2008-06-13: Guest Worker Programs Do Not Stop Offshoring
Dr. Ron Hira does a ten minute interview about his new book Outsourcing America: The True Cost of Shipping Jobs Overseas and What Can Be Done about It. Here is the link to the interview - which is very informative and well worth watching.
http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content/outsourcing-america
Here is a link to his new book, being sold on Amazon.
Quote from Dr. Ron Hira:
“What they're saying is that increasing the guest worker program (H-1B and L-1 visa programs) will keep jobs here and save jobs from being offshored,” says RIT's Hira. “When in reality those programs are being used to do knowledge transfer to transfer jobs overseas. The business community is on the one hand saying outsourcing is good, and on the other using the threat of outsourcing to change immigration policy. It's quite clever.”
