Is anyone aware that the H-1B Visa and this offshore outsourcing and insourcing by manipulation of the US VISA and immigration system has actually DECREASED opportunities for diversity engineers????
The field is already stuck in the 50's in terms of being a hostile environment for diversity candidates.
Just recently we heard about "brain differences" on why women "aren't as good in math and sciences". That is absolute bullshit. If that was true, why have women become almost the majority in Chemical engineering? Is it cooking? HELL NO! It's the environment which encourages women, is not hostile to women, which enables women to advance their abilities in that area.
So, Allen, doing Bill Gates bidding, to get even more H-1B Visas, through his Skil Bill (which he was obviously peddling to his lobbyist audience in the debate), and absolutely refusing to fix any of the labor arbitrage aspects of the program, is actually DISCOURAGING diversity engineers of US minority and ethnic backgrounds. It is also discourging Americans generally for whole is going to study such a difficult topic area, equal to law and Medicine, take on massive debt to pay for college and have their career cut short or never even start, due to insourcing (displacement by bringing to the US cheaper, more controllable labor), offshore outsourcing and age discrimination.
It is now an issue of discrimination based on your national origin. Anyone who has US citizenship and thus cannot be controlled by corporations through threat of deportation or losing their jobs, thus losing their status in the US. Anyone who is coming from another nation, who has no clue of what their real rights are in this foreign land, or the fact they are getting royally screwed financially because their PPP of their country is so different than the US's, is preferred by corporations and the reasons are obvious.
Please Look at these statistics. There is evidence and most assuredly the need for more funded studies to show the number of diversity engineers is decreasing. Another.
I'm sorry this is translated HTML, but read what Karl Mack, Director of the National Society of Black Engineers has to say on H-1B.
No, wait. That's not it. That doesn't make sense.
Ok, he's going to bring them in and NOT make them American citizens, they'll do the work instead of us, and then go back to their huge countries. That'll make those domestic high-tech degrees worth more.
No, wait. On second thought, that won't do it either.
Oh hell, I don't know what he's trying to do...
That will do it to be sure.
These figures are from the CIA - The World Factbook, July 2006 estimates.
United States' population:
298,444,215
China's population:
1,313,973,713 (4.4 times our size)
India's population:
1,095,351,995 (3.7 times our size)
European Union's population:
456,953,258 (1.5 times our size)
That is it, all other nations have a smaller population.
I guess math isn't his strong suit...
Reality has a well-known liberal bias. - Steven Colbert
That will help create the next wave of innovation to be sure!