Greenspan Calls For Lower Wages For America’s Skilled Workers
Sunday, December 27, 2009
By Michael Cutler
NewsWithViews.com
An article appeared last week on the Kansas City Star website titled: "Work
visa program is rife with problems." This article was brought
to my attention by an old friend who had for years, until recently,
held a significant position on Capitol Hill.
This
article is of great importance for a number of extremely important reasons
beginning with national security, although the article never even mentions
the issue of national security. As you read the article, please note
that the visa fraud discussed in the news report has been allegedly
ongoing for a decade. I would remind you that the terrorist attacks
of September 11, 2001 occurred more than 8 years ago. I would also remind
you that among the findings of the 9/11 Commission, to which I provided
testimony, was the fact that the terrorists who savagely attacked our
nation engaged in visa fraud and immigration benefit fraud.
Indeed,
it has been reported that of some 94 terrorists who had been identified
as operating in our country in the decade leading up to the attacks
of 9/11, some 59 of those individuals had used immigration fraud and/or
visa fraud as a means of entering our country and/or embedding themselves
within our country, enabling them to hide in plain sight.
As
I have noted in previous commentaries, our nation had suffered two terrorist
attacks in 1993: at the entrance to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia
when a lone gunman stood outside the entrance to the CIA gates in January
of that year and then one month later, on February 26, 1993 the World
Trade center was nearly brought down by an explosives-laden truck parked
in the underground garage at the World Trade Center complex. That explosion
took 6 innocent lives, injured hundreds of other people and inflicted
an estimated one half billion dollars to the complex of buildings including
the twin towers that had been among the most breathtaking edifices of
the New York City skyline.
Those
vicious attacks had both been carried out by aliens from the Middle
East whose entry and presence in our country was facilitated by visa
fraud and immigration fraud.
In
May of 1997 I was called upon to testify before the House Immigration
Subcommittee on the issue of visa fraud and immigration fraud.
Clearly
our nation had opened its doors to those who meant us such harm and
yet, even with those lessons behind us, nothing was done to address
this serious vulnerability.
The
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 could not and would not have
happened had our government kept out the 19 terrorists who also employed
visa fraud and immigration benefit fraud as a means of entering our
country in preparation for the attacks.
On
May 18, 2004 I was contacted by the minority counsel for House Subcommittee
on Immigration, Border Security and Claims. (The "Minority Counsel"
refers to the political party not in control of the Congress, hence
in 2004, this was the Democratic Party.)
I
was told that there was to be a hearing before the subcommittee on the
issue of alien smuggling and I replied that if there was concern about
smuggling that the hearing must not be limited to the situation to be
found on our nation's borders, alone. Certainly the situation at the
borders is outrageous, but it is also estimated that some 40% of the
illegal aliens in our country did not run our nation's borders but were
actually admitted into the United States via the inspections process
and then, in one way or another, those aliens we had admitted into our
country violated the terms of their admission by overstaying their visas,
accepting unlawful employment or committing and then being convicted
of committing serious crimes.
I
also raised the issue of how easily aliens were able to game the immigration
system by gaining visas through fraud.
The
Ranking Member of the subcommittee at that time was Sheila Jackson Lee.
I was gratified that she came to agree with me on these issues and proposed
legislation to create a fraud task force.
The
title of that hearing was:
"PUSHING
THE BORDER OUT ON ALIEN SMUGGLING: NEW TOOLS AND INTELLIGENCE INITIATIVES"
You
can read
the transcript of that hearing here.
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As
you watch that video I also want you to consider the testimony of Alan
Greenspan who, when he testified before the Senate Immigration Subcommittee
at the behest of the Chairman of that subcommittee, Senator Charles Schumer,
Greenspan called for opening up the H-1B visa program to lower the wages
of America's skilled workers!
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There
is an outrageous video of how an attorney conducts a seminar that instructs
other lawyers on how to not find qualified United States citizen workers
for H-1B visas for computer programmers and those who are employed in
the high tech industries and parallels the madness discussed in the
news report on H2-B visas that prompted my commentary. This news
article includes the actual covert video made of this seminar that
is guaranteed to set your blood boiling.
Please
take the time to read the brief article and then watch the brief video.
As
you watch that video I also want you to consider the testimony of Alan
Greenspan who, when he testified before the Senate Immigration Subcommittee
at the behest of the Chairman of that subcommittee, Senator Charles
Schumer, Greenspan called for opening up the H-1B visa program to lower
the wages of America's skilled workers! Hard to believe, but true! Here
is a direct quote from his testimony at that hearing that was conducted
on April 30, 2009 and entitled, "Comprehensive Immigration Reform
in 2009, Can We Do It and How?"
"Greatly
expanding our quotas for the highly skilled would lower wage premiums
of skilled over lesser skilled. Skill shortages in America exist because
we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. Quotas
have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process,
we have created a privileged elite whose incomes are being supported
at noncompetitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of our income
inequality."
