I couldn't help but notice the number of diaries posted about unemployment and age discrimination alongside the diaries about the high profits of corporation.

Does anyone not see that if we import millions and millions of new foreign workers each year for corporations that this will have the exact situation we are seeing?

Why is the big debate in the senate about immigration and not about jobs. Immigration increases workers per job. This increases unemployment and allows each worker to be worth less.

On August 12, 2010 Chuck Schumer proudly spoke of the Senate Passage of legislation which would combat the abuse of the guest worker visa. He stated that the guest workers were being imported to undermine American workers. Finally someone made the connection.

Schumer: "Their business model is to bring foreign tech workers into the United States who are willing to accept less pay than their American counterparts, place these workers into other companies in exchange for a “consulting fee,” and transfer these workers from company to company in order to maximize profits from placement fees. In other words, these companies are petitioning for foreign workers simply to then turn around and provide these same workers to other companies who need cheap labor for various short term projects."

Schumer: But if you are using the H-1B visa to run a glorified international temp agency for tech workers in contravention of the spirit of the program, I and my colleagues believe that you should have to pay a higher fee to ensure that American workers are not losing their jobs because of unintended uses of the visa program that were never contemplated when the program was created. In an August 6, 2010, Wall Street Journal article, Avinash Vashistha—the CEO of a Bangalore based off-shoring advisory consulting firm—told the Journal that the new fee in this bill “would accelerate Indian firms’ plans to hire more American-born workers in the U.S.” What’s wrong with that? In an August 7, 2010 Economic Times Article, Jeya Kumar, a CEO of a top IT company, said that this bill would “erode cost arbitrage and cause a change in the operational model of Indian offshore providers.” The leaders of this business model are agreeing that our bill will make it more expensive to bring in foreign tech workers to compete with American tech workers for jobs here in America. That means these companies are going to start having to hire U.S. tech workers again.

He issues a stern reprimand to such companies and was satisfied that they would now be required to hire U.S. workers:But that was then.