proposition 202 to cut welfare to illegal
aliens and she constantly fought Sheriff Joe Arpaio when he tried to do what
she has promised to do -- enforce the law.

So, if Napolitano ever does enforce an H-1B law, you can safely bet that it
will be in defense of a foreign worker who got ripped off instead of an
American who was displaced from the labor market. If Napolitano ever gets
serious about enforcing immigration or trade laws it's time to look up in the
sky because the black helicopters are coming!

Watch this short video clip where Napolitano talks about her plans to enforce
H-1B laws.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaYU34Y9oPU

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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132658

DHS secretary, asked about H-1B, says 'top obligation' is to U.S. workers

Napolitano also says DHS is increasing H-1B enforcement Patrick Thibodeau

May 7, 2009 (Computerworld) WASHINGTON -- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Secretary Janet Napolitano told a congressional committee that ensuring that
U.S. workers have jobs is one of her "top obligations," and she said that her
agency is stepping up its enforcement of the H-1B program.

Napolitano said that over the last month the department has added fraud
prevention tactics that weren't being used previously in the H-1B program.
Those measures include visits to work sites. "We're going to keep at this to
make sure that the intent of that program is fulfilled," she said at a Senate
Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday.

Napolitano was responding to a question from Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.),
who, along with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), has introduced legislation
called the H-1B Visa Fraud and Abuse Protections Act (S.887). The 37-page
reform bill includes a number of restrictions and enforcement provisions,
including audits of employers.

Durbin talked about abuses in the H-1B program but also cited "a very serious
concern" that "many of these H-1B holders are going to displace American
workers or be placed in positions where unemployed American workers might
otherwise have an opportunity."

In response, Napolitano said that "our top obligations are to American
workers, making sure American workers have jobs."

The brief exchange didn't go into Napolitano's view on the use of the visa.
In court papers filed by the DHS in response to a Programmers Guild lawsuit
over the Bush administration's extension of student work visas from one year
to 29 months, the DHS argued that H-1B workers are needed to avoid putting
U.S. employers at a "competitive disadvantage."

A study done last year by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service found
that as many as one in five H-1B applications were affected by either fraud or
"technical violations" of the program. The immigration service is part of the
DHS.

Napolitano was one of 12 governors who signed a letter to Congress in 2007
calling for increases in H-1B visas, citing "a critical shortage of highly
skilled professionals in math and science to fill current needs."

Ron Hira, an assistant professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute
of Technology and author of Outsourcing America, said the "U.S.
cannot reach her stated goal simply by increasing enforcement in the H-1B
program. As has been detailed in numerous government reports, there are
enormous loopholes in the H-1B program that allow employers to legally replace
American workers with H-1B workers."

Hira said Napolitano's comment doesn't represent a change in policy from the
letter she sent as governor to Congress.

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