When
you read the news
article I want you pay special attention to read the passages I
put in quotes above, but I would urge you to read the entire news report.
Here
is a link
to Greenspan's testimony (don't take my word for what he said- read
it yourself!)
Please pay special attention to the fact that the "leaders"
at the United States Department of Labor indicated that they did not
know if they had the authority to investigate fraud in the applications
that they processed!
This
is about as sensible as a traffic cop on duty saying he didn't know
if he could issue summonses to drivers who run red lights!
What
is the process of adjudicating applications for anything if the people
adjudicating the applications don't think they can look for fraud?
Why
bother adjudicating the applications at all? Why not just have applicants
self-file and be done with it?!
It
is interesting that prior to the Second World War, the United States
Department of Labor was in charge of administering the immigration laws
of the United States because back then, when apparently commonsense
prevailed, the concern was that foreign workers might undercut American
and lawful immigrant workers.
(How
far we have gone in precisely the opposite direction since then!)
Finally
I am compelled to make a point I have made on so many previous occasions-
With all of this rampant fraud that permeates the entire immigration
system- how in blazes would our inept government even begin to make
certain that any sort of "Comprehensive Immigration Reform"
program would have any integrity whatsoever?
This
is, of course, a rhetorical question. It is the equivalent of asking
if a frail and elderly hospital patient clinging to life on a respirator
would be able to run the New York City Marathon!
The
news article exposes, yet again the massive failures of our government
to create an immigration system that has even a shred of integrity.
The
price for this is being paid each and every day by citizens and lawful
residents of our nation who are being swindled out of jobs.
The
price is also being paid by aliens who are being forced into virtual
indentured servitude through a dehumanizing and exploitive program.
Finally,
these vulnerabilities in the system also provide easy access to our
nation to those who would do us grave harm.
The
question is, when will this change? Apparently this will not change
until we the people change the people who we send to Washington!
Any
politician who refuses to work to secure our borders and create an immigration
system that has integrity is either corrupt or too dumb to keep his
(her) job. Any politician, irrespective of party affiliation who favors
Comprehensive Immigration Reform should be shown the door at the next
election!
If
you find yourself to be in agreement with this commentary, I ask that
you forward it to as many of your friends and family members as possible
and encourage them to do the same.
Next
year each and every member of the House of Representatives is up for
reelection. Next year more than one third of the members of the United
States Senate will have to face their constituents. They need to be
reminded that they work for us, We the People!
However,
the practice of good citizenship does not end in the voting booth, it
only begins there.
The
large scale apathy demonstrated by citizens of this nation has emboldened
elected representatives to all but ignore the needs of the average American
citizen in a quest for massive campaign funds and the promises of votes
to be ostensibly delivered by special interest groups. There is much
that we cannot do but there is one thing that We the People absolutely
must do- we must stop sitting on the sidelines!
The
collective failure of We the People to get involved in make our concerns
known to our politicians have nearly made the concerns of the great
majority of the citizens of this nation all but irrelevant to the politicians.
I
implore you to get involved!
Any
American who has lost his job certainly has enough time on his (her)
hands to get involved!
Any
American who fears the loss of his job must make effective use of his
spare time to make certain he keeps his job! (Remember, the job save
may be your own!)
If
this situation concerns you or especially if it angers you, I ask you
to call your Senators and Congressional "Representative. This is
not only your right- it is your obligation! You need to politely but
pointedly, demand to know what they are doing to protect our nation.
You need to ask them how they are protecting you and your families.
You can also forward this commentary to them.
All
I ask is that you make it clear to our politicians that we are not as
dumb as they hope we are!
Michael W. Cutler graduated from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York in
1971 with a B.A. in Communications Arts and Sciences. Mr. Cutler began
working for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in October
1971 when he entered on duty as an Immigration Inspector assigned to John
F. Kennedy International Airport. In August 1975 he became a Criminal
Investigator (Special Agent) for the INS at NYC.
He rotated through virtually every squad in the Investigations Branch. From 1988 until 1991
he was assigned as the INS representative to the Unified Intelligence
Division (UID) of the DEA in New York. In 1991 he was promoted to the
position of Senior Special Agent and was assigned to the Organized Crime,
Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) which required that he work with
members of other law enforcement agencies including the FBI, DEA, ATF,
U.S. Customs and local and state police as well as law enforcement organizations
of other countries including Israel, Canada, Great Britain and Japan,
to conduct investigations of aliens involved in major drug trafficking
organizations. He retired from the INS in February 2002, after a career
that spanned some 30 years.
Finally, Michael Cutler has appeared on numerous television and radio programs including
Lou Dobbs, Fox News, MSNBC and many other television and radio news-oriented
programs to discuss the enforcement of immigration laws.
E-Mail: mcutler007@aol.com
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