IN CALIFORNIA, foreign workers hired to process Americans’ unemployment applications.
It’s nearly 8 p.m., and inside a state office building two dozen computer experts design and troubleshoot a system that will take and process millions of unemployment claims each year. t’s a $200 million Employment Development Department project, but with the exception of two managers, everyone inside the office is from outside of the U.S. They are employed by Deloitte, a major U.S. IT company hired by the state to create and manage its Unemployment Insurance Modernization project. The mostly Indian nationals are allowed to work here under a visa program called H-1B.
Tech companies like Microsoft, Intel, Google and Facebook say they need hundreds of thousands of foreign workers to fill jobs here because American colleges can’t crank out computer science grads fast enough. In 2013, the industry lobbied Congress on the issue to the tune of almost $14 million….
Our leaders are judging Americans to be unworthy – and acting appropriately to that notion. We are no longer the “Can Do!” nation, we have become the “Have someone else do it for us” one. Sigh….and yes, there are a lot of American nationals that could do those jobs – at prevailing American wages and therein lies the rub. Why would American student pursue computer science degrees when they won’t be hired? Follow the money. (H/T: Instapundit)
