Blackmoor Vituperative

A video in which an immigration law firm offers advice on avoiding hiring U.S. workers when a foreign worker is preferred for a position set off a firestorm of criticism last week, drawing the attention, and ire, of a U.S. senator and congressman, who call it a “blatant disregard for American workers.” […]

“We are concerned that companies are abusing the H-1B program. The video explicitly shows how attorneys are aiding companies in this effort. … In addition, we are concerned about the level of fraud monitoring of the H-1B visa program by your Department,” wrote Grassley and Smith. […]

The Programmers Guild, a tech industry interest group out of Summit, N.J., posted a video on YouTube June 16 featuring excerpts from a series of videos created by the Pittsburgh law firm Cohen & Grigsby. Recorded May 15 as part of a half-day seminar focused on “Hot Topics in Immigration Law,” the videos were to provide free legal tips and practical solutions to hiring managers looking for overseas talent.[…]

In the video, however, an individual identified as Lawrence Lebowitz, vice president and director of marketing for Cohen & Grigsby, explains how employers can hire foreign workers under the PERM (Program Electronic Review Management) process, which stipulates requirements for placing job ads to fill vacancies by either hiring U.S. workers or evidencing that no qualified ones are available.

“Our goal here, of course, is to meet the requirements No. 1, but also do so as inexpensively as possible … and our goal is clearly not to find a qualified and interested U.S. worker,” explains Lebowitz to seminar attendees.

(from Eweek, Law Firm’s Video A ‘Blatant Disregard For American Workers’)

What I find amazing about this is the apparent shock and outrage from people. We all knew this abuse was going on. I have blogged about it repeatedly. Why is this a surprise? This is like a gangsta-rapper getting patted down at the airport and getting angry and indignant when they find a pistol in his luggage. “Wha? How? Huh? (sputter) Hey! How’d THAT get there!?”

Congress created the H-1B program. Are we to believe that they are so blind and stupid that they didn’t know it literally replaced American workers with foreign workers? Are we to believe that they are so utterly out of touch that they haven’t noticed that American IT jobs dried up at the same time that large companies were clamoring for more H-1B visas? Just how freaking stupid are these people? Just how stupid do these people think we are?

Pretty freaking stupid, apparently. Because you people, you dumbass voters and non-voters, keep electing crooks, socialists, and tyrants. They send your children to die, they steal what you have honestly earned, they gleefully violate the fundamental human rights that people like my grandfather risked his life to defend, and you let them.

So who’s really to blame for the H-1B program? You.