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H1B



On Wednesday 28 May 2003 09:54 pm, Richard Strano wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone had heard about a speech at EMC with
> Governor Romney in the audience trying to justify H1B's. According
> to a friend the speaker said that the H1B program had to be maintained
> because it was still difficult to find qualified software engineers in this
> country.
> So I was wondering if anyone else had heard about this.
> Rick Strano

It doesn't matter what he said.  Companies like EMC, Sun, and MSFT are 
lobbying the federal government on a regular basis and donating huge sums of 
soft money.

The laws will not change anytime soon, nor will the lax enforcement of 
deporting H1B's who lose their jobs

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