AskCongressH-1B

Congress is not comfortable with the facts about H-1B or just do not know any.
Frankly, are members of Congress are not comfortable when asked to show the benefits from any of their actions, or the money the spend? Asking for the benefits from H-1B is is like asking for the benefits from the war on drugs or the invasion of Iraq. Congress acts like a small business selling off the assets of their constituents, rather than being expected to show a profit from the billions spent.

Ask your congressman to show how you have benefited from the 20+ years of the H-1B program driving down wages in the tech ndustry, driving down wages in an area that was touted as a good investment for students 20 years ago, 10 years ago, but not today.  How did Congress keep those investments in tech careers from paying off?

Congress has a very low approval rating. They did not earn that from listening to you.
Congress Holding Steady at 15%

Here are three  quotes that say their investment in H-1B for you is not paying off (but maybe your Senator has facts he wants to share with you?)

"...a Ph.D. in computer science is probably a financial loser in both the short and long terms, says [Cisco Systems Vice President for Research] Douglas Comer" -- Science Careers, April 11, 2008 

 "GAO noted that... the availability of foreign H-1B post-docs may discourage US students from earning biomedical degrees because of typically lengthy post-docs at relatively low wages" -- Conference Report, Dynamics of the STEM Labor Market, Georgetown University, 2011

"It is extraordinarily unlikely for a severe shortage to happen in a way that doesn't result in very large wage increases" -- Kirk Doran, University of Notre Dame economist, commenting on the minuscule rate at which software developer wages are rising. More H-1B Quotes

Ask your senator to show you your return on investment (ROT) for 20 years of low tech wages and careers that do not last 10 years.

Ask your Senator:

You represent all your constituents, not just the 1%, and you support H-1B, a program that has been running for more than 20 years, a generation. In 1989 the National Science Foundation  said that it would discourage US citizens from getting degrees and jobs in science, and now many federal agencies appear to be staffed with almost 100% foreign born technical workers.

1. What evidence do you have that that your average constituent benefits from this program when it appears they are shut out of much of the spending of their tax dollars to obtain technical service? Where is the proof this program benefits them?  Where are the test results? How many agencies pay more foreign born technical workers than USA born workers?  What are the percentages?

There have been billions of dollars of wages lost by US citizens, to support a program.  Had that program been called "Clean Water", you would be showing us the water was cleaner, or we we would know the money was wasted.

2. You say we need foreign graduates with advanced degrees, but can you show that advanced degrees in STEM subjects pay off for US citizens?

 "...a Ph.D. in computer science is probably a financial loser in
both the short and long terms, says [Cisco Systems Vice President for
Research] Douglas Comer" -- Science Careers, April 11, 2008

3. Does evidence  show that there are there real careers in computer science, when a CEO of Intel has said that "the half-life of a programmer is two years."?

4. for the majority of your constituents, where is the beef in H-1b? The return on their loss of income to foreign workers?

5. Can you show students in your district a financial benefit?

6. what genius scientific breakthrough has Google made? Face book? Isn't their genius presentation, not technical? Just good advertising?

Why does Congress want to ignore you?  Maybe these quotes answer that: money talks:

"[We in tech] control massive distribution channels, both as companies and individuals...We have individuals with a lot of money. If deployed properly this can have huge influence in the current campaign finance environment" -- Joe Green, leader of Mark Zuckerberg's new immigration lobbying group

In 2000, Rep. Tom Davis said," (H-1B) is not a popular bill with the public. It's popular with the CEOs." "This is a very important issue for the high-tech executives who give the money." Rep. Davis said his constituent mail was seven to one against H-1B.