American Jobs Being Replaced By Foreign Workers
Investigation Continues Tuesday Night At 6
POSTED: Tuesday, August 5, 2003
UPDATED: 12:33 pm EDT August 5,
2003
An exclusive Problem Solvers report continued an investigation first launched in February into thousands of American workers being replaced by foreigners on special work visas.
Local 6 News reported that Central Florida worker Mike Emmons initially tipped off Local 6 News that companies in Florida, especially in the information technology business, were bringing foreign workers to supposedly fill vacant jobs. However, the investigation found that the jobs foreign workers were taking weren't vacant but were instead filled by Americans who wound up having to train the foreigners to replace them.Emmons also tipped off Local 6 News about H1B and L1 visa programs that enable businesses to hire or transfer foreign workers to the United States."It burns me up more and more that they (Congress) would do this to their own citizens," Emmons said. "It's like stabbing your brother in the back."Local 6 News reported that in the mid-'90s, Congress voted to increase the number of foreign workers allowed in on certain visa programs. Congress said there was credible evidence that the information technology industry had a drastic shortage of workers and that the foreigners were needed to fill the gap, according to the report."These corportations are giving them thousands upon thousands of millions of dollars so they can get this labor, cut their costs and CEO wages can go up and up and up," Emmons aid.In fact, in year 2000, Congress allowed the number of H1B visas to more than double, even as some companies who were using the H1B workers were laying off thousands of Americans, Cooper reported.The first reports on Americans losing their jobs to foreign workers ran in February. Since then, Emmons put the local6.com stories on his Web page and says thousands of people from all over the country have viewed them."I got 30,000 hits last week," Emmons said.Emmons says his personal campaign has become a political one."I've got myself a party lined up and I'm going to run for Congress in 2004," Emmons said.After Local 6 News ran the reports in February, Representative John Mica introduced legislation to tighten loopholes in the visa program. However, critics said the move doesn't go far enough.Local 6 News is following the story of a former Siemens worker who took her story to Capitol Hill with the hope of saving American jobs. Watch Tuesday at 6 p.m. for a new story.
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Previous Stories:
- February 19, 2003: Special: Where Did The Jobs Go?
- February 17, 2003: Special: Where Did The Jobs Go?
